Use Case: Student Emotion Recognition What’s the issue? Can the performance of students and tutors be improved by a combination of emotion recognition and artificial intelligence (AI)? A number of universities are already looking at to the possibilities of using video monitoring and webcams across the intelligent campus along with emotion recognition software. In lecture … Read more
Use Case: Intelligent Campus, Smart City What’s the issue? The Wikipedia definition of a smart city is “an urban development vision to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) and Internet of things (IoT) technology in a secure fashion to manage a city’s assets.” These developments are also directly applicable to college and university campuses. Additionally, … Read more
Efficient spaces on the intelligent campus What’s the issue? When you move around a university or college campus do you notice rooms and spaces that are currently unused or underused? Is space being utilised well or for an activity for which it wasn’t designed? As a teacher or lecturer do you have rooms you dislike … Read more
Use Case: Intelligent mapping What’s the issue? Most universities and colleges provide good quality traditional campus maps on paper and electronically, however, these could be hugely enhanced using the technology and data that is increasingly available. Combining this data with smartphone apps and electronic signage will improve the experience of campus users. Whether using basic … Read more
Use Case: Contextual Learning with a Virtual Assistant What’s the issue? Virtual assistants, such as Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant and Cortana, are increasingly available through Smartphones and other devices using varying levels of artificial intelligence (AI). As they become more and more popular they will be used in education and taking learning out of the … Read more
Use Case: Smart research on the Intelligent Campus What’s the issue? The Intelligent Campus is bringing together the features of the university campus with developments, such as the Internet of Things, to provide new research opportunities. An university campus offers an ideal environment for experimentation with a large population that is likely to be motivated … Read more
Use Case: Attendance monitoring through face recognition What’s the issue? Student attendance is a major issue for higher and further education institutions for a range of reasons including the reporting requirements of the Home Office and Student Loans Company. Attendance levels have a strong relationship with the student experience, particularly, in terms of attainment and … Read more
I like to try and get 10,000 steps into my daily routine and weather permitting I am usually successful. I have started for example parking further away, getting off a stop early on the tube and walking the rest of the way, walking further to get coffee or lunch. It was whilst talking to Jisc’s … Read more
Do you remember your first day at University or College? What about the first week? Arriving at a new institution is a disorientating experience. As students walk around the university or college campus they are faced with problems that need to be resolved in order to help them settle, provide a satisfying experience and even … Read more
Across colleges and universities there are a variety of rooms and areas in which learning takes place, sometimes there is teaching and sometimes there isn’t. Lecture theatres are used to deliver lectures, students use the library to read and discover and classrooms can be used for a range of activities. If the spaces we use … Read more