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[TAKEN] Exploring Avatar Customization and User Engagement in Virtual Educational Environments

Rachel McDonnell (email | all projects)

This project will explore how users select and customize avatars within educational virtual environments and how these choices affect engagement and identification with the learning experience. The student will review existing avatar customization systems, focusing on how well they support user identity expression and ease of use in educational contexts. Using a prototype avatar customization … Read more

[Unavailable] Gaze and Navigation: User Responses to Mutual and Averted Gaze in Virtual Crowds

Rachel McDonnell (email | all projects)

This project will investigate how two core gaze behaviors, mutual gaze and gaze cueing, influence user behavior and attention in dynamic virtual environments. In real-world interactions, direct eye contact increases social presence and engagement, while observing another person’s gaze direction can automatically shift our own attention. Using immersive virtual reality, this study will simulate a … Read more

Exploring survival analysis 2

Simon Wilson (email | all projects)

ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student taking the online MSc in Statistics and Data Science. Survival analysis refers to models and methods for survival data, that is, data on the failure of a system.  Usually this takes the form of times when failure occurs, with the failure referring to events like the system no … Read more

[TAKEN] Crying System for Virtual Humans

Rachel McDonnell (email | all projects)

[FYP] In this project, you will improve the realism of emotion on Metahumans in Unreal Engine by developing a realistic tear system, where tears are affected by gravity, and smudge in contact with make-up for added realism. Also part of the project will be motion capturing crying animations, and evaluating the resulting emotion with and … Read more

An extension to OpenMP for Superscalar Processors [Taken]

David Gregg (email | all projects)

[Note: this is quite a difficult project. To take the project, you should already have experience with OpenMP, or have an interest in parallel computing, or just be a very good programmer.] OpenMP is a small domain-specific language for describing parallelism in C, C++ and Fortran programs. OpenMP was originally designed to express parallelism using … Read more

(Allocated) Microworld to teach about the national power grid

Brendan Tangney (email | all projects)

Microworlds are a type of computer simulation which have proven to be very powerful tools with which to create effective learning experiences. For example a previous project developed one to teach about nati0nal waste management. This project will involve developing a microworld in which the learner will act as the Minister for Environment, Climate and … Read more

Class Imbalance and Fairness in Federated learning

Meriel Huggard (email | all projects)

The performance of artificial intelligence based learning models is often initially assessed using well established benchmark datasets. However, satisfactory performance on these datasets does not guarantee similar performance in real-world settings where the data may be significantly more imbalanced.  For example, in a medical dataset a positive diagnosis may be a relatively rare event and … Read more

Mobility aware Federated Learning for Vehicular Networks.

Meriel Huggard (email | all projects)

Vehicles are equipped with ever increasingly advanced communication and sensing resources, giving rise to the need for effective mechanisms to utilise and leverage the large amounts of data they gather.  For example, this data could be used to predict traffic flow and to monitor driver behaviour. There are many different, distributed machine learning techniques that … Read more

Receiver comparison for state of polarisation sensing – Taken, no longer available

Marco Ruffini (email | all projects)

Project Description: Optical fibre networks are critical to global connectivity, yet they are susceptible to accidental damage or deliberate tampering. While distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) has been widely investigated for disturbance detection, an alternative approach relies on monitoring the state of polarisation (SOP) of light propagating in the fibre. The SOP is highly sensitive to … Read more

TAKEN: Modelling quality of life for ANCA Vasculitis patients

Arthur White (email | all projects)

This project will be supported by colleagues in the School of Medicine and the PARADISE research group. ANCA Vasculitis is a rare auto-immune disease in which sufferers are susceptible to flares, whereby a person’s immune system attacks their own body. This project will involve analysing data measuring patient’s quality of life using the EQ-5D procedure. … Read more