Congratulations to the S260 Geology Course Team on receiving a 1999 Europrix Multimedia award. One of the multimedia components of the course is the Digital (Virtual) Microscope which had its origin in a collaborative project between IET and the Earth Sciences Department and, later, KMi. In 1991, Dr Peter Whalley, Dr Dave Williams and Dr…
KMi’s Enrico Motta has landed the Open University’s first EU Framework V contract. The contract, which awards 207K Euros (£130K) to KMi over a three-year period, is for IBROW: An Intelligent Brokering Service for Knowledge-Component Reuse on the World-Wide Web. The aim of the IBROW project is to develop an intelligent software broker which will…
KMi’s Enrico Motta has landed the Open University’s first EU Framework V contract. The contract, which awards 207K Euros (£130K) to KMi over a three-year period, is for IBROW: An Intelligent Brokering Service for Knowledge-Component Reuse on the World-Wide Web. The aim of the IBROW project is to develop an intelligent software broker which will…
While attending the AAATE’99 Conference in Dusseldorf (Nov 2-6) Martyn Cooper (Research Lecturer in IET/KMi) was elected to the Board of the AAATE (Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe). This is the premier scientific committee for all stakeholders in technology for disabled people at the European Level. It activities include dissemination (a…
Yesterday we received the confirmation from the EPSRC that they will fund the continuation of the ongoing work on 3D Audio Virtual Environments. To date this work has been funded by IET’s Research Committee and the OU’s Capital Research Equipment Fund. This is a collaborative effort between the Open University and the Sensory Disabilities Research…
Yesterday we received the confirmation from the EPSRC that they will fund the continuation of the ongoing work on 3D Audio Virtual Environments. To date this work has been funded by IET’s Research Committee and the OU’s Capital Research Equipment Fund. This is a collaborative effort between the Open University and the Sensory Disabilities Research…
Yet another successful EU project proposal: Martyn Cooper (Research Lecturer in IET/KMi) is now completing the detailed contract for an EU funded project called PEARL (Practical Experimentation by Accessible Learning), after the proposal received a favourable evaluation. It is anticipated that the contracts will be signed by the end of October and that the project…
Yet another successful EU project proposal: Martyn Cooper (Research Lecturer in IET/KMi) is now completing the detailed contract for an EU funded project called PEARL (Practical Experimentation by Accessible Learning), after the proposal received a favourable evaluation. It is anticipated that the contracts will be signed by the end of October and that the project…
BP Amoco is funding a 2 year Research Fellowship into the application of the D3E Web document publishing and discussion system to an internal best practices journal, modelled on the innovative Journal of Interactive Media in Education. This project continues BPA’s collaborative research with KMi into knowledge management technologies, initiated with the organizational lea rning…
The British Council has awarded a follow-on grant to KMi’s D3E Project and the Universite de Provence. The Council’s Alliance Programme was set up to foster Franco-British research, and this grant will enable KMi to continue its 1998 collaboration with Nathalie Bonnardel’s research team who specialise in cognitive ergonomics. They will be evaluating the usability…
