Collaborating Researcher: Marek Hatala

Contact Information

• Associate Professor, Interactive Arts and Technology, SFU
• 1.778.782.7431 (voice)
• 1.778.782.7485 (fax)
• mailto:[email protected]
• www.sfu.ca/~mhatala

GRAND Projects

• Play And Performance In Game-Based Interfaces

Biography

Dr. Marek Hatala is Associate Professor at the School Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University and a director of the Laboratory for Ontological Research. Dr. Hatala received his MSc in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence from the Technical University of Kosice. His primary research interests lie in areas of knowledge representation, ontologies and semantic web, user modeling, intelligent information retrieval, organizational learning and eLearning. His current research looks at how semantic technologies can be applied to support business users and software developers when designing complex systems, what role user and user group modeling can play in interactive and ubiquitous environments, and combining semantic technologies and and social computing to facilitate learning across organizational boundaries between industry and academia. Dr. Hatala's research has been funded from NSERC, SSHRC, Canarie, Canadian Heritage, A.W.Mellon Foundation, as well as by industry.