dot.rural slides november 2013 for de2013
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dot.rural at DE2013Monday 4th November 15:15 – 16:30 Session 1B Transport & Rural Digital: Hexagon Room, The Lowry• Relaxing eligibility criteria in rural transport services, Emele et al.• SMiLE: Smart Micro-logistics for the Rural Economy, Chen et al.17:00 – 19:00 Technology Demonstrators: Q5, Quay House, BBC• Resource Management with Wireless Sensor Networks and Satellite in
Extreme Climates• A passenger-centric decision support system for rural transport services• Tag2Blog – Unlocking Location Data of Satellite Tagged Species for Public
Engagement
Tuesday 5th November13:45 – 14:45 Session 2C Enterprise: Conference Suite (3.10+3.11), University of Salford• Proactive agent and semantic support for rural enterprise, Emele et al.
Wednesday 6th November09:00 – 10:15 Session 3A Cities & Digital Communities: Digital Performance Lab (0.11), University of Salford• CURIOS: Connecting Community Heritage through Linked Data, Beel et al.
Posters• A ‘Community Resilience’ framework for evaluating complexity in digital
access and engagement, Roberts et al.• Would you like faster broadband? Ninan et al.
Exploring the contribution digital technologies can make to enhancing key services; generating business
opportunities; boosting quality of life; promoting the economic, social and environmental sustainability of rural
areas across the UK and beyond.
£12M, 5 year funding from Research Councils UK 2009-2014
88 researchers from
11 disciplines
working to transform rural areas through user-led application of digital technology
92 UK partners
15 international partners
from industry, government, civil societyand academia
Rural areas have specific characteristics that create challenges
around issues such as quality of life and wealth creation.
Intelligent information
infrastructures
Internet engineering
NLG &affective
communication
Reasoning, coordination & collaboration
Accessibility & Mobilities
Enterprise & Culture
Natural Resource
Conservation
Healthcare
Intelligent information
infrastructures
Internet engineering
NLG &affective
communication
Reasoning, coordination & collaboration
Accessibility & Mobilities
Enterprise & Culture
Natural Resource
Conservation
Healthcare
Activities are organised through four technology and four societal challenge areas
applying multidisciplinary expertise to the provision of
infrastructures that meet the socio-economic challenges of
rural UK.
In the FITS project intelligent agents and argumentation mechanisms are being used to
support decision making for management of flexible passenger transport in rural areas.
The Informed Rural Passenger project is exploring how linked open data can be combined with various trust mechanisms (including reasoning about quality) to
realise a flexible infrastructure to support rural passenger information.
The SMILE project project’s goal is to help rural businesses take advantage of opportunities that
would arise from the use of digital technologies in order to make their distribution operations more
robust and consequently strengthen their position in the market.
The ASSURE project is using semantic matchmaking and agent technologies to extend an existing social
networking system to help rural businesses discover potential new business opportunities and partners.
The CURIOS project is investigating the use of linked data technologies to build an open software
platformfor local history societies.
The SIRA project is working to improve the quality of satellite internet whilst exploring the
impact of satellite broadband on creative industries in rural Scotland.
The MinkApp project is using affective Natural Language Generation
(NLG)techniques to support volunteer
retention.
Beewatch is using Natural Language Generation (NLG) techniques to provide useful feedback to help users improve their bee identification skills and promote
volunteer participation.
In “Eyes to the Skies” Natural Language Generation (NLG) techniques, open data and domain specific
rules are being used to automatically generate blogs for
satellite tagged red kites.
WiSE
WiSE
The WiSE project is developing a digital sensing platform for use in remote and highly constrained
environments where power and communications are limited.
wikiRivers text content is being tailored to users’ interests using Natural Language Generation and
domain knowledge.
The MIME project combines use of novel medical sensors with intelligent software in order to deliver ‘need
to know’ clinical information simply and reliably whilst automatically generating a handover report using Natural Language
Generation techniques.
The TRUMP project is exploring the potential for mobile technologies in the development of a
trusted platform to support chronic disease management by simultaneously considering the
needs of rural areas of India and the UK.
The ASICA seeks to improve the experience of aftercare for those diagnosed with melanoma,
especially those living in remote and rural communities.
dot.rural at DE2013Monday 4th November 15:15 – 16:30 Session 1B Transport & Rural Digital: Hexagon Room, The Lowry• Relaxing eligibility criteria in rural transport services, Emele et al.• SMiLE: Smart Micro-logistics for the Rural Economy, Chen et al.17:00 – 19:00 Technology Demonstrators: Q5, Quay House, BBC• Resource Management with Wireless Sensor Networks and Satellite in
Extreme Climates• A passenger-centric decision support system for rural transport services• Tag2Blog – Unlocking Location Data of Satellite Tagged Species for Public
Engagement
Tuesday 5th November13:45 – 14:45 Session 2C Enterprise: Conference Suite (3.10+3.11), University of Salford• Proactive agent and semantic support for rural enterprise, Emele et al.
Wednesday 6th November09:00 – 10:15 Session 3A Cities & Digital Communities: Digital Performance Lab (0.11), University of Salford• CURIOS: Connecting Community Heritage through Linked Data, Beel et al.
Posters• A ‘Community Resilience’ framework for evaluating complexity in digital
access and engagement, Roberts et al.• Would you like faster broadband? Ninan et al.