Computer Information Systems at UM

Further research news from our department.

The BrainWeb research team has won the "Best Interactive Experience Award" at this year’s CHItaly, the 16th ACM Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter held in Salerno. The award recognises the team’s innovative work on Boggle, a fully featured brain-controlled web browser, designed to make the internet accessible to people with severe motor impairments.

The award was received by Marie Buhagiar and Daniel Calleja, members of the BrainWeb team at the Department of Information Systems, who did a fantastic job planning, developing, and leading the sessions in Salerno. Along with Chris Porter, the team comprises Prof. Tracey Camilleri and Prof. Kenneth Camilleri from the Centre for Biomedical Cybernetics and the Faculty of Engineering. During the Interactive Experience session at CHItaly, participants had the opportunity to try out this technology and gain first-hand insight into the challenges faced by individuals who cannot use conventional input methods or commercially available assistive technologies.

Boggle is part of the BrainWeb Project, which is funded by the University of Malta Research Excellence Fund.

As part of the Air Save project, our MSc student, Jurgen Aquilina, under the supervision of Dr. Peter Xuereb from the Faculty of ICT, along with Prof. Ing. Paul Refalo and Prof. Ing. Emmanuel Francalanza from the Faculty of Engineering, participated in the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Measurements and Networking, held from July 2nd to 5th, 2024.
Jurgen presented a paper titled “A Comparative Analysis of Application Layer Protocols within an Industrial Internet of Things Monitoring System”, and we are delighted to announce that he was awarded a Student Travel Grant for this outstanding contribution - see https://mn2024.ieee-ims.org/awards

The full paper can be accessed here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10615777
We extend our sincere gratitude to our industrial partner, AIM Enterprises Ltd., for their unwavering support, and to the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering for their close collaboration and invaluable expertise in this field.