Hazel Sayers
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Welcome to Ayse Kucukyilmaz
March 12, 2020
The Smart Products Beacon is delighted to welcome Assistant Professor Ayse Kucukyilmaz to the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham. Ayse’s research focus is in haptic shared control for physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) with the aim of building adjustable autonomy paradigms to enable dynamic switching behaviours between different levels of robotic autonomy (e.g. full human control …
A Byte to eat?
March 2, 2020
A Byte to eat? Regulating food in a connected world with Richard Hyde, Professor of Law Regulation and Governance Food is increasingly supplied through online platforms, with the global market, worth €83 billion, growing at 3.5% per year. These platforms help innovative food businesses to operate outside of normal supply chains, artisanal producers to connect …
Welcome to Alex Turner
February 21, 2020
The Smart Products Beacon is delighted to welcome Assistant Professor Alex Turner to the University of Nottingham. Alex’s research focusses on the development of new technologies in combination with machine learning to improve the diagnosis and treatments of movement disorders, with a particular attention on gait and ambulation. Movement disorders are typically complex, with significant …
Smart Products Beacon update
February 7, 2020
Demonstrator Projects The RoboClean project held its first meeting of 2020 to review activity. Carolina Fuentes has been continuing development work on the unified platform to allow easy integration of the modules developed for the project (Multi-agent coordination, VUIs/ Alexa Skills, and Visualization) within the allergen aware human-robot collaboration architecture. They recruited Janey Slinger an …
SoonChild Tour
January 31, 2020
Red Earth Theatre in association with Arena Theatre Wolverhampton & Derby Theatre Based on the book by Russell Hoban Illustrated by Alexis Deacon Dig out your snowshoes for an Arctic Adventure with live music, 3D and shadow puppets, creative captioning, integrated sign language and song, and a cosmic Northern Lights show. Set in the Arctic …
Smart Products Beacon Workshop
January 28, 2020
Researchers from across the university gathered at a workshop on the 23rd January to shape the next wave of Smart Products Beacon demonstrator projects. Our demonstrator projects aim to test the feasibility of novel ‘smart product’ concepts and create interactive demonstrators that convey research ideas aligned to the core Beacon themes. Our projects will investigate …
Research Associate/Fellow (fixed term)
January 9, 2020
Reference: SC1494719 Closing date: Tuesday 4th February 2020 Job Type: Research Department: Smart Products Beacon Salary: £27511 – £40322 per annum (pro rate if applicable) depending on skills and experience (minimum £300943 with relevant PhD). Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance Applications are invited for a Computer Science and/or Engineering based Research Associate/Fellow …
“Sensors support machine learning” – Assistant Professor Nicholas Watson
January 7, 2020
Nik Watson, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering discusses whether online sensors and machine learning can deliver industry 4.0 to the food and drink manufacturing sector in the Journal of the Institute of Food Science and Technology, vol 33 issue 4 December 2019. “Manufacturing is experiencing the 4th industrial revolution, which is the use of Industrial …
Director’s Blog
December 5, 2019
The Smart products beacon is tackling two big questions. What are smart products? And how are they made? A smart product is one that uses digital technologies and especially personal data to become more adaptive, personalised and valuable. It captures data throughout its lifetime – through both manufacture and use – and uses this …
Connected Everything Call for Feasibility Study Proposals
December 2, 2019
Connected Everything (CEII) is looking to fund a second round of feasibility studies. Projects can be between 6 and 12 months in length, and should complete before the end of June 2021. They are looking to fund up to five projects of up to a maximum value of £60,000 at full Economic Cost (fEC), with …
