Competition summary: understand and interact with cyberspace
Updated 4 September 2015
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1. Summary
This themed CDE competition seeks innovative approaches to improve the way humans interact with data to allow them to understand what’s going on in cyberspace. We need to predict and understand events in cyberspace and their impact in the real world.
Current government information processing and sense-making is a human-intensive process with a high cognitive burden. It doesn’t easily scale with the expected increase in data volume. Although ‘big data’ techniques can be used to help analyse huge data sets, the traditional human-computer interface (monitor, keyboard and mouse) can severely limit analysis throughput.
We’re particularly interested in:
- visualising data in cyberspace including physical/virtual data manipulation and augmented reality
- user interfaces and user-centred design
- complimentary cognitive processes to help decision making
- understanding how the above techniques and processes can increase the speed of operations, assess evolving risk and opportunities for mitigation, and optimise cyber response actions
2. Total funding
Up to £500,000 is available for phase 1 of this competition.
3. Competition close
This competition closes on Thursday 3 September 2015 at 5pm. Proposals must be submitted through the CDE online portal.