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Dr. Matthew Dennis serves as Associate Head (Student Experience) within the School of Computing, Faculty of Technology at the University of Portsmouth. His academic profile demonstrates a strong research trajectory spanning adaptive systems, user modeling, and personalized computing applications across educational and healthcare domains.
Dr. Dennis's research interests focus on developing intelligent systems that adapt to individual user characteristics including personality traits, emotional states, and performance metrics. His work bridges user modeling, affective computing, and practical applications in education and healthcare, with notable contributions in adaptive exercise selection algorithms, personalized feedback mechanisms, and health interventions tailored to individual characteristics.
His publication record (22 total outputs with 18 conference contributions and 4 articles) reveals an evolution from foundational educational technology applications toward broader health informatics implementations. Early work concentrated on personality-based adaptation in educational settings, while more recent publications explore applications in melanoma self-examination and other health contexts. His research consistently emphasizes rigorous user evaluation and practical implementation of adaptive techniques, with his 2016 paper 'Adapting progress feedback and emotional support to learner personality' being particularly influential (55 citation indexes, 151 reader captures).
Dr. Dennis actively supervises PhD students, with J.A. Okpo appearing as a primary advisee on multiple publications related to adaptive exercise selection. His research has gained significant attention across academic and public platforms, with several publications being 'picked up by 8 news outlets,' 'blogged by 1,' and 'referenced in 1 policy source,' indicating real-world impact beyond academic circles.
His work demonstrates interdisciplinary expertise spanning computer science, psychology, and healthcare, with current research extending adaptive system principles to healthcare applications while maintaining contributions to educational technology. The integration of personality-based adaptation across these domains represents a unifying thread throughout his scholarly work.
