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DEMOfest 2011

This was SICSA's 4th annual DEMOfest show casing the best of Informatics and Computing Science state of the art research from Scottish Universities.

DEMOfest promotes research and encourages commercial collaboration between academia, business and industry and this year's event exhibited over 50 poster presentations and demonstrations to show:

  • Research with commercial potential.
  • Opportunities for collaboration between university and industry.
The event was organised across SICSA Universities with ScotlandIS and our partner organisations Scottish Enterprise, Knowledge Transfer Partnership and Interface help us to promote the transfer of knowledge and technical skills to industry, particularly technology driven high growth businesses.


Exhibitors

Exhibit - Demonstration Title: Organisation
ECHOES: Technology Enhanced Learning for young children on the Autism Spectrum Heriot-Watt University Interaction Lab MACS
Monitoring Clouds for Efficient Workload allocation. University of St Andrews
Listening to Romans: Auditory Augmented REality For Exploring Archeological Sites University of Glasgow
VAMPIRE - Vascular Assessment and Measurement Platform of Images of the REtina University of Edinburgh
dePICT - developing the ICT business base Robert Gordon University
Video Streaming in Next Generation Mobile Networks University of the West of Scotland
Automated Planning for Configuration Changes School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Optimisations for Image Quality Analysis University of the West of Scotland
Automated System Configuration University of Edinburgh
Designing More Playful Music Experiences Glasgow Caledonian University
Designing more enjoyable falls rehabilitation Glasgow Caledonian University
Using Avatars for Improved Authentication with Challenge Questions Glasgow Caledonian University
East of Scotland KTP Centre East of Scotland KTP Centre
Home Care Notifications and Multiple Modalities GIST
The MultiMemoHome Project: User Centered Design & Evaluation of Personalisable Multimodal Reminder Systems University of Glasgow
Cloud adoption toolkit University of St Andrews
Cloud-based e-Health Service Platform Edinburgh Napier University
FABRIC (Fashion and Apparel Browsing for Inspirational Content) University of Dundee
ShoogleIt.com and iShoogle - tools for creating interactive presentations of products and textiles. Heriot-Watt University
USB Data Acquisition for Linux University of Stirling
LIREC Project Heriot-Watt University
Creating High Value Cloud Services University of St Andrews
Real-world optimisation Institute for Digital Informatics & Innovation
Rich Touch : Augmenting Tactile Interaction with Pressure and Thermal Interactions University of Glasgow
High-level Parallel Programming for Networks of Multi-cores Heriot-Watt University
Multimodal Mobile Interactions: Usability Studies in Real World Settings University of Glasgow
Real-Time Embedded System Design and Applications Glasgow Caledonian University
dot.rural Digital Economy Hub RCUK dot.rural Digital Economy Hub
dot.rural Digital Economy Hub RCUK dot.rural Digital Economy Hub
Video Fingerprinting technology & Keyless Encryption technique technology University of St Andrews, Knowledge Transfer Centre
Interactive model of cell signalling network University of Abertay Dundee
Outputs from the Future Interactions Network Edinburgh Napier University
PolicyGrid II Digital Social Research Node University of Aberdeen
Cross-Domain Context Management Middleware Edinburgh Napier University
- University of Strathclyde
Making profitable connections Interface - The knowledge connection for business
Cinemotus: A cost effective virtual camera system for film production using games technology. University of Abertay Dundee
Visualising Errors in Animal Pedigrees Edinburgh Napier University
SICSA Smart Tourism Informatics
Real-Time 3D Web-Application for Musculoskeletal Anatomy and Pathology Glasgow Caledonian University
Scalable complex systems simulation University of Abertay Dundee
Mathew's Trust Funding Games Evaluation Univeristy of Abertay Dundee
IT Consultant Roslin Institute
Voice Banking and Voice Reconstruction for MND Patients University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics
Virtual experiments and participatory simulation for investigating human behaviour University of Stirling
eNGAGE imaging skills platform for mammography University of Edinburgh
Variable Impedance Actutation Univrsity of Edinburgh
Type Error Slicing in Functional Programming Languages Heriot-Watt University
Reservoir Analytics University of Edinburgh
Informatics Ventures Informatics Ventures


SICSA DEMOfest



SICSA Universities are involved in virtually all areas of computer science and informatics from low-level hardware design, through networking and middleware, to wetware, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction and social informatics. We are world leaders in both theoretical and practical aspects of these disciplines and work closely with industry and government to exploit this know-how and technology. Recent activities have focused on green ICT, cloud computing, smart tourism, creative media, data security, next generation internet, complex systems and sensors.