Horizon Blog

An introduction to FAILSAFE

FAILSAFE is one of our Consumer Product Campaign projects. It aims to develop an understanding of how robotic technologies can be integrated as consumer products into the home environment, to […]


Adaptive Interactive Movies – Partnership working – a Case Study

When University of Nottingham and Horizon Digital Economy Research academic and filmmaker Richard Ramchurn wanted to push the boundaries of how interactive a film could be, he turned to former […]


Everything in Moderation – Coming to an End

As part of this project, we were keen to engage with communities that use online media platforms providing E2EE (End to end encryption) messaging facilities, i.e. WhatsApp, SnapChat and Reddit, […]


Expressive Personalisation of Consumer Products through Dance : an introduction blog

Assistive technologies are often medicalised in their design.  Horizon’s Consumer Product campaign project ‘Expressive Personalisation of Consumer Products through Dance’ will explore how people can use their creative and expressive […]


Trends and Challenges for the moderation of end-to-end encrypted communication in Zimbabwe

Student challenge at the Harare Institute of Technology As part of our collaborative project with the Harare Institute of Technology, we decided to run a challenge for undergraduate students there. […]