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E11 - 'Lorna Lloyd's Poetry' Episode 3 (2022)
Digital Artefact
Ryan, B., Hall, H., & McGregor, I. (2022). E11 - 'Lorna Lloyd's Poetry' Episode 3. [Podcast]

This is episode 3 of Lorna Lloyd’s poetry, a bonus episode of Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the war’. This episode features Lorna’s poetry from the mid- to late 1930s.

E04 - 'Diary of the war' episode 4 (2022)
Digital Artefact
Ryan, B., Hall, H., & McGregor, I. (2022). E04 - 'Diary of the war' episode 4. [Podcast]

This is episode 4 of Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the war’, also including contemporaneous news (courtesy BBC Archive, British Newspaper Archive/FindMyPast/British Library). This episode covers December 1939 to March 1940.

E07 - 'Diary of the war' episode 7 (2022)
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 episode covers mid-August to mid-December 1940.

E03 - 'Diary of the war' episode 3 (2022)
Digital Artefact
Ryan, B., Hall, H., & McGregor, I. (2022). E03 - 'Diary of the war' episode 3. [Podcast]

This is episode 3 of Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the war’, also including contemporaneous news (courtesy BBC Archive, British Newspaper Archive/FindMyPast/British Library). This episode covers October to November 1939.

E12 - 'Lorna Lloyd's Poetry' Episode 4 (2022)
Digital Artefact
Ryan, B., Hall, H., & McGregor, I. (2022). E12 - 'Lorna Lloyd's Poetry' Episode 4. [Podcast]

This is episode 4 of Lorna Lloyd’s poetry, a bonus episode of Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the war’. This episode features Lorna’s poetry from the early 1940s.

E01 - 'Diary of the war' episode 1 (2022)
Digital Artefact
Ryan, B., Hall, H., & McGregor, I. (2022). E01 - 'Diary of the war' episode 1. [Podcast]

This is episode 1 of Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the war’, also including contemporaneous news (courtesy BBC Archive, British Newspaper Archive/FindMyPast/British Library). This episode covers early September 1939.

E05 - 'Diary of the war' episode 5 (2022)
Digital Artefact
Ryan, B., Hall, H., & McGregor, I. (2022). E05 - 'Diary of the war' episode 5. [Podcast]

This is episode 5 of Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the war’, also including contemporaneous news (courtesy BBC Archive, British Newspaper Archive/FindMyPast/British Library). This episode covers April and early May 1940.

E06 - 'Diary of the war' episode 6 (2022)
Digital Artefact
Ryan, B., Hall, H., & McGregor, I. (2022). E06 - 'Diary of the war' episode 6. [Podcast]

This is episode 6 of Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the war’, also including contemporaneous news (courtesy BBC Archive, British Newspaper Archive/FindMyPast/British Library). This episode covers mid-May to early August 1940.

Sonification of Planetary Orbits in Asteroid Belts (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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 designed for an astronomer who studies this phenomenon. User centered design... Read More about Sonification of Planetary Orbits in Asteroid Belts.

Designing Sound for Mixed Reality (MR) (2021)
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 either an enhanced, or fantastic experience, such as guiding a lifesaving... Read More about Designing Sound for Mixed Reality (MR).

Sonification of Exosolar System Accretion Discs (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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 data that could allow the classification of accretion discs. The sonificat... Read More about Sonification of Exosolar System Accretion Discs.

Embodied online dance learning objectives of CAROUSEL + (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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 (

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 multiuser interaction and communication with a focus on dancing and learning danc... Read More about Embodied online dance learning objectives of CAROUSEL +.

Evaluation of the Use of Real-time 3D Graphics to Augment Therapeutic Music Sessions for Young People on the Autism Spectrum (2021)
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), Article 2. https://doi.org/

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 behaviours of autistic participants through the addition of a visual modality... Read More about Evaluation of the Use of Real-time 3D Graphics to Augment Therapeutic Music Sessions for Young People on the Autism Spectrum.

Evaluating Use of the Doppler Effect to Enhance Auditory Alerts (2021)
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 variety of strategies can be employed in the design of auditory alerts, oft... Read More about Evaluating Use of the Doppler Effect to Enhance Auditory Alerts.

Sonification of an exoplanetary atmosphere (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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 zones. Requirements about the astronomer’s work, the dataset and how to sonif... Read More about Sonification of an exoplanetary atmosphere.

Effect of various spatial auditory cues on the perception of threat in a first-person shooter video game (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Semionov, K., & McGregor, I. (2020). Effect of various spatial auditory cues on the perception of threat in a first-person shooter video game. In AM '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Audio Mostly (22-29). https://doi.org/10.1145/34

This study interviewed game audio professionals to establish the implementation requirements for an experiment to ascertain the effect of different spatial audio localisation systems on the perception of threat in a first-person shooter. In addition,... Read More about Effect of various spatial auditory cues on the perception of threat in a first-person shooter video game.

Sound Design (2020)
Book
McGregor, I. (2020). Sound Design. (3rd)

This book explores the underlying principles of sound design for linear and interactive media, and specifically how they apply to theatre, radio and film. The focus of the text is about how to design effective sound so that audiences' experiences are... Read More about Sound Design.

Sound Design (2019)
Book
McGregor, I. (2019). Sound Design. (2nd)

This book explores the underlying principles of sound design for linear and interactive media, and specifically how they apply to theatre and radio. The focus of the text is about how to design effective sound so that audiences' experiences are as cl... Read More about Sound Design.

Sound Stories: A Context-Based Study of Everyday Listening to Augmented Soundscapes (2019)
Journal Article
Droumeva, M., & McGregor, I. (2019). Sound Stories: A Context-Based Study of Everyday Listening to Augmented Soundscapes. Interacting with Computers, 31(3), 336-347. https://doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwz024

With an increasing number of everyday operations and communications becoming both automated and autonomous, ambient intelligent soundscapes are transforming to accommodate additional sonic feedback, and with it, new frameworks of listening. While thi... Read More about Sound Stories: A Context-Based Study of Everyday Listening to Augmented Soundscapes.

Subjective Evaluation of Music Compressed with the ACER Codec Compared to AAC, MP3, and Uncompressed PCM (2019)
Journal Article
Cunningham, S., & McGregor, I. (2019). Subjective Evaluation of Music Compressed with the ACER Codec Compared to AAC, MP3, and Uncompressed PCM. International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, 2019, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/8265301

Audio data compression has revolutionised the way in which the music industry and musicians sell and distribute their products. Our previous research presented a novel codec named ACER (Audio Compression Exploiting Repetition), which achieves data re... Read More about Subjective Evaluation of Music Compressed with the ACER Codec Compared to AAC, MP3, and Uncompressed PCM.