Outputs (10)

Responsible Design & Evaluation of a Conversational Agent for a National Careers Service (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Wilson, M., Cruickshank, P., Gkatzia, D., & Robertson, P. (in press). Responsible Design & Evaluation of a Conversational Agent for a National Careers Service.

This PhD project applies a research-through-design approach to the development of a conversational agent for a national career service for young people. This includes addressing practical, interactional and ethical aspects of the system. For each asp... Read More about Responsible Design & Evaluation of a Conversational Agent for a National Careers Service.

The power of audio: presenting archives via podcasts (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, M., Ryan, B., Hall, H., & Macgregor, I. (2023, June). The power of audio: presenting archives via podcasts. Paper presented at Shaking the Archive - Reconsidering the Role of Archives in Contemporary Society, Edinburgh

Heritage Organisations and Podcasts Scoping Study (HOPSS) was a small-scale project completed by a team at Edinburgh Napier University in 2022. Designed to scope the research landscape related to podcasting in cultural heritage work (including archiv... Read More about The power of audio: presenting archives via podcasts.

The Career Information Podcast (2023)
Digital Artefact
(2023). The Career Information Podcast. [Podcast]

This series of podcasts explores the topic of career information. It is the product of a collaboration between staff and students in the School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment (SCEBE) and the School of Applied Sciences (SAS).... Read More about The Career Information Podcast.

Designing useful conversational interfaces for information retrieval in career decision-making support (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Wilson, M. (2023). Designing useful conversational interfaces for information retrieval in career decision-making support. In Advances in Information Retrieval: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2–6, 2023, Proceedings, Part III (482-488). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_56

The proposed research is an interdisciplinary problem-focused study that takes a human-focused approach to explore the usefulness of screen-based conversational information retrieval (CIR) in a complex domain. A research-through-design methodology wi... Read More about Designing useful conversational interfaces for information retrieval in career decision-making support.

Principal Agent Theory & AI in Careers Services: Digitalisation and technologies in career education and guidance [Symposium] (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, M., Robertson, P., Cruickshank, P., & Gkatzia, D. (2023, March). Principal Agent Theory & AI in Careers Services: Digitalisation and technologies in career education and guidance [Symposium]. Paper presented at Nordic Education Research Association Conference, Oslo

Artificial intelligence in career services (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, M. (2023, March). Artificial intelligence in career services. Presented at Career Development Institute Scotland CPD Conference, Online

The creative use of digitised archives: case study of Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the War’ podcast series (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Ryan, B., Hall, H., Wilson, M., & Berger, J. (2022, September). The creative use of digitised archives: case study of Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the War’ podcast series. Presented at The BBC at 100 Symposium, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford

The roundtable discussion is concerned with the creative use of digitised archives in the work undertaken for the AHRC Creative Informatics funded Platform to Platform project. This centres on the exploitation, augmentation, and exhibition of a set o... Read More about The creative use of digitised archives: case study of Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the War’ podcast series.

Opportunities and risks in the use of AI in career development practice (2022)
Journal Article
Wilson, M., Robertson, P., Cruickshank, P., & Gkatzia, D. (2022). Opportunities and risks in the use of AI in career development practice. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 48(1), 48-57. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.4807

The Covid-19 pandemic required many aspects of life to move online. This accelerated a broader trend for increasing use of ICT and AI, with implications for both the world of work and career development. This article explores the potential benefits a... Read More about Opportunities and risks in the use of AI in career development practice.

Position Paper (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Wilson, M. (2021). Position Paper. In Proceedings of 17th Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems for PhDs, PostDocs & New Researchers (56-58)

Exploring the relationship between listener receptivity and the source of music recommendations
Report
Wilson, M., Stephen, K., & Vargheese, J. P. Exploring the relationship between listener receptivity and the source of music recommendations. Creative Informatics

Music recommender systems are utilised by many music streaming platforms to provide new artist and song recommendations on a personalised basis to listeners. These algorithm-based systems apply dynamic data modelling techniques and are a recommendati... Read More about Exploring the relationship between listener receptivity and the source of music recommendations.