The SMAC competition – run by the IT Innovation Centre – is open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University from technical and non-technical backgrounds. There are two ways to take part: Option 1: Enter an innovative idea for an app and a story board with the design of your app and how it … Continue reading “Student Mobile App Competition 2015-2016”
Author: Li Zhao
Myo armband and 3D objects
Electromyography or EMG is a medical technique used for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by muscles. Thalmic Labs adopted its technology in its armband Myo, which tracks a user’s muscle movements to interact with displays and computer programs. The main purpose of this project is to explore the Myo armband technology in gesture control, and … Continue reading “Myo armband and 3D objects”
Time Recording System Evaluation
Resource planning and managing the supply of suitable resources is critical to the success of delivery. One of the main constraints within IT Services is the lack of the consistent mechanism for tracking resource commitments. Following the PWC survey on IT Service, we hope to adopt a resource management and time recording system to better prioritizing projects … Continue reading “Time Recording System Evaluation”
Google glass review
After a few years of prototype and developer version, Google finally released its retail version Google Glass. In this review, a high level overview of Google glass is introduced, and then followed by testing Google glass in the university environment. Google glass has invoked a lot of interest in different research area, some of the particular research … Continue reading “Google glass review”
Excitor G/On evaluation
The aim of this experiment is to evaluate the feasibility of replacing the secured laptops with computer-on-a-stick (G/On Solution) in some business circumstances. We aim to evaluate the G-On solution in the following areas in the experiment: • User Acceptance Testing: whether it is easy enough to use for end user • Reliability Testing: does the … Continue reading “Excitor G/On evaluation”
Student Mobile App Competition 2014-2015 Winners Announced
The Demos and Award Ceremony took place on Wednesday 25th March at the Digital Humanities Hub in the ERI Building from 9:00 to 14:00. This is the chance for the participants to present and demo their apps to a panel of experts from industry and academics and to a wider audience. Winners for the Student … Continue reading “Student Mobile App Competition 2014-2015 Winners Announced”
Teaching Labs of the Future Mini Conference
A half-day event organised by the IT Innovation Centre as part of wider consultation for the University of Birmingham Collaborative Teaching Lab project on 5th March 2015. Its aim was to bring together academics and technology developers to discuss the requirements for the teaching labs of the future. The event focused around two sessions: one driven by … Continue reading “Teaching Labs of the Future Mini Conference”
Splunk Review
Splunk is a software tool for searching, monitoring and analysing machine generated data via web interface. It indexes and correlates real-time and non-real-time big data to generate meaningful statistics and visualisations. It is used for application management, security and compliance as well as business analytics. Splunk reads textual data through various methods to perform its indexing. Splunk … Continue reading “Splunk Review”
The Mobile Apps in Research Summit 2014
On December 4th 2014, IT Innovation Centre and Ideas Lab hosted the second Mobile Apps in Research Summit in the University. This year’s Summit included some discussion-based workshop sessions, by popular demand, as well as presentations, panels and networking. Welcome Introduction to the Purpose and desired outcomes of the day – Professor John Heath (Pro-Vice Chancellor, … Continue reading “The Mobile Apps in Research Summit 2014”
Brain Computer Interface: An investigation in to BCI
Advances in cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging technologies have provided us with the ability to communicate directly with the brain. It has been made possible through sensors that can monitor the neural activity within the brain. This technology has been used to build Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) that enables direct communication pathway between the brain and the object to … Continue reading “Brain Computer Interface: An investigation in to BCI”