This is a proposed project for “Golden Rule” prototype software, using patented technology recently emerged from research, to explain patterns of cyber-fraud. With cyber-crime (including data breaches) fraud patterns are now rapidly changing and existing static detection and prevention approaches are starting to fail. Worldwide payment fraud that funds organised crime and terrorism had losses of $13.9bn & could grow to $40bn by 2020 despite all measures put in place. Recent research into neuro-symbolic processing has emerged that is able to explain abstract learnt patterns as English-like "golden" rules. Automatically explaining new and previously unknown cyber-crime fraud patterns leads to improved human understanding & better prevention; productivity is increased & the societal impact of fraud will be cut.

This project will address the need to assist rail customers with their onward journey by having suggestions provided to them, in a personalised and relevant way in advance to their arrival at the destination station. Rail customers are aware that there are a range of transport options available to them once arriving at the station, but assessing and deciding on the most relevant, based on price, timing and personal preferences, can be challenging. The Onward Journey Planner Assistant will test a software prototype, based on existing technologies, in a realistic, simulated environment to develop a new technology using existing and live data and existing processes in rail. The industrial research will explore how different components of existing rail systems and the prototype software can interact to develop the current systems to improve customer experience through the provision of personalised onward journey options. The outcome of the research is to evaluate how the technology can be scaled-up and be commercially exploited.

The aim of this project is to generate ideas and test assumptions for new digital products based on a combination of two existing product prototypes, using a user-led, human-centred design approach. Snap Out will use the ‘double diamond’ approach and human-centred design methods, to explore and test product ideas and explore market viability with potential customers and strategic partners. Snap Out has recognised potential benefits and opportunities from utilising a human-centred approach to the design of its digital products. This project provides Snap Out with the opportunity to better align its new products with the needs of the target market in a structured approach.

There are nearly 285m people worldwide with visual impairments and nearly 90% of this is in developing countries. 80% suffer from one or more forms of preventable blindness. A country like India has a significant population at risk of blindness due to acute conditions such as cataract and corneal diseases (estimated at nearly 19m) and a significant population at risk for blindness due to chronic conditions like glaucoma, AMD and diabetic retinopathy (estimated at nearly 21m). Year-on-year increase in burden is estimated at nearly 18%. The low specialist doctor-patient ratio in India of 1:8300, necessitates the need to implement programmes for decentralised screening for eye health. Such models require an affordable, easy to use, portable imaging device that is telemedicine-enabled to allow for remote capture of images, together with an automated software that allows non-specialists to triage patients screened based on the sensitive detection of clinically relevant pathologies. This application seeks to build the world's first fully automated, portable disease detection and triaging device in screening for eye health - at a fraction of the cost of existing desktop technologies.

This project will explore commercial cooperation with organisations in developing countries of interest, including due-diligence research and business discussions with potential partners identified as a key part of our commercialisation strategy for an automated eye disease detection technology.

Awaiting Public Project Summary

A software testing concept that makes user interface testing possible for multiple stakeholders of varying background and technical expertise.

This project aims to determine the feasibility of a tool that will augment user interfaces to enable efficient and effective communication between software development project stakeholders of varying background and technical skill level.