Monday 24 January 2011
Monday 16 June 2008
MiRTLE to be key-noted at EUNIS 2008
MiRTLE to be presented as a key-note at the EUNIS 2008 conference in Denmark on Friday 27th June:
Using Project Wonderland to develop and deploy virtual 3-D collaborative environments for teaching and learning
Michael Gardner, University of Essex, Director of the Digital Lifestyles Centre
See http://eunis.dk/papers/ for the full programme and http://eunis.dk/ for the conference web site
Using Project Wonderland to develop and deploy virtual 3-D collaborative environments for teaching and learning
Michael Gardner, University of Essex, Director of the Digital Lifestyles Centre
See http://eunis.dk/papers/ for the full programme and http://eunis.dk/ for the conference web site
New BT/EPSRC CASE PhD Studentship
“Capturing concerns in information networks”
Supervisors: Dr Michael Gardner & Prof. Vic Callaghan
Based in the Digital Lifestyles Centre, University of Essex, and in conjunction with BT research at Adastral Park
For more info and how to apply see http://www.postgraduatestudentships.co.uk/studyfunding/3017
Supervisors: Dr Michael Gardner & Prof. Vic Callaghan
Based in the Digital Lifestyles Centre, University of Essex, and in conjunction with BT research at Adastral Park
For more info and how to apply see http://www.postgraduatestudentships.co.uk/studyfunding/3017
Seminar - Mar 11th - Christos Kalkanis “Towards end-user physiological profiling for video recommendation engines"
Our March Seminar will be:
“Towards end-user physiological profiling for video recommendation engines”
Speaker: Christos Kalkanis, Chimera, University of Essex
Date: 11/3/08 (Tuesday)
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Location: 2.411 (off Sq 2 NE, Level 2) - see http://www.essex.ac.uk/about/rooms.htm
Audience: University of Essex only
Abstract
The continuous shift of communication and entertainment services towards the Internet has created a lot of opportunities but also problems. Suddenly, we find ourselves flooded with information from a wide variety of sources and filtering becomes a key issue.
Service providers understand this and are embedding context-awareness into their applications, mainly ‘Personalisation’ and ‘Recommendation’. Towards this end, we are going to present our on-going research on physiological end-user profiling that is taking place at the University of Essex. Our aim is to show that the application of affective computing techniques makes it possible to create comparable personalised film signatures. These signatures form a better metric for creating similarity matrices as opposed to discrete ratings currently used in the vast majority of recommendation engines. Applied to video recommender systems, this should lead to better accuracy in similarity modeling and more accurate recommendations.
“Towards end-user physiological profiling for video recommendation engines”
Speaker: Christos Kalkanis, Chimera, University of Essex
Date: 11/3/08 (Tuesday)
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Location: 2.411 (off Sq 2 NE, Level 2) - see http://www.essex.ac.uk/about/rooms.htm
Audience: University of Essex only
Abstract
The continuous shift of communication and entertainment services towards the Internet has created a lot of opportunities but also problems. Suddenly, we find ourselves flooded with information from a wide variety of sources and filtering becomes a key issue.
Service providers understand this and are embedding context-awareness into their applications, mainly ‘Personalisation’ and ‘Recommendation’. Towards this end, we are going to present our on-going research on physiological end-user profiling that is taking place at the University of Essex. Our aim is to show that the application of affective computing techniques makes it possible to create comparable personalised film signatures. These signatures form a better metric for creating similarity matrices as opposed to discrete ratings currently used in the vast majority of recommendation engines. Applied to video recommender systems, this should lead to better accuracy in similarity modeling and more accurate recommendations.
Monday 10 March 2008
DLC at Sun's Worldwide Education & Research Conference
Michael Gardner took part in a panel of experts from around the world as part an immersive education forum at the Sun microsystems worldwide education & research conference in San Francisco from 26 to 27th February 2008. For more information see http://events-at-sun.com/wwerc08/agenda.html
Wednesday 9 January 2008
Mirtle featured in the news (on Sun) again!
See here:
http://www.sun.com/emrkt/educonnection/newsletter/1007eduinsight.html?cid=921781
http://wikis.sun.com/display/IESIG/Home
http://www.sun.com/emrkt/educonnection/newsletter/1007eduinsight.html?cid=921781
http://www.sun.com/emrkt/educonnection/newsletter/1007eduinsight.html?cid=921781
http://wikis.sun.com/display/IESIG/Home
http://www.sun.com/emrkt/educonnection/newsletter/1007eduinsight.html?cid=921781
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