Horizon Blog

From MSc student to Research Intern

I spent last summer writing my Master’s dissertation on practitioners’ approach to design guidelines for voice user interfaces (VUIs) such as Alexa, Google Assistant, etc. During that time, I realized […]


An exploration of MeMa 2.0

Following from the last MeMa 2.0 blog update, the team have been working to deploy a working MeMa system into the homes of participants. This involved the development of a […]


TAS/RUSI Conference: Trusting Machines? Cross-Sector lessons from Healthcare and Security

“Over the past 3 days I have been attending the joint TAS/RUSI conference on ‘Trusting Machines? Cross-Sector lessons from Healthcare and Security’. There have been really interesting panels on the […]


Future Festivals – Exploring online and hybrid festival opportunities

I don’t know if you noticed, but 2020/21 has been a bit of a rough time for festivals. No gathering in public spaces, no public performances, no sitting around on […]


Understanding Interaction and Perception in Mediated Work with Cobots

Horizon’s Agile project ‘Robots Mediating Interaction’ will develop our understanding of three key things: How people perceive collaborative robots (‘cobots’) – how they think about /of them as artefacts, agents […]