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Technology in Action – Birmingham Science City Tuesday 14 th September 2010 University Collaborations David Burden Managing Director Daden Limited

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Presentation on University Collaborations that Daden has been involved with with regional HEIs.

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Page 1: University Collaborations

Technology in Action – Birmingham Science CityTuesday 14th September 2010

University Collaborations

David Burden

Managing DirectorDaden Limited

Page 2: University Collaborations

Technology in Action – Birmingham Science CityTuesday 14th September 2010

Virtual Worlds solution provider In Virtual Worlds since late 1990s, and Second Life since 2004 World-class capability in Integration and Artificial Intelligence Member, Serious Games Institute Based in Birmingham UK, and Second Life Winner Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding ICT

2009 Winner US Government Federal Virtual World Challenge 2010

Page 3: University Collaborations

Technology in Action – Birmingham Science CityTuesday 14th September 2010

PREVIEW Project and PIVOTE Open Source Software

JISC funded project Paramedic and Care Manager

training in virtual worlds Led to further funding for creation of

the PIVOTE virtual training authoring system

PIVOTE won THE award and US FVWC challenge

Growing open-source community

Page 4: University Collaborations

Technology in Action – Birmingham Science CityTuesday 14th September 2010

Navigating Automated Avatars in Virtual Worlds

TSB funded project with University of Birmingham

Examined how their robotics navigation tools could be used to navigate avatars within virtual worlds

Re-created Second Life inside the industry-standard Peekabot tool

Learnings being used to inform development of Daden's robotic avatars

Page 5: University Collaborations

Technology in Action – Birmingham Science CityTuesday 14th September 2010

Emotion and Memory Engines for Virtual World Robotic Avatars

Two Index Voucher funded projects with University of Wolverhampton

Examined how to implement emotions and memory within SL automated avatars

Used Wolverhampton's E-AI Emotional Architecture

Finalist in BSC Machine Intelligence competition Learnings being used to inform development of

Daden's robotic avatars

Page 6: University Collaborations

Technology in Action – Birmingham Science CityTuesday 14th September 2010

Other Projects

Theatrebase – AWM funded project with Birmingham Royal Ballet and Kings College London/UoCoventry

Millennium Point – 1:1 scale build in Second Life for Birmingham City University for media training

MOD – two Cyber & Influence Centre research projects starting Sep 2010

Page 7: University Collaborations

Technology in Action – Birmingham Science CityTuesday 14th September 2010

Random Thoughts Initially hard to find out who was doing what Index vouchers were a useful in Begun to switch from University/Public Sector-led to Daden-led Little luck so far with EU FP7 bids (4 failed so far, on 5th!) Admin has not been too hard so far (ERDF worst) Very dependent on personalities (both researchers and university

business development) TSB getting far more commercial Definite benefit from picking academics' brains – but they don't

have a monopoly on them!