Horizon Blog

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. […]


Everything in Moderation – sister project update

The use of E2E encrypted platforms in the Global South is extremely popular. WhatsApp is the most used App in Zimbabwe and accounts for 44% of mobile app use. Our […]