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Ahead-Of-Real-Time (ART): A Methodology for Static Reduction of Worst-Case Execution Time (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cattaneo, D., Magnani, G., Cherubin, S., & Agosta, G. (2022, June). Ahead-Of-Real-Time (ART): A Methodology for Static Reduction of Worst-Case Execution Time. Presented at NG-RES workshop, Budapest

Precision tuning is an approximate computing technique for trading precision with lower execution time, and it has been increasingly important in embedded and high-performance computing applications. In particular, embedded applications benefit from... Read More about Ahead-Of-Real-Time (ART): A Methodology for Static Reduction of Worst-Case Execution Time.

Solar Thermal Plant With Heat Recovery To Reduce Energy Consumption Of Continuous Textile Mercerisation Process (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kahwash, F., & Majeed, H. (2022, June). Solar Thermal Plant With Heat Recovery To Reduce Energy Consumption Of Continuous Textile Mercerisation Process. Presented at Advances in Renewable and Clean Energy Technologies, Online

The textile industry is resource intensive and environmentally polluting. Textile exporting countries, such as Pakistan and Bangladesh are facing strain on their resources. Woven fabrics, require several chemical treatment processes, which consumes l... Read More about Solar Thermal Plant With Heat Recovery To Reduce Energy Consumption Of Continuous Textile Mercerisation Process.

Finding the Female Users: A Feminist Historiography of the Fairlight CMI (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P., & Blackburn, M. (2022, June). Finding the Female Users: A Feminist Historiography of the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at Rethinking the History of Technology-based Music, University of Huddersfield

The story of the Fairlight CMI, a digital synthesizer that was designed in Sydney, Australia in the mid-to-late 1970s, is dominated by a few high-profile male users: Peter Gabriel, Herbie Hancock, and Stevie Wonder. In both academic and popular histo... Read More about Finding the Female Users: A Feminist Historiography of the Fairlight CMI.

Learning from the impact of individual identities on staff’s experiences during Covid-19: Moving toward ethically implementing new styles of working (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zike, J., & Illingworth, S. (2022, June). Learning from the impact of individual identities on staff’s experiences during Covid-19: Moving toward ethically implementing new styles of working. Presented at QAA Enhancement Conference 2022: Resilient Learning Communities – Inclusive, Flexible and Accessible, Glasgow

We will report the findings of our qualitative survey of 118 staff members at Edinburgh Napier University. We found a highly nuanced impact on protected groups with individual situations, resources, and challenges contributing to the perceived impact... Read More about Learning from the impact of individual identities on staff’s experiences during Covid-19: Moving toward ethically implementing new styles of working.

Engaging students in creating a curriculum framework –challenges and enablers (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Haddow, C., Zike, J., & Le-Vaul Grimwood, M. (2022, June). Engaging students in creating a curriculum framework –challenges and enablers. Paper presented at Advance HE Curriculum Symposium, Leeds, UK

This session reflects on the challenges of implementing a new curriculum framework during Covid 19, with a particular focus on student engagement. It asks what we have learned from experience and focus group data, as we begin to embed the framework,... Read More about Engaging students in creating a curriculum framework –challenges and enablers.

13th Workshop on Parallel Programming and Run-Time Management Techniques for Many-Core Architectures and 11th Workshop on Design Tools and Architectures for Multicore Embedded Computing Platforms (PARMA-DITAM 2022) (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Palumbo, F., Bispo, J., & Cherubin, S. (2022, June). 13th Workshop on Parallel Programming and Run-Time Management Techniques for Many-Core Architectures and 11th Workshop on Design Tools and Architectures for Multicore Embedded Computing Platforms (PARMA-DITAM 2022). Presented at PARMA-DITAM workshop, Budapest, Hungary

STEM educational engagement through competition, sport and wearable technology (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
James, D., Lee, J., Ohgi, Y., Petrone, N., Willis, C., Ferrier, B., Wada, T., Al-Rawi, M., & Parker, J. (2022, June). STEM educational engagement through competition, sport and wearable technology. Poster presented at International Sports Engineering Association: The Engineering of Sport 14, Purdue University, US

Student engagement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) activities are often perceived as solitary activities, resulting in a limited range of students that are intrinsically interested in it [1]. Historically STEM activities ar... Read More about STEM educational engagement through competition, sport and wearable technology.

Why do researchers get 'hackers' so wrong, and why we should be worried about the police's response? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horgan, S., Anderson, S., & Collier, B. (2022, June). Why do researchers get 'hackers' so wrong, and why we should be worried about the police's response?. Paper presented at Electromagnetic Field, Eastnor Castle Deer Park

In this presentation, two criminologists and one sociologist reflect on why criminology and sociology often get ‘hacking’ very wrong - and on the challenges we faced trying to get it (a bit more) right.

We draw on ongoing research into how involv... Read More about Why do researchers get 'hackers' so wrong, and why we should be worried about the police's response?.

Arts-based research and the intersected tourist gaze (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2022, June). Arts-based research and the intersected tourist gaze. Paper presented at Future Visualities: Visual Methods & Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

There is an extant of research devoted to the ocular nature of tourism as a set of visual practices, and accordingly, to the tourist gaze thesis (Urry & Larsen, 2011). Within this construct, it is suggested that tourists’ and others’ visual practices... Read More about Arts-based research and the intersected tourist gaze.

The use of Volunteer Employed Photography within undergraduate assessment: An international field trip perspective (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Snell, S. (2022, June). The use of Volunteer Employed Photography within undergraduate assessment: An international field trip perspective. Paper presented at Visual Methods & Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, Edinburgh Napier University


Volunteer Employed Photography (VEP) has been used within tourism studies to better understand destinations and the way residents and visitors interpret and experience them. Seen as an innovative research method, VEP encourages participants to eng... Read More about The use of Volunteer Employed Photography within undergraduate assessment: An international field trip perspective.

What's in a Cake: Diversity, Inclusivity and Interculturality (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M., & Smith, D. (2022, June). What's in a Cake: Diversity, Inclusivity and Interculturality. Paper presented at Future Visualities: Visual Methods & Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research, Edinburgh Napier University

Food, death and taxes have been claimed by anthropologists as some of the factors that are common to all human beings. Food is considered an important marker of identity and cultural membership (Brulotte & Di Giovine 2014). In this public engagement... Read More about What's in a Cake: Diversity, Inclusivity and Interculturality.

Multi3Generation: Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-Modal Language Generation (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barreiro, A., de Souza, J. G., Gatt, A., Bhatt, M., Lloret, E., Erdem, A., Gkatzia, D., Moniz, H., Russo, I., Kepler, F., Calixto, I., Paprzycki, M., Portet, F., Augenstein, I., & Alhasani, M. (2022, June). Multi3Generation: Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-Modal Language Generation. Poster presented at 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2022), Ghent, Belgium

This paper presents the Multitask, Multilingual, Multimodal Language Generation COST Action – Multi3Generation (CA18231), an interdisciplinary network of research groups working on different aspects of language generation. This "metapaper" will serve... Read More about Multi3Generation: Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-Modal Language Generation.

Which bugs are missed in code reviews: an empirical study on SmartSHARK dataset (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khoshnoud, F., Nasab, A. R., Toudeji, Z., & Sami, A. (2022, May). Which bugs are missed in code reviews: an empirical study on SmartSHARK dataset. Presented at MSR '22: 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, Pittsburgh, US

In pull-based development systems, code reviews and pull request comments play important roles in improving code quality. In such systems, reviewers attempt to carefully check a piece of code by different unit tests. Unfortunately, sometimes they mis... Read More about Which bugs are missed in code reviews: an empirical study on SmartSHARK dataset.

Essential e-book metadata for everyone (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lagace, N., Booth, E., La Spada, C., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2022, May). Essential e-book metadata for everyone. Paper presented at UKSG 2022, Telford

High quality and accurate bibliographic metadata is an essential part of the supply chain for books and e-books as it enables titles to be easily and reliably identified, selected, and accessed. Yet libraries and content providers have worked for yea... Read More about Essential e-book metadata for everyone.

Intelligent Question Answering System Based on Knowledge Graph (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Feng, X., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2021, December). Intelligent Question Answering System Based on Knowledge Graph. Presented at IEEE SmartCity-2021, Hainan, China

In order to build a smart city and pursue more efficient city management, various industries have introduced intelligent question answering into process management. The intelligent question answering system based on the knowledge graph is dedicated t... Read More about Intelligent Question Answering System Based on Knowledge Graph.