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Manipulating Foley Footsteps and Character Realism to Influence Audience Perceptions of a 3D Animated Walk Cycle

Conference Proceeding
Cunningham, S., & Mcgregor, I. (2022)
Manipulating Foley Footsteps and Character Realism to Influence Audience Perceptions of a 3D Animated Walk Cycle. In AM '22: Audio Mostly 2022
Foley artistry is an essential part of the audio post-production process for film, television, games, and animation. By extension, it is as crucial in emergent media such as v...

Acoustics versus Psychoacoustics in Mixed Reality

Digital Artefact
McGregor, I. (2022)
Acoustics versus Psychoacoustics in Mixed Reality. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pCD99RcDts&list=PLtnYW6qlPmyg4EcCMqRmVrXtopztUyUSx&index=3]
In Mixed Reality there is often a highly understandable desire to capture the “ground truth” and to represent it in its entirety. A typically strong belief is that the greate...

Data-Driven Innovation for Sustainable Creative Practice

Conference Proceeding
Lechelt, S., Panneels, I., & Helgason, I. (in press)
Data-Driven Innovation for Sustainable Creative Practice. In Proceedings of the 35th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
Lechelt, S, Panneels, I & Helgason, I. 2022, Data-Driven Innovation for Sustainable Creative Practice. in Proceedings of the 35th International BCS Human Computer Interaction ...

Procedural Audio For Virtual Environments Workshop

Presentation / Conference
Di Donato, B., & Selfridge, R. (2022, September)
Procedural Audio For Virtual Environments Workshop. Presented at Audio Mostly, St. Pölten, Austria
Sound design is a crucial aspect of interactive virtual environments (VEs). Often, this activity is fixated by the constraints of the tools we use or our perception of that me...

Connecting, Collaborating, Creating: The Experiences of Creative Freelancers in Edinburgh in 2022

Report
Connell, L., Orme, A., Osborne, N., Panneels, I., Patrick-Thomson, H., Terras, M., & Wojtkiewicz, O. (2022)
Connecting, Collaborating, Creating: The Experiences of Creative Freelancers in Edinburgh in 2022. Creative Edinburgh
This report provides a snapshot of the state and needs of creative freelancers in the Edinburgh region in 2022. The last few years have been both interesting and challenging ...

Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?

Journal Article
Smyth, M. (2022)
Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?. DOC - Design and Society, 1(1),
The fusion of architecture and cultures that comprised the cityscape of Blade Runner (1982) was a key part in how the narrative humanised the vision of the future, it provided...

Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education

Journal Article
Helgason, I., Encinas, E., Mitrovic, I., & Smyth, M. (2022)
Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education. Interaction Design and Architecture(s) IxDetA, 5-7. https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-051-001psi
As guest editors of this special edition we are delighted to present this selection of papers responding to our call about Speculative and Critical Design in education. The re...

Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?

Working Paper
Smyth, M. Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?

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Smyth, M. Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?
The fusion of architecture and cultures that comprised the cityscape of Blade Runner (1982) was a key part in how the narrative humanised the vision of the future, it provided...

A hefty dose of lemons: the importance of rituals for audiences and performers at the online Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2020

Journal Article
Piccio, B., Helgason, I., Elsden, C., & Terras, M. (2022)
A hefty dose of lemons: the importance of rituals for audiences and performers at the online Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2020. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 18(1), 154-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2022.2036489
When the pandemic began to affect the performance world, both festival artists and producers started to adopt creative approaches to moving their work online. In the study pre...

From a PhD to Assisting BioMusic Research

Book Chapter
Di Donato, B. (2021)
From a PhD to Assisting BioMusic Research. In C. Vear (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research (642-649). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429324154-50
This chapter describes the author’s practice and experience in transitioning from being a PhD in Music Technology candidate to a research assistant on a large-scale funded pro...

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The Library of Inspiration

2024 - 2025
The project's ultimate aim is to empower 12 and 13-year-olds from under-represented groups in engineering to become future leaders. This will be achieved through "The Library of Inspiration," physical...
Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £99,711

In Our Hands II

2023 - 2024
Since 2020, British Council has worked with partners from academic and creative sectors (private) to develop the necessary spaces where youth can reinterpret Nepal’s natural and cultural heritage to d...
Funder: British Council | Value: £1,000

Audio Mostly 2023

2022 - 2023
This project's aim is to host the Audio Mostly conference 2023 here at Edinburgh Napier University (https://audiomostly.com/). Conference Theme: Embodied Sound in the Virtual Conference Abstract: S...
Funder: Fees (CPD courses and Conference Delegate)

Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT

2022 - 2024
Our 2-year interdisciplinary project will investigate how the lack of repairability in the consumer Internet of Things (IoT) will adversely impact equity, inclusion, and sustainability in the digital ...
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Value: £94,392

In Our Hands

2022 - 2023
Following on from last year's Road to COP26 Innovation Programme with British Council Nepal, Kathmandu University and applied Arts Scotland, a revised version is planned for 2022 and the invitation to...
Funder: British Council | Value: £3,388

Platform to platform: an investigation into audience engagement with digitised archives and its transformative impact across different online formats

2022 - 2022
This project is closely tied to two goals of the call: unlocking value from digitised heritage content, and online performance. In respect of ‘unlocking value from digitised heritage’, the practical...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £4,994

BSL in Embodied Music Interaction

2022 - 2023
This is an exploratory study in the field of Embodied Music Interaction (EMI) to greater understand how British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters categorise music for the hearing impaired. EMI looks a...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £5,000

Creative Coin

2021 - 2022
This project uses data and technology to design a “Creative Coin”, an alternative currency as a method for exploring the contributory value of the Creative Industries to a Circular Economy.
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £5,380

RSE COP26 International Climate Change Network Grants

2021 - 2021
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), with the support of the Scottish Funding Council, is pleased to invite applications for the RSE COP26 International Climate Change Network Grants. The RSE COP26 ...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £9,996

Let's Play Wester Hailes: Community Produced Video Games of Edinburgh

2021 - 2022
This project aims to engage children and young people with the computer games industry. Working with WHALE Arts we will build games and upload them onto bespoke arcade machines. The games created wi...
Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £25,708

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Adaptive video game sound based on inherent skill level utilising selective attention

2022 - 2025
In video games, selective attention can be utilised to increase a player’s engagement by adapting the sound design ...
Mr. Ethan Robson | Director of Studies: Dr Iain McGregor | Second Supervisor: Dr Balandino Di Donato

An adaptive mixing framework for a personalised listening experience.

2021 - date
Ahmed Shalabi | Director of Studies: Dr Iain McGregor | Second Supervisor: Dr Linda Shore

Investigating and understanding the theoretical constructs and technical impactors on immersive dome user experience

2016 - 2019
Michael McKellar | Director of Studies: Dr Oli Mival | Second Supervisor: Prof David Benyon

UrbanIxD: Exploring human interactions for the hybrid city

2015 - 2022
With the vision of ubiquitous computing becoming increasingly realized, a new technological layer in the form of sensors, urban screens, smart...
Shenando Stals | Director of Studies: Dr Michael Smyth | Second Supervisor: Dr Oli Mival

Sonification of exosolar planetary systems

2015 - 2021
Michael Quinton | Director of Studies: Dr Iain McGregor | Second Supervisor: Prof David Benyon

Real-time 3D graphic augmentation of music therapy sessions for people on the autism spectrum

2015 - 2019
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder that can affect people in a number...
Dr John McGowan | Director of Studies: Dr Gregory Leplatre | Second Supervisor: Dr Iain McGregor

Getting stuck and getting help: How children access support when using technology

2015 - date
Ms Fiona Stewart | Director of Studies: Dr Tom Flint | Second Supervisor: Dr Gemma Webster

The meeting journey: Supporting the design of interaction within co-located, collaborative device ecologies

2013 - 2019
I am currently working on a PhD programme in the Centre for Interaction Design, supervised by...
Aurelien Ammeloot | Director of Studies: Prof David Benyon | Second Supervisor: Dr Oli Mival

Web engineering for the evaluation of large complex web systems: methodologies in web metrics

2010 - 2017
Dalal Zahran | Director of Studies: Dr M J Rutter | Second Supervisor: Prof David Benyon

Understanding user experience in blended spaces

2010 - 2018
Serkan Ayan | Director of Studies: Prof David Benyon | Second Supervisor: Dr Michael Smyth
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Dr Tom Flint awarded prestigious R&D funding

16 November 2020
Dr Tom Flint from the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University has been named as a member of one of the groups in the funded R&D phase of Festival UK 2022.

School of Computing Hosts Easter Egg hunt online in Jupiter Artland in Minecraft

11 April 2020
Children from across Scotland gathered together in virtual space for an Easter Egg hunt hosted in Jupiter Artland in Minecraft during the lockdown.

MEmorial Project awarded Edinburgh Futures Institute Funding

23 June 2019
In June 2019 the MEmorial team completed a two week development workshop, to follow on from this initial research, funded by an Edinburgh Futures Institute Research Award. The workshop culminated in a...

MEmorial Project awarded prestigious residency

19 October 2018
The MEMorial Project, has been awarded a residency at the Museum of Loss and Renewal Collomachia Italy.

Tom Flint to talk at Edinburgh Informatics HCI Group

20 February 2018
Tom Flint will be discussing his work with Jupiter Artland in a talk titled An infrastructure for exploring the mixed reality continuum with children: Minecraft, Mixed Reality, and Jupiter Artland. T...

Appropriation Affordance and Minecraft Invited talk by Tom Flint

24 November 2017
Tom Flint gave a seminar for The Centre for Research in Digital Education titled Appropriation Affordance and Minecraft: What the methods people use to navigate Minecraft tell us about approaches to t...

Augusto Esteves will be delivering a seminar at the University of Bath

22 November 2017
Augusto Esteves has been invited by the HCI group at the University of Bath to deliver a seminar on his work on motion matching input for the Internet-of-Things (IoT). Abstract: Motion matching is a...

WaveTrace awarded by Design United and the Dutch Design Week

20 October 2017
WaveTrace, a project that was internally funded, was awarded with an additional 5000€ from Design United, to prepare an exhibition at the acclaimed Dutch Design Week. This work was done in collaborati...

Augusto Esteves was featured in The Conversation and EconoTimes

9 October 2017
The articles cover the work published at ICMI '17, exploring the use of head-mounted displays as opera glasses, with the goal of delivering an egalitarian user experience during live events. Links bel...

Augusto Esteves has been accepted as Fellow of the RSA

17 August 2017
The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) is a London-based, British organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges. Founded in 1754 ...