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

24 11 .25

Roundtable: Technology-facilitated gender-based violence and its impact

Join in the discussion on Technology-facilitated gender-based violence and its impact – taking place on […]

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 […]

Horizon Blog Posts

26 11 .25

Soma Co-Designed Technology for Wellbeing: Progress Since the Workshops FINAL BLOG

Soma Co-Designed Technology for Wellbeing: Progress Since the Workshops FINAL BLOG Following the two co-design […]

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 […]

11 11 .25

Horizon Adoption of Wellbeing Technology Toolkit (HAWT) – our final blog

The HAWT project focuses on supporting responsible adoption of digital mental health and wellbeing technologies […]