Princess Catherine visited University of East London, as well as the Institute for the Science of Early Years and Youth (ISEY), and experienced the Imaginarium where groundbreaking research is taking place.

SIGNATURE-BSL, a project led by The Open University, is aiming to determine the feasibility of an automated machine translation system for British Sign Language (BSL), delivered via naturalistic 3D virtual humans in XR environments.

The shift in how someone walks, how they bear weight, how their knee tracks as they move, can begin years before a person feels any pain from disease. But without a practical way to measure those changes at scale, the medical system has largely had to wait for people to show up with symptoms. That's the gap this research is trying to close.