{{Short description|Professor (1965–2016)}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Erik Duval |image = Erik Duval.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1965|09|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Schoten Belgium | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|03|12|df=y|1965|09|11}} | death_place = Leuven, Belgium |citizenship = |fields = Augmenting Human Intellect |workplaces = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |doctoral_advisor = |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = |notable_students = |known_for = IEEE LOM, ARIADNE<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ariadne-eu.org |title=ARIADNE Foundation - Homepage |publisher=Ariadne-eu.org}}</ref> |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |website = {{plainlist| *{{URL|https://erikduval.wordpress.com/}} *{{URL|http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval}} }} |awards = |religion = |signature = <!-- (filename only) --> |footnotes = }} '''Erik Duval''' (11 September 1965 – 12 March 2016) was a Belgian computer scientist.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wms.cs.kuleuven.be/cs/nieuws/in-memoriam-prof-dr-ir-erik-duval |title=In memoriam Prof. dr. ir. Erik Duval |publisher=KULeuven Departement Computerwetenschappen}}</ref> Duval chaired the informatics section<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wms.cs.kuleuven.be/cs/english/about/structure |title=Informatics section K.U. Leuven - Homepage |publisher=kuleuven.be}}</ref> of the computer science department<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/ |title=Computer science department K.U. Leuven - Homepage |publisher=kuleuven.be}}</ref> of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he also chaired the research unit on human-computer interaction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hci.cs.kuleuven.be/ |title=Research unit on human-computer interaction K.U. Leuven - Homepage |publisher=kuleuven.be}}</ref> His research tried to augment the human intellect.
==Life and career== Duval served on the executive committee of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.solaresearch.org/|title=Home|website=Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR)|accessdate=Mar 25, 2023}}</ref> as a fellow of the AACE,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aace.org/|title=Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education|website=AACE|accessdate=Mar 25, 2023}}</ref> as a member of ACM, and the IEEE computer society,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/|title=IEEE Computer Society|accessdate=Mar 25, 2023}}</ref> on the Editorial Review Board and the Executive Advisory Board of the International Journal on E-Learning,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aace.org/pubs/ijel/|title=International Journal on E-Learning (IJEL)|website=AACE|accessdate=Mar 25, 2023}}</ref> as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/lt|title=CSDL | IEEE Computer Society|website=www.computer.org|accessdate=Mar 25, 2023}}</ref> on the board of editors of the Journal of Universal Computer Science,<ref>http://www.jucs.org/jucs_board_of_editors {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307094000/http://www.jucs.org/jucs_board_of_editors |date=2016-03-07 }} {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2025}}</ref> and as a member of the informatics section of the Academia Europaea.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Duval_Erik|title=Academy of Europe: Duval Erik|website=www.ae-info.org|accessdate=Mar 25, 2023}}</ref>
Duval co-founded and contributed to Aristo Music Technology (2000) and Atmire (2006).
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 published over 100 papers.<ref>{{DBLP|name=Erik Duval}}</ref> A selection of the highly cited ones:<ref>{{Google Scholar id |name=Erik Duval}}</ref>
* 2002, Metadata Principles and Practicalities<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Duval|first1=Erik|last2=Hodgins|first2=Wayne|last3=Sutton|first3=Stuart|last4=Weibel|first4=Stuart L|title=Metadata principles and practicalities|journal=D-Lib Magazine|date=2002|volume=8|issue=4|page=16|doi=10.1045/april2002-weibel|doi-access=free}}</ref> * 2002, IEEE Standard for learning object metadata * 2002, Reusable learning objects: a survey of LOM-based repositories<ref>{{cite book | last1=Neven | first1=Filip | last2=Duval | first2=Erik | title=Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia | chapter=Reusable learning objects: A survey of LOM-based repositories | date=2002 | pages=291–294 | doi=10.1145/641007.641067 | isbn=1-58113-620-X | doi-access=free }}</ref> * 2001, The Ariadne knowledge pool system<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Duval|first1=Erik|last2=Forte|first2=Eddy|last3=Cardinaels|first3=Kris|last4=Verhoeven|first4=Bart|last5=Van Durm|first5=Rafael|last6=Hendrikx|first6=Koen|last7=Wentland Forte|first7=Maria|last8=Ebel|first8=Norbert|last9=Macowicz|first9=Maciej|last10=Warkentyne|first10=Ken|last11=Haenni|first11=Florence|title=The Ariadne knowledge pool system|journal=Communications of the ACM|date=2001-05-01|volume=44|issue=5|pages=72–78|url=http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/thesis/cguetl_diss/literatur/Kapitel02/References/Duval_et_al._2001/p72-duval.pdf|doi=10.1145/374308.374346|s2cid=1607676}}</ref> * 2003, A LOM Research Agenda<ref>{{cite conference|last1=Duval|first1=Erik|last2=Hodgins|first2=Wayne|title=A LOM Research Agenda|conference=WWW (Alternat Paper Tracks)|date=2003-05-20|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221022956}}</ref> * 2007, Social Software for Lifelong learning<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Klamma|first1=Ralf|last2=Chatti|first2=Mohamed Amine|last3=Duval|first3=Erik|last4=Hummel|first4=Hans|last5=Thora Hvannberg|first5=Ebba|last6=Kravcik|first6=Milos|last7=Law|first7=Effie|last8=Ambjörn|first8=Naeve|last9=Scott|first9=Peter|title=Social Software for Life-long Learning|journal=Journal of Educational Technology & Society|date=2007-07-01|volume=10|issue=3|url=http://dspace.learningnetworks.org/bitstream/1820/910/4/ET%26S_socialsoftware.pdf}}</ref> * 2005, Automating metadata generation: the simple indexing interface<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cardinaels |first1=Kris |last2=Meire |first2=Michael |last3=Duval |first3=Erik |title=Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web - WWW '05 |chapter=Automating metadata generation: The simple indexing interface |date=2005 |page=548 |doi=10.1145/1060745.1060825 |chapter-url=http://www.ra.ethz.ch/CDStore/www2005/docs/p548.pdf|doi-access=free |isbn=1-59593-046-9 }}</ref> * 2007, Tracking actual usage: the attention metadata approach<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Wolpers|first1=Martin|last2=Najjar|first2=Jehad|last3=Verbert|first3=Katrien|last4=Duval|first4=Erik|title=Tracking actual usage: the attention metadata approach|journal=Journal of Educational Technology & Society|date=2007-07-01|volume=10|issue=3|pages=106–121|url=http://dspace.ou.nl/bitstream/1820/1054/1/ets_10_3.pdf}}</ref> * 2011, Attention please!: learning analytics for visualization and recommendation<ref>{{cite conference|last1=Duval|first1=Erik|title=Attention please!: learning analytics for visualization and recommendation|conference=1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge|date=2011-02-27|pages=9–17|url=https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/315113/1/}}</ref>
==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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allesoverkanker.be/erik-duval-na-non-hodgkinlymfoom |title=Erik Duval na non-hodgekinlymfoom - Homepage |publisher=allesoverkanker.be}}</ref> In the summer of 2015, a new diagnose revealed T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://erikduval.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/changes/ |title=Erik Duval Blog, July 6th 2015 |date=6 July 2015 |publisher=Erik Duval}}</ref> Duval died on March 12, 2016.
==Legacy==
To honor the memory of Erik Duval, the Society for Learning Analytics Research created Erik Duval Student Scholarships to provide support for students attending Learning Analytics Summer Institute.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://solaresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SoLAR_AGM_2016.pdf | title = Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of SoLAR}}</ref>
The main auditorium in the Computer Science building of the KU Leuven was named after him, a few months after his death.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.kuleuven.be/kulag/en/lokaal/490-12-000225 | title = 00.255 - auditorium Erik Duval - KULeuven Access Guide}}</ref>
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