Horizon CDT Research Highlights

Research Highlights

All students

Below is a list of students affiliated with the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training.

Horizon CDT 2023

Ashley Graham-Brown
Ashley Graham-Brown

Accessibility and Mixed Reality in Museums

Read more »
Bogna Liziniewicz
Bogna Liziniewicz

"Somewhere I belong" - Loneliness, Gossip and the Embeddedness of Digital and Offline Social Networks in Relation to Longitudinal Wellbeing

Read more »
Iris Jestin
Iris Jestin

Adaptive Driving Interfaces for the Ageing Population in Future Vehicles

Read more »
Kirsty Woodward
Kirsty Woodward

Predicting cognitive decline using a recognition memory task

Read more »
Lucy Hitcham
Lucy Hitcham

Exploring the role of responsible innovation within digital mental health intervention design and implementation

Read more »
Nick Tandavanitj
Nick Tandavanitj

Dialogue, data and place

Read more »
Nimisha Parashar
Nimisha Parashar

Gamification for Environmental Behaviour Change

Read more »
Ramneek Kaur Rai
Ramneek Kaur Rai

How digital technologies impact the gender and race investment gap in funding start-ups

Read more »
Saria Digregorio
Saria Digregorio

Visible Food Systems

Read more »
Stephen Parkinson (Parky)
Stephen Parkinson (Parky)

Using data to engage households as “citizens of the circular economy”

Read more »
Szymon Zbigniew Olejarnik
Szymon Zbigniew Olejarnik

Look beyond the screen: the impact of video games on online and offline social functioning and wellbeing in neurodivergent and neurotypical populations

Read more »

Horizon CDT 2022

Angela Higgins
Angela Higgins

Co-Design of Assistive Robotic Systems for Monitoring and Management of Chronic Pain

Read more »
Anjela Mikhaylova
Anjela Mikhaylova

Smart Doorbell Surveillance: How can legitimate surveillance protect the right of citizens to privacy?

Read more »
Favour Borokini
Favour Borokini

Afrofeminist Ethics Concerns in the Design and Use of Avatars

Read more »
Gift Odoh
Gift Odoh

Improving Robotic Teleoperation through Human-Robot Interaction and Robotic Autonomy

Read more »
Hannah Mary Heilbuth
Hannah Mary Heilbuth

Understanding Consumer Harm in Online Multiplayer Video Games

Read more »
Jonathan Chaloner
Jonathan Chaloner

Integrating digital technology and co-creation approaches to improve healthcare research and access for marginalised communities

Read more »
Kuzivakwashe Makokoro
Kuzivakwashe Makokoro

Understanding consumption during the transition into parenthood using neo-demographic approaches

Read more »
Pavlos Panagiotidis
Pavlos Panagiotidis

Exploring mixed-reality immersive performance making by combining theatre devising and human-computer interaction methods.

Read more »
Phuong Anh Nguyễn
Phuong Anh Nguyễn

DATA-DRIVEN INTEGRATED TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS – USING PERSONAS IN POLICY-MAKING

Read more »
Victor Zhi Heung Ngo
Victor Zhi Heung Ngo

The use of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Live Creative Installations

Read more »

Horizon CDT 2021

Callum Berger
Callum Berger

Personalising Virtual Reality Horror Experiences Using Biodata

Read more »
Carina Yu Zhao
Carina Yu Zhao

Towards using Interval-Valued responses in Service Quality Measurement: A Study in Rail

Read more »
Daniel Swann
Daniel Swann

Interactive environments for children

Read more »
Ellie Colegate
Ellie Colegate

Reducing Online Harms via Content Regulation: Balancing the Policy and User Interests to Improve the Cybersafety of Young People

Read more »
Emma Gentry
Emma Gentry

Improving the acceptability of workplace mental well-being platforms through ethical design and use

Read more »
Gabrielle Hornshaw
Gabrielle Hornshaw

Biometric Recognition of the Hand in Uncontrolled Images

Read more »
Gregor Milligan
Gregor Milligan

Exploring Loneliness and Social Isolation Elicitation Through Proxy Data Streams

Read more »
Matthew Levesley
Matthew Levesley

Social media usage over gender transition

Read more »
Melissa Clover
Melissa Clover

Connecting producers and consumers to enable more sustainable consumption: communicating the environmental impact of food through packaging

Read more »
Nasser Alkhulaifi
Nasser Alkhulaifi

Improving Energy Consumption Monitoring in Food and Drinks Manufacturing and Storage Systems with Predictive Machine Learning

Read more »
Sam Smith
Sam Smith

Quantitatively Measuring Customer Experience (CX) in the Rail Industry

Read more »
Torran Semple
Torran Semple

Energy Security Versus Fuel Poverty: Protecting Vulnerable Households During an Energy Crisis

Read more »
Yang Bong
Yang Bong

Study of the use, limitations, and possibilities of peer-to-peer digital marketplaces for rural micro-enterprises in developing countries.

Read more »

Horizon CDT 2020

Charlotte Lenton
Charlotte Lenton

Exploring late adopters of digital technology in the rail sector: Enhancing accessibility in the digital and built travel environments.

Read more »
Dan Heaton
Dan Heaton

Agency, trust and blame in decision-making algorithms: an analysis of Twitter discourses

Read more »
Farid Vayani
Farid Vayani

Cybersecurity & Trust in Internet of Things (IoT): Agency and negotiability over personal data in smart devices in the home.

Read more »
Giovanni Schiazza
Giovanni Schiazza

Political Internet Memes (PIMs) and Information: a multimethod approach

Read more »
Guido Salimbeni
Guido Salimbeni

Analytics and examination of the audience experience within Blast Theory work. Artificial Intelligence (AI) integration into future Blast Theory artworks.

Read more »
James Williams
James Williams

A Framework for Curating Engaging Leisure Walking Experiences

Read more »
Jenn Layton Annable
Jenn Layton Annable

Autistography: remembering, reimagining, recreating.

Read more »
Jo Parkes
Jo Parkes

The Psychology of excessive ‘Viewing on Demand’: How might platforms be designed to optimise user autonomy of VOD consumption?

Read more »
Joshua Duvnjak
Joshua Duvnjak

The Use of Personalisation in Automated Digital Manufacturing Environments

Read more »
Kathryn Baguley
Kathryn Baguley

Innovation and Regulation: Attaining and Maintaining Transparency and Accountability in Automated Decision-Making.

Read more »
Muhammad Suhaib Shahid
Muhammad Suhaib Shahid

Predicting and modelling internalised oral gestures from external signals

Read more »
Rachel Saunders
Rachel Saunders

Impact of legal digital literacy on rights and citizenship

Read more »
Ruairi Blake
Ruairi Blake

The Effects of the Internet on Moral Decision Making

Read more »

Horizon CDT 2019

Ana Rita Pena
Ana Rita Pena

A Sociotechnical Evaluation of Differentially Private Risk Assessment Models in the Consumer Credit

Read more »
Angela Thornton
Angela Thornton

Our Futures in Mind Uploading: Public Perceptions and Narratives

Read more »
Cecily Pepper
Cecily Pepper

Exploring the Impact of Social Media on Care Experienced Young People's Self-View and Mental Wellbeing: Implications for Social Media Design and Policy

Read more »
Christine (Li) Cain
Christine (Li) Cain

Exploring the potential of personalized VR bodily learning systems

Read more »
Edwina Borteley Abam
Edwina Borteley Abam

Exploring responsible applications of deep learning for consumer credit risk assessment

Read more »
Eliot Jones
Eliot Jones

Digitalisation of Extension; sustainable agri-food systems in the era of digital platforms

Read more »
Elizabeth Dolan
Elizabeth Dolan

Diagnosing Disease with Shopping Data

Read more »
Ephraim Luwemba
Ephraim Luwemba

Testing for Transparency: designing privacy-informing systems for young people.

Read more »
Henry Cope
Henry Cope

Accelerating Space Life Sciences via Astronaut Omics Collection and Integrated Analyses

Read more »
Mike Harmson-Silvestri
Mike Harmson-Silvestri

Policing Adult Initiated Online Child Sex Offenders: An Exploration and Analysis of Police Officers Knowledge and Training Regarding the Digital Platforms Used to Facilitate Online Sexual Crimes Against Children.

Read more »
Rebecca Gibson
Rebecca Gibson

Using Digital Layers to Evoke Nostalgia in Hybrid Gifting.

Read more »
Vincent Bryce
Vincent Bryce

Exploring the business case for Responsible Research and Innovation

Read more »

Horizon CDT 2018

Harriet R Cameron
Harriet R Cameron

Curating the Audience: enhancing visitor/venue relationships through ethical personal data donation

Read more »
Jimiama Mafeni Mase
Jimiama Mafeni Mase

Expert Moderation of HGV Driving Data: Fair, Trustworthy and Explainable Assessment

Read more »
Kadja Manninen
Kadja Manninen

Sustainable business models for performing arts in the digital economy

Read more »
Luke Skarth-Hayley
Luke Skarth-Hayley

Attention-Driven Scenography

Read more »
Matthew Yates
Matthew Yates

Detection of AI synthesised Aerial Imagery

Read more »
Mel Wilson
Mel Wilson

When the world went online. New ACEs potential from the pandemic and digitally disadvantaged Children & Young People

Read more »
Natalie Leesakul
Natalie Leesakul

Robotics and the Law: Towards responsible and sustainable adoption of industrial collaborative embodied autonomous systems in the case of digital manufacturing

Read more »
Neeshé Khan
Neeshé Khan

A novel approach to Cybersecurity: Insider Threat identification, intervention and mitigation

Read more »
Oliver Miles
Oliver Miles

Harnessing the Valuescape: Mutual utilities of personalization in digital coffee

Read more »
Peter Boyes
Peter Boyes

Negotiating the truth: exploring the influence of metadata in group decision making

Read more »
Shazmin Majid
Shazmin Majid

Integrating the use of sensing technology to detect early warning signs of relapse in bipolar disorder

Read more »
Stanislaw Piasecki
Stanislaw Piasecki

Complying with the GDPR when vulnerable people use smart devices

Read more »

Horizon CDT 2017

Clifford Richardson
Clifford Richardson

Enabling Environmental Citizenship with the British Geological Survey

Read more »
Dominic Reedman-Flint
Dominic Reedman-Flint

Exploring Working Age Social Isolation, Digitally and Spatially and enabling Social Inclusion.

Read more »
Feng Zhou
Feng Zhou

Customize extended artificial lower limbs for dancers by personal data with six-axis 3D printing technology.

Read more »
Gustavo Berumen
Gustavo Berumen

Smart Fast Moving Consumer Goods to Support Everyday Activities

Read more »
Joe Strickland
Joe Strickland

What opportunities for storytelling might Augmented Reality offer creators, and how might audience personal data affect this?

Read more »
Keerthy Kusumam
Keerthy Kusumam

Mood Analysis Across Different Domains using Deep Learning

Read more »
Laurence Cliffe
Laurence Cliffe

Audio augmented objects and the audio augmented reality experience

Read more »
Marie Dilworth
Marie Dilworth

Embedding Digital Interventions into Everyday Life: Measuring Mood with Wearable Technology

Read more »
Serena Midha
Serena Midha

Fitbit for the Brain

Read more »
Symeon Dionysis
Symeon Dionysis

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies For Supply Chain Traceability: Industry Considerations and Consumer Preferences

Read more »
Vanja Ljevar
Vanja Ljevar

How to influence patients behavioural change using context data

Read more »
Velvet Spors
Velvet Spors

Caring systems: making relational, gameful self-care technologies for mental health

Read more »

Horizon CDT 2016

Abi Fowler
Abi Fowler

The Impact of New Data and Technology on Human Performance in Rail

Read more »
Ahmed Al-Talabany
Ahmed Al-Talabany

Using Personal Data to Configure Navigation Support for Blind and Partially Sighted People

Read more »
Chloe Jackson
Chloe Jackson

Human-Machine Interface design for navigation systems in future highly automated vehicles

Read more »
Christian Tamakloe
Christian Tamakloe

The Quantified Traveller: Applying Self-tracking Towards More Worthwhile Rail Journeys

Read more »
Fraz Chaudhry
Fraz Chaudhry

Analytics for Enhanced Personal Medical Identities

Read more »
Joe Doherty-Bailey
Joe Doherty-Bailey

Reimagining Digital Advertising: an ethnographic study of user responses to current and future digital advertising practices

Read more »
Kate Green
Kate Green

Exploring Institutional Privacy Concerns of Patients using Online Health Communities

Read more »
Maddy Ellis
Maddy Ellis

Evolution of interaction networks in developing countries for social intervention.

Read more »
Michelle Coleman
Michelle Coleman

The Rituals and Performance of Digital Gifting in Museums and Galleries.

Read more »
Roza Vasileva
Roza Vasileva

Using data to support citizen-centric sustainable urban development

Read more »
Siyang Song
Siyang Song

Reflections on Personality and Identity through Analysis of Facial Expression Dynamics

Read more »

Horizon CDT 2015

Andrew Moffat
Andrew Moffat

Using English as a Second Language Online: An investigation of current practices and their implications for language learning and teaching

Read more »
Bo Wang
Bo Wang

Research and Application in Facial Expression Recognition

Read more »
Judit Varga
Judit Varga

Exploring Digital Place Making Journeys

Read more »
Neelima Sailaja
Neelima Sailaja

Exploration of mechanisms that influence data legibility, negotiability and agency to build better trust, privacy and symmetry in a personal data ecosystem

Read more »
Qing Li
Qing Li

Relative Geometry-Aware Siamese Neural Network for 6DOF Camera Relocalization

Read more »
Richard Ramchurn
Richard Ramchurn

Brain Controlled Film

Read more »
Rosa Lavelle-Hill
Rosa Lavelle-Hill

Psychology, Big Data, and Consumer Behaviour

Read more »
Shalaka Kurup
Shalaka Kurup

What can expert rail travelers tell us about passenger decision making?

Read more »
Wendy Olphert
Wendy Olphert

Exploring the relationship between communication, identity and digital technology in people affected by brain tumour

Read more »
Ziyad Yehia
Ziyad Yehia

The Blind Nav Cards: A Novel and Holistic Approach to Supporting Visually Impaired Navigation Aid Design

Read more »

IDIC 2015

Dan Wang
Dan Wang

Ecological Applications on Maximising the Efficiency of Urban Metabolism

Read more »
Fei Yang
Fei Yang

Automatic Semantic Image Understanding Based on Deep Learning and Random Forest

Read more »
Jianwei Hu
Jianwei Hu

Capital Docking Dynamics on Crowdfunding Platforms for Entrepreneurs and Investors

Read more »
Jingjing Yan
Jingjing Yan

3D Urban Model (CityGML) Establishment & Related Analysis: Case Study in Shanghai

Read more »
Lucen Li
Lucen Li

On the modelling of future urban climate for sustainability assessment

Read more »
Shuhui Gong
Shuhui Gong

Spatial choice and spatial behavior of Mega-city Public Transportation System Driven by Multi-source Data

Read more »
Shuojiang Xu
Shuojiang Xu

Use big data to build data based supply chain strategy and decisions

Read more »
Tianlun Fei
Tianlun Fei

Application of Model Selection in Quantitative Finance on Chinese Market

Read more »
Weiqiang Lin
Weiqiang Lin

SNS Data Mining and Feature Design for E-commerce Platform Optimisation

Read more »
Zhengzhi Guan
Zhengzhi Guan

Dynamic interaction between opinion leadership and conversation development in the context of knowledge collaboration in online community

Read more »

Horizon CDT 2014

Alex Young
Alex Young

An ethnographic approach to understanding the significance of an online presence post diagnosis in people diagnosed with working age dementia and their families.

Read more »
Gregor Engelmann
Gregor Engelmann

Understanding urban behaviour from mobile phone event series

Read more »
Iona Fitzpatrick
Iona Fitzpatrick

Understanding Place: This project considers the value of social media data for the enrichment of geographic information systems

Read more »
Kate Arnold
Kate Arnold

An ethnography of trans people’s distributed decision-making practices in relation to healthcare in a digitally enabled context

Read more »
Matt Voigts
Matt Voigts

Privacy and agency in refugees’ digital communications

Read more »
Obrien Sim
Obrien Sim

Studying the potential effects of smart packaging on customer brand engagement within the fast-moving consumer goods industry.

Read more »
Pepita Barnard Stringer
Pepita Barnard Stringer

An exploration of factors that influence desire to share genomic information.

Read more »
Sam Doehren
Sam Doehren

The Application of Social Data in Assessing Creditworthiness

Read more »
Shadab Mashuk
Shadab Mashuk

Indoor Positioning as a contribution to Building Occupancy Modelling

Read more »
Tatiana Styliari
Tatiana Styliari

Digital Identity at the movies: Personalising the cinema-going experience

Read more »
Yitong Huang
Yitong Huang

Enchanted Objects for Health Behaviour Change

Read more »

IDIC 2014

Chenyan Zhang
Chenyan Zhang

Modelling Urban Resilience and Sustainability as a Complex Socio-technical System

Read more »
Chuang Gao
Chuang Gao

Automated Breast Cancer Prognosis Using Fourier Transform infrared Imaging

Read more »
Hongliang Sun
Hongliang Sun

Visualization of Multimodal Longitudinal Complex Networks

Read more »
Jorge Mendez Astudillo
Jorge Mendez Astudillo

Urban Heat Island Effect Modelling with GNSS Sensor Network

Read more »
Ke Sun
Ke Sun

The Study of Semantic Image Retrieval and Automatic Image Annotation

Read more »
Long Wen
Long Wen

Modelling the Relationship between Environmental Degradation and Economic Development

Read more »
Sicen Liu
Sicen Liu

Revisiting the Recommender System from Consumer Perspectives

Read more »
Xianxu Hou
Xianxu Hou

Transfer Learning from Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Read more »
Xiaoping Jiang
Xiaoping Jiang

Scenario Tree Compression for Stochastic Freight Service Network Design

Read more »

Horizon CDT 2013

Andreas Reiter
Andreas Reiter

Designing for Collaboration in Hacker/Maker Spaces

Read more »
Anna Clarke
Anna Clarke

Supporting the evolution of external representations in music composition software

Read more »
Annie Quandt
Annie Quandt

Analysing multimodal feedback loops in agent based language learning environments

Read more »
Christopher Ellis
Christopher Ellis

Dynamic Music Recommendation: A User-centric Approach to the Personalisation Problem

Read more »
George Filip
George Filip

Calibration of Trust in Automated Vehicles

Read more »
Georgiana Avram
Georgiana Avram

Narratives in data: introducing contextualisation, illumination and illustration in big data practices

Read more »
Hanne Wagner
Hanne Wagner

Engagement through play: Investigating the relationship between video games and political engagement

Read more »
Kyle Arch
Kyle Arch

Encouraging Collaboration Between Strangers in Online Games

Read more »
Louise Schofield
Louise Schofield

Designing Multimodal Educational Resources to Affect Learner’s Reactions

Read more »
Martin Porcheron
Martin Porcheron

Understanding Conversation around Technology Use in Casual-Social Settings

Read more »
Panagiotis Koutsouras
Panagiotis Koutsouras

Crafting Context: Understanding the Social Organisation of User-Generated Content in Digital Gameplay

Read more »
Roma Patel
Roma Patel

CRAFTING TOUCH: The integration of wearable technology and smart material into theatre for young audiences

Read more »
William Darler
William Darler

Using Transaction Data To Understand Consumer Behaviour During Life Events

Read more »

IDIC 2013

Bolei Xu
Bolei Xu

Crowd Event Detection and Analysis through Video Surveillance

Read more »
Boying Li
Boying Li

Understanding online rumour dissemination in social media

Read more »
Cong Mu
Cong Mu

Capturing QSer’s mind – investigating human values in quantified self movement using cognitive linguistics approach

Read more »
Jingxin Liu
Jingxin Liu

Histopathology Image Analysis

Read more »
Joy Egede
Joy Egede

Automatic pain assessment in neonates

Read more »
Joyce Hoese Addae
Joyce Hoese Addae

Leveraging Web Data Towards Usable Cybersecurity

Read more »
Lanyun Zhang
Lanyun Zhang

How Can Technology Help a Group of People Effectively Make Personalised Vacation Plans?

Read more »
Liming Xu
Liming Xu

Aestheticodes Design and Recognition

Read more »
Mengdi Li
Mengdi Li

Public Health Surveillance using Social Media and Internet Data

Read more »
Shuli Liu
Shuli Liu

Integrated Solution Approach for Seaside Operations in Container Terminals

Read more »
Xinyu Fu
Xinyu Fu

An improved document distance metric based on topic models

Read more »
Zhuo Lei
Zhuo Lei

Video Summarization

Read more »

Horizon CDT 2012

Dimitrios Darzentas
Dimitrios Darzentas

The Digital Footprints of Everyday Things

Read more »
Horia Maior
Horia Maior

Real-time Mental Workload Measure and Feedback using fNIRS

Read more »
James Burnett
James Burnett

Constructing a feedback loop between social behaviours and content delivery at large public displays

Read more »
Lachlan Urquhart
Lachlan Urquhart

Law and HCI: Designing for effective regulation of human agency in ambient domestic computing

Read more »
Liz Dowthwaite
Liz Dowthwaite

The roles of community, altruism, and reciprocity in crowdfunding in the creative industries.

Read more »
Peter Craigon
Peter Craigon

“It is not down on any map. True places never are”. How are accurate social maps constructed and how do they construct knowledge about places that they represent?

Read more »
Richard Brown
Richard Brown

The performative application of interactive projective technologies through "Practise As Research" (PaR).

Read more »
Richard James
Richard James

Does mobile gambling attract or create problem gamblers?

Read more »
Sam Howard
Sam Howard

Investigating the attitudes of adolescents and healthcare professionals towards electronic monitoring devices for asthma

Read more »
William Knight
William Knight

Can Hacktivism be Understood as the Performance of a Collective Identity?

Read more »

Horizon CDT 2011

Chrisminder Hare
Chrisminder Hare

Designing Complex Data Systems in Naturalistic Decision Making Contexts

Read more »
Claire Murphy
Claire Murphy

Interpersonal privacy in social media

Read more »
Daniel Ratzinger
Daniel Ratzinger

What influence do Universities have on Internet startups?

Read more »
David Hand
David Hand

The trajectory of online dating: Identity construction & interaction

Read more »
Jacob Chapman
Jacob Chapman

Coupling Multi-Agent Stochastic Sumulation of Occupants with Building Simulation

Read more »
James Sprinks
James Sprinks

DESIGNING USER TASK WORKFLOWS TO ENSURE THE BEST SCIENTIFIC OUTCOMES IN CITIZEN SCIENCE

Read more »
Lesley Fosh
Lesley Fosh

Designing Personalised Visiting Experiences for Groups in Museums

Read more »
Martin Kruusimägi
Martin Kruusimägi

An Investigation into the Role of Interface Design for Smart Homes

Read more »
Matthew Terrell
Matthew Terrell

An investigation into methods of online Lead-user identification

Read more »
Michaela Hoare
Michaela Hoare

Doing it for themselves: the practices of amateur musicians and DIY music networks in a digital age

Read more »
Paul Brindley
Paul Brindley

Neighbourhoods: Identifying the Places that People Talk About on the Web

Read more »