The Lapworth Museum App is a collaboration between the IT Innovation Centre and the Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham. The app was created by 1st year Computer Science student Adedayo Omosanya, winner of the Student Mobile App Competition 2015. [Download Link] The Lapworth Museum App includes the following features: Guided Tours to the Museum: Visitors can follow up … Continue reading “The Lapworth museum application”
Category: Projects and evaluations
Gesture Control Technology: An investigation on the potential use in Higher Education
For decades, keyboards and mouse have been the main input devices for computers. However, with the rising popularity of ubiquitous and ambient devices, (i.e. PlayStations), and equipment which allows users to grasp virtual objects, hand or body gesture are becoming essential: gesture controls have become central to the human computer interaction system. Gesture control technology is based on … Continue reading “Gesture Control Technology: An investigation on the potential use in Higher Education”
Oculus Rift: Analysis and potential use in Higher Education
If you don’t know what the Oculus Rift (OR) is, it is a virtual reality (VR) headset that covers your eyes blocking out any sight other than what it’s embedded screens show you. The OR tracks your head movements and where you are in space which is mimicked on the screens in front of you. The OR … Continue reading “Oculus Rift: Analysis and potential use in Higher Education”
Personal safety app: an evaluation of the Companion app and comparison to other safety apps
The Companion app (http://www.companionapp.io) is a free personal safety mobile app created by five students from the University of Michigan, MI, USA. It enables users to invite friends or family members to monitor their journey and check their safety via an online map, without the need for their friends or family members to install the Companion app. Companion … Continue reading “Personal safety app: an evaluation of the Companion app and comparison to other safety apps”
An Overview of MATLAB and other mathematics modelling tools
MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and programming language. It is a commercial software owned by MathWorks, and is widely used in teaching and research. Although MATLAB has a campus agreement which grants the University unlimited usage of the core MATLAB product and a limited selection of toolboxes, the yearly subscription costs in excess of £100k. In this … Continue reading “An Overview of MATLAB and other mathematics modelling tools”
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”
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”