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School Playground Intervention for Children With Disabilities Creates Play Capabilities and Shifts Adult Perspectives (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sterman, J., Villeneuve, M., Bundy, A., & Wyver, S. School Playground Intervention for Children With Disabilities Creates Play Capabilities and Shifts Adult Perspectives

Five schools participated in the Sydney Playground Project to increase choice, control, and inclusion of students with disabilities on the school playground. The intervention served as a catalyst to challenge teacher perceptions of children’s disabil... Read More about School Playground Intervention for Children With Disabilities Creates Play Capabilities and Shifts Adult Perspectives.

TRUSTD: Combat Fake Content using Blockchain and Collective Signature Technologies (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaroucheh, Z., Alissa, M., Buchanan, W. J., & Liu, X. (2020, July). TRUSTD: Combat Fake Content using Blockchain and Collective Signature Technologies. Presented at 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2020), Online

The growing trend of sharing news/contents, through social media platforms and the World Wide Web has been seen to impact our perception of the truth, altering our views about politics, economics, relationships, needs and wants. This is because of th... Read More about TRUSTD: Combat Fake Content using Blockchain and Collective Signature Technologies.

Reflections on the Doctoral Consortium (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, L., Dix, A., Woolley, S., Bond, R., Sim, G., & Flint, T. (2020, July). Reflections on the Doctoral Consortium. Presented at 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference, Keele

This paper provides a reflective commentary on the British HCI Doctoral Consortium from the perspective of the Organising Committee. We discuss the approach to holding a Human Computer Interaction Doctoral Consortium in July 2020 and the outcomes. We... Read More about Reflections on the Doctoral Consortium.

Business for Good: Balancing Purpose with Profit in a Post-Covid Scotland (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Weaver, M., & Tan, H. (2020, July). Business for Good: Balancing Purpose with Profit in a Post-Covid Scotland. Presented at Interface Webinar Series, Online

This webinar examines the power of ‘purpose’ and the opportunities for SME’s in embracing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to create Sustainable Value.

Dr Miles Weaver and Dr Hock Tan, from Edinburgh Napier’s Business School for Purpose... Read More about Business for Good: Balancing Purpose with Profit in a Post-Covid Scotland.

Workplace Incivility and Deviant Silence: The Role of Moral Attentiveness (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Murtaza, G., Khan, R., & Pierre Neveu, J. (2020, August). Workplace Incivility and Deviant Silence: The Role of Moral Attentiveness. Presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Online

In the present study, we examine the reciprocal relationship between employees’ perceptions of workplace incivility and their deviant silence. We also explore the moderating role of moral attentiveness on this relationship. Utilizing three-wave longi... Read More about Workplace Incivility and Deviant Silence: The Role of Moral Attentiveness.

How Does Extreme Uncertainty Affect Entrepreneurial Processes, Actions, and Opportunities? (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alaydi, S., Buck, T., & Tang, Y. K. (2020, August). How Does Extreme Uncertainty Affect Entrepreneurial Processes, Actions, and Opportunities?. Presented at 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2020), Online

Uncertainty is a cornerstone of entrepreneurship theory; however, the exact role it plays in stimulating and/or obstructing entrepreneurial processes, opportunity and action has remained a matter of debate. This study uses two case studies, an indige... Read More about How Does Extreme Uncertainty Affect Entrepreneurial Processes, Actions, and Opportunities?.

Skill Enhancing HR Investments, Contextual Endowments, and Innovation: A Four Country, Two-Wave Study (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sheehan, M., Garavan, T., & Morley, M. J. (2020, August). Skill Enhancing HR Investments, Contextual Endowments, and Innovation: A Four Country, Two-Wave Study. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2020), Online

We theorize and test the combined effects of both firm level skill- enhancing human resource investments, designed to boost specific and general knowledge resources, and of national level human capital contextual endowments, on incremental and radica... Read More about Skill Enhancing HR Investments, Contextual Endowments, and Innovation: A Four Country, Two-Wave Study.

Measurement, Modeling and Simulation of Photovoltaic Degradation Rates (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Honnurvali, M. S., Gupta, N., Goh, K., & umar, T. (2020, January). Measurement, Modeling and Simulation of Photovoltaic Degradation Rates. Presented at MoSICom: International conference on Modelling, Simulation and Intelligent Computing, Dubai, UAE

Photovoltaic degradation rates play a vital role in visualizing and analyzing the performance of the PV modules over the long run. A site survey is conducted to calculate PV degradation rates. The results have shown that for the first three years sin... Read More about Measurement, Modeling and Simulation of Photovoltaic Degradation Rates.

Social Inequalities in Music Education: Whose Problem? (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2020, July). Social Inequalities in Music Education: Whose Problem?. Paper presented at Association For Popular Music Education World Conference, Edinburgh

Moir, Z. (2020, July). Social Inequalities in Music Education: Whose Problem?. Paper presented at Association For Popular Music Education World Conference, Edinburgh.

Free Improvisation as Radical Musicking: Community, Belonging, and Dialogic Higher Popular Music Education (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2020, July). Free Improvisation as Radical Musicking: Community, Belonging, and Dialogic Higher Popular Music Education. Paper presented at Association for Popular Music Education World Conference, Edinburgh

Moir, Z. (2020, July). Free Improvisation as Radical Musicking: Community, Belonging, and Dialogic Higher Popular Music Education. Paper presented at Association for Popular Music Education World Conference, Edinburgh.

Trying Something New: Student and teacher responses to the pilot of an alternative secondary music curriculum for Scotland (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2020, July). Trying Something New: Student and teacher responses to the pilot of an alternative secondary music curriculum for Scotland. Paper presented at Association for Popular Music Education World Conference, Edinburgh

Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2020, July). Trying Something New: Student and teacher responses to the pilot of an alternative secondary music curriculum for Scotland. Paper presented at Association for Popular Music Education World Conference, Edinburgh.

Gamified Formative Assessment – Developing Assessment Confidence through Research (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stillie, B. (2020, July). Gamified Formative Assessment – Developing Assessment Confidence through Research. Paper presented at Association of Popular Music Education, Edinburgh Napier University

Formative assessments can play a powerful role in supporting the student learning process (Black &William, 2009; Andrade & Cizek 2010) and they can be an effective tool for supporting and evaluating the development of student skills and knowledge. Ho... Read More about Gamified Formative Assessment – Developing Assessment Confidence through Research.

COVID-19 Scenarios (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crawford, M., & Wright, G. (2020, July). COVID-19 Scenarios. Paper presented at Planning Within Crisis: An IA Virtual Town Hall, Online

Semi-supervised learning from demonstration through program synthesis: An inspection robot case study (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S. C., & Ramamoorthy, S. (2020, September). Semi-supervised learning from demonstration through program synthesis: An inspection robot case study. Presented at First Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy, Online

Semi-supervised learning improves the performance of supervised machine learning by leveraging methods from unsupervised learning to extract information not explicitly available in the labels. Through the design of a system that enables a robot to le... Read More about Semi-supervised learning from demonstration through program synthesis: An inspection robot case study.

Twitter as health information source: Exploring the parameters affecting dementia-related tweets (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhayan, F., & Pennington, D. (2020, July). Twitter as health information source: Exploring the parameters affecting dementia-related tweets. Presented at SMSociety'20: International Conference on Social Media and Society, Toronto, Canada

Unlike other media, research on the credibility of information present on social media is limited. This limitation is even more pronounced in the case of healthcare, including dementia-related information. The purpose of this study was to identify us... Read More about Twitter as health information source: Exploring the parameters affecting dementia-related tweets.

Life Insurance Unethical-selling: The Influences of Client Attributes (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gao, S., & Bi, S. (2020, July). Life Insurance Unethical-selling: The Influences of Client Attributes. Paper presented at World Finance Conference, Online

Prior studies have extensively explored factors that drive mis-selling behavior in life insurance markets, but considered little the influences of attributes of clients (particularly vulnerable clients) on unethical sales. Our study that is based on... Read More about Life Insurance Unethical-selling: The Influences of Client Attributes.

Human-Sound Interaction: Towards a Human-Centred Sonic Interaction Design approach (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Di Donato, B., Dewey, C., & Michailidis, T. (2020, July). Human-Sound Interaction: Towards a Human-Centred Sonic Interaction Design approach. Presented at MOCO '20: 7th International Conference on Movement and Computing, Jersey City, NJ, USA [Online]

In this paper, we explore human-centered interaction design aspects that determine the realisation and appreciation of musical works (installations, composition and performance), interfaces for sound design and musical expression, augmented instrumen... Read More about Human-Sound Interaction: Towards a Human-Centred Sonic Interaction Design approach.

An Ontological Model for Courses and Academic Profiles Representation: A case study of King Abdulaziz University (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ashour, G., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Aljohani, N. (2020, June). An Ontological Model for Courses and Academic Profiles Representation: A case study of King Abdulaziz University. Presented at 2020 International Conference Engineering Technologies and Computer Science (EnT), Moscow, Russia

Educational data is growing continuously. This huge amount of data that is scattered and come from different resources with different formats usually is noisy, duplicated, inconsistent, and unorganized. These data can be more efficient and usable whe... Read More about An Ontological Model for Courses and Academic Profiles Representation: A case study of King Abdulaziz University.

On Pros and Cons of Evolving Topologies with Novelty Search (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Le Goff, L. K., Hart, E., Coninx, A., & Doncieux, S. (2020, July). On Pros and Cons of Evolving Topologies with Novelty Search. Presented at ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, Online

Novelty search was proposed as a means of circumventing deception and providing selective pressure towards novel behaviours to provide a path towards open-ended evolution. Initial implementations relied on neuro-evolution approaches which increased n... Read More about On Pros and Cons of Evolving Topologies with Novelty Search.