Research projects

The European PhD hub is an online electronic platform that will provide PhD students, Researchers and Universities wit...

The Inclusive FinTech project aims to address the accessibility gap in financial technologies by engaging disabled...

This knowledge transfer partnership sees BCU experts partner with GlaxoSmithKline to create innovative augmented reali...

Working in partnership to create immersive, real-time visualisation systems for motor vehicles.

The current reliance on visual feedback in virtual reality head mounted display technologies can make the hardware inac...

Birmingham in Real Time (BiRT) has a simple, clear but highly beneficial mission – to make available, and improve ac...

This funded project seeks to make coding more accessible for developers with physical impairments.

The Data Science collaboration project leverages data across Birmingham and beyond, empowering Birmingham City Council...

To address the limited work in this area, the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Research Group were awarded a grant...

The Big Data Corridor (BDC) started as a way to link businesses with emerging technologies and help them utilise their ...

This research project, in collaboration with West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), aims to develop smarter traffic ...

To detect and monitor terrorist activity, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) increasingly rely on social media intelligenc...

To address the challenge of making creative design and development activities more accessible, the Human-Computer In...

The need for blockchain-based applications to interact with external services and applications is increasingly evident...

This knowledge transfer partnership aims to help long-standing company Murray Uniforms to expand their design capabili...

The project will use the case of autonomous pods manufactured by Westfield Technology Group (WTG), a leading manufactu...

This research aims at a cleaner approach to packet based real-time media, reducing media buffering and improving quali...

Identifying standards to cover content description and commercial media transactions for advanced media services, typi...

Researchers within the Digital Media Technology centre have produced a state-of-the art music transcription system that...

Simplifying complex music production processes and making them more accessible, bridging the gap between musicians and...

BCU researcher Andrew Wilson has worked with NHS trusts to develop a virtual reality app which allows medical students ...

Monitoring children’s emotional and behavioural patterns via the use of wearable and external sensors tracking physiol...

After receiving a grant from Facebook, researchers at BCU are now investigating the opportunities around AR/VR to supp...

This research aims to fill this gap related to 11 million d/Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people in the UK (potential...

Research projects

The Impact of Coronavirus on Health and Wellbeing

European PhD Hub

Inclusive FinTech: Co-Creating Inclusive Future Financial Technologies with Disabled Communities

KTP Partnership with GSK

Vehicle configurator augmented reality system

Exploring How Haptic Feedback Can Make Guidance and Navigation in Virtual Reality Accessible for Users with Visual Impairments

Birmingham In Real Time

Inclusive coding for disabled developers

Data Science Collaboration project with Birmingham City Council

Inclusive Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences

Big Data Corridor

WMCA Serrano: A Vision-based System for Road Traffic Monitoring

Red-Alert

Accessible 3D Design and Development for Disabled Creators

Reputable

Improving uniform design processes

Digital Innovations for Niche Sector Industry Supply Chain Optimisation

Flexilink: Low Latency Packet-Based Media Networking

Managing the Media Value Chain

Automated Drum Transcription

Intelligent Music Production and Automated Music Transformations

Virtual Reality Ophthalmology Training

Wearable Systems for Emotional Behavioural Disorders

Inclusive AR/VR Experiences

Keeping deaf pedestrians safe from driverless cars