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”
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”
Student Mobile App Competition 2014-2015
Win paid placements with IBM or Deutsche Bank 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 … Continue reading “Student Mobile App Competition 2014-2015”
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”