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Some research projects that
ALERT members are/were involved in:
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The Advanced
Digital Medical Platform
(ADIMEP) project
Duration:
January 2014 - December 2019
Project lead by
researchers at Middlesex
University with partners at
Brunel University and the
University of Cambridge. Dr.
Carlisle George and Dr.
Glendford Mapp are among ALERT
members involved in this
project.
The
ADIMEP project
brings together various
technologies to monitor and
manage many health challenges
such as chronic diseases that
affect large sections of
populations and threaten to
overwhelm healthcare
services. The platform
will enable patient data to be
collected from body sensors or
patients will be able to upload
medical data (e.g. blood
pressure readings) using home
devices. This data will be
securely stored on cloud servers
for access by various types of
users (e.g. medical staff,
researchers). The project
consists of a number of ongoing
PhD research studies intended to
contribute towards the overall
functionality of ADIMEP.
- VALCRI
- Visual Analytics for
Sense-making in CRiminal
Intelligence analysis
EU Funded Project: THEME: 10
SECURITY, FP7-SEC-2013-1
Duration: May 2014 -
May 2018
Project led by Professor William
Wong at Middlesex University. Dr
Carlisle George (Legal aspects)
& Dr Penny Duquenoy (Ethics)
are among ALERT members on the
Middlesex Project team.
Project
partners: Middlesex
University(UK);
Space Applications Services
(Belgium); Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory (USA);
University of Konstanz (Germany);
Linkoping University (Sweden);
City University London (UK);
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
(Belgium); AE Solutions (UK);
Technische Universitat Graz
(Austria); Fraunhofer Institute
for Digital Media Technology
(Germany); Technische Universitat
Wien (Austria); Object Security
(UK); Unabhängiges Landeszentrum
für Datenschutz (Germany);
i-Intelligence (Switzerland);
Exipple (Spain); West Midlands
Police Force (UK); Lokale Politie
Antwerpen (Belgium); Federale
gerechtelijke politie Antwerpen
Noordersingel (Belgium).
The purpose of this project is to
develop VALCRI,
a new system prototype
for information exploitation
by intelligence analysts working
in law enforcement agencies
(LEAs). One of the key problems is
to ‘connect the dots’ or to
quickly find the few pieces of
information from a large dataset
and to piece them together so that
the conclusion makes sense
and can be justified. Much
of this process is presently
very labour intensive and
inefficient. When completed VALCRI will
integrate advanced and powerful
data analytic software for
automated extraction of meaningful
information and related text.
documents, images and video, and
for detecting signatures or
patterns across multi-dimensional
data that provide early warning or
triggers of impending criminal or
terrorist action
- SAMi2
- Semantics Analysis Monitor for
Illegal Use of the Internet
EU project funded by the
European Directorate General for
Internal Affairs in the
framework of the Programme
for the Prevention of / and
Combating Crime in 2012.
Duration: January 2014 - January
2016.
Project
partners: HI Iberia (Spain)
– coordinates the activities of the
consortium and leads the design and
implementation activities: Middlesex
University (Dr Carlisle George – Legal
matters & Dr Penny Duquenoy –
Ethics) and the Municipal
Police
Madrid (end-user).
SAMi2
aims to prevent and detect
illegal content or activities and
therefore plan the appropriate
response actions, using the
information available on social
networks. In order to be more
effective and less time consuming, the
system will offer SAMi2
analysis and correlation of data from
heterogeneous flows freely accessible
content on the Internet (eg, Twitter,
Facebook or other
forums). Scenarios of use of the
system may be the detection of illegal
content (offensive material for
children), crime prevention (attacks
on people or infrastructure) or the
use of information for forensic
purposes.
- EAHC Study -
Electronic Health Records
EU Project funded by the European
Executive Agency for Health and
Consumers (EAHC) for a study focusing
on “An overview of the national
laws on electronic health records in
the EU Member States and their
interaction with the provision of
cross-border eHealth services”. (Project
No. 1591.13).
Duration:
January 2014 - July 2014.
Project Partners: Milieu Ltd
(Belgium), time.lex
(Belgium). Dr Carlisle George, legal
adviser and UK national expert.
The
objectives of the study are (i) to
identify and examine the national laws
of the 28 Member States and Norway and
identify legal barriers for
cross-border transfer data from
electronic health records (EHRs) and
ePrescriptions, and for the provision
of cross-border eHealth services; and
(ii) to make recommendations to the
eHealth Network on how national laws
and the European framework must evolve
to support cross-border eHealth
services.
- VALO - ECQA
Valorisation Expert Training and
Certification
Project funded by Leonardo
da Vinci - Transfer of Innovation
Programme
Duration: Oct 2011 -
Sept 2013
Ms Elli Georgiadou, Dr
Geetha Abeysinghe, Dr Mohamed
Sheriff, Dr Carlisle George with
co-partners from Alexander
Technological Educational Institute
of Thessaloniki, FH JOANNEUM
Gesselschaft mbH., University of
Vaasa, International Software
Consulting Network, Thessaloniki
Chamber Of Commerce And Industry,
Institute of Vocational Training
THERMI
The general aims and
objectives of the project are to
create a new certified Valorisation
Expert profession adding to the 18
existing certifications in the
European Certification and
Qualification Association (ECQA)
(www.ecqa.org). The project's
objectives are to: (i) develop an
online accredited programme of study
for the job role of a Valorisation
Expert; (ii) pilot the programme in
participating organisations/member
states of the project partners;
(iii) refine the programme based on
systematic feedback; (iv)
disseminate project results via a
range of channels, including a major
European conference; (v) ensure the
self-valorisation and sustainability
of the project and its outputs
through the ECQA and other bodies.
- Privacy
Sensitive Architecture for
Psychiatric Behaviour Monitoring
System
Project funded by the
Malaysian Government
Duration: January
2011 - March 2013
Dr. Nasriah Zakaria,
Professor Madya Putra Sumari, Puan
Norlia Mustaffa, Dr. Rusyainie
Ramli, Puan Rusyaizila Ramli -
Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Dr Carlisle George
(Co-Researcher & Legal
Expert/Adviser).
This project focuses
on developing privacy management
systems embedded in psychiatric
monitoring systems in a Malaysian
setting. The research objectives
are:
(i) To elicit privacy
concerns from Malaysian patients,
family and friends when
patients are
admitted to a psychiatric ward in an
effort to analyze their privacy
preferences
based on their needs and to help
them protect their privacy.
(ii) To propose a
privacy-sensitive architecture for
psychiatric monitoring system
based on
Malaysia’s privacy policies and
guidelines.
- EGAIS - The
Ethical GovernAnce of emergIng
technologieS
EU FP7 Project No: SIS7-CT-2009-230291
Duraton: May 2009 - January 2012
Dr Penny Duquenoy (partner)
The EGAIS
project is a 3 year
project funded by the European
Commission under the Seventh
Framework Programme (Science and
Society) taking an interdisciplinary
approach (philosophy, organisation
science, technology and information
science) to integrating ethical
considerations within technical
development projects through
governance mechanisms. The aim of
the EGAIS project is to provide new
analysis, assessment and governance
guidelines for the ethical
consideration of emerging
technologies and their applications.
It aims to provide to the
stakeholders in general guidance
towards a coherent and cohesive
approach to the integration of
ethical consideration within
projects that begins with the
proposal design and continues
throughout the project. The EGAIS
project is coordinated by the
Universita Cattolica’s Research
Centre on Innovation, Technologies
and Financial Services (CeTIF),
Italy, and is supported by academic
partners from: Middlesex University
(United Kingdom); Facultes
Universitaires Notre Dame de la
Paix, Namur (Belgium); Institut
Catholique des Arts et Métiers
(France); Institute of Information
Science (Slovenia).
- ISIS -
Protecting children in online social
networks
EPSRC Project No: EP/F035454/1
Duration: June 2008 - May 2011
Dr Penny Duquenoy (partner)
The aim of the ISIS
project is to
develop an ethics-centred monitoring
framework and tools for supporting
law enforcement agencies in policing
online social networks for the
purpose of protecting children. The
project will develop natural
language analysis techniques to help
identify paedophiles from chat logs
and monitoring mechanisms that can
be non-invasively attached to file
sharing systems for identifying the
distributors of child abuse media.
The ethical issues associated with
such monitoring activities will be
rigorously studied and consistently
fed back into the development of the
framework and tools. The project
results will be used and evaluated
by the Child Exploitation and Online
Protection (CEOP) centre as part of
their own policing activities.
3 year project with partners from
Lancaster University, Swansea
University and CEOP.Combined award (£735,400)
- Information
Law Project
Collaborative Project with Dr Bostjan Bercic of the Institute for
Economics, Law and Informatics
(Slovenia)
Duration: Ongoing
Dr Carlisle George (partner)
Current work is focused on three broad
areas namely:
(a) Investigating the application of
database theory to data protection;
(b) Investigating issues related to
the collection & processing of
personal data in the provision
of medical
services;
(c) Investigating the mapping of legal
notions from information law (e.g.
personal data,
defamation
etc.) to their underlying intangible
semantic forms (notions from areas of
information
science and knowledge management) to
gain insights into the connection
between law
and information science / knowledge
management.
ETHICBOTS
project objectives - to promote
and coordinate a multidisciplinary
group of researchers into artificial
intelligence, robotics, anthropology,
moral philosophy, philosophy of
science, psychology, and cognitive
science, with the common purpose of
identifying and analyzing
techno-ethical issues concerning the
integration of human beings and
artificial (software/hardware)
entities
- Case
Studies of IPRs in International
e-Learning Programmes
Higher Education Funding Council for
England (HEFCE)
Duration:
Oct 2004 - Jan 2005
Prof. Paul Bacsich, Walaa Bakry, Penny Duquenoy, Carlisle George, Gordon
Davies, John Weldon.
The Middlesex
IPR Case study was one of five
separate case studies funded to
investigate intellectual property
rights (IPR) issues. Each study investigated
how IPRs are handled in
international e-Learning programmes
involving one or more UK
universities working in association
with international partners,
collaborators or customers. The
study was coordinated by Intrallect
and was carried out on behalf of the
Higher Education Funding Council for
England (HEFCE) in partnership with
Universities UK (UUK) and the
Standing Conference of Principals
(SCOP).
Research supervision
- Members of ALERT are
actively involved in supervising
research degrees. Please see
individual staff member profiles for
more information and contact details.
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