Iain McGregor
Iain McGregor

Dr Iain McGregor

Associate Professor

 0131 455 2788

  I.McGregor@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Dr Iain McGregor researches sound design and listening at Edinburgh Napier University, where he is also the Programme leader for the undergraduate sound design degree. He gained his Ph.D. in Soundscape Mapping: Comparing Listening Experiences in 2011. Iain runs the Centre for Interaction Design’s Auralisation suite, which is a dedicated 28.4 channel surround sound facility for conducting listening tests. He is currently working on a diverse range of projects, from sound design for mixed reality, as well as sonification, through to the use of sound in film, television, video games and robotics. Iain is also an experienced sound engineer who has been fortunate enough to work with the Bolshoi Opera, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle, as well as artists such as Ravi Shankar and Nena Simone, among others.

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  • Sound Design student Joanna Zachariasz nominated for Cinema Audio Society award

 

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  • How sound technology will ensure a quiet day at the office.

 

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E09 - 'Lorna Lloyd's Poetry' Episode 1

Digital Artefact
Ryan, B., Hall, H., & McGregor, I. (2022)
E09 - 'Lorna Lloyd's Poetry' Episode 1. [Podcast]
This is episode 1 of Lorna Lloyd’s poetry, a bonus episode of Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the war’. This episode features Lorna’s poetry from 1928 to 1930.

E07 - 'Diary of the war' episode 7

Digital Artefact
Ryan, B., Hall, H., & McGregor, I. (2022)
E07 - 'Diary of the war' episode 7. [Podcast]
This is episode 7 of Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the war’, also including contemporaneous news (courtesy BBC Archive, British Newspaper Archive/FindMyPast/British Library). This e...

Practices and educational affordances of sound in the postcolonial Hong Kong protests

Journal Article
Cheng, L., & McGregor, I. (in press)
Practices and educational affordances of sound in the postcolonial Hong Kong protests. Contemporary Music Review,
Sound has been theorised for its functional role as informative agent in political advocacy and participation in political studies, yet the investigation on the pedagogical po...

Sonification of Planetary Orbits in Asteroid Belts

Conference Proceeding
Quinton, M., Mcgregor, I., & Benyon, D. (2021)
Sonification of Planetary Orbits in Asteroid Belts. In AM '21: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Audio Mostly (72-80). https://doi.org/10.1145/3478384.3478390
This study investigates the design and evaluation of a sonification designed to detect any planets orbiting within an asteroid belt of an exosolar system. The interface was de...

Designing Sound for Mixed Reality (MR)

Digital Artefact
McGregor, I. (2021)
Designing Sound for Mixed Reality (MR). [Website]
Mixed Reality refers to technologies which can be used to overlay virtual artifacts onto the physical ‘real’ world. The physical world can be augmented with content to provide...

Sonification of Exosolar System Accretion Discs

Conference Proceeding
Quinton, M., McGregor, I., & Benyon, D. (2021)
Sonification of Exosolar System Accretion Discs. In The 26th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2021)
This study investigated the design and evaluation of a sonification, created for an astronomer who studies exosolar accretion discs. User design methods were applied to sonify...

Embodied online dance learning objectives of CAROUSEL +

Conference Proceeding
Mitchell, K., Koniaris, B., Tamariz, M., Kennedy, J., Cheema, N., Mekler, E., …Mac Williams, C. (2021)
Embodied online dance learning objectives of CAROUSEL +. In 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (309-313). https://doi.org/10.1109/VRW52623.2021.00062
This is a position paper concerning the embodied dance learning objectives of the CAROUSEL + 1 project, which aims to impact how online immersive technologies influence multiu...

Evaluation of the Use of Real-time 3D Graphics to Augment Therapeutic Music Sessions for Young People on the Autism Spectrum

Journal Article
Mcgowan, J. J., Mcgregor, I., & Leplatre, G. (2021)
Evaluation of the Use of Real-time 3D Graphics to Augment Therapeutic Music Sessions for Young People on the Autism Spectrum. ACM transactions on accessible computing, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1145/3445032
The present research evaluates the effectiveness of CymaSense, a real-time 3D visualisation application developed by the authors, as a means of improving the communicative beh...

Evaluating Use of the Doppler Effect to Enhance Auditory Alerts

Journal Article
Cunningham, S., & McGregor, I. (2021)
Evaluating Use of the Doppler Effect to Enhance Auditory Alerts. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 37(11), 1074-1087. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2020.1870818
Auditory alerts are an essential part of many multi-modal interaction scenarios, particularly in safety and mission critical settings, such as hospitals and transportation. A ...

Sonification of an exoplanetary atmosphere

Conference Proceeding
Quinton, M., McGregor, I., & Benyon, D. (2020)
Sonification of an exoplanetary atmosphere. In AM '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Audio Mostly. , (191-198). https://doi.org/10.1145/3411109.3411117
This study investigates the effectiveness of user design methods to create a sonification for an astronomer who analyses exoplanet meteorological data situated in habitable zo...

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