- 30 December 2022 Paper on data-driven smart communities to appear in IEEE Network Magazine
A smart campus project started in 2019 finally sees its first academic paper titled “Network as a sensor for smart crowd analysis and service improvement” appear in a Smart Communities special issue of IEEE Network Magazine. It was meant to be a pure engineering project to showcase the potential ...
- 1 December 2022 Automating mental health treatment
Today marks the start of a new research project on automating mental health treatment using VR and game design. This short project is funded by the University’s Support for Innovation and Research Ideas, Policy and Participation (SIRIPP) grant. The SIRIPP grant supports staff in developing their ...
- 7 September 2022 Keynote talk at Institute of Technology, Federal University of Pará
It was a pleasure to be invited by Prof. Eduardo Cerqueira to meet with his postgraduate students at the Institute of Technology, Federal University of Pará. We had some interesting discussions on mobile VR, content distribution, and AI ethics in VR designs.
- 27 March 2022 Using VR and machine learning for art and mental health
[ update: the research idea described in this post has supported a successful outline proposal to EPSRC High-risk speculative engineering and ICT research: New Horizons ] In the past few years, we have had a series of projects on capturing and modelling human attention in VR applications. Our res...
- 22 March 2022 The development of BSc AI and Data Science programme
This is a belated post on developing a new BSc AI and Data Science (Hons) programme. This programme has successfully passed validation in early 2022 and we are now accepting applications for the 22/23 academic year. The development of the new programme is an answer to the growing demand for machi...
