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Welcome Session 25/26

For the freshers who are starting BSc AI and Data Science this year as well as those who are progressing from the Foundation year to Level 4, I am looking forward to seeing you at the Computing Welcome session on Tuesday 23rd Sep in Hide (Learning Hub, Forth Floor) at 11am. We will have an
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Students boost business brains with professional panel pitches

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We will be at the Merged Futures 6 event. Get your free ticket.

Digital Northants will host their 6th annual innovation showcase event, Merged Futures 6, in the Learning Hub at the University of Northampton’s Waterside Campus on Friday 14th June 2024. https://digitalnorthants.com/events2/merged-futures-6 We are an exhibitor and will also lead a session on Health: Follow this link to register your free ticket for the day. We are
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AI team wins 3 UON Knowledge Exchange funds

Academics from our AI team have been awarded three Knowledge Exchange funds to work with business partners on innovative AI projects. All projects will be employing UON undergraduate and postgraduate students as Research Assistant to take on research and development tasks. Swimming with AI dolphins The first Knowledge Exchange project will deliver an innovative VR
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[Publication] Unstuck in Metaverse: Persuasive User Navigation Using Automated Avatars

Originally posted on Dr Mu Mu: Mu, M., Dohan, M. “Unstuck in Metaverse: Persuasive User Navigation using Automated Avatars”, to appear in IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE, 2023 Were you ever lost in a new place that you are visiting? What do you do when that happens? In an established and populous area, Google Maps or…
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Treating mental illness in the comfort of an English cottage garden

Originally posted on Dr Mu Mu: The SIRIPP project team has made significant progress in our VR therapy project and successfully delivered our first VR prototype! It’s really amazing to see how things have come together. Developing a 3D VR game with professionally generated content and intuitive user interactivities is already a great achievement. We…
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[Publication] Smart Waterside campus

Do you know our Waterside campus is “smart”? Over the past few years, our AI team and the University IT team have worked on some prototypes to see how we can use networking data and AI to improve campus services. In a nutshell, we take a snapshot of the location of all mobile devices on
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[New Research Lab!] Metaverse

Prof Mu has led a successful Research Capital Fund at UON to help the university invest in key areas that can extend its research and innovation impact leading to the next REF submission. The Fund will support the first-phase development of a Metaverse Lab for health services, education, training, and industrial innovations within but not
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[New research] Can AI take over mental health treatment?

Do you agree that many people with mental illnesses are suffering alone because they are not able to reach out for help or can not afford to receive treatment? If so, then you’d be glad to know that we are starting a new research and innovation project at UON on automating mental health assessment and
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UON Careers Expo on Thursday 13th October 10-3

The UON Careers Expo will take place on Thursday 13th October 10-3 and will be the university graduate and placement fair. We have secured a range of employers who will be attending this event Specific to the FAST faculty we have confirmed in attendance: Northampton NHS – offering a variety of placements (Fantastic for
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