Prof Jessie Kennedy's Projects (28)

CAROUSEL+ Telepresent Dance Reducing Social Distancing Jan 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2024
CAROUSEL focuses on how Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies improve the quality of experience and social interaction in the frame of live virtual and hybrid events in the future. The Internet has developed until now i... Read More about CAROUSEL+ Telepresent Dance Reducing Social Distancing.

Security Visualisation Aug 1, 2018 - Jan 8, 2022
To optimise the ZoneFox product through the development and incorporation of effective information visualisation tools for
generating insight through visual exploration and discovery of relationships in customers’ business data.

KTP Standard Life Jan 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2018
The development of enhanced data analytics capabilities to enable the modelling, analysis and presentation of complex data to improve Group Internal Audit’s assessment and insight into business risks and performance

KTP Delta DNA (Games Analytics) Nov 3, 2014 - Nov 2, 2016
To analyse in game communications to predict engagement of players.

Biological Visualisation Network - BioVisNet Feb 10, 2014 - Jun 30, 2017
Biology is a visually grounded scientific discipline-from the way data is collected and analysed to the manner in which the results are communicated to others. Traditionally pictures in scientific publications were hand-drawn; however they are now al... Read More about Biological Visualisation Network - BioVisNet.

Future Energy management of buildings Nov 4, 2014 - Jan 31, 2017
The focus of this proposal is to better understand how energy is consumed in SMEs through the analysis of real time data
and the development of SME energy management profiles, to study the potential to positively influence occupant behaviour towards... Read More about Future Energy management of buildings.

Prometheus Nov 1, 1998 - Oct 31, 2000
The aim of the project is to construct a database system that will meet the requirements of current taxonomy practices. In particular, it will allow taxonomists to view and explore alternative classifications. The system will support provision of si... Read More about Prometheus.

Scottish Woodlands KTP Jan 1, 2013 - Dec 31, 2014
Scottish Woodlands Ltd is Scotland's leading independent full-service forest management company. It is also the second largest operator in the UK, with a network of 17 offices operating throughout Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Th... Read More about Scottish Woodlands KTP.

VIPER Aug 1, 2010 - Jan 31, 2012
The implementation of a software tool for analysing large and complex pedigree genotype datasets (thousands of individuals genotyped for thousands of markers). The tool will combine genetic inference algorithms that report inheritance inconsistencies... Read More about VIPER.

MATSE: Information Visualisation of Microarray Time-course Data Nov 1, 2007 - Oct 31, 2009
Microarray Time-series Explorer (MaTSE) is a software application developed to improve the analysis of microarray data by allowing the user to explore their data using a unique visual interface.  Throughout the project we focused on engaging potentia... Read More about MATSE: Information Visualisation of Microarray Time-course Data.

Environment exchange KTP May 1, 2010 - Sep 30, 2012
The Environment Exchange (t2e) provides a trading environment for companies that have exceeded their packaging waste recovery obligations to sell their excess of certificated activity to organisations that have been unable to meet their obligations.... Read More about Environment exchange KTP.

GamesAnalytics Ltd Innovation Voucher Jul 1, 2011 - Sep 30, 2011
Prototype statistical models and visualisations were developed to determine the feasibility of the approach. These will be developed further to address the massive sized data sets invovled.

GameVis Apr 10, 2012 - Apr 9, 2014
To develop tools for games developers and publishers that allow the visualisation of patterns of game play, to predict retention and the likelihood of micro purchases.

Visual Exploration of Species-referenced Repositories (VESpeR) Aug 1, 2012 - Jan 31, 2014
http://www.vesper.org.uk

Contains the software produced for this project, a suite of components for analysing Darwin Core Archive (DWCA) datafiles for data quality issues such as data coverage, classification issues (taxonomic dumping) and tempora... Read More about Visual Exploration of Species-referenced Repositories (VESpeR).

Teallach: Systematic Generic Support for User Interfaces to Databases Sep 1, 1996 - Nov 30, 1999
A research project aiming to provide a software workbench which facilitates the rapid in a manner which is independent of any specific underlying database system. This will provide a means for moving database interface development from an ad hoc, sys... Read More about Teallach: Systematic Generic Support for User Interfaces to Databases.

Interactive Visualisation Tools for Supporting Taxonomists working Practice Mar 1, 2001 - Mar 1, 2004

SEEK: Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge Oct 1, 2002 - Oct 31, 2008
The goals of the project are to make fundamental improvements in how researchers can
1) gain global access to ecological data and information,
2) rapidly locate and utilize distributed computational services, and
3) exercise powerful new met... Read More about SEEK: Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge.

TDWG Taxon Concept Transfer Schema Jan 1, 2004 - Mar 31, 2005
The Taxon Concept Modelling project is associated developing standard data models for representing taxonomic names and concepts for use in the biodiversity community. The work is associated with the Taxon Names and Concepts interest group of the Inte... Read More about TDWG Taxon Concept Transfer Schema.

TaxVis: Visualisation Tools for Integrating Large Alternative Linnaean Taxonomies May 1, 2006 - Apr 30, 2008
The TaxViz project is developing visualisation techniques for comparing multiple taxonomic hierarchies.
Biological taxonomy involves the classification and naming of plants, animals and all the other living organisms on earth, however taxonomists... Read More about TaxVis: Visualisation Tools for Integrating Large Alternative Linnaean Taxonomies.

ExtraMed Innovation Feb 1, 2010 - Sep 10, 2010
The work proposed is to scope out initial requirements for the submission of a SMART award application to develop a Digital Dashboard for use in the NHS to meet these needs.
The work will involve background research into the company’s existing softw... Read More about ExtraMed Innovation.

GeoloGIS Nov 1, 2010 - Dec 31, 2010
This project evaluated the potential of several Free Open Source Software packages for the purpose of creating a bespoke GIS for use by geologists.  It was conducted in collaboration with GeoloGIS Ltd.

TrustViz May 12, 2014 - Oct 31, 2014
Successful completion of project. Deliverable of demonstrative prototype for showing visual inter-relationships of policies, roles and data access achieved and integrated into SymphonicTrust's product.

TDWG Core Ontology Apr 10, 2006 - Aug 31, 2006
This project aims to progress the development of Taxonomic Concept schema (TCS) in line with Taxonomic Database Working gorup (TDWG) architecture and documentation.

This work is to ensure that:
Best current practice is followed in developing TDWG... Read More about TDWG Core Ontology.

Data Discoveries Innovation Aug 9, 2010 - Oct 29, 2010
This project was investigating the feasibility of providing interactive visualisation tools for exploring statistical information on data cleansing.

Prometheus II: Capturing and Relating Character Concept Definitions in Plant Taxonomy Feb 1, 2001 - Jun 30, 2004
Taxonomy has been described as “the science of documenting biodiversity”, which involves collecting, naming, describing, identifying and classifying specimens of organisms. Descriptions are the fundamental information units used in the process of con... Read More about Prometheus II: Capturing and Relating Character Concept Definitions in Plant Taxonomy.

OPAL: The Partner Lens Mar 1, 2002 - Feb 27, 2004
OPaL aims to explore the potential of tools that can assist firms to configure partnerships as and when required to meet the demands of a volatile distributed workplace (Handy, 1992). Whatever the motivation for re-structuring (reduced transaction co... Read More about OPAL: The Partner Lens.

Ed Physio May 1, 2011 - Sep 30, 2011
A prototype was successfully developed showing proof of concept of the idea. See the Case study for more details.

Aridhia Mar 18, 2014 - Jul 31, 2014
A prototype visualisation which demonstrated the advantages of dynamic representations of genomes over standard static diagrams was developed. This used the d3 library to allow interactive layering of different information sets over a circos style re... Read More about Aridhia.