Staff profile

Dr Stewart has worked in the areas of HCI, Serious Games, Personalised Systems, Multimedia and Cultural Studies in research and education for over 25 years. Dr Stewart's doctoral research (entitled A Cultural Education Model: Design and Implementation of Adaptive Multimedia Interfaces in eLearning) consists of examining the effect that technology enhanced learning is having on cultural education and how HCI influences this.

• Adaptive Systems
• HCI
• User modelling
• Personalised Systems
• elearning
• Cultural Studies

Available for media contact about:

• Business: Education and awareness: Personalised, digital systems
• Computer Science: Personalised, digital systems
• Computer Science: Information systems and Cultural studies
• Identity, ethnicity and culture: Information systems and Cultural studies
• Science: Education, industry & the community: Information systems and Cultural studies

Chapter in book

• Alamri, Ahmed, Sun, Zhongtian, Cristea, Alexandra I., Steward, Craig & Pereira, Filipe Dawn (2021). MOOC next week dropout prediction: weekly assessing time and learning patterns. In Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 17th International Conference, ITS 2021, Virtual Event, June 7–11, 2021, Proceedings. Cristea, Alexandra I. & Troussas, Christos Springer. 12677: 119-130.
• Alamri, Ahmed, Alshehri, Mohammad, Cristea, Alexandra I., Pereira, Filipe D., Oliveira, Elaine, Shi, Lei & Stewart, Craig (2019). Predicting MOOCs Dropout Using Only Two Easily Obtainable Features from the First Week’s Activities. In Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2019. Coy, Andre, Hayashi, Yugo & Chang, Maiga Cham: Springer. 11528: 163-173.
• Shi, Lei, Cristea, Alexandra I. & Stewart, Craig (2015). Students as Customers: Participatory Design for Adaptive Web 3.0. In The Evolution of the Internet in the Business Sector: Web 1.0 to Web 3.0. Isaías, Pedro, Kommers, Piet & Issa, Tomayess IGI Global. 306-331.
• Ashman, Helen, Brailsford, Tim, Burnett, Gary, Goulding, James, Moore, Adam, Stewart, Craig & Truran, Mark (2007). User interface challenges for the World Wide Web. In Human-Computer Interaction Handbook. CRC Press. 1: 559-572.
• Cristea, Alexandra I & Stewart, Craig (2006). Automatic authoring of adaptive educational hypermedia. In Web-based intelligent e-learning systems: Technologies and applications. IGI Global. 24-55.
• Cristea, Alexandra & Stewart, Craig (2006). Authoring of adaptive hypermedia. In Advances in web-based education: Personalized learning environments. IGI Global. 225-252.

Conference Paper

• Nagai, Takashi, Klem, Strahinja, Kayama, Mizue, Asuke, Takehiko, Meccawy, Maram, Wang, Jingyun, Cristea, Alexandra I., Stewart, Craig D. & Shi, Lei (2023), PICA-PICA: Exploring a Customisable Smart STEAM Educational Approach via a Smooth Combination of Programming, Engineering and Art, 2023 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON). Kuwait, IEEE.
• Alsheri, Mohammed A., Almari, Ahmed, Cristea, Alexandra I. & Stewart, Craig D. (2021), Forum-based Prediction of Certification in Massive Open Online Courses, 29th International Conference on Information systems and Development (ISD2021). Valencia, Association for Information Systems, 9.
• Toda, Armando, Klock, Ana Carolina Tomé, Palomino, Paula T., Rodrigues, Luiz, Oliveira, Wilk, Stewart, Craig, Cristea, Alexandra I., Gasparini, Isabela & Isotani, Seiji (2020), GamiCSM: relating education, culture and gamification - a link between worlds, 19th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Diamantina, Brazil, Association for Computing Machinery, 1-10.
• Cristea, Alexandra I., Alamri, Ahmed, Alshehri, Mohammad, Kayama, Mizue, Foss, Jonathan, Shi, Lei & Stewart, Craig D. (2018), Can Learner Characteristics Predict Their Behaviour on MOOCs?, 10th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers - ICETC '18. Tokyo, ACM, New York, 119-125.
• Cristea, Alexandra I., Alamri, Ahmed, Kayama, Mizue, Stewart, Craig, Alshehri, Mohammad & Shi, Lei (2018), Earliest Predictor of Dropout in MOOCs: A Longitudinal Study of FutureLearn Courses, in Andersson, B., Johansson, B., Carlsson, S., Barry, C., Lang, M., Linger, H. & Schneider, C. eds, 27th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2018). Lund, Sweden, Association for Information Systems.
• Cristea, Alexandra I., Alamri, Ahmed, Kayama, Mizue, Stewart, Craig, Alshehri, Mohammad & Shi, Lei (2018), How is Learning Fluctuating? FutureLearn MOOCs Fine-grained Temporal Analysis and Feedback to Teachers and Designers, in Andersson, B., Johansson, B., Carlsson, S., Barry, C., Lang, M., Linger, H. & Schneider, C. eds, 27th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2018). Lund, Sweden, Association for Information Systems.
• Alshehri,Mohammad, Foss,Jonathan, Cristea,Alexandra I., Kayama,Mizue, Shi,Lei, Alamri,Ahmed & Tsakalidis,Adam (2018), On the need for fine-grained analysis of Gender versus Commenting Behaviour in MOOCs, ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) 3rd International Conference on Information and Education Innovations (ICIEI'18). London, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 73-77.
• Alamri, Ahmed, Rusby, Harry, Cristea, Alexandra I, Kayama, Mizue, Khan, Javed, Shi, Lei & Stewart, Craig (2018), An Intuitive Authoring System for a Personalised, Social, Gamified, Visualisation-supporting e-learning System, Proceedings of the 2018 The 3rd International Conference on Information and Education Innovations ACM. 57-61.
• John, Santhosh, Shah, Nazaraf & Stewart, Craig (2018), Towards a Software Centric Approach for Ontology Development: Novel Methodology and its Application, 2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE) IEEE. 139-146.
• John, Santhosh, Shah, Nazaraf, Stewart, Craig & Samlov, Leon (2017), Software Centric Innovative Methodology for Ontology Development, KEOD. 139-146.
• Thong, Li Ping, Stewart, Craig, Arnab, Sylvester & Lameras, Petros (2016), Virtual Designer: Digital Role-Playing Game for Knowledge Transferal in Design Education, European Conference on Games Based Learning Academic Conferences International Limited. 862.
• Dunwell, Ian, de Freitas, Sara, Petridis, Panagiotis, Hendrix, Maurice, Arnab, Sylvester, Lameras, Petros & Stewart, Craig (2014), A game-based learning approach to road safety: the code of everand, Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ACM. 3389-3398.
• Gallear, Wayne, Lameras, Petros & Stewart, Craig (2014), Serendipitous learning \& serious games: A Pilot Study, 2014 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL2014) IEEE. 247-251.
• Lei, Shi, Cristea, Alexandra I, Awan, Malik Shahzad K, Hendrix, Maurice & Stewart, Craig (2013), Towards understanding learning behavior patterns in social adaptive personalized e-learning systems, AMCIS.
• Stewart, C, Hensman, J, de Freitas, S & More, B (2013), Hendrix, M., Lameras, P., Petridis, P., Dunwell, I., Arnab, S, 118: Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE). 125.
• Lameras, Petros, Petridis, Panagiotis, Dunwell, Ian, Hendrix, Maurice, Arnab, Sylvester, de Freitas, Sara & Stewart, Craig (2013), A game-based approach for raising awareness on sustainability issues in public spaces, The Spring Servitization Conference: Servitization in the multi-organisation enterprise. 20-21.
• Dunwell, Ian, Lameras, Petros, Stewart, Craig, Petridis, Pangiotis, Arnab, Sylvester, Hendrix, Maurice, de Freitas, Sara, Gaved, Mark, Schuller, Björn & Paletta, Lucas (2013), Developing a digital game to support cultural learning amongst immigrants, In Proc. 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion (IDGEI 2013) in conjunction with the 8th Foundations of Digital Games.
• Scotton, Joshua, Stewart, Craig & Cristea, Alexandra I (2011), ADE: The Adaptive Display Environment for Adaptive Hypermedia, Proceedings of the ACM Hypertext 2011 International Conference.
• Stewart, Craig, Brailsford, Tim, Chandramouli, Krishna & Cristea, Alexandra I (2010), The CAE-L cultural framework: Definition, instances and web service, 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies IEEE. 604-606.
• Hendrix, Maurice, Cristea, Alexandra I & Stewart, Craig (2009), Adaptation languages for learning: the CAM meta-model, 2009 Ninth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies IEEE. 104-106.
• Chandramouli, Krishna, Stewart, Craig, Brailsford, Tim & Izquierdo, Ebroul (2008), CAE-L: An ontology modelling cultural behaviour in adaptive education, 2008 Third International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization IEEE. 183-188.
• Ghali, Fawaz, Cristea, Alexandra I, Stewart, Craig & Hendrix, Maurice (2008), Collaborative adaptation authoring and social annotation in MOT, A3H: Sixth International Workshop on Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia. 54.
• Stewart, Craig, Chandramouli, Krishna, Cristea, Alexandra, Brailsford, Tim & Izquierdo, Ebroul (2008), Cultural artefacts in education: Analysis, ontologies and implementation, 5: 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering IEEE. 706-709.
• Stewart, Craig (2007), The Role of Culture in Online Education: as an input for the authoring process, User Modelling (UM) conference, A3H workshop.
• Bourguet, Marie-Luce, Stewart, Craig, Cox, Benita, Lefevre, David & Kinshuk, DGS (2006), Adaptive learning environments to overcome cultural and language barriers to learning, Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2006). 462.
• Meccawy, Maram, Stewart, Craig & Ashman, Helen (2006), Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Content Creation: A Web Service based Architecture, A3EH, 5th Adaptive Authoring for Educational Hypermedia, Workshop AH.
• Meccawy, Maram, Celik, Ilknur, Cristea, Alexandra, Stewart, Craig & Ashman, Helen (2006), Interoperable adaptive educational hypermedia: a web service definition, Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06) IEEE. 639-641.
• Stewart, Craig & Izquierdo, Ebroul (2006), Knowledge Space of Semantic Inference for Automatic Annotation and retrieval of Multimedia Content - 'K-Space', Poster and Demo Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies.
• Stewart, Craig, Cristea, Alexandra, Celik, Ilknur & Ashman, Helen (2006), Interoperability between AEH user models, Proceedings of the joint international workshop on Adaptivity, personalization \& the semantic web ACM. 21-30.
• Brown, Elizabeth, Stewart, Craig & Brailsford, Tim (2006), Adapting for visual and verbal learning styles in AEH, Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06) IEEE. 1145-1146.
• Cristea, Alexandra, Stewart, Craig & Sirmakessis, Spiros (2006), Adaptivity, personalization, and the semantic web, Proceedings of the joint international workshop on Adaptivity, personalization \& the Semantic Web ACM. 1-2.
• Cristea, Alexandra, De Bra, Paul, Burgos, Daniel, Ceri, Stefano, Davis, Hugh Charles, Dolog, Peter, Kravcik, Milos, Naeve, Ambjörn, Nejdl, Wolfgang, Romero, Cristobal & others (2006), Interfacing adaptive solutions with corporate training systems, PROLEARN Deliverable 1.6, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.99.3240\&rep=rep1\&type=pdf.
• Cristea, Alexandra, Ashman, Helen, Stewart, Craig & Cristea, Paul (2005), Evaluation of adaptive hypermedia systems' conversion, Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia ACM. 129-131.
• Power, Guillermo, Davis, Hugh C, Cristea, Alexandra I, Stewart, Craig & Ashman, Helen (2005), Goal oriented personalisation with SCORM, Fifth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'05) IEEE. 467-471.
• Moore, Adam, Stewart, Craig, Martin, Duncan, Brailsford, Tim & Ashman, Helen (2004), Links for learning: linking for an adaptive learning environment, IASTED Intl Conference on Web-Based Education.
• Moore, Adam, Brailsford, Tim, Campus, Jubilee, Nottingham, Notts, Stewart, Craig & Davies, Peter (2003), Authoring for adaptive presentation, Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Education, Valencia, Spain.
• Moore, Adam, Stewart, CD, Zakaria, MR & Brailsford, TJ (2003), WHURLE-an adaptive remote learning framework, International conference on Engineering Education (ICEE-2003), July. 22-26.
• Zakaria, Mohamed Ramzy, Moore, Adam, Stewart, Craig D & Brailsford, Tim J (2003), " Pluggable" user models for adaptive hypermedia in education, 26: Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia: Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia. 170-171.
• Stewart, Craig, Brailsford, Tim & Ashman, Helen (2003), Internationalization for Technology Based Learning Resources, 23 rd Internationalization and Unicode Conference.
• Zakaria, Mohamed Ramzy, Moore, Adam, Ashman, Helen, Stewart, Craig & Brailsford, Tim (2002), The hybrid model for adaptive educational hypermedia, International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 580-585.
• Moore, Adam, Brailsford, Timothy J & Stewart, Craig D (2001), Personally tailored teaching in WHURLE using conditional transclusion, Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia ACM. 163-164.

Doctoral Thesis

• Stewart, Craig (2012). A cultural education model: design and implementation of adaptive multimedia interfaces in eLearning. University of Nottingham. PhD.
• Celik, Ilknur, Stewart, Craig & Ashman, Helen (2006). Interoperability as an aid to authoring: Accessing user models in multiple AEH systems. CiteSeerX. PhD.
• Ashman, Helen L, Brailsford, Tim, Martin, Duncan, Moore, Adam & Stewart, Craig (2003). Proxy-based linking in an adaptive Web-based Integrated Learning Environment. ACTA Press. PhD.

Journal Article

• Alshehri, Mohammad, Alamri, Ahmed, Cristea, Alexandra I. & Stewart, Craig D. (2021). Towards Designing Profitable Courses: Predicting Student Purchasing Behaviour in MOOCs. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 31(2): 215-233.
• Lameras, Petros, Arnab, Sylvester, Dunwell, Ian, Stewart, Craig, Clarke, Samantha & Petridis, Panagiotis (2017). Essential features of serious games design in higher education: Linking learning attributes to game mechanics. British journal of educational technology 48(4): 972-994.
• Ashman, Helen Brailsford, Tim Cristea, A. I., Sheng, Quan Z. Stewart, Craig Toms, Elaine G. & Wade, Vincent (2014). The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning. Information & Management 51(6): 819-832.
• Hendrix, Maurice, Dunwell, Ian, Lameras, Petros, Arnab, Sylvester, Petridis, Panagiotis, Stewart, Craig, De Freitas, Sara, Backlund, Per & Liarokapis, Fotis (2013). Serious games and e-learning standards: Towards an integrated experience. Journal of Advanced Distributed Learning Technology (JADLeT) 1(1): 9-20.
• Khan, Javed, Cristea, Alexandra I & Stewart, Craig (2011). Adaptive Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia towards, Role-based, Adaptive Authoring. Computers and Advanced Technology in Education
• Cristea, Alexandra I, Carro, Rosa M & Stewart, Craig D (2010). Advances in authoring of adaptive web-based systems. Journal of Universal Computer Science
• Ashman, Helen, Brailsford, Tim, Burnett, Gary, Goulding, Jim, Moore, Adam, Stewart, G & Truran, Mark (2009). HCI and the Web. Human-Computer Interaction. Design Issues, Solutions and Applications 231-244.
• Stewart, Craig (2008). Authoring \& Culture in Online Education. J. UCS 14(17): 2877-2896.
• Ghali, Fawaz, Cristea, Alexandra I & Stewart, Craig (2008). My online teacher 2.0.
• Meccawy, Maram, Stewart, Craig D & Ashman, Helen (2007). Adaptive educational hypermedia interoperability and content creation with a web service-based architecture. International Journal of Learning Technology 3(3): 269-285.
• Cristea, Alexandra, Stewart, Craig, Brailsford, Tim & Cristea, Paul (2007). Adaptive Hypermedia System Interoperability: a'real world'evaluation. Journal of Digital Information 8(3).
• Dolog, Peter, Kravcik, Milos & Cristea, Alexandra (2007). Specification, authoring and prototyping of personalized workplace learning solutions.
• Stewart, Craig, Cristea, Alexandra I, Brailsford, Tim & Ashman, Helen (2005). 'Authoring once, delivering many': creating reusable adaptive courseware.
• Williams, Bill (2005). Formal online discussions: reflections on process. Journal of Educational Technology \& Society 8(1): 1-7.
• Cristea, Alexandra I, Stewart, Craig, Brailsford, Tim & Cristea, Paul (2005). Evaluation of Interoperability of Adaptive Hypermedia Systems: testing the MOT to WHURLE conversion in a classroom setting.
• Brown, Elizabeth, Cristea, Alexandra, Stewart, Craig & Brailsford, Tim (2005). Patterns in authoring of adaptive educational hypermedia: A taxonomy of learning styles. Journal of Educational Technology \& Society 8(3): 77-90.
• Stewart, Craig, Cristea, Alexandra, Moore, Adam, Brailsford, Tim & Ashman, Helen (2004). Authoring and delivering adaptive courseware.
• Brailsford, Timothy, Ashman, Helen, Stewart, Craig, Zakaria, Mohamed Ramzy & Moore, Adam (2002). User control of adaptation in an automated web-based learning environment.
• Brailsford, Timothy J, Stewart, Craig D, Zakaria, Mohamed Ramzy & Moore, Adam (2002). Autonavigation, links and narrative in an adaptive web-based integrated learning environment.
• Brailsford, Tim J, Moore, Adam, Stewart, Craig D, Zakaria, Mohamed Ramzy, Choo, Ban Seng & Davies, Peter (2001). Towards a framework to effective web-based distributed learning.