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 Note **the number** after the client name indicates how many students have signed up for it.
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+===== Projects with Gilmond (2021 - 22) =====
-===== Projects with Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service =====
-Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service works hard to protect its local communities, often working with partners to reduce the risks wherever possible. In addition to tackling fires, we help people involved in road traffic collisions and we will respond when all manner of emergencies arise.
-However, we’re not just about providing a 24/7 emergency response. We place a great deal of focus on Prevention, aiming to reduce the risk of incidents happening in the first place, and working closely with partners to assist protecting people in our society.
-We are particularly interested in working with BU Students to bring **Gamification** and **Visual Interactive Learning** to our Service. We have detailed some specific projects but would be willing to explore ideas that meet our priorities of protecting the public and supporting and developing our people. We are passionate about ‘Changing and Saving Lives.’
 ** Contact: **
-  * Dr Natalia Chechina ([[nchechina@bournemouth.ac.uk]])
+  * Any academic from the Department of Computing and Informatics who is willing to supervise
-  * Any academic from the Department of Computing and Informatics
+  * Robert Knight ([[robert.knight@gilmond.com]])
-==== Project 1: Road Safety Awareness ====
+==== Project 1: Data Lake ingestion, correction, manipulation and reversion. (Data Quality). ====
-Our Road Safety Team would very much like to collaborate with students to help develop Virtual Reality Safety Awareness packages or a gaming App that helps to raise awareness and safety amongst young drivers on the dangers of driving. This will be aimed at future teenage drivers and those that have just started driving.
+  * Data lake management system. Showing the weaknesses, the positives etc.
+  * Generic Data Quality Adapter
+  * Between host product, service and then back.
-==== Project 2: Gamefication in Learning Packages ====
+==== Project 2: Data lake performance stepping – caching engine that is configured by a closed loop performance validation. ====
-Our Learning & Organisational Development would welcome the opportunity to work to create a ‘fun’ and interactive learning packages across a range of subjects. Specific details can be agreed but the focus should be on using Apps, games and interactive methods that engage the user in using on-line training packages.
-==== Project 3: Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Training App ====
+==== Project 3: Closed loop ‘real-time’ configuration system ====
-Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Team are looking to develop interactive packages and Apps that take people through a learning experience on E, D & I to raise awareness and reduce bias and prejudices.
+  * Product inputs being controlled by the outputs of Data analysis.
+  * Enabling an end customer to see what is happening and then also engage with the data.
+  * A ‘wrapper’ that can then be put around an existing product.
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+==== Project 4: ‘Real-Time’ data analysis from Data Lake ====
+  * A configurable mechanism that through cost efficient Data Access provides analysis from obfuscated data.
+  * Next: Decisioning engine that ‘learns’ from the data presented and the cause / effect of the choices that have been made.
-===== Projects with OutSystems =====
-OutSystems is a low-code platform to visually develop an application, integrate with existing systems and add your own code when needed. Every aspect of OutSystems is crafted to help build better apps faster and make changes easily. From high-productivity visual development to powerful tools to deploy and manage apps.
-**Support and Assumptions**
+==== Project 5: Consumer interaction interface ====
-  * The students are expected to use OutSystems and conduct a training. OutSystems will provide an access on-line training courses which will enable the students to get sufficient understanding of the system within a week.
+  * Building a next generation interface for the consumer to engage with their data.
-  * We propose monthly 2-3 days on-site visits (Exeter) that the students are expected to attend to work with the customer and align status and next steps (travel expenses to be discussed upon agreeing the project proposal).
+  * Thick clients that can cache, validate and service the customers needs without causing a performance bottleneck.
-  * In addition we also propose weekly conf call meetings for a status follow-up.
+  * A revolution allowing flexibility within their current providers tariffs – but then also the ability to review available deals.
-** Contact: **
+==== Project 6: Flexible, deployable, performant and scalable workflow engine ====
-  * Dr Natalia Chechina ([[nchechina@bournemouth.ac.uk]])
+  * Taking inputs, storing, managing, logging and reacting to the needs in a scalable and flexible way
-  * Any academic from the Department of Computing and Informatics
+  * i.e. simple deployments (component based) that can be scaled out building a network of deployments.
+  * This could be the building of a network from the information available.
+  * An engine that can be deployed to any solution – this will be completely configurable and allow ‘seamless’ integration with other modules.
-==== Project 1:  ====
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-As a user researcher I want a secure application for storing research material so I can share research outputs with DCC staff.
-  * A secure document upload method (scope to re-use document upload app for Blue Badge)
-  * External access utilising the OAuth2 authorisation standard enabled via a RESTFul API
-  * Store user research outputs
-  * User interface that makes it easy for users to access research material
-  * Search for content by type
-  * Click and view research outputs
-==== Project 2:  ====
-As a DCC member of staff I want timesheet application so I can record time spent against a variety of activities.
-  * Secure login for all users to UI
-  * Users with administrator role can add and deactivate activities via UI
-  * Activities can be tagged with metadata enabling reporting on groups of activities, like “project work” for example
-  * Users can add, edit and delete entries for individual activities
-  * An API enables access to the data. This API should underpin the functionality of the UI
-  * External access utilising the OAuth2 authorisation standard should be enabled via a RESTFul API exposing the functionality of the API described above
-===== Projects with BAE Systems =====
-BAE Systems is a global defence, aerospace and security company employing around 83,100 people worldwide. Its wide-ranging products and services cover air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology, and support services. During the project you will be co-supervised by developers and engineers at BAE Systems' [[https://www.baesystems.com/en/careers/careers-in-the-uk/life-at-baesystems/locations/christchurch|Christchurch office]].
-BAE Systems support the design and implementation of secure networks and communications.
+===== Supporting fathers alienated from their children =====
-** Contact: **
+This is a cross-disciplinary opportunity, with **multiple projects possible**, focusing on different aspects such as software development, security & privacy and automated analysis using AI.
-  * Dr Natalia Chechina ([[nchechina@bournemouth.ac.uk]])
-  * Any academic from the Department of Computing and Informatics
-==== Project 1: Detection and Disruption of Steganography ====
-Using cross-domain gateway solutions -- exchange of information across security domains can be achieved by breaking down and reassembling data to remove potential leakage of important data.
+The projects associated with this opportunity will be tested in a wider research project **to capture the experiences of fathers who have been alienated from their children**: https://100kfathers.com/
-Steganography is the practice of concealing information within innocuous digital media, such as images or audio files -- this not only hides the information itself, but also the fact that information is being communicated. This technique poses a risk to secure networks, as it may be used to hide the exfiltration of information. This project therefore poses the student with the challenge of developing techniques to detect, disrupt or remove steganography, offering a mitigation to this risk.
-==== Project 2: Small Portable Cross-Domain Gateways ====
-Using cross-domain gateway solutions -- exchange of information across security domains may be achieved by enforcing unidirectional flow and performing content inspection in various environment to deliver systems that are mobile and flexible, with reduced size, weight and power.
+Ultimately, the aim is to develop a proof of concept for a mixed methods research platform on iOS / Android, allowing fathers to upload artefacts of their everyday life, e.g., pictures, soundbites or text to a secure server anonymously. Also, the researchers on the platform should be able to push free text questions to the participants who should respond either using tick boxes, scales or free text, depending on the question. The data can then be analysed using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and downloaded by the researcher for manual analysis using Qualitative Data Analysis Software like NVivo.
-This project asks the student to investigate innovative concepts for small portable cross-domain gateways. The scope of this task is broad, with potential for the student to propose and explore their own ideas. However, two specific challenges have been identified:
+This proof of concept contains at least three different conceptual areas of interest. Each of the following areas can be addressed by different individuals:
+  * App development, UI development and User Experience (UX)
+  * Data collection and processing
+  * Privacy and security
+  * Automated Data Analysis using AI (Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, etc.)
-  - Build an example cross-domain solution using small form-factor, low power hardware.
-  - Consider of protocol break and content inspection methods for simple and/or complex data formats. Content inspection may work by disassembling datagrams, stripping out any unexpected or unauthorised content, and re-assembling according to specification. Complicated protocols may be converted to and from a simpler protocol for performing content inspection.
-==== Project 3: Use of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Techniques to Monitor Air-Gapped Networks for Cyber-Attacks ====
+** Interested? **
+  * Express your interest to Dr Vegard Engen ([[vengen@bournemouth.ac.uk]])
+  * Note that Stefan Kleipoedszus from the Faculty of Health and Social Science will act as your client
-Information systems may be implemented in an air-gapped configuration, meaning that they have no interconnection with external networks. This approach mitigates many of the common cyber-attack vectors.
-As the Stuxnet malware has demonstrated, air-gapped networks are still not immune to cyber-attack; air-gapped systems may be attacked by deceiving human users into manually performing malicious actions. Traditional Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems may not be configured to recognise this kind of malicious behaviour.
-This project poses the student with the challenge of investigating how artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data techniques could be used to effectively process and analyse vast quantities of information generated by SIEMs, thereby better protecting air-gapped networks by identifying unconventional attack vectors.
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-===== Projects with YouGo.World =====
-YouGo.world is a new tech startup offering an online marketplace for remote telepresence. The platform provides a way for people to create connections with and experience the lives of others around the globe. All of this is done online using technology such as real-time video streaming, mobile and AR/VR devices.
-The world of mixed reality offers new opportunities to create engaging and natural human computer interfaces using voice, gesture and gaze as inputs. It would be very easy for VR  engineers to create 2D controls for their software and simply replicate what is really done in a 2D screen but this would be missing the opportunity to create something much more engaging and easier for users to learn to use. The ‘rules’ for interacting with software in a mixed reality world have not been written yet and this creates a tremendous opportunity for engineers to contribute to the future of computing.
+===== A Collaborative Tool to Share Projects =====
-** Contact: **
+** Project: A Collaborative Tool to Share Projects **
-  * Dr Natalia Chechina ([[nchechina@bournemouth.ac.uk]])
-  * Any academic from the Department of Computing and Informatics
-==== Project 1: Create a mixed reality user interface for a global telepresence platform ====
+This project could have **SE and Comp students AND BIT/ITM students** working on it:
-**Project Description.** As a business focussed on future innovation and with a strategy based around creating the most compelling and realistic ‘virtual travel’ environments for their users, YouGo.World has already experimented with the use of AR as a tool that allows human guides to share their experiences with small online audiences across the world. What they would like to do is provide the ability for their audiences to share this using VR and/or AR headsets.
+Project description:
+  * This project has an oversees client residing in the USA, and the client meetings will have to be arranged accordingly.
+  * Users can upload project, and invite collaboration.
+  * They should be able to set different levels of transparency, and there could be a gamification element.
-YouGo.World would like to look at how they might make the process of searching for guides around the world, signing up to and then joining the online tours, an enjoyable and engaging experience. This means looking more deeply at how people engage with each other in the real world and how some of these principles may be applied to the YouGo.World VR application.
+**SE or Comp students** (or students with fairly good development skills):
+  * Academic aspects for SE students could be gamification, transparency, collaboration and its traceability.
-**Project Aims**
+**BIT students**:
-  * Investigate existing methods of human computer interaction being used in VR/AR software today and identify good examples where it has made good use of the new technology to create a more natural experience for users.
+  * An action plan for developers who want to capitalise from a project they developed to gain traction for the product they developed.
-  * Create a 3 or 4 design concepts on paper that describe how users might search for an online guide for a tour somewhere in the world, sign up and pay for it and then take part in that tour (note that currently the tours are 2D video although in the future they will become 360 degree video).
+  * This may include a cost-benefit analysis and recommendations for licensing.
-  * Turn one of those designs into a working prototype running on a VR headset.
-More details and ideas for the project are available on request.
-==== Project 2: Use of 5G for delivering live 360° video ====
-**Project Description.** Investigate the potential for 5G mobile data networks to support the transmission of high quality 360° video. If possible, create a 5G simulation in Matlab or similar, to demonstrate how it might work.
-**Project Aims**
-  * Understand the technical characteristics of 5G mobile networks
-  * Determine whether or not the technology has the potential for 4K+ streaming
-  * Understand what limitations 5G may impose as a result of the part of the radio spectrum it uses, the network protocols, routing hardware etc which might affect the user experience of consuming it in VR
-  * Investigate the likely timescales for general 5G roll out across the UK and more globally.
-  * Model a 5G network simulation to demonstrate how this might work.
-More details and ideas for the project are available on request.
-==== Project 3: Blockchain for online micropayment marketplace ====
-Project Description
-As a business focussed on future innovation and as an online marketplace primarily based around micro-transactions, YouGo.World must look at whether or not existing blockchain technologies such as Distributed Applications are ready for use by mainstream platforms to deliver back-end services.
-Project Aims
-  * Unordered List ItemDetermine the current status of blockchain technology and providers with respect to its ability to deliver services to mainstream online platforms
-  * Unordered List ItemIdentify any blockchain providers that might meet the needs of YouGo.World i.e. global scale, multi-currency micro-payments, distributed application logic
-  * Compare the use of blockchain vs traditional methods for delivering these services
-  * Understand how users of the platform might be able to pay or get paid
-More details and ideas for the project are available on request.
-===== A Local Personal Security Company =====
-** Project: GPS/Satellite Tracking App **
-To design a GPS/ satellite tracking app for personal security. A basic map much like WhatsApp location sharing would be an integral feature. The ability to add clients personal details, phone numbers etc and security response numbers. There should be access to an emergency button off the locked screen that when initiated, calls the security element and clearly shows the clients location. There are ones out there, but this could spread in the personal security industry, especially with the high net worth clients. Most apps run through private tracking companies, however once downloaded, the ability to add your own security to it should be allowed.
 ** Contact: **
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-===== Projects with Hugslock =====
-[[http://hugslock.com/|Hugslock systems]] is a security & safety service provider offering infrastructure operators best-in-class incident prevention and response management. The company has launched its flagship product an "intelligent" access cover. Hugslock has redesigned the traditional access cover and made it "intelligent", allowing for remote monitoring 24/7 and remote locking.
-The company offers jointly supervised projects in the areas of dashboard security and development, IoT.
-** Contact: **
-  * Dr Natalia Chechina ([[nchechina@bournemouth.ac.uk]])
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   * Dr Nan Jiang ([[njiang@bournemouth.ac.uk]])
   * Russell Bowyer (client)
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-===== Crowdsourcing for Detecting Hate Crime and Harassment in Videos =====
-This project will involve Dr. James Palfreman-Kay and colleagues from the Equality and Diversity office of BU.
-A series of on-line videos will be created for different scenarios with facilitator questions to prompt reflection or discussion. The on-line  resource will enable students who watch the videos to respond to the scenarios by answering a series of multiple choice questions. It shall also enable students to click on certain moments and mark them as offences and then describe the case. The on-line resource will provide a forum for discussion of each video and scenario and provide different gamification and digital motivation elements to encourage students to actively participate and invite others e.g. badges, points, most useful content, etc. This will also enable further research and investigation on how to motivate the youth to take part in learning and knowledge sharing in sensitive domains. Existing resources developed within and outside the University will be included in the resource which would also include the project evaluation.
-**Please note that a project needs only to cover some parts of this system.**
-Please contact Dr. Raian Ali: rali@bournemouth.ac.uk for further information
-Further information
-http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Pages/changing-the-culture-final-report.aspx
-http://www.hefce.ac.uk/media/HEFCE,2014/Content/Pubs/2017/CL,202017/CL2017_20a.pdf
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   * Prof Marcin Budka ([[mbudka@bournemouth.ac.uk]])
   * Dr Andrew Brown ([[aabrown@bournemouth.ac.uk]])
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+===== Comic Book Wiki with version control =====
+There is an existing database about old UK comic books with a simple web interface, but it needs extending so that crowdsourcing information can happen.
+**Contact**
+  * Dr Gernot Liebchen ([[gliebchen@bournemouth.ac.uk]]) who will sort contact with website owner.
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+===== University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust =====
+** Problem **
+Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospital would like to have a student to help them identify the issues within their current patient facing endoscopy procedures and provide process improvement recommendations to improve its efficiency.
+The current processes are so convoluted that it takes 6 months to take a new member of staff and train them up to be able to do this independently. This means a patient will not be able to receive the endoscopy timely.
+The student will be expected to have a close contact with the relevant staff within the hospital and they will be fully supported by the named clinicians.
+** Contact: **
+  * Dr Nicholas Mavengere (nmavengere@bournemouth.ac.uk)
+  * Dr Charles Gordon  (charles.gordon@uhd.nhs.uk )
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