Dr David Bowers

Senior Lecturer

From 2018 - 2021, I have been leading, within the Insitute of Coding, the development of a new accreditation standard for computing programmes, The standard focusses on competency rather than only on academic understanding. It is benchmarked against the international skills framework, SFIA. The standard is being considered by BCS for incorporation into its own accreditation processes.

In research, I have been interested in the use of mobile devices to support open field (primarily on the sea) navigation. With encouragement from the RNLI, and working with sailing instructors and yachtsmen, I have been exploring both the inaccuracies inherent in the sensors on current mobile devlices, and aspects of the kind of interface that might address such inaccuracies.

The blind deployment of AR navigation programs on such devices, without recognising and addressing the accuracy issues, could lead to significant navigational errors and potentially to serious accidents.

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