- 21 December 2018 Some thoughts on Artificial Intelligence – Part 1: It works.
In a recent issue (10/2018 Vol.61 No.10) of Communications of the ACM there is a very interesting article by Adnan Darwiche titled “Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities?“. Adnan took a balanced view of the current development in AI and its related field, and in many respect challenge...
- 12 December 2018 Interview on VR cognitive load in Education
Recently Yoana Slavova and myself were interviewed by a research and consultancy company 3Rs IMMERSIVE on the use of VR in education. We shared our experiences from previous experiments and an outlook for future research. The interview can be found at: https://3rsimmersive.com/designing-vr-for-c...
- 1 October 2018 Moving in Portfolio Innovation Centre
Originally posted on SDCN: Software Defined Cognitive Networking: While most University staff members are setteling in our new and modern Waterside campus, we have also welcomed a new workshop space at the Portfolio Innovation Centre on University’s Avenue Campus. The workshop has just had the fu...
- 1 October 2018 Westminster Higher Education Forum and IEEE TALE 2018
I have been invited as a speaker at a Westminster Higher Education Forum: Technology in higher education: the future of learning environments, the use of Artificial Intelligence and the impact of online courses. An short intro of this event (scheduled on Thursday, 28th March 2019 in London) is co...
- 20 September 2018 Orchastrated media demo on BBC Taster
The Audio Team at BBC R&D North Lab has recently published an orchestrated media demo (the Vostok-K incident) and is now available on BBC Taster (https://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/pilots/vostok). It shows how we can orchestrate media playback across multiple user devices to deliver a more immersive ex...
- 20 August 2018 Post-doctoral Research Assistant position open for applications
The vacancy can be accessed directly via https://jobs.northampton.ac.uk/vacancy/research-assistant-fixed-term-361582.html and will remain active until 11.59pm on 12 September 2018. We wish to appoint a Research Associate to work on the EPSRC-funded project “Software Defined Cognitive Networking (...
- 8 February 2018 Does WOW! translate to an A? A comparative study of VR-based learning in higher education
Congratulations to Yoana (previously a BSc Business Computing student and now on our MSc programme), for having a paper accepted by IEEE VR 2018, a leading conference on 3D and virtual reality research! Yoana’s research is centred around a simple but fundamental question: Does the “WOW!” effect o...
