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
Monday 16 June 2008
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
Public version of MiRTLE site goes live
To try out the site go here. The only prerequisite is that you machine must have Java 1.6 installed.
Michael Gardner presents at London Technology Network
See here for the full programme. Michael presented on the challenges to improving user adoption.
Article in the Times on intelligent plugs
The Times newspaper today (Wednesday 2 January) has a
story about John Woods' and Steve Fitz' intelligent plugs
(see page 8 in the printed newspaper).
The story is also accessible online in the environment section:
story about John Woods' and Steve Fitz' intelligent plugs
(see page 8 in the printed newspaper).
The story is also accessible online in the environment section:
Chapter on Pervasive Information Systems in new book
A paper by Vic Callaghan, Jeannette Chin, Victor Zamudio, Graham Clarke, Anuroop Shahi, and Michael Gardner on "Domestic Pervasive Information Systems: End-user Programming of Digital Homes, " has been published in Dec 07 in Part II. of the book "Applications of Pervasive Information Systems".
For full publication details look here.
For full publication details look here.
i10 Innovation East article
Work carried out by the Digital Lifestyles Centre to evaluate user perceptions of broadband voice services in the iSpace, is featured in the Summer 2007 issue of the i10 magazine 'Innovation East'. The full issue is available here
DLC talk to Sun microsystems about new project
The Digital Lifestyles centre is in negotiation with Sun Microsystems about a new collaborative research project to build and demonstrate a mixed reality lecture room for the World Exposition in China 2010. Click for more information.
DLC attend European Living Labs network event
The Digital Lifestyles centre was presented at the European Network of Living Labs event in Portugal on 21-23 May 2007. We are hoping to be included as part of the 2nd wave membership of this network.
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