Information Technology
Research

Staff in Information Technology are engaged in a variety of research projects, many of which are in collaboration with other researchers around the world including France, China, Singapore, Sri Lanka, UK and the US.

Some of the exciting topics of these projects include:

• Automated analysis of medical images to diagnose disease;
• Creation of animated characters that can conduct conversations with students;
• Exploring how eBusiness websites can protect the privacy of their customers;
• Using artificial intelligence to guide medical staff in treating patients in pain;
• Investigating what makes customers trust different websites;
• Developing new ways of using Radio Frequency Identification tagging in a range of applications;
• Automated analysis of television and movies to identify sporting highlights or comedy scenes;
• Testing the best ways to teach programming skills to new students;
• Generating DVD's automatically from video content;
• Developing new computer based security systems;
• Building computer models of how animal populations grow and decline with their environment;
• Creating new ways of visualising corporate information so that it can be understood more rapidly;
• Investigating the methodologies for installing new software systems.