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The shifting goalposts of Digital Technology Skills in Scotland (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meharg, D., & Tungli, T. (2023, December). The shifting goalposts of Digital Technology Skills in Scotland. Presented at SRHE International Conference 2023, Birmingham, UK

Digital technologies and skills are critical to economic growth and embedded in everyday life 1. This paper presents a work-in-progress study that examines the effect of education policy on digital skills within Scotland. Through literature analysis,... Read More about The shifting goalposts of Digital Technology Skills in Scotland.

TaskMaster: A Novel Cross-platform Task-based Spoken Dialogue System for Human-Robot Interaction (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Strathearn, C., Yu, Y., & Gkatzia, D. (2023). TaskMaster: A Novel Cross-platform Task-based Spoken Dialogue System for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of The Joint CUI and HRI Workshop at HRI 2023

The most effective way of communication between humans and robots is through natural language communication. However, there are many challenges to overcome before robots can effectively converse in order to collaborate and work together with humans.... Read More about TaskMaster: A Novel Cross-platform Task-based Spoken Dialogue System for Human-Robot Interaction.

PFL-LDG: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning via Lightweight Device Grouping (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Z., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2023, August). PFL-LDG: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning via Lightweight Device Grouping. Presented at The 9th IEEE International Conference on Privacy Computing and Data Security (PCDS 2023) as Part of the IEEE Smart World Congress 2023, Portsmouth, UK

The rapid growth of private data from distributed edge networks, driven by the proliferation of IoT sensors, wearable devices, and smartphones, offers significant opportunities for AI applications. However, traditional distributed machine learning me... Read More about PFL-LDG: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning via Lightweight Device Grouping.

Authentic learning in higher education environments: Teacher insight into student experience – a reflection of process and purpose (Stage 1 – with focus on Edinburgh Case) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kitchen, E., Drake, C., Goh, E., Harkison, T., Losekoot, E., Robertson, M., Steriopolous, E., & Waterston, L. (2023, May). Authentic learning in higher education environments: Teacher insight into student experience – a reflection of process and purpose (Stage 1 – with focus on Edinburgh Case). Poster presented at Council for Hospitality Management Education 2023, Annual Conference, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Authentic teaching and learning is a critical pedagogy and curriculum requirement in higher education to better prepare for the future workforce. As such, educators adopt a suite of authentic assessments such as work-integrated learning, industry rep... Read More about Authentic learning in higher education environments: Teacher insight into student experience – a reflection of process and purpose (Stage 1 – with focus on Edinburgh Case).

T/ensor/~ 0.3 (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Papageorgiou, D. (2023, May). T/ensor/~ 0.3. Presented at The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Mexico City

T/ensor/~ (version 0.3) is a prototype of a dynamic performance system developed in MAX that involves adaptive digital signal processing modules and generative processes towards exploring the field and performance-practice of human-machine improvisat... Read More about T/ensor/~ 0.3.

Playing with the dead: transmedia narratives and the Walking Dead games (2023)
Book Chapter
Donald, I., & Austin, H. J. (2023). Playing with the dead: transmedia narratives and the Walking Dead games. In R. Yilmaz, M. N. Erdem, & F. Resuloğlu (Eds.), Research anthology on game design, development, usage, and social impact (1435-1456). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7589-8.ch069

This chapter discusses the theory and practice of transmedia narratives within the storyworld created by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard's comics series The Walking Dead. It examines key aspects from the comics series and AMC's adaptive... Read More about Playing with the dead: transmedia narratives and the Walking Dead games.

Combining Word Embedding Interactions and LETOR Feature Evidences for Supervised QPP (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Datta, S., Ganguly, D., Mothe, J., & Ullah, M. Z. (2023, April). Combining Word Embedding Interactions and LETOR Feature Evidences for Supervised QPP. Presented at 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Dublin, Ireland

In information retrieval, query performance prediction aims to predict whether a search engine is likely to succeed in retrieving potentially relevant documents to a user's query. This problem is usually cast into a regression problem where a machine... Read More about Combining Word Embedding Interactions and LETOR Feature Evidences for Supervised QPP.

Role of Festivals for Promoting Scottish Pilgrimage (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M. (2023, March). Role of Festivals for Promoting Scottish Pilgrimage. Paper presented at Pilgrimage Today: Routes to Flourishing Communities & Enterprise, Wexford

A critical review of the efficacy of the UN SDGs as conduits for collaboration in business tourism provision. Case Study Edinburgh & Melbourne (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M., Pyke, J., & Drake, C. (2023, February). A critical review of the efficacy of the UN SDGs as conduits for collaboration in business tourism provision. Case Study Edinburgh & Melbourne. Presented at 33rd Annual Conference of the Council for Australasian Universities Tourism and Hospitality Education, Fremantle, Western Australia

Business events can support the needs of access, equality, and learning for work and social inclusion, and determine a greater range of benefits than had been previously considered (Edwards, Foley, & Schlenker, 2011; Foley, Edwards, & Schlenker, 2014... Read More about A critical review of the efficacy of the UN SDGs as conduits for collaboration in business tourism provision. Case Study Edinburgh & Melbourne.

Authentic learning in higher education environments: Teacher insight into student experience (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kitchen, E., Steriopoulos, E., Harkison, T., Drake, C., Goh, E., Robertson, M., Waterston, L., & Losekoot, E. (2023, February). Authentic learning in higher education environments: Teacher insight into student experience. Presented at 23rd Annual Conference of the Council for Australasian Universities Tourism and Hospitality Education, Fremantle, Western Australia

This paper focuses on the factors that influence the authentic learning practices in the Tourism, Hospitality, and Events (THE) education context from a teacher’s perspective. To align with emerging industry changes due to the COVID pandemic, and als... Read More about Authentic learning in higher education environments: Teacher insight into student experience.

Digital Selling and Technostress: Preliminary Analysis (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Igarashi, R., & Vardarsuyu, M. (2023). Digital Selling and Technostress: Preliminary Analysis. In 2023 AMA Winter Academic Conference: Proceedings (1247-1261)

This study investigates the impact of digital selling on salespeople’s perception of five different techno-stressors (techno-overload, techno-invasion, techno-insecurity, techno-complexity and techno-uncertainty) and subsequent emotional exhaustion.... Read More about Digital Selling and Technostress: Preliminary Analysis.

Sharing the Same Workspace: The Effect of AI Task Deployment on Frontline Service Employees’ Job Satisfaction and Customers Outcomes (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bhoumik, K., & Igarashi, R. (2023). Sharing the Same Workspace: The Effect of AI Task Deployment on Frontline Service Employees’ Job Satisfaction and Customers Outcomes. In 2023 AMA Winter Academic Conference: Proceedings (56-75)

Organizations are progressively using service robots in frontline settings to enhance consumer experiences as we see an increasing trend in humans and robots working together in restaurants, airports, and banks. In this research, we examine the impac... Read More about Sharing the Same Workspace: The Effect of AI Task Deployment on Frontline Service Employees’ Job Satisfaction and Customers Outcomes.

Lessons Learnt from An Online Pilot Study About Strategic Alignment at A Higher Education Institution (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kachale, T., Demeke, W., Chrysoulas, C., & Romdhani, I. (2023, March). Lessons Learnt from An Online Pilot Study About Strategic Alignment at A Higher Education Institution. Presented at 16th IADIS International Conference on Information Systems (IS 2023), Lisbon, Portugal

This article is a report on the lessons learned when conducting an interpretive case study in a developing country. From the literature review, it was apparent that there are few reported lessons from pilot studies about strategic alignment in higher... Read More about Lessons Learnt from An Online Pilot Study About Strategic Alignment at A Higher Education Institution.

SARS-CoV-2, Ventilation Strategies, Thermal Comfort and Carbon Implications for Buildings (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M. (2023). SARS-CoV-2, Ventilation Strategies, Thermal Comfort and Carbon Implications for Buildings. In PLEA STGO 2022: Book of Proceedings Volume 1 (160-164)

The spread of SARS-CoV-2 since 2019 has rapidly become a global crisis with unprecedented records of deaths and hospitalizations in the last century. The infectious particles spread more easily indoors than outdoors and therefore built environment se... Read More about SARS-CoV-2, Ventilation Strategies, Thermal Comfort and Carbon Implications for Buildings.

Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival (2023)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2024). Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival. In G. Carruthers (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature (127-139). Wiley-Blackwell

The Scottish literary renaissance is a paradox. Imagining Scottish history as a series of catastrophes – Reformation, Union, Enlightenment, industrialisation – the renaissance sought rebirth in the nation's cultural past. Critics usually locate such... Read More about Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival.

A novel end-to-end deep convolutional neural network based skin lesion classification framework (2023)
Journal Article
Sulthana A., R. S., Chamola, V., Hussain, A., Hussain, Z., & Albalwy, F. (2024). A novel end-to-end deep convolutional neural network based skin lesion classification framework. Expert Systems with Applications, 246, Article 123056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.123056

Background:
Skin diseases are reported to contribute 1.79% of the global burden of disease. The accurate diagnosis of specific skin diseases is known to be a challenging task due, in part, to variations in skin tone, texture, body hair, etc. Classif... Read More about A novel end-to-end deep convolutional neural network based skin lesion classification framework.

Fintech, human development and energy poverty in sub-Saharan Africa (2023)
Journal Article
Oyebola Etudaiye-Muhtar, F., Johan, S., Lawal, R., & Sakariyahu, R. (2024). Fintech, human development and energy poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 91, Article 101931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2023.101931

Studies have highlighted the important role of financial technology (fintech) in enhancing socio-economic conditions of nations. However, despite the efforts of governments to improve the latter, the rating of African countries still remains manifest... Read More about Fintech, human development and energy poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.

The role of resilience in the relationship between intimate partner violence severity and ICD-11 CPTSD severity (2023)
Journal Article
Fernández-Fillol, C., Hidalgo-Ruzzante, N., Perez-Garcia, M., Hyland, P., Shevlin, M., & Karatzias, T. (2024). The role of resilience in the relationship between intimate partner violence severity and ICD-11 CPTSD severity. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 15(1), Article 2285671. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2023.2285671

Background: Resilience is a modulating factor in the development of PTSD and CPTSD after exposure to traumatic events. However, the relationship between resilience and ICD-11 CPTSD is not adequately understood in survivors of intimate partner violenc... Read More about The role of resilience in the relationship between intimate partner violence severity and ICD-11 CPTSD severity.