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Walking, Observing and Making – Rethinking Plastics in Edinburgh
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tao, C. X., Vettese, S., & Anastasiadou, C. (2024, March). Walking, Observing and Making – Rethinking Plastics in Edinburgh. Paper presented at Eighteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices, Valencia, Spain

Plastic is a widely used material with great longevity, if designed, utilised, and re-used properly. However, the average usable lifespan for single-use plastic products is as little as 15 minutes and generally ends in landfill. The over consumption... Read More about Walking, Observing and Making – Rethinking Plastics in Edinburgh.

Building a dual dataset of text-and image-grounded conversations and summarisation in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howcroft, D. M., Lamb, W., Groundwater, A., & Gkatzia, D. (2023, September). Building a dual dataset of text-and image-grounded conversations and summarisation in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic). Presented at The 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference

Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic; gd) is spoken by about 57k people in Scotland, but remains an under-resourced language with respect to natural language processing in general and natural language generation (NLG) in particular. To address this gap, we deve... Read More about Building a dual dataset of text-and image-grounded conversations and summarisation in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic).

enunlg: a Python library for reproducible neural data-to-text experimentation
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howcroft, D. M., & Gkatzia, D. (2023, September). enunlg: a Python library for reproducible neural data-to-text experimentation. Presented at 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Prague, Czechia

Over the past decade, a variety of neural ar-chitectures for data-to-text generation (NLG) have been proposed. However, each system typically has its own approach to pre-and post-processing and other implementation details. Diversity in implementatio... Read More about enunlg: a Python library for reproducible neural data-to-text experimentation.

LOWRECORP: the Low-Resource NLG Corpus Building Challenge
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chandu, K. R., Howcroft, D., Gkatzia, D., Chung, Y.-L., Hou, Y., Emezue, C., Rajpoot, P., & Adewumi, T. (2023, September). LOWRECORP: the Low-Resource NLG Corpus Building Challenge. Presented at 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Prague, Czechia

Most languages in the world do not have sufficient data available to develop neural-network-based natural language generation (NLG) systems. To alleviate this resource scarcity, we propose a novel challenge for the NLG community: low-resource languag... Read More about LOWRECORP: the Low-Resource NLG Corpus Building Challenge.

The digital Foley: what Foley artists say about using audio synthesis
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Di Donato, B., & McGregor, I. (2024, April). The digital Foley: what Foley artists say about using audio synthesis. Presented at 2024 AES 6th International Conference on Audio for Games, Tokyo, Japan

Foley is a sound production technique where organicity and authenticity in sound creation are key to fostering creativity. Audio synthesis, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Interaction Design (IXD) have been explored by the community to investigate t... Read More about The digital Foley: what Foley artists say about using audio synthesis.

PEMS: People Experience of Mountain Soundscapes
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Di Donato, B., & McGregor, I. (2024, June). PEMS: People Experience of Mountain Soundscapes. Paper presented at Forum Alpinum 2024, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia

This research delves into the intricate relationship between mountain auditory environments and the mountaineering experience, shedding light on the influence of individual sounds and overall soundscapes. While existing studies acknowledge the positi... Read More about PEMS: People Experience of Mountain Soundscapes.

Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vear, C., Poltronieri, F., Di Donato, B., Zhang, Y., Benerradi, J., Hutchinson, S., Turowski, P., Shell, J., & Malekmohamadi, H. (2024, April). Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making. Presented at Evostar 2024: The Leading European Event on Bio‑Inspired Computation, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom

In this paper, we present our findings of the design, development and deployment of a proof-of-concept dataset that captures some of the physiological, musicological, and psychological aspects of embodied musicking. After outlining the conceptual ele... Read More about Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making.

Carry-on baggage on low-cost carriers. A no-frills journey? THE INC (Tourism, Hospitality & Events International Conference) 22 – 24 June 2022, Limassol, Cyprus.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Arvanitis, P. (2022, June). Carry-on baggage on low-cost carriers. A no-frills journey? THE INC (Tourism, Hospitality & Events International Conference) 22 – 24 June 2022, Limassol, Cyprus. Presented at THE INC 2022, Limassol, Cyprus

Airlines around the world carry on top of passengers, their baggage. Carried baggage adds to the total weight of the aircraft resulting in increased fuel consumption. Increased fuel prices led airlines around the world to introduce baggage fees to im... Read More about Carry-on baggage on low-cost carriers. A no-frills journey? THE INC (Tourism, Hospitality & Events International Conference) 22 – 24 June 2022, Limassol, Cyprus..

Air Connectivity after the Extra Long Range Aircraft
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Arvanitis, P. (2022, March). Air Connectivity after the Extra Long Range Aircraft. Presented at MTCON (Managing Tourism Across Continents), Antalya, Turkey

Tourism and mobility feed one another, and the same principle applies on air travel. International tourism arrivals by air account for almost 60%. While it can be argued that the world today is well
interconnected, there are still inequalities in ai... Read More about Air Connectivity after the Extra Long Range Aircraft.

Emotion Recognition on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gomez, L. R., Watt, T., Babaagba, K. O., Chrysoulas, C., Homay, A., Rangarajan, R., & Liu, X. (2023, August). Emotion Recognition on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques. Presented at ICISS 2023: The 6th International Conference on Information Science and Systems, Edinburgh

In recent years, text has been the main form of communication on social media platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Emotion Recognition from these platforms can be exploited for all sorts of applications. Through the mea... Read More about Emotion Recognition on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques.

Occupational therapist knowledge and attitudes of alcohol misuse
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, F., Gill, J., O'May, F., & Renton, L. (2012, June). Occupational therapist knowledge and attitudes of alcohol misuse. Paper presented at The College of Occupational Therapists 36th annual conference and exhibition, Glasgow, UK

The occupation of drinking alcohol in older people: unearthing the relationship between occupation and healthfulness in a hospital setting
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, F., Kantartzis, S., Dewing, J., Breckenridge, J., & McCormack, B. (2018, June). The occupation of drinking alcohol in older people: unearthing the relationship between occupation and healthfulness in a hospital setting. Paper presented at Royal College of Occupational Therapy Annual Conference 2018, Belfast, UK

Realising Scotland’s Policy Potential to R-Evolutionise International Rights-Based Dementia Care
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, F., Hunter, E., Nañagas, M. L., & Eleftheriadou, K. (2022, August). Realising Scotland’s Policy Potential to R-Evolutionise International Rights-Based Dementia Care. Paper presented at 18th World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) Congress, Paris, France

Introduction: A key element of diverse European Government’s policy development in recent years has been to ensure the human rights of people living with dementia. Whilst different European governments will create their tailored dementia strategies,... Read More about Realising Scotland’s Policy Potential to R-Evolutionise International Rights-Based Dementia Care.