Sunday 31 March 2019

10 most popular posts in March on Computing in Northamptonshire

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Friday 29 March 2019

Merged Futures - the AR/VR event


Merged Futures is a free, one-day Digital Northampton event bringing together experts in emerging technologies to showcase the great work taking place in Northamptonshire. Taking place on  Friday 14 June, 10:00am - 6:00pm at the new Waterside Campus, University of Northampton.

 It will explore the potential to further develop and innovate for the benefit of our businesses, students and residents in Northamptonshire and beyond. Merged Futures will showcase the digital talent on offer in Northampton and how it can be harnessed to unlock the potential of the local digital economy in the county.
The target audience is anyone interested in finding out how and why emerging technologies such as AI (Artificial Intelligence), AR (Augmented Reality), VR (Virtual Reality) and IoT (Internet of Things) can benefit Northamptonshire, from business leaders to local residents.
The event will connect digital companies and educators with those interested in implementing digital transformation in their business or organisation.

 As well as presentations at the event on subjects including VR and IoT, there will be interactive demos covering a range of technologies such as AR and AI.
Taking place at
Learning Hub, 
Waterside Campus, 
University of Northampton, 
NN1 5PH
To book go to https://www.digitalnorthampton.com/mergedfutures and it is free!

 To find out more about Digital Northampton go to https://www.digitalnorthampton.com/ 

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Saturday 23 March 2019

Fuzzy scoring theory applied to team-peer assessment

Vossen, PH & Ajit, S 2018, 'Fuzzy scoring theory applied to team-peer assessment: additive vs. multiplicative scoring models on the signed or unsigned unit interval' Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing.



Abstract
Teamwork in educational settings for learning and assessment has a long tradition. The reasons, goals and methods for introducing teamwork in courses may vary substantially. However, in the end, teamwork must be assessed at the group level as well as on the student level. The lecturer must be able to give students credit points or formal grades for their joint output (product) as well as for their cooperation in the team (process). Schemes for such multicriteria quantitative assessments appear difficult to define in a plausible way. Over the last five decades, plenty proposals for assessing teamwork processes and products on team and student level have been given using diverse scoring schemes. There is a broad field of empirical research and practical advice about how team-based educational assessment might be set up, implemented, improved, and accepted by staff and students. However, the underlying methodological problems with respect to the merging of several independent measurements has been severely underestimated. Here, we offer an entirely new paradigm and taxonomy of teamwork-based assessment following a rigorous fuzzy-algebraic approach based on two core notions: quasi-arithmetic means, and split-join-invariance. We will show how our novel approach solves the problem of team-peer-assessment by means of appropriate software tools.

 To read more goto: https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/publications/fuzzy-scoring-theory-applied-to-team-peer-assessment-additive-vs--2
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Friday 15 March 2019

Games Art Hanging Gardens of Babylon walkthrough is screened in Westminster – and by US media giant

Taken from: https://www.northampton.ac.uk/news/games-art-students-hanging-gardens-of-babylon-walkthrough-is-screened-in-westminster-and-by-us-media-giant/




A University of Northampton project which has breathed life into one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World has gained recognition in Westminster – and been featured on a programme from the United States’ largest international broadcaster.
Games Art students at the University spent two years creating a 3D virtual reality walkthrough of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which were believed to have been built around 600 BC, but there is no evidence that the gardens ever existed.
The computer model was based on research into the gardens by Oxford University’s Dr Stephanie Dalley, author of The Mystery of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced.
You can view the walkthrough below.
Dr Dalley and a team from Northampton were invited by chair of the Middle East charity AMAR Foundation, Baroness Nicholson, to elaborate on the research at a special event held at the Palace of Westminster.
The occasion was also covered by Voice of America News, for a feature on the students’ project – watch the report here.
Representing the University at the Westminster event were Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Science & Technology, John Sinclair, and Faculty Research and Innovation Leader, Dr Ali Al Sherbaz, who said: “It was an honour to be invited by Baroness Nicholson to present the walkthrough in the House of Lords, and also we are delighted to work closely with the AMAR Foundation and the IBBC team to produce such a successful event.”
Dr Al Sherbaz revealed the next stage for the walkthrough project is to develop a 30-minute documentary based on the golden era of Babylon.
He said: “The documentary will mainly rely on a digital version of the ancient city. This will take the perspective of a virtual reality character flying on a magic carpet around the city, providing the viewer with both an entertaining and informative experience through living an ordinary day in domestic environment of the city, walking in the streets, passing landmarks like Ashtar Gate, visiting local businesses, and witnessing habits, customs, and the lifestyles of the ancient people of Babylon.
“To document the city and its life aspects as accurately as possible, we will be relying on evident historical facts and the help of a team of archaeologists as much as we can.
“This film might open further possibilities of building virtual heritage site through an application on smartphone using augmented reality.”

Computing | Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology | Games Art


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Friday 8 March 2019

students are helping school pupils to crack coding

Taken from: https://www.northampton.ac.uk/news/bbcs-roving-reporter-tom-finds-out-how-our-students-are-helping-school-pupils-to-crack-coding/


A school code club run by University of Northampton students was featured on BBC Radio Northampton this week.
Roving BBC reporter, Tom Percival, visited Weston Favell Academy on Monday morning to find out more about the initiative, which has seen the University set up and run code clubs for Year 7 and 8 pupils in three Northampton schools.
You can listen to Tom’s reports, where he interviews students, pupils and Academy principal, Lorna Leventhal, here. There are four reports, starting at 1hr 24m, 1hr 55m, 2hr 23m and 2hr 51m.

Tom Percival with pupils from Weston Favell Academy, live on BBC Radio Northampton.

Tom Percival interviewing code clubbers from Weston Favell Academy.
The two University students running the Weston Favell Academy code club are first year Computing undergraduate, Nathan McGaughey, and Fine Art second year, Sandhya Ale.
Nathan said: “I did a lot of volunteering back home before I came to university, so it’s great to be able to carry that on here – it’s good fun, I enjoy it.
“I want to go into teaching computing after I graduate, so this was a great opportunity to help me achieve that goal.
“Being able to work with children and help them improve their skills is something I’ve always loved doing. Getting experience like this will be invaluable when I apply to work towards a teaching qualification, it shows that I have this interest and the necessary experience under my belt.”

Student Sandhya volunteering at the code club.

Student Nathan passes on some coding tips.
Academy pupils with students Nathan and Sandhya.



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Friday 1 March 2019

Big Bang for Red and the junkbots

In tweets (Big Bang Northamptonshire https://www.learnbydesign.co.uk/event/big-bang-northants-2019/ )
















I also wish to thank Jim Harris @JimDHarris and Nathan McGaughey @NathanMcGaughey for all of their help with the junkbots.

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