Funded Research Projects
[ADRELO:2020, CI] Project Name/Description: ADRELO - Advancing Resilience in Low Income Housing Using Climate-Change Science and Big Data Analytics Role: Co-Investigator - (DMU PI (UKRI): Dr. Suleiman Yerima; Project PI (Belmont Forum): Prof. Esther Adhiambo Obonyo) Source of Funding: UKRI GCRF Project Partners: Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique; Pennsylvania State University, United States; Red Cross Kenya; S~ao Paulo State University, Brazil; University of S~ao Paulo, Brazil; IGAD Climate Predict & App Cent (ICPAC) Sponsors: Brazil (FAPESP), United Kingdom (UKRI), United States (NSF).
[ITS-MathPS:2019, CI] Project Name/Description: Uso de Sistemas Tutoriales Inteligentes para Estudiar Aspectos Cognitivos y Afectivos en la Ense~nanza Y El Aprendizaje de la Resolucion de Problemas Verbales Role: Co-Investigator - named external member, University of Valencia team (PI: Prof. Miguel Arevalillo Herraez) Source of Funding: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaci#on y Universidades – REFERENCIA: PGC2018-096463-B-I00.
[Emotions-Valencia:2016, CI] Project Name/Description: Follow up - Emotions Modeling for eLearning Environments Role: Co-Investigator (Lead Researcher) Source of Funding: University of Valencia International Visiting Researchers Program Total Budget: e6500 Value to DMU: Funds for travel and subsistence to conduct research leading to publications.
[BIG-AFF:2015, CI] Project Name/Description: fusing multimodal BIG Data to provide low-Intrusive Affective and cognitive support in learning contexts (BIG-AFF) Role: Co-Investigator - named external member, University of Valencia team (PI: Prof. Francesc J. Ferri) Source of Funding: Ministerio de Economia Y Competitividad, Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigaci´on C´ıentifica y T´ecnica de Excelencia Total Budget: e145,983 Value to DMU: Funds for travel and subsistence including conference attendance.
[Emotions-Valencia:2013, CI] Project Name/Description: Investigating Opportunities for Research Collaboration - Emotions Modeling for eLearning Environments Role: Co-Investigator (Lead Researcher) Source of Funding: University of Valencia International Visiting Researchers Program Total Budget: e6500 Value to DMU: Funds for travel and subsistence to conduct research leading to publications. This project has already produced 3 published conference papers and one accepted journal paper.
[Learning-Andalucia:2010, CI] Project Name/Description: Design And Improvement Of Learning Algorithms Based On Soft Computing And It’s Application To Robot-Person Interaction, this project was lead by Prof. Antonio Gonz´alez (PI) and involved 6 participants. Role: Co-Investigator Source of Funding: Grant No. P09-TIC04813, Proyecto de excelencia financiado por la Junta de Andaluc´ıa, Spain, 2010-2014. Total Budget: e183,000 Value to DMU: Funds for travel and subsistence.
[AISB:2010, PI] Project Name/Description: AISB 2010 Convention Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: Conference fees and other associated income - 14 symposiums proposed, 10 ran, 197 attendees Value: £33,428
[TCIT-ONRG:2010, PI] Project Name/Description: Turing Test (TCIT-2010) Symposium – AISB2010 Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: The Office of Navy Research Global (ONRG) Value: £6442
[Portavata-EU:2010, PI] Project Name/Description: PortAvata: Portable Avatar for Virtual Presence Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: The Innovation Fellowships programme (funds provided by East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Value: £15,445
[Travel-RAE:2009, PI] Project Name/Description: RAE Conference Travel Grant to attend IEEE SMC 2009. Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: Royal Academy of Engineers - 2009 Value: £600
[SwarmStream–OHM:2008, PI] Project Name/Description: this is an open source project, currently in prealpha status on SourceForge.net and the code is being produced in collaboration with Georg-Simon-OHM Hochschule (Technical University) in Germany, where 26 students in 10 groups worked on producing base code of which 4 versions where chosen for release (2010). Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: Georg-Simon-OHM Hochschule (international visiting researchers/professors fund) Total Budget: e2660 Value to DMU: Funds for travel and subsistence, programming support that helped to initiate SwarmStream open source project (software).
[Creativity-AHRC:2006, CI] Project Name/Description: Creativity Research Network: this project was led by Professor Stephen Brown (PI) and had number of participants. Role: Co-Investigator Source of Funding: AHRC Total Budget: £12,161
[RoboViz-EPSRC:2006, PI] Project Name/Description: RoboViz: Remote Command and Control for Robotic Emergent Behaviour – The Next Evolution of Telepresence: this project was in collaboration with University of Manchester, the funding was to enable DMU team to travel and use high end visualisation equipments at UoM. This was extended to utilize IOCT Robots. The project outcome was recorded in video (avaliable on youtube) and end of project technical report. Role: DMU Principal Investigator Source of Funding: EPSRC-CompuSteer Network Value: £1,480
[AIBO-NL:2006, CI] Project Name/Description: AIBO Stories: this project was part of the Narrative Labs which was led by Professor Sue Thomas (PI). I was leading on the AIBO stories activities. Role: Co-Investigator Source of Funding: HEIF funded under NLab: creativity and collaboration project. Total Budget: £30,000
[PhiOrch-RC:2004, CI] Project Name/Description: Philharmonia Orchestra Project: this project was a combination of research and industrial project. It was led by Professor Andrew Hugill (PI) and my participation was mainly on the research side resulting in number of published papers. Role: Co-Investigator Source of Funding: Art Council 2003-2004 Value to Faculty: £3,400, this is the value to the Faculty of Technology from the buyout of my time to work on this project. In addition, there were two conference papers produced directly from this project.