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”
Category: Projects and evaluations
Huddle review
Huddle is a cloud based content management platform. This type of technology is in growing demand for an institution like Birmingham which is research-driven and where researchers need to be able to share documents and collaborate not only within the institution but with other external organisations. Traditional methods of emailing documents between the users are no longer fit … Continue reading “Huddle review”
ReadSpeaker Evaluation
ReadSpeaker is a software tool that uses the text-to-speech technology to speech-enable web sites and mobile sites facilitating their accessibility. It provides an integrated text-to-speech solution to Canvas e-learning environment. In this evaluation, ReadSpeaker was configured in the Canvas test environment. The outcome of the evaluation is to help the university decide ReadSpeaker as an assistive technology whether … Continue reading “ReadSpeaker Evaluation”
Huddle review
Huddle is a cloud based content management platform. This type of technology is in growing demand for an institution like Birmingham which is research-driven and where researchers need to be able to share documents and collaborate not only within the institution but with other external organisations. Traditional methods of emailing documents between the users are no longer fit … Continue reading “Huddle review”
Beam – mobile robotic telepresence system review
Beam is a mobile robotic telepresence (MRP) system from Suitable Technologies. MRP systems incorporate video conferencing equipment onto mobile robot devices which can be steered from remote locations. These systems are primarily used in the context of promoting social interaction between people. In this review, we first look at the product overview of Beam, including its main functionality … Continue reading “Beam – mobile robotic telepresence system review”
IBM Bluemix review
IBM Bluemix is an implementation of IBM’s Open Cloud Architecture designed to enable users to rapidly build, deploy, and manage cloud applications, while tapping a growing ecosystem of available services and runtime frameworks. BlueMix as a new public Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) was first released in February 2014. In this review, an overview of Bluemix is introduced and the product … Continue reading “IBM Bluemix review”
Wireless presentation solutions review
The purpose of this report is to evaluate the current available wireless presentations solutions and to find out a feasible solution which could be implemented in the university. Wireless presentation in the teaching rooms is a business requirement proposed by the CLAD. It enables lecturers to present lecture materials from their mobile tablet or mobile phone to the … Continue reading “Wireless presentation solutions review”
Internet of things: extracting and reading data from sensors
With the rise of the Internet of Things, more objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate though the web. Advances in wireless networking technology and the greater standardisation of communications protocols make it possible to collect data from these sensors in real time from almost everywhere. The aim of this experiment is … Continue reading “Internet of things: extracting and reading data from sensors”
Leap motion review
Leap Motion is a hardware sensor that detects fingers movement and allows users to interact with a computer by waving their fingers and hands with no need for touch or the use of a mouse. It is significantly more accurate and less intrusive than other sensors like MS Kinect. Leap Motion comes with a selection of … Continue reading “Leap motion review”
A-level clearing in SharePoint experiment report
This experiment is a follow-up of a previous experiment on the BI features in MS SharePoint. The aim was to test the live SharePoint system using real time A-Level Clearing data to present a real time data visualisation on the display dashboards. There were 3 key stages in this experiment: 1. To gain access to A-level … Continue reading “A-level clearing in SharePoint experiment report”