Dr Brian Davison

Academics from the Ionian University of Corfu visit the School of Computing
Apr 11, 2016

Description Dr Petros Kostagiolas and Dr Christina Banou, both from the Ionian University of Corfu took part in an Erasmus exchange with the School of Computing in the week beginning 11th April 2016.

Their visit was organised jointly by Brian Davison, who hosted a research seminar at which both speakers presented, and Hazel Hall, who invited the visitors to contributed to a two-day ESRC-funded training event for students undertaking doctoral studies in Information Science and other related disciplines. 

Davison will be making a reciprocal trip to Greece in October 2016.

People Brian Davison

Org Units School of Computing
School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

Research Areas Information science
Social informatics

Themes AI and Technologies

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Social Informatics

Description	Dr Petros Kostagiolas and Dr Christina Banou, both from the Ionian University of Corfu took part in an Erasmus exchange with the School of Computing in the week beginning 11th April 2016. Their visit was organised jointly by Brian Davison, who hosted a research seminar at which both speakers presented, and Hazel Hall, who invited the visitors to contributed to a two-day ESRC-funded training event for students undertaking doctoral studies in Information Science and other related disciplines.  Davison will be making a reciprocal trip to Greece in October 2016.
People	Brian Davison
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
Research Areas	Information science Social informatics
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics

CodeRace - A competitive event for teams of four cyclists. Teams have to visit locations displayed on a mobile app and solve clues to claim them.
Aug 4, 2012

Description A competitive event for teams of four cyclists. Teams have to visit locations displayed on a mobile app and solve clues to claim them. The team with the largest number of locations at the end of the game wins.

The original event was reported here by one of the competitors: https://river.cat/2012/08/Coderace

The game was later run for other groups including students at ESISAR in Valence, France, and in St. Andrews as an activity for students of the Destination Leaders Programme (Edinburgh Napier Business School).

Location Edinburgh - city-wide

People Brian Davison

Org Units School of Computing
School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

Research Areas Software systems

Themes AI and Technologies
Health

URL http://www.coderace.co.uk/

Description	A competitive event for teams of four cyclists. Teams have to visit locations displayed on a mobile app and solve clues to claim them. The team with the largest number of locations at the end of the game wins. The original event was reported here by one of the competitors: https://river.cat/2012/08/Coderace The game was later run for other groups including students at ESISAR in Valence, France, and in St. Andrews as an activity for students of the Destination Leaders Programme (Edinburgh Napier Business School).
Location	Edinburgh - city-wide
People	Brian Davison
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
Research Areas	Software systems
Themes	AI and Technologies Health
URL	http://www.coderace.co.uk/

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