- Date:
- 2011-
- Theme:
- Assessment
Expanding and distributing EASiHE tools is a collaborative effort between ECS and the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (UAT).
The project aims to:
- Disseminate EASiHE in HEIs outside the UK
- Translate some of the EASiHE tools to expand its uptake by universities in Spanish-speaking countries
- Evaluate if and how EASiHE tools may be used to evaluate the development of high-level skills of the Bloomââ¬â¢s taxonomy
Researchers and lecturers from UAT will develop a question bank for the module of Molecular Biology and use the items to produce exams to assess students across various academic programmes. This task will help the researchers to 1. implement e-assessment practices in the university and 2. facilitate the creation of standard exams for a compulsory module associated with different undergraduate programmes (e.g. nursing and biology).
Primary investigators
- Gary Wills
- Lester Gilbert
- Dr. Michelle A. Recio-Saucedo - C.I. POSEI/UAT
Secondary investigators
- Alejandra Saucedo
- Dr. Sergio Correa-Gutiérrez - Associate researcher
- Mtra. Guadalupe Castillo-Camacho - Content supervisor
- Lic. Alberto Ulises Ruiz-Zapata - Research assistant
- M.I. Vicente Paul SaldÃÂvar-Alonso - Lead developer
Partner
- Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas
Associated research group
- Electronic and Software Systems
- Date:
- 2011-2014
- Themes:
- Web Science, Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning
- Funding:
- EUFP7 (287863)
The recent massive growth in online media and the rise of user-authored content (e.g weblogs, Twitter, Facebook) has lead to challenges of how to access and interpret these strongly multilingual data, in a timely, efficient, and affordable manner. Scientifically, streaming online media pose new challenges, due to their shorter, noisier, and more colloquial nature. Moreover, they form a temporal stream strongly grounded in events and context. Consequently, existing language technologies fall short onaccuracy, scalability and portability.
The goal of this project is to deliver. innovative, portable open-source real-time methods for cross-lingual mining and summarisation of large-scale stream media. TrendMiner will achieve this through an inter-disciplinary approach, combining deep linguistic methods from text processing, knowledge-based reasoning from web science, machine learning, economics, and political science. No expensive human annotated data will be required due to our use of time-series data (e.g. financial markets, political polls) as a proxy. A key novelty will be weakly supervised machine learning algorithms for automatic discovery of new trends and correlations. Scalability and affordability will be addressed through a cloud-based infrastructure for real-time text mining from stream media.
Results will be validated in two high-profile case studies: financial decision support (with analysts, traders, regulators, and economists) and political analysis and monitoring (with politicians, economists, and political journalists). The techniques will be generic with many business applications: business intelligence, customer relations management, community support. The project will also benefit society and ordinary citizens by enabling enhanced access to government data archives, summarisation of online health information, and tracking of hot societal issues.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- Mahesan Niranjan
- Sina Samangooei
Partners
- Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) GmbH
- University of Sheffield
- Ontotext AD
- Internet Memory Research
- Eurokleis SRL
- Sora Ogris & Hofinger GmbH
- Hardik Fintrade Pvt Ltd
Associated research groups
- Web and Internet Science
- Communications, Signal Processing and Control
- Date:
- 2012-
Domain to provide Cool URIs for data sites in UK Academia.
Secondary investigator
- Date:
- 2011-
Open data service for the University of Southampton
Secondary investigator
- Date:
- 2012-2014
- Themes:
- Accessible Technologies, Technology Enhanced Learning
- Funding:
- Technology Strategy Board
The project will explore the use of metadata to drive the creation, accessibility and commercial availability of digital content to dyslexic school pupils and elderly visually impaired. There are around 500million people worldwide who are either blind, visually impaired and/or dyslexic. The advanced use of metadata to personalise the delivery of accessible content to these users across different platforms has the potential to significantly improve the quality of life and independence of millions of people.
The prime reason the UK Government is supporting a funding strand for content delivery and in particular metadata is because it realises the entire publishing industry may soon be routed through California, through i-stores, Google Stores and Amazon. The publishing sector in the UK is our sixth biggest national industry and needs to make content available over the web in the future. The Metall project will explore the market opportunities and the evaluation of multipurpose set of tools to tag, find and retrieve content, using metadata.
Project Objectives
To explore:
- how a new accessibility metadata authoring tool and annotation service can be adopted by the creative digital industries to create metadata encoded resources;
- how electronic content, including eBooks, can be automatically tailored for people who have various vision and print impairments and how new content can be created by combining content from other sources;
- how accessible digital content can be located and moved from system to system using standards-based interoperability formats to support learning and training activities;
- what accessibility metadata must be defined for text-based digital resources and their alternative forms, how this metadata is used in conjunction with the personal needs and preferences for users, and how both sets of data are defined and exchanged. This will consider the ISO Access For All (AfA) Digital Resource Description (DRD) and Personal Needs and Preferences (PNP) metadata standards as part of a review of leading standards.
- how accessibility-based and other forms of metadata are combined to create an appropriate business model for the just-in-time creation of digitally accessible content ââ¬â this will be focused on content that must be provided in various Braille and text-to-speech formats.
Primary investigators
Partners
- Dolphin Computer Access
- Dyslexia Action
- RNIB
Associated research group
- Web and Internet Science
- Date:
- 2011-2015
- Theme:
- Nanomaterials and Dielectrics
The use of polymers as effective solid dielectrics within high voltage equipment has been considered in recent years, with a focus on the dielectric properties of these materials being determined. More recently, it has been suggested that the inclusion of small ratios of nano-structured inorganic compounds, such as silicon and titanium oxides, into the polymer matrix will improve these properties considerably. This project aims to determine the effect on the dielectric and phase properties of thermoplastics (initially amorphous polystyrene) upon the addition of powdered nano-silica over a range of weight ratios. The dielectric constant and breakdown strength will initially be tested, along with the transition point of the materials into the glass phase. The detrimental effects of moisture absorption will also be studied, and the content of these nano-dielectrics will be observed by scanning electron microscope.
Primary investigator
- asv
Secondary investigator
- eww1v07
Associated research group
- Electronics and Computer Science
- Date:
- 2011-
Primary investigator
- asv
Associated research group
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Date:
- 2011-2012
- Themes:
- Student Centred Learning, Interaction with Knowledge and semantics, Technology Enhanced Learning
- Funding:
- JISC
The Southampton Student Dashboard will integrate information from a number of sources into a single CRM interface in order to provide student services. staff, tutors and other academics with appropriate information about the student and allow staff to update that information as the result of new interactions. The students will also have access to a view of their information.
The value of this dashboard is that relevant staff will have all the available information at hand when interacting with students, and this will enable those involved in tutoring and counselling to spot early signs of the patterns of problems that may lead to drop-out or failure to progress.
The work on the Student Dashboard will build upon and extend existing enterprise modelling that has been carried out as part of the Curriculum Innovation Programme at Southampton and provide a Blueprint for change in other universities.
Primary investigator
- hcd
Secondary investigators
- Yvonne Howard
- David Millard
- rfp
- Dr. Peter Hancock
- Dr. Janice Rippon
- Dr Gillian Holf
- Kerry Matthews
- saw
Associated research groups
- Web and Internet Science
- Learning Societies Lab
- Date:
- 2012-2015
- Themes:
- Modelling and Simulation, Environmental modelling, Condition monitoring
- Funding:
- National Grid plc
The installed length of cable circuits on the 400kV network has increased substantially in the last decade, particularly in London but also in rural areas where the use of overhead lines has become politically unacceptable. Cable circuits typically have a lower continuous current rating than overhead lines due to the increased thermal resistance between the cable and the ambient environment and as such can form the overall limiting factor on the amount of power which can be transferred through a given network link. Historically, National Grid has planned and purchased cable circuits based on the required continuous rating. Emergency ratings would then be calculated based on a set preload for a given time and would typically be applied in the event of a circuit outage elsewhere on the network.
This approach provides a concise cable rating sheet as part of the CUP package which can be readily used by Network Operations. While this approach works well where the level of load to be transferred is known in advance, it provides for only a limited number of rating combinations based on a series of assumptions about the cable system thermal environment. Given the increasing variability of the UK climate, coupled with the trend towards higher generation of electrical energy from renewable sources, this may not always lead to the best utilisation of a cable asset as its true power transfer capability over periods of 24hrs or less may be under-estimated through this traditional approach.
This study will investigate the development of dynamic rating algorithms applicable to a variety of common cable circuits through both numerical modelling, simulation and laboratory based experiments. The proposed work will be carried out within the Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory at the University of Southampton. Principle targets for this study include: 1. The development and experimental verification of an algorithm for dynamic ratings applicable to buried cable circuits 2. Further development of (1) for application to cables in air, for example troughs and tunnels. 3. The examination of possible integration of tunnel dynamic ratings with ventilation control options under investigation in the CCTV (Control of Cable Tunnel Ventilation) project. 4. Development of a framework detailing the data collection requirements and other pre-requisites for any future deployment of dynamic cable ratings within National Grid. 5. An analysis of the potential benefits of using dynamic ratings, particularly in terms of constraint cost reduction.
Primary investigators
- jp2
- Paul Lewin
- sgs
Secondary investigator
- rh5g10
Partner
- National Grid plc
Associated research group
- Electronics and Computer Science
- Date:
- 2012-2012
- Themes:
- Technology Enhanced Learning, Accessible Technologies, Mobile Learning
- Funding:
- JISC
Synote Mobile will meet the important user need to make web-based Open Educational Resources recordings easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for learners, teachers and others.
Synote recordings are available as OER Synote is Open Source and freely available Synote facilitates the repurposing of anyoneââ¬â¢s OER recordings.
Virtually all UK students carry mobile devices capable of replaying video and want to use them for learning. However the majority of these devices cannot replay Synoteââ¬â¢s accessible, searchable, annotated recordings.
This project will create a new mobile HTML5 version of Synote, able to replay Synote recordings on any studentââ¬â¢s mobile device capable of connecting to the Internet. Synote Mobile will enable all students to work together on their coursework, projects and revision in more modern flexible environments than desktop computer rooms not designed for collaborative working.
Primary investigators
Associated research groups
- Web and Internet Science
- Electronic and Software Systems