The winners of the QMUL Engagement and Enterprise Awards 2015 were announced on 9th November. Four C4DM projects were award winners!
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Dr Josh Reiss won the Academic Commercial Enterprise award for LandR, an online service that performs automatic mastering of your music tracks using intelligent signal analysis.
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Dr Dan Stowell and Florence Wilkinson won the Involve award for Warblr, a smartphone app that automatically recognises birds from a simple sound recording. The award recognised the "citizen science" benefit of Warblr, involving the public in collecting audio observations of birds to improve conservation and research.
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A team led by Dr Nick Bryan-Kinns, Dr Ben Bengler and Dr Wei Wang (Hunan University) won the Inspire award, recognising their highly innovative cocreation and Interactive Art project. The project was called "Kam's Romeo & Juliet: Co-creating Interactive Drama Across Cultures", and involved a large team of collaborators working together.
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Dr Andrew McPherson won the Entrepreneur of the Year award for TouchKeys, a system to add touch sensitivity to the surface of any piano-style keyboard. After two successful production runs, TouchKeys is spinning out from QMUL into an independent company.
The DePIC team led by Dr Nick Bryan-Kinns and Dr Tony Stockman were also finalists, for their accessible peak meter project, which developed a tool that makes music production easier for people with visual impairments.