Mr Yaw Buadu

Yaw Sampene Buadu is a postgraduate researcher in the School of Computing and Communications at the Open University, UK. Yaw is also a systems and software engineer with a bachelor's in Computer Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. He holds a masters in Systems and Software Engineering from the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. Yaw has experience in the development of web and mobile applications and has a decade of professional experience in that field. He has a keen interest in online learning technologies and a special interest in online learning, motivating his current research into the technical and social challenges of web conferencing.

Yaw's research interests are primarily in software engineering, mobile applications and technologies for online learning. His PhD project is titled "Web Conferencing: The Technical and Social Challenges". 

He is interested in the following areas:

• Web conferencing technologies
• Engagement in webconferencing
• Webcams use in web conferencing tools
• Social Presence