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Building the Future

West Midlands Forum for Growth 2018

Rob ValentineBruntwood

Dr Anne CoufopoulosCoventry University

Intelligent Healthcare

Prof Anthony MetcalfeUniversity of Birmingham

Assisting SMEs to Translate Science into Medicine

Dr Victoria LushAston University

Think Beyond Data

Dr Maite Frutos-PascualBirmingham City University

Freehand Interaction in Mixed Reality

Prof Mohammed ArifUniversity of Wolverhampton

Brownfield Research & Innovation

Alison MeirUniversity of Warwick

UK Battery Innovation Centre & Vehicle Electrification

Speaker line-up

Dr Anne CoufopoulosCoventry University

Intelligent Healthcare:

Responding to Regional Challenges

Dr Anne CoufopoulosAssociate Dean

Faculty of Health & Life Sciences

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Developing healthcare professionals for the future & driving growth in the West Midlands

What is the national picture:

▪ High UK demand for digital

specialists (Additional 500K+ by

2022, Shadbolt Review, 2016)

▪ In light of UK industrial strategy,

more work ready force with

digital skills at level 6/7 is

needed.

Digital skills for the UK economy“Improving understanding of the current and future demand for, and supply of, digital skills in the UK economy”

Departments for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), and Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS); January 2016Forging futures: Building higher-level skills through university and employer collaboration

“Examining the ways in which universities and employers can work together to improve higher level skills”UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) and Universities UK (UUK); September 2014

Computer science degree accreditation: Shadbolt review “An independent review of computer science degree accreditation and graduate employability” May 2016

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-skills-for-the-uk-economy

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/forging-futures-building-higher-level-skills-through-university-and-employer-collaboration

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/computer-science-degree-accreditation-and-graduate-employability-shadbolt-revieww

Objectives :

▪ To sustainably transform employment outcomes for level 6 and 7 learners.

▪ To make a tangible, lasting and measurable impact on digital skills provision at a national level.

▪ To equip learners with critical skills to compete in a global economy.

▪ To create and promote innovative learning and teaching models

Coventry University’s role:

▪ Lead on Theme 3: Digitalising

Professions.

▪ A member of the IoC Steering

Group.

▪ A member of the IoC

Governance Board.

THEME 3: Digitalising Professions (Lead: Coventry University)

Challenges to be addressed:

▪ Sector-specific digital skills needs

▪ Starting with Automotive, Advanced Manufacturing, Creative Economy, Healthcare, and Fintech

▪ Direct links to the national Industrial Strategy

▪ A focus on modular delivery

▪ Continuous sharing of best practice

Work Packages:

1. Flexible modular framework, and MSc programmes suitable for people at work.

2. CPD and short taster programmes.

Call for Action

• Talk to us about the digital skills needs among your work force.

• Talk to us about your talent re-training programmes.

• Talk to us if you would like to see the current and future digital skill trend for your industry.

• Talk to us if you want to widen participation among your digital work force.

Thank you.

Prof Anthony MetcalfeUniversity of Birmingham

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Assisting SME's to Translate Scienceinto Medicine at MD-TEC and The Healthcare Technologies Institute

Tony Metcalfe

West Midlands Forum for Growth,

Universities’ ‘Building the Future’ event, Tuesday 18th September 2018

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Why develop Healthcare Technologies?

• Earlier diagnosis

• Healthier ageing

• Better rehabilitation

• Improved quality of life

• Economic benefit

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Drivers for medical innovation

Medical Technology

Industrial Push Clinical Pull

Birmingham Health Partners has enabled us to establish strong working relationships with clinicians from across the region

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The environment for innovation is critical• Opening of new QEHB

• NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiological Research Centre

• Royal Centre for Defence Medicine presence on campus

• Multidisciplinary research events – breaking down the barriers!

• Embracing new areas of research, transferring technologies between areas

GENERATING SOLUTIONS FOR REAL PROBLEMS!

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The Institute will provide a focus for translation on the University campus

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Accelerating the development and uptake of medical technologies

Engaging with all stakeholders in this process from the demonstration of robust proof of concept

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MD-TEC/HTI Support Capabilities• Advice on the pathway from bench to

clinical trial • Design of experiments to determine

product feasibility• Identification and engagement with

appropriate third party companies: pre-clinical safety, sterilisation etc.

• Preparation of regulatory documents such as MHRA Advisory Meeting briefing documents etc.

• Lab-based characterisation services.• Usability studies.

http://med.stanford.edu/tram.html

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What else will the MD-TEC & HTI lead to?

• Medical innovation

• Training for scientists, engineers and clinicians

• Outreach across the regions

• Helping to drive the local Life Science economy and regional growth

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MD-TEC & HTI Advantages

• Access state-of-the-art facilities and collaborate with universities & hospitals through funded support.

• Cost of this environment in the commercial marketplace would make it prohibitive to many companies.

• Value of the expertise, reduction in risk.

• Advice on the commercialisation process.

• Engagement with MD-TEC/HTI will help accelerate the development of your medical technologies.

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Dr Victoria LushAston University

Dr. Peter Lewis, Aston University thinkbeyonddata.com

Thinking Beyond Data

with Aston University

Dr. Victoria Lush

Research Fellow, Think Beyond Data

Aston University, Computer Science

Dr. Peter Lewis, Aston University thinkbeyonddata.com Dr. Victoria Lush, Aston University

Aston University – In the Heart of Birmingham


"You will struggle to find a

university more attuned to the

needs of business and industry.”

- The Sunday Times


Let’s talk about Artificial Intelligence…


Artificial Intelligence


Let’s talk about Artificial Intelligence…

AI, machine learning, and visual analytics

are changing the face of businesses.


Key Ways AI Can Help Your Company Grow

• Automating and scaling your work.

• Better solutions to your company’s problems.

• Deeper, more accessible insights from your data.


Examples Of Our Work

• Robotherapy to engage children with cerebral

palsy and monitor their improvement.

• Provide quantitative data on improvement

which therapists cannot easily get on their

own.

• Two games: to imitate the movement of the

robot and to pick up apples from a tree (AR

game).


Examples Of Our Work

• Facilitate easy and informal access to

mental health resources using Augmented

Reality (AR).

• Help to overcome stigma and the lack of

knowledge about mental health.

• Provide a link to self-assessment and self-

management mental health tools enhanced

with AR companions.


Partnering with Aston University

Think Beyond Data

• A new £1.7m initiative to help SMEs grow by harnessing artificial intelligence,machine learning, and visual analytics.

• A team of academics and PhD-qualified researchers, who are available to work with you to help achieve this, or even just to explore ideas.

• No cost at all to you.

• Let’s have a conversation about your aspirations and how we might be able to meet your needs.

Think Beyond Data is an initiative of the

System Analytics for Innovation project,

which is part-funded by the European

Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Dr Maite Frutos-PascualBirmingham City University

Past and current studies in natural interaction

Dr Maite Frutos-Pascual

Research Fellow

[email protected]

Digital Media Technology Lab (DMTLab)

Birmingham City University

Freehand Interaction in MR

• Intro

• DMT Lab – HCI & MR Group

• Our Work in Natural Interaction for AR/MR and VR

• Current Studies in AR

• Industry Projects

• Future directions

Structure

• Research Fellow at DMT Lab

• PhD in Computer Science, MSc in Software Engineering, BEng (Hons) in Telecommunications

• Specialist in: Natural Interaction for AR/MR and VR, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Accessibility

• Additional expertise: IT and non invasive sensors for accessibility

• Reviewer for Leading AR/MR events and HCI journals:

• e.g. IEEE ISMAR (A*) 2016-present

• e.g Computers in Human Behaviour (2015-present)

• Work with industry on: AR Realism and usability (Holosphere, JLR), AR interaction (Glaxo Smith Kline)

Who am I?

• DMT Lab is active in three key areas of research:• Image Processing and Mixed Reality• Digital Audio Processing• Digital Media Distribution

• 9 research staff and 13 full-time PhD students

• Applications in a range of domains from AR/MR, through healthcare to music production

DMTLab

• Specialised in AR for interactive live broadcast

• Developed interactive virtual TV studio

• Utilised depth sensors (MS Kinect) for

facilitating natural freehand interaction

• Evaluated the impact of :

1st and 3rd person AR realism

DMTLab: HCI & Mixed Reality (History)

• First Evaluation into the problems of

freehand grasping exocentric in MR

• Defined a grasp model for freehand interaction

• Defined methods for improving grasp

placement and grasp form

• Defined methods for providing feedback toImprove grasp placement (views, rendering, triggers)

DMTLab: HCI & Mixed Reality (Recent)

Applied freehand interaction models into MR

Presents a freehand medical visualization and demonstration system

DMTLab HCI & Mixed Reality (Ongoing)

• First Study into AR interaction paradigms

• Aim to understand the design considerationsFor direct object manipulation

• Evaluated the interaction paradigms for

object manipulation tasks

• Compared gaze and tap (Hololens)

against co-located interaction (Meta2)

All hardware design recommendations applied

DMTLab: HCI & Mixed Reality (Current)

• Object manipulation tasks:

• 20 naive participants, Evaluated the time to completion, task accuracy and usability

Translate/move (x,y,z) Resize (enlarge and reduce) Rotate (x,y,z)

DMTLab: HCI & Mixed Reality (Current)

- Grasping in VR and MR

DMTLab: Freehand Grasping (Current)

Findings reported in multiple outputs (example):M Frutos-Pascual , A Blaga, M Al-Kalbani, C Creed and I Williams, “Object Manipulation inAugmented Reality: Usabiilty Evaluation of Head Mounted Display Interaction Paradigms”, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2018 (under review)

M Al-Kalbani, M Frutos-Pascual, I Williams. "Freehand grasping in mixed reality: analysing variation during transition phase of interaction" Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2017

AD Blaga, M Frutos-Pascual, M Al-Kalbani, I Williams. "Usability Analysis of an Off-the-Shelf Hand Posture Estimation Sensor for Freehand Physical Interaction in Egocentric Mixed Reality" IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2017

A Dolhasz, M Frutos-Pascual, I Williams. "Composite Realism: Effects of Object Knowledge and Mismatched Feature Type on Observer Gaze and Subjective Quality" IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2017

Al-Kalbani, M. Williams I and Frutos-Pascual, M. “Analysis of Medium Wrap Freehand Virtual Object Grasping in Exocentric Mixed Reality”, Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2016 IEEE International Symposium on, Merida, 2016.

Dolhasz, A. Williams I and Frutos-Pascual, M. “Measuring Observer Response to Object-Scene Disparity in Composites”. Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2016 IEEE International Symposium on, Merida, 2016.

Hough, G.; Williams, I.; Athwal, C., "Fidelity and Plausibility of Bimanual Interaction in Mixed Reality," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, ,vol.12, no.99, pp. 1377-1389, 2015.

G.Hough, I. Williams, C. Athwal. “Measurements of Live Actor Motion in Mixed Reality Interaction”. IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. Munich, Germany. 2014.

G.Hough, I. Williams, C. Athwal. “Measurement of Perceptual Tolerance for Inconsistencies within Mixed Reality Scenes”. IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. Munich, Germany. 2014.

Hough G, Athwal C and Williams I. Advanced Occlusion Handling for Virtual Studios. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer 2012.

DMTLab HCI & Mixed Reality Outputs

http://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/239/

Findings leading into the development of:

User Driven Interaction in Augmented Reality (User DIARY library)

• User DIARY is the amalgamation of the natural interaction work into a usable library for industry to apply our outputs into their interaction design and development of AR solutions

• We are currently working with industry in a variety of different aspects related to freehand and natural interaction research, notably:

• GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)• Holosphere/Jaguar Land Rover• Imagination

DMTLab HCI & Mixed Reality Outputs

Past and current studies in natural interactionMany thanks for your attention ☺

Dr Maite Frutos-Pascual

[email protected]

Digital Media Technology Lab (DMTLab)

Birmingham City University

Freehand Interaction in MR

Prof Mohammed ArifUniversity of Wolverhampton

Brownfield Research and Innovation Centre

(BRIC)

Prof Mohammed Arif

Head of School, Architecture

and Built Environment

The Brownfield Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC) is a new

research Centre based at the University of Wolverhampton part funded

through the ERDF.

We offer BESPOKE FREE OF CHARGE

SUPPORT TO BLACK COUNTRY SME’s who

require assistance with all aspects surrounding

Brownfield remediation and regeneration.

Services we offer?

Geographic Information

Systems (GIS) –

• Identify site suitability for your

intended development

• Provide spatial or geographic

data

Phase 1 & 2

Site

Investigation Soils and materials analysis

-• Soil sampling

• Classification and analysis of

contaminants (XRD, XRF)

• Innovative remediation

techniques

Viability and

Cost

Building and Ground

Scanning -

• Map spaces inside and

outside existing structures

• Renovation advice

• Listed Building expertise

• Identification of

underground infrastructure

• Ground

Stabilisation

• Water

contamination

• Demolition

• Legislation advice

• Funding advice

Database Created✓ Provides interactive online database for all Brownfield sites within Black

Country.

✓ GIS, Site Scanning and Soil Analysis data will be presented

✓ It will only be available to the respective assisted SME.

✓ Site selection will be carried out by giving initial set of data useful to developers.

✓ Site Selection:

✓ Highly automated

✓ Use of statistical techniques

✓ Provides set of sites that fulfils the initial criterial

✓ Provides a detailed report about the site selectionDatabase Prototype

Opportunities

✓ Data sharing (contamination results, scans etc.)

✓ Land owners

✓ Potential Developers

✓ Feedback & Guidance

✓ Soil and land data

✓ Suggested Research/skills focusBRIC

Public Sector

Private Sector

BRIC Ambition

• Deliver sustainable Brownfield Research and

best practice across the UK

• To compliment and assist the Regeneration

and Remediation Industry

• To make Brownfield a viable, more attractive

option

• Become a National Brownfield Institute

Thank you

Alison MeirUniversity of Warwick

Leading Battery R&D in the West Midlands:

Delivering on UK Strategy for Future of Mobility

Alison Meir, Business Development Manager

West Midlands Forum for Growth18 September 2018

©2017

▪ Road to Zero Strategy: industry/consumer led transition to zero emissions by 2050

▪ Major UK Government investment with R&D increase to 2.4% of GDP by 2027:✓ UK at forefront of design & manufacturing for

zero/ultra low emissions

▪ £246m Faraday Battery Challenge supporting next generation battery innovation

▪ WMG: lessons learnt from automotive effectively transferring into multiple sectors

▪ WMG vision: develop / enhance UK capabilities: cleaner, safer, smarter electrification

▪ WMG: a UK centre of excellence for Battery R&D, helping create opportunity for business

Source: Cornell University from Edwards 2001

Future Challenges: the need to deliver on zero emissions

please recycle

©2018

$

R&D

Where are the challenges? Automotive direction of travel – 20 years

Cost

Now $130/kWh (cell)$280/kWh (pack)

2035 $50/kWh (cell)$100/kWh (pack)

Energy Density

Now 700Wh/l, 250Wh/kg (cell)

2035 1400Wh/l, 500Wh/kg (cell)

Power Density

Now 3 kW/kg (pack)

2035 12 kW/kg (pack)

Safety

2035 eliminate thermal runaway at pack level to reduce pack complexity

1st Life

Now 8 years (pack)

2035 15 years (pack)

Temperature

Now -20° to +60°C (cell)

2035 -40° to +80°C (cell)

Predictability

2035 full predictive models for performance

and aging of battery

Recyclability

Now 10-50% (pack)

2035 95% (pack)©2018

©2017

How do we get there: Energy and Battery Systems research at WMG

WMG is the leading research & development centre for Energy and Battery Innovation in the UK

World-class facilities, industry-facing with multi-sector applications showing huge growth

Over £60m investment, unrivalled breadth and depth of capability

Cell, module and pack level, scale-up facilities, multi-format

©2018

Modelling and SimulationControl systems and integration

©2017

Recent expansion: world-leading facilities for R&D and UK business

WMG awarded £20m by Energy Research Accelerator (ERA) to complete major EIC upgrades Addressing the challenges and seizing the opportunity presented by electrificationFurther positioning WMG and the West Midlands as the leading centre for Battery R&D

* State-of-the-art Battery discovery, analysis and testing facilities unique to the UK* Accelerating the development of new technologies and opportunity * Encompassing fundamental research through to industrialisation* Providing open source facilities for UK companies to scale-up* Enhancing existing, and embracing new supply chain solutions

©2018

Industry Strategy Faraday Challenge Fund: WMG’s leading position

Industry Strategy Challenge Fund

£4.7bn

Healthcare and Medicine

Robotics and AI

Clean and Flexible Energy

Faraday Challenge

£246M, 4 years

Faraday Institution

£78M, TRL1-3

4 initial Fast Start Projects (others to follow):

Degradation, Modelling, Recycling, Solid State

Innovate UK

£88M, TRL3-6

CR&D, Feasibility Studies

Existing themes and calls

APC

£80M TRL6-8

national battery manufacturing development

facility: UKBIC

Existing APCX calls

Self-driving Vehicles

Manufacturing and Materials

Satellites and Space

…

Faraday Institution:WMG in winning consortium of 7 leading universities: Cambridge, Imperial, Newcastle, Oxford, Southampton, UCL

Innovate CR&DWMG has won multiple bids with many industrial partners

UKBIC: WMG, together with CWLEP & Coventry City Council, won this £80m bid

©2018

UKBIC: National Facility enabling & supporting growth of UK battery industry

©2018

Gramme Scale

Typically university scale research using small quantities of hand-made materials

Used for fundamental materials research and initial half-cell experiments at coin cell scale

Funders typically EPSRC, Faraday Institution

E.g. Oxford, UCL, Imperial, WMG

Kilotonne Scale

Full scale, high volume manufacturing plant. Typically 6-50GWh/year

Used to deliver very large volumes of cells with no variation or flexibility to chemistry, format or quality. Cost/kWh and process consistency are critical

E.g. Tesla Gigafactory, LG Cheongju, Panasonic Osaka, Samsung Ulsan

Tonne Scale

‘Learning Factory of the Future’

Typically full scale manufacturing facilities used at low rate. Expensive, inflexible, and impossible to access except by owner. UKBIC provides bespoke facility for this purpose.

Used to develop and prove materials, cell design, manufacturing processes and parameters “at-rate” prior to full plant investment. Promotes UK industrialisation, and delivers skills

E.g. No public facility in UK or EU

Kilogramme Scale

Typically corporate R&D lab or University / Catapult centre

Used to demonstrate scalability of materials to full size cell, and to develop electrode mixtures, deposition processes and cell formats.

Funders typically Innovate UK, EPSRC, Faraday Institution

E.g. WMG, QinetiQ

UKBIC

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Thank you

Alison MeirBusiness Development [email protected]: +44 (0) 24 7657 3255Mb: +44 (0) 7920 531184

https://www.warwick.ac.uk

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