Erik Duval

Erik Duval
Born	(1965-09-11)11 September 1965 Schoten Belgium
Died	12 March 2016(2016-03-12) (aged 50) Leuven, Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Fields	Augmenting Human Intellect
Institutions	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Known for	IEEE LOM, ARIADNE[1]
Website https://erikduval.wordpress.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval

Erik Duval (11 September 1965 – 12 March 2016) was a Belgian computer scientist.^[2] Duval chaired the informatics section^[3] of the computer science department^[4] of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he also chaired the research unit on human-computer interaction.^[5] His research was situated in the long-standing quest to augment the human intellect.

Life and career

Duval served on the executive committee of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), as a fellow of the AACE, as a member of ACM, and the IEEE computer society, on the Editorial Review Board and the Executive Advisory Board of the International Journal on E-Learning, as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT), on the board of editors of the Journal of Universal Computer Science, and as a member of the informatics section of the Academia Europeae.

In the last stages of his research career, Duval and his team were focused on:

• Capturing user actions for analysis of the user experience (with sensors like brainwave, ECG, eyetracking, … but also software sensors that track what people do)
• Personal information visualisation, where we try to help users with awareness, reflection, sensemaking, and behaviour change.

Typical application areas for this research included

• technology enhanced learning and learning analytics,
• science2.0 and digital humanities,
• personal health,
• data journalism.

Selected academic works

Duval has published over 100 papers.^[6] A selection of the highly cited ones:^[7]

• 2002, Metadata Principles and Practicalities^[8]
• 2002, IEEE Standard for learning object metadata
• 2002, Reusable learning objects: a survey of LOM-based repositories^[9]
• 2001, The Ariadne knowledge pool system^[10]
• 2003, A LOM Research Agenda^[11]
• 2007, Social Software for Lifelong learning^[12]
• 2005, Automating metadata generation: the simple indexing interface^[13]
• 2007, Tracking actual usage: the attention metadata approach^[14]
• 2011, Attention please!: learning analytics for visualization and recommendation^[15]

Death

In March 2014, Duval was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. After chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, a PET scan mid-January 2015 did not show any more traces of the disease.^[16] In the summer of 2015, a new diagnose revealed T-cell lymfoblastic lymphoma.^[17] Duval died on March 12, 2016.

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