Freeths – Right to Work App

inCheck was developed for international law firm Freeths. As part of their recruitment process, the ‘inCheck’ Right to Work app enables companies to perform a Right to Work check on prospective employees. Developed by Lawyers and following Home Office guidelines, employers can use a mobile device to ensure they’re compliant in their Right to Work checks.

Connecting to a 3rd party API developed by Freeths, the inCheck app boasts a simple step-by-step process to ensure employers are compliant. Key features include:

1. A simple visual interface, enabling fast completion of Right to Work checks
2. Smart Checks: That adapt and change questions based on the employee’s answers
3. Customisable to your client’s branding
4. Auto-update of content to remain compliant with changes in the law
5. Offline mode and background saving of in-progress checks
6. Background submission of completed checks
7. Connection to a 3rd party API developed by Freeths
8. Touch ID/Fingerprint and Face ID/Facial Recognition login.

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inCheck is available on iOS and Android to Freeths’ clients.

Fake or Fortune features JISC archive solution

Amazing to see JISC Archives Hub featured in a recent episode of Fake or Fortune. The Archives Hub provides descriptions of thousands of the UK’s archive collections. Representing over 300 institutions across the country, is an effective way to discover unique primary sources.

It includes sophisticated searching and filtering options, images and links to digital content. Collections are themed and a map show locations too. Furthermore it covers a whole range of repositories. From small specialist archives and museum archives. From university to national archives records. You can discover materials relating to a broad range of subjects. From science and medicine through to literature and the arts and there are daily updates to content.

Fiona Bruce explains how the archive has delivered invaluable information to establish the authenticity of a painting. If you wish to see how the Archive is being used you can see this segment from 25 minutes in. We would advise watching the entire show as it is a superb piece if investigative work.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bg6f43/fake-or-fortune-series-7-1-nicholson

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Microsoft join Gooii working with the NHS and AI

Microsoft and Gooii Nottingham have been working on health and education initiatives for years. The company is now bringing its efforts together into forming a new Microsoft Healthcare team. They are creating cloud-based patient profiles, pushing doctors to the cloud and eventually AI (Artificial Intelligence) for analysing data.

The software maker has hired two industry veterans to help out: Jim Weinstein and Joshua Mandel. Weinstein is the former CEO of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health system and joins Microsoft as the VP of Microsoft Healthcare. His primary role is to work with healthcare organisations to move systems to the cloud. Mandel joins as Microsoft Healthcare chief architect  after 2 years at Google Life Sciences. Mandel will be working closely with the open standards community to create an open cloud architecture for all healthcare providers.

Microsoft’s new Healthcare team appears to be a more formalised approach to the company’s Healthcare NExT (New Experiences and Technologies). NExT fostered health industry partnerships and brought together Microsoft’s research, AI, and cloud teams to focus on healthcare.

Microsoft joining Gooii with AI Research

Microsoft is trying to find ways to move healthcare data to the cloud securely. The challenge is that doesn’t break strict compliance requirements for confidentiality. The new Microsoft Healthcare team will be part of Microsoft’s broader AI and Research division. “At Microsoft, we’re confident that many aspects of the IT foundations for healthcare will move from on-premise doctors’ offices and clinics to live in the cloud,” explains Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Healthcare. “We are taking concrete steps with an initial ‘blueprint’ intended to standardize the process for the compliant, privacy-preserving movement of a patient’s personal health information to the cloud and the automated tracking of its exposure to machine learning and data science.”

Lee admits the company has its “work cut out”. Gooii can confirm this his certainly won’t be an easy task for Microsoft. There’s an ongoing race to bring more technology to healthcare and, in particular, artificial intelligence. IBM, Baidu Google, and Alibaba are all working on similar healthcare initiatives. Some analysts predict that AI use in healthcare will grow over the next decade. Potentially this could generate huge savings for the any healthcare economy. Microsoft is clearly part of the broader race to introduce cloud technology, IoT devices, and AI into healthcare. Microsoft now plans to share more about Microsoft Healthcare later this year.

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With 3.5m iWatch shipped in the last quarter alone, now is the best time to discuss your project with Gooii.

This increase continues the trend of 30 percent year on year, according to a Canalys report. Last year the second quarter was Apple’s worst of the year. Therefore the numbers this year suggest the Apple Watch Series 3 is considerably more popular than its predecessor. With features such as not having to be paired with your phone, its not surprising its popularity is increasing.

Still, rivals like Fitbit and Garmin also made a strong showing in Q2 and widened their market share. Features like advanced heart rate metrics and smart coaching helped those rivals set their devices apart from the Apple Watch. So although Apple shipped out more watches, its overall market share dipped to 34 percent compared to 43 in Q1.

In Asia, the Apple Watch Series 3 was the most popular model, accounting for 60 percent of 250,000 units sold. Canalys senior analyst Jason Low said that Apple’s progress mainly came from its decision to partner with network operators in Asia and Australia. “Operators in these markets are willing to resell connected devices other than smartphones that can help them generate extra revenue from data services,” he explained.

Gooii are award-winning app, website, virtual reality andUI/UX designers. We ensure that your project is delivered to a high quality and engages and inspires users. If you wish to work with our talented teams like clients such as the BBC and NHS, please get in touch here.

Google is officially adding the Chrome browser to its Daydream VR virtual reality platform.

People using the phone-based Daydream VR View headset or the standalone Lenovo Mirage Solo can now access Chrome from their home screens. The VR version of Chrome mostly has the same feature set as its desktop counterpart. However, there’s an added “cinema mode” that optimises web video for VR viewing. Just as importantly Chrome supports the WebVR standard. Now users can access web-based VR experiences on their Daydream headsets.

Daydream users have had access to VR Chrome for a while through test versions of the browser and app. But this announcement positions this version of Chrome as a stable, full-fledged browsing app, not an experiment or a conduit for WebVR.

Daydream’s integration with existing Google products has been a selling point for the company, although Google VR apps have spread to lots of headsets; it released a YouTube app for the Samsung Gear VR just last week. There aren’t necessarily people clamouring to shift all their web browsing to virtual reality. But a full-featured web browser is useful for doing things like looking up tutorials for a VR app — especially in a self-contained headset like the Mirage Solo where you can’t just switch back to normal mobile browsing.

If you wish to work with the talented Virtual & Augmented Reality, web or app team at Gooii Nottingham then please get in touch here.

Jisc Archives Hub UI (User Interface) Enhancements

Jisc deliver UK universities and colleges with shared digital infrastructure and services. Gooii have worked in partnership with Jisc in the educational sector for many years. Our working relationship has been predominately User Interface design for two of their services, Historical Texts and Archives Hub.

A number of UI enhancements for Historical Texts have been delivered recently including a new public/private access. Previously the entire site had been openly accessible but these restrictions now needed adding. Now certain types of content have been marked as only accessible by those users who have logged in securely. Further enhancements have also been added to the user interface to make these and other options easier to filter. The challenge is not to make the interface cluttered, busy or confusing. Considering the amount of legacy data that needs flagging as public/private this has been a gigantic effort by all involved. Scripted logic can help assign categories to data with vast volumes of technical data, sometimes human intervention is needed.

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YouTube now supports Samsung’s Gear VR and lets you watch videos with strangers

YouTube is expanding its virtual reality app to support Samsung’s Gear VR devices. It’s also adding a new feature that lets users watch a virtual reality video together and chat. If you own a Gear VR device, you can now download the app from the Oculus Store.

YouTube has been conspicuously absent from the Oculus Store. This has proved to be a significant selling point for Google’s Daydream VR platform, although it’s also available on PlayStation VR headsets, and Oculus Rift or HTC Vive users can access it through SteamVR. You could access YouTube through the Gear VR’s web browser, but this update still closes a notable gap in the Gear VR’s video ecosystem. YouTube doesn’t mention supporting Oculus’ new mobile device, the standalone Oculus Go.

Users can now also party up with friends or strangers to watch and chat about videos together in a VR space. In the example YouTube gave, users can ride a virtual car together or watch other VR videos. To access the feature, tap the Watch Together icon located under the play controls on your Daydream View or Gear VR headset.

Google first announced the social YouTube VR features last year during its developer conference, but it looks like they’re only fully rolling out now.

YouTube also announced new VR experiences, including backstage views of Hayley Kiyoko and Portugal. The Man as they prepare to put on a performance. You can also watch the daily routines of notable female leaders in a series titled The Female Planet.

Gooii are award-winning virtual reality, UI/UX designers, website designers and we can ensure that your experience engages and inspires users. If you wish to work with our talented teams then please get in touch here.

After being let down by another design agency, Gooii steps in to help The Golf Connect

Unfortunately this situation isn’t uncommon. Promises made by a design company that cannot be delivered when it comes to the technical requirements of a project. Gooii are different because we have both design agency experience but also technical innovation with our in-house software development team. This unique combination has won us awards, clients such as the BBC and Police along with recognition throughout the industry.

Robin came to Gooii Nottingham to ask for help to complete his website for his innovative startup business, The Golf Connect. Originally let down by another agency who delivered an incomplete website. Our Creative Director Nicky Johnson teamed up with Web Development Director Franz Evert. They, with Robin, worked hard to rectify all the issues and to some degree restore Robins faith in our industry. After two months hard work from everyone we now have a site that gives a fantastic user experience.

Client Testimonial

To Nicky, Franz, Craig and all the team at Gooii,

I would like to deliver a sincere thank you for building and producing a website that I am now very proud to call my own.

To say a previous company had put me in a catastrophic pickle with a website that looked even worse than it functioned would be an understatement.

So it’d be fair to say that you’ve taken me on a journey from not knowing where to turn and having zero confidence in any company with this task; to now having a reliable source I can trust and an abundant optimism going forward in my business with the product you have delivered on.

The communication, attention to detail and willingness to not only build but actually assist me in my training and understanding was nothing short of sensational.

A particular shout out has to go to Nicky as she was very much at the frontline of all of my silly questions, training and for all the guidance she offered- not only on the website but within my business interests also.

Thank you,

Robin Matthews-Williams

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Artificial Intelligence firm Bloomsbury AI acquired by Facebook

According to a post from the official Facebook Academics page, the company says Bloomsbury’s “expertise will strengthen Facebook’s efforts in natural language processing research, and help us further understand natural language and its applications.” In other words, as Facebook continues to hand more platform moderation duties over to algorithms, the underlying Artificial Intelligence technology behind those algorithms still has a long way to go.

In the Artificial Intelligence community where Gooii Nottingham also operate, Facebook is one of the biggest players. Facebook AI Research, or FAIR, command projects that span the more cutting-edge sectors of deep learning and natural language processing. For Facebook, the grand goal is to have AI that is so adept at understanding images, videos, and text. Effectively moderate the entire social network’s platform, including Facebook, Instagram, and its many other properties.

Right now, scores of actual human beings, often contractors overseas, are tasked with overseeing Facebook content. Those teams inspect flagged and reported material and make hard decisions about what violates Facebook’s rules.  As Facebook beefs up its AI capabilities, however, more of that work will be performed by algorithms. But first, Facebook needs its software to better understand language, the intent beyond that language, and other very tricky problems.

Its not immediately clear where Bloomsbury will fit into the picture with Facebook. Although Bloomsbury AI co-founder Sebastian Riedel also helped create a company called Factmata that was designed to help weed out fake news. Facebook does have a FAIR unit at its London offices. The announcement post says that Bloomsbury’s work has thus far focused on “machine reading and understanding unstructured documents in natural language in order to answer any question.” So it’s easy to see how that could come in handy when it comes to parsing the massive amount of user-uploaded content every day. Facebook is also working on an AI-assisted home speaker with a display codenamed Portal. Therefore it’s possible Bloomsbury’s team may work on that product to help improve its ability to understand spoken commands and return answers with natural-sounding speech.

Gooii Nottingham are also pushing the boundaries of this technology. Clients such as the BBC are working with Gooii and IBM Watson AI to develop amazing solutions. Gooii can embed this technology to ensure that your app, website or VR (Virtual Reality) experience is cutting edge. If you wish to work with our talented teams then please get in touch here.

Women’s Suffrage: history and citizenship resources for schools

Gooii Nottingham are delighted to be partnering with the Historical Association to deliver another innovative project. It focuses on the suffragette movement, initially looking at women at the hustings through the 17th and 18th centuries. It continues to include the growth of the suffrage movement during the 19th century and forward to contemporary democratic voices.

For teachers this project allows them to move away from the traditional approach of discussing a few high-profile leaders and militant methods. Students can learn about the everyday men and women who campaigned peacefully for the right to vote. Students can engage with their own democratic future through case studies of contemporary campaigners for gender equality.

The full website will be launched in summer 2018 and will host a range of history and citizenship resources. Central to the project will be an online database of over 4,000 individuals across England from 1866 to 1914.

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Project partners and sponsors

The Historical Association, Gooii Nottingham and Association for Citizenship Teaching. Support by the Government Equalities Office, Cabinet Office and Department for Education.
Writing team: Rachel Foster, Katie Hall, Claire Hollis, Corinne Goullee, Richard Kennett, Val Pumfrey and Matthew Stanford. Academic advisor and researcher: Tara Morton