Current and Past Projects
| MirroredMotion: The project investigates the implementation of body-area networks using low-cost, sourceless, wireless sensors to capture the motion of the human body. We implement a full motion-capture system that is ultra-portable and requires no special environments to operate in. A range of applications arising through this technology are to be investigated. Read more > |
| MiniGIST - Miniature Geographic Information System for Tourism: Funded by the EQUAL project, this mini-project will look into the implementation of a miniaturised, downloadable GIS which tourists might use to obtain information about sights, accommodation, shops and entertainment while visiting rural areas and small towns across Scotland. Read more > |
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Silvers Marine (Knowledge Transfer Partnership - started May 2009). Silvers Marine UK Ltd is a boatyard offering repair and yard services, primarily to individuals, although a portion or their annual revenue comes from a contract with the RNLI. A fundamental barrier to growth is the information systems currently in use for the support of business processes. In addition to the installation of a modern enterprise ICT infrastructure, which is the main focus of the project, a novel boat yard production control and management system will be implemented. The project will investigate how existing COTS/FOSS enterprise software and emerging technologies can be combined to deliver automated and online stock control, order tracking, sophisticated management reporting and performance analysis tools as well as improved customer experience. MUCom's involvement in the project is to investigate how Pervasive Computing could add value over the core ICT infrastructure, by providing mobile access to networked computing. One possible outcome is that the system allows in situ preview and sign off of work activities and materials; providing a sense of “location awareness” to stock materials to support identification and tracking and providing everyday objects such as a hull with the ability to remember and share its maintenance history. A key academic challenge for the project will be to provide an effective and usable pervasive solution to key system requirements. Silvers Marine is working with the MUCom Group and the School of Engineering & Computing at GCU to develop and evaluate Pervasive Computing solutions for their business. More about Silvers Marine > |
| Improving the Visitor Experience through an RFID PDA Galleries Guide (Completed Jan 2009): Funded through SCORE, Momedia Ltd. and Glasgow Caledonian University have completed a joint project to develop a ground breaking RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device) location aware system to provide rich multimedia content to exhibition and museum visitors. As the hand-held player is brought close to an exhibit or zone, the RFID tag triggers associated multimedia content. The content which is updated using a standard web server can provide audio, video, still images and text in multiple languages. This project was carried out in conjunction with Dr. Lynne Baillie (division of Computing & Creative Technologies). Read More > |
| Changing People's Activity Patterns (CHAPS): This project was funded by the Paths To Health, an organisation established to contributed to health improvement in Scotland through the promotion of walking for health. The MUCom Group ware involve in undertaking research studies, in which Paths to Health walkers were given a mobile device with customised software which tracked their activity levels, location, time of the day and other data. This information was collected and analysed to report on what factors impact on people's activity levels. This project was carried out in conjunction with Dr. Lynne Baillie (division of Computing & Creative Technologies). |
| me-Commerce: An Infrastructure for Personal Predictive Mobile Commerce. This project aims to investigate the need for multi-dimensional context awareness to provide dedicated, targeted and personalised information access to users and highlight the challenges of obtaining contextual information on a mobile computing scenario. The scenario selected for this project concerns the support of humans during the task of shopping and remembering what items need to be purchased in the near future. The scope of the project is to issue appropriate shopping reminders, along with relevant shopping information such as product descriptions, prices, images, by making predictions on the correct time to issue these reminders, based on the user's current and future context and item needs. |
| Traffic Prediction based on historical and current GPS data: This project is concerned with the prediction of traffic conditions within a city based on historical GPS data acquired by loggers in taxis. The historical data is combined with recent data sent by taxi-based GPS receivers, is processed by a GRID hierarchy of computers in order to allow the real-time monitoring of traffic and the generation of reports and travel time predictions on a per-request basis. |
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Multimodal Control of Mobile Devices using Facial Feature Tracking: Given the ever decreasing size of mobile computing devices, the current methods of control (keyboard or pen-based) are sometimes inconvenient or even inappropriate. External conditions during mobility such as low temperature (user wears gloves) or body movement due to vehicular vibrations, can have a severe detrimental effect on the usability of common input mechanisms. Further more, people with limited use of their hands or with restricted dexterity due to medical conditions, are often denied the use of mobile computing devices. This project aims to investigate the potential for control of mobile devices using integrated user-facing cameras to track facial feature movement of the eyes, nose and lips, as an alternative method of input. |
| Project Title | Investigator(s) | Documents |
| Mobile Device Control using Facial Characteristic Tracking (Eye tracking) | S. Fleming | |
| Mobile Device Control using Facial Characteristic Tracking (Head Tilt tracking) | K. Carnegie | |
| Automatic Webpage Reconstruction for Mobile Devices through Query Analysis | C. Milligan | |
| Augmenting Reality to Support Educational Purposes | C. Irvine | |
| Facilitating the information access process on mobile devices | G. McCormack | |
| A Recommender System to aid people with Food Allergies in Restaurants | D. Hall | |
| Usability of the mobile Web across age groups | A. McCahill | |
| Providing an Information Service to Personal Bluetooth Devices | S. Landsburgh | |
| Mobile Mixed Reality Gaming | D. Muir | |
| LED-i: Controlling a mobile phone through the optical tracking of an LED-tipped stylus | R. Khan, M. Langley, S. Preston, C. Stevenson | Poster |
| BluTunes: Remote control and access to music information from a desktop PC | R. Alexander, M. McLeod, S. Hall, C. Findlay | Poster |
| ClubWare: Interactive services in Clubs using Bluetooth | S. Munro | Poster |
| BlueTooth Classroom Application: A question & answer based interactive system for classroom environments | M. Anderson, A. Ashrafi, A. Lyndsay | Poster |
