Results of EPSRC ICT TI3 participant clustering

Posted on December 7, 2012 by wpmjcadmin

Remote clustering by participants at EPSRC’s Towards Intelligent Information Infrastructure shown below:

Full image and slides at: http://researchperspectives.org/?page_id=1685

 

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PhD Studentship

Posted on February 14, 2012 by wpmjcadmin

New funded PhD studentship available: see http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~mjc/research/phd-studentship/

 

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Predicting Perceptions 2012 Paper decisions out

Posted on February 14, 2012 by wpmjcadmin

Predicting Perceptions 2012  http://www.perceptions.macs.hw.ac.uk/

Predicting Perceptions 2012: the 3rd International Conference on Appearance. It follows on from the highly successful cross-disciplinary conferences on Measurement of Appearance in Ghent and Paris that attracted 120 and 150 participants from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Paper decisions now with authors.

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Congratulations to our First Dragons’ Den Winners

Posted on September 16, 2011 by wpmjcadmin

NEMODE held a Dragons’ Den Workshop 23rd October 2012- 25th October 2012 at the Digital Economy All Hands Conference, Aberdeen.  The focus of the workshop was on New Business Models.

Congratulations to our winning business idea:

  • Mogees(Bruno Zamborlin & Aidan Sheridan)  who win £10,000

And our runners up who each win £3,000:

  • Dynamon (Angus Webb)
  • Evolved (Chris Paulson & Andras Sobester)
  • Satalia  (Daniel Hulme)

 

 

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TimeTable

Posted on August 25, 2011 by wpmjcadmin

Day Mondays Thursdays Fridays Fridays
time 13.15 14.15 9.15 13.15
duration 1hr 1hr 1hr 2hr
room PG201 BD113 EM 1.83 EM G46+47
Week 1 MJC MJC MJC MJC
Week 2 MJC SL MJC SL
Week 3 No class SL MJC SL
Week 4 MJC SL MJC SL
Week 5 MJC SL MJC SL
Week 6 MJC SL MJC SL
Week 7 MJC SL MJC SL
Week 8 no class no class no class no class
Week 9 no class no class no class no class
Week 10 no class no class no class no class
Week 11 no class Flex handin no class no class
Week 12 no class no class no class no class
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Pinch, pull, poke, crunch clothes on an iPad

Posted on August 25, 2011 by wpmjcadmin

Great video from Pawel and Stefano on iPad app:

Demoed at DE2012 by Stefano

Pull Push Pinch Cloths on iPad / iPhone: tool for Increased Digital Engagement

 

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Culture Hack Scotland

Posted on May 11, 2011 by wpmjcadmin

To develop web visualisation and social networking tools suitable for Culture Hack Scotland using cultural public data.

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Web navigation designer

Posted on May 11, 2011 by wpmjcadmin

Idea

Develop a Flex application to allow a number of remote users to drag and drop web page categories into groups – the application then generates the optimal grouping for tree navigation of the site.

This could be extended to distributed brainstorming if users were allowed to dynamically create categories.

Could also be extended using a little image processing to process photos of collections of posit notes – each posit note containing an idea from a brain storming session. Users could then organise them into groups individually – the aggregate result being presented (as a  dendrogram or other cluster representation).

Project

Use Flex list components (advanced data grids) to allow users to drag and drop categories together. Then apply something called dendrogram analysis to combine and show optimal grouping. This would be similar in many ways to WebSort

Skills required

Flex application so basic programming skills required.

 

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Web application: Genetic Algorithm assisted Photographic Flickr Collage Generation

Posted on May 11, 2011 by wpmjcadmin

Goal

To develop highly interactive, cool web application that allows users to quickly generate a range of collages of Fickr photos using Flickr tags and image features.

Idea

  • Browser application in which user selects Flickr photos using tags, browsing etc.
  • The images are laid out in a collage and displayed to the user using some simple rules e.g. images with 50% light sky should be at the top, images containing bright primaries should be at the front, images with similar Flickr tags.
  • Simple effects should be occasionally applied to the images – e.g. sepia, blurring, distortions, hue adjustments etc.
  • The user presses a “reshuffle” button and a new collage is produced.
  • If the user presses the button quickly then the collage receives a low score, those that the user lingers on receive a high score.
  • A genetic algorithm is used to generate new collages which are combinations of old (popular) collages.
  • At any point the user may ‘drag’ images into new positions or ‘zoom’ them to new sizes. These actions cause automatic repositioning of surrounding images using simple dynamics to give the photographs ‘weight’.

Sources

Skills required

Flex application so basic programming skills required.

Inspiration

 

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Google map, Flickr image mashup for student guide to campus and local areas

Posted on May 11, 2011 by wpmjcadmin

Goal:

Web application that allows students to upload images, movies, and comments to a Flex application that displays all information on a local Google Map. Users should be able to ‘sketch’ paths, routes, buildings as well as adding comments, movies etc. to locations.

Application should be locally hosted using simple PHP and MySQL.

Idea:

  • Use Google’s Flex API to create a web application that has full Google map functionality (see Google’s FlexDeveloper’s Guide) that on startup goes to the local Google Map.
  • Add simple sketching capability to allow multiple, moderated users to sketch routes, important locations, walks etc
  • Add basic information to Riccarton map (e.g. building outlines, paths, department info on zoom and mouse over).
  • Add basic information to local area map (e.g. bus routes, airport, bus station etc.)
  • Add PHP/MySQL interface to allow users to add and store images, sketches, movies and comments to map locations
  • Add Flickr referencing using geotagging

Skills required

Flex application so programming skills required.

Inspiration:

  • Google myMaps provides a nice idea of the basics of the interface (I’ve added the routes and polygons highlighting our building and its carparks below). But imagine that this was a Flash app. to which we could add various animations, comment lists, wkiki, and mouseovers etc. and that it was linked to our own mySQL database. Local students could add movies, routes, places of interest, comments etc. (ok, so local pubs, shops, clubs would be more interesting…..)View Click here for larger map
  • Google’s Flex demos and Developer’s Guides show you how to get a simple Flex app. talking to Google maps (it took me about an hour to get something going).

 

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