COVID-19

Peter Murphy on why air quality monitoring can help schools reopen safely during a COVID-19 pandemic

Ronan LeonardFebruary 9, 2021

In a COVID-19 world, the one way to stop the spread of it is by air quality monitoring, One Irish company that is leading way in this is ZiggyTec which was foun...

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RTE documentary wins big at Dublin Smartphone Film Festival 2021

Irish Tech NewsFebruary 9, 2021

The Dublin Smartphone Film Festival is and Ireland’s only International Film Festival dedicated to filmmakers exclusively using mobile devices. For the first ti...

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Government €160m Boost to Covid Business Grants

Simon CockingFebruary 9, 2021

The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar T.D. today (Tuesday the 9th of February) announced €160m for measures to help busine...

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A new app is aiming to take some of the stress out of exam revision for thousands of students at DCU by enabling them to hone in quickly and easily on specific segments of their online lectures and tutorials that they may have missed. Help-Me-Watch was created by a team of researchers at DCU’s Faculty of Engineering and Computing and the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics and is available to DCU lecturers and students. The app was developed as a response to student feedback on their experiences with online lectures and tutorials after the arrival of COVID-19. Students highlighted that they found it challenging to remain attentive during online learning sessions because of various distractions, citing examples such as sharing a room with others, general noise within the home with family members working from home or other examples from answering the door to take deliveries to dogs barking. The system provides support for student learning in online, synchronous zoom lectures, tutorials, workshops and lab sessions. It tailors video recordings of those sessions so that each student gets a different video summary, personalised to their individual attention levels. “Early findings on the use of the app are that students find it will likely be of most benefit later in the semester when it comes to revision for their examinations. Students, owing to the pivot to online learning because of COVID-19 may be faced with dozens of hours of video recordings of live sessions for each of their modules. Help-Me-Watch will help them find the crucial parts in those video recordings that they may have missed and may help to take some of the stress out of exam revision,” explained Prof Alan Smeaton. Outlining the nature of the system, Prof Smeaton explained that Help-Me-Watch uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques to record student attention during the online synchronous zoom session. It then generates video summaries of the live session, personalised and tailored for each student. These summaries are then used when a student is re-capping material, or when revising for an exam and allows more targeted playback of video recordings. “The system runs through a web browser on a Mac or Windows laptop or desktop, is GDPR compliant and completely anonymises student identities so we never know which students are watching,” added Prof Smeaton. The research team including lecturers in Computing and Electronic Engineering Hyowon Lee, Mingming Liu and Michael Scriney, will present findings and observations on Help-Me-Watch at the upcoming virtual Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference in February

New DCU app aims to take the stress out of exam revision

Irish Tech NewsFebruary 9, 2021

A new app is aiming to take some of the stress out of exam revision for thousands of students at DCU by enabling them to hone in quickly and easily on specific ...

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Venture capital investment into start-ups fell by a third in 2020

Irish Tech NewsFebruary 8, 2021

Despite challenges caused by Covid-19, venture capital funding into Irish SMEs grew by 13% to €925m in 2020, compared to €820m the previous year, according to t...

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Julien Mercille on why Zero Covid is achievable

Ronan LeonardFebruary 5, 2021

Zero Covid is the hot topic at the moment but is it achievable? The Independent Scientific Advocacy Group (I.S.A.G.)thinks this is possible and last Monday th...

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LetsGetChecked officially opens Dublin lab as company scales up COVID-19 testing

Ronan LeonardFebruary 5, 2021

Leading Irish-founded health insights company LetsGetChecked today officially announces the opening of their Dublin lab as they scale up their European operati...

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1 in 4 unemployed in January as most recent lockdown hits

Irish Tech NewsFebruary 4, 2021

The CSO reported that the Covid-19 adjusted unemployment rate rose to 25.0% in January, up from 19.4% in December. These figures are an estimate based on the Li...

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80% of companies say large-scale remote working creates data protection risks

Ronan LeonardFebruary 3, 2021

80% of organisations believe that large-scale remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic has created additional data protection risks, but despite this, only 5...

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Stripe builds out the economic infrastructure for AI with 288 launches

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The 8 Laws of Employee Experience: How to Build a Future-Ready Organization, reviewed

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Climate Wayfinding Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home, reviewed

Cutting Edge

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Peter Murphy on why air quality monitoring can help schools reopen safely during a COVID-19 pandemic

RTE documentary wins big at Dublin Smartphone Film Festival 2021

Government €160m Boost to Covid Business Grants

New DCU app aims to take the stress out of exam revision

Venture capital investment into start-ups fell by a third in 2020

Julien Mercille on why Zero Covid is achievable

LetsGetChecked officially opens Dublin lab as company scales up COVID-19 testing

1 in 4 unemployed in January as most recent lockdown hits

Day 2 Dublin Tech Summit podcasts

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DAB Radio insights with Kevin Brannigan, CEO Bay Broadcasting

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