Horizon

Shaping the future through ubiquitous technology

Welcome. This is an archive of Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute’s website to preserve past content for reference and historical purposes

Horizon was a multidisciplinary centre of excellence for Digital Economy research, based within the School of Computer Sciences at the University of Nottingham. Funded by UKRI EPSRC over a period of 15 years, Horizon consisted of three 5-year programmes (Horizon Digital Economy Hub 2009 – 2015, From Human Data to Personal Experience 2015 – 2021 and Trusted Data Driven Products December 2020 – December 2025).

Find out more about Horizon’s research by accessing the ‘Our Legacy’ tab, reading through our Impact Highlights brochures and watching this short video

Horizon News

28 10 .25

Gender and Robots workshop

Where: Cobot Maker Space, Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham When: 14th November, 15:30 – 17:30pm Robots […]

27 10 .25

Halfway to the Future – a Design-Focused HCI Symposium

Stuart Reeves, Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and former Transitional Assistant Professor […]

24 09 .25

Interdisciplinary expert workshop: AI and Human Rights

Horizon Research Fellow Anna Maria Piskopani organised an interdisciplinary expert workshop as part of the […]

Horizon Blog Posts

17 11 .25

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Nasser Alkhulaifi! 🎉

Many congratulations to Nasser Alkhulaifi (2021 cohort), who successfully passed his viva last week subject […]

12 11 .25

CDT Student Victor Ngo Contributes to EPSRC-Funded AI Project

Horizon CDT student Victor Ngo (2022 cohort) is part of the team for “Creative Encounters […]

11 11 .25

Gendered Exclusion on the Internet (Gendernet) – a final blog

Horizon’s Gendernet project sought to explore experiences of misogyny online to identify new models of […]