Horizon CDT Blog Posts

A Reflection on The Connected Everything and Smart Products Beacon Summer School 2020

post by Cecily Pepper (2019 cohort) My first summer school started with an invite via email. Despite my interest in the topic, my first thought was that robotics was not […]


COBOT Collaboration for Connected Everything Summer School

post by Angela Thorton (2019 cohort) Say hello to Squishy initially inspired by Baymax (Hall, D., Williams, C. 2014). This COBOT concept was co-created during an intensive online Summer School […]


Participating in a doctoral symposium online

post by Kadja Manninen (2018 Cohort) As we all know, the current pandemic has banned mass gatherings for the foreseeable future. This has meant cancelling academic conferences or trying to […]


Plastic Buttons, Complex People

Publishing a Paper about In-Person Interactions at a virtually held Conference (CHIPLAY) post by Velvet Spors (2017 cohort) The National Videogame Arcade (now National Videogame Museum) is a games festival-turned-cultural […]


Presenting MRL creations to the public

post by Gustavo Berumen Salazar (2017 cohort) Hello everyone. I hope you are doing well and are well-supported during these trying times. This period has allowed me to reflect on […]