All Projects (1771)

Exploring the relationship between listener receptivity and the source of music recommendation Jun 1, 2022 - Feb 26, 2023
Music streaming platforms (MSPs) employ recommender systems to assist listeners with navigating extensive libraries (Petridis et al., 2022), discovery of new content and establishing new audiences (Mehrotra et al., 2020). There are concerns that algo... Read More about Exploring the relationship between listener receptivity and the source of music recommendation.

Data Driven Analysis of PEMFT Benefits Jun 15, 2022 - Sep 14, 2022
PEMFT Ltd is a company founded in June 2020 to develop the business potential of a pulsed electromagnetic therapy device created by founder, Donald McGregor. Field-testing of the device has generated repeated, regular, very positive feedback about it... Read More about Data Driven Analysis of PEMFT Benefits.

Mountain Biking and Music from Data Jul 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2024
1. We will, by working with a range of people with varying experience, explore how an interdisciplinary approach to sports and the arts can encourage engagement in both areas. We will look at ways in which
we can encourage integrated engagement in a... Read More about Mountain Biking and Music from Data.

Global Film Industry, International cultural heritage and public engagement. A Panel Discussion by UNESCO Cities of Film Network Officials/Researchers Jul 1, 2022 - Dec 31, 2022
This panel discussion explores the relationship between international cultural heritage/public engagement and research and creative practice with panel speakers from UNESCO Cities of Film Network.

The prevalence, sources and diversity of antibiotic resistant E. coli in Scottish surface waters: a baseline for risk assessment and intervention targets. Oct 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2026
The alarming rise in resistance to antibiotics is now widely accepted as being one of the most serious public health crises we face today. The use and overuse of antibiotics in human and animal medicine and especially the overuse in animal food produ... Read More about The prevalence, sources and diversity of antibiotic resistant E. coli in Scottish surface waters: a baseline for risk assessment and intervention targets..

LastingAsset: Scottish Enterprise Opportunity Creation HGSP Oct 17, 2022 - Jul 31, 2023
Web3 is described as the evolution of the world wide web from the internet of information to the internet of value. The underlying goal of Web3 is a decentralised system where users control their own data and digital assets. This premise in turn brin... Read More about LastingAsset: Scottish Enterprise Opportunity Creation HGSP.

Improvisation Technologies and Creative Machines: The Performer-Instrument Relational Milieu Jun 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2023
This practice-led, artistic research study traces theoretical and practical understandings that explore the technicity and performance-practice of musical improvisation and builds upon the lead’s prior research on the fields of free improvisation, co... Read More about Improvisation Technologies and Creative Machines: The Performer-Instrument Relational Milieu.

Subjective orientation in VR audio Jun 1, 2022 - Aug 28, 2023
This project will involve establishing a method for capturing listeners' experiences of spatial audio in VR. Whilst wearing a Head Mounted Display (HMD), sounds will be presented to listeners who will be asked to indicate the relative position in bo... Read More about Subjective orientation in VR audio.

Methane-derived carbon in upland stream foodwebs: understanding the links May 1, 2022 - Apr 30, 2023
The work forms part of a SUPER-DTP funded PhD project. The present application relates to the use of stable isotope analysis to elucidate pathways for MDC incorporation in upland streams.

Visualisation of Metadata in 2D/3D Digital Cuneiform Artefacts Sep 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2023
Cuneiform is an ancient writing system that was first used in around 3400 BC (Finkel & Taylor, 2015). Distinguished by its 3D imprinted, wedge-shaped reed marks on clay tablets, cuneiform script is one of the earliest known writing systems in the wo... Read More about Visualisation of Metadata in 2D/3D Digital Cuneiform Artefacts.

The Sound Beneath Our Feet Jun 1, 2022 - Dec 31, 2022
This project will develop an immersive audio installation in which to experience sonified seismic data from volcanic activity. The environment will foster new ways of experiencing data from both scientific and artistic points of views, cutting across... Read More about The Sound Beneath Our Feet.

Design model predictive control with swarm inspired MPPT algorithms to extract optimum power for a single-stage grid connected PV inverter Jun 1, 2022 - Jun 30, 2023
Brief Description

This project aims to develop a control algorithm using Model predictive control with swarm-inspired MPPT algorithm for a single stage grid connected PV inverter. Single-stage PV inverters are the key to adopting mass-scale PV rea... Read More about Design model predictive control with swarm inspired MPPT algorithms to extract optimum power for a single-stage grid connected PV inverter.

Building From England's Woodlands Jul 1, 2022 - Jun 30, 2025
The focus of the project is to develop 5 building system concepts through innovative digital design, adapted to the characteristics of 5 underutilised home-grown English timber species. Each project should be developed to create 1:1 physical prototyp... Read More about Building From England's Woodlands.

Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT Oct 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2025
Our 2-year interdisciplinary project will investigate how the lack of repairability in the consumer Internet of Things (IoT) will adversely impact equity, inclusion, and sustainability in the digital economy.

IoT products are becoming the default,... Read More about Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT.

Behaviour profiling using Touch-based Behavioural Biometrics for Continuous Authentication Systems May 9, 2022 - Jul 31, 2022
Authenticating smartphone users from distinct behavioural biometric patterns provided through human interactions on touch screens would allow users to be continuously authenticated on their devices while protecting them from unauthorised use. More im... Read More about Behaviour profiling using Touch-based Behavioural Biometrics for Continuous Authentication Systems.

Transforming Cancer Care Evaluation Oct 1, 2022 - Jul 31, 2024
This is a follow on Evaluation from the TCAT and the ICJ that Edinburgh Napier undertook.

Holdfast: communities and blue carbon Jun 1, 2022 - May 31, 2023
Achieving the potential of Blue Carbon (BC) requires excellent communication with diverse audiences, in particular: 1) communities who live adjacent to, and often depend upon, BC ecosystems. 2) Investors and other potential supporters of BC work. 3)... Read More about Holdfast: communities and blue carbon.

In Our Hands Jul 1, 2022 - Jan 31, 2023
Following on from last year's Road to COP26 Innovation Programme with British Council Nepal, Kathmandu University and applied Arts Scotland, a revised version is planned for 2022 and the invitation to contribute to the Innovation programme with fundi... Read More about In Our Hands.

Longitudinal variation in methane incorporation into stream food webs Jul 4, 2022 - Aug 28, 2022
Application for SUPER DTP Research Experience Placement student. This is an 8-week research experience internship. The funding covers employment of the student for the period of the project and £500 towards consumables

Co-design of a clinical decision support tool for use in patients with acute chest pain in the Emergency Department Aug 1, 2022 - Apr 30, 2023
Our objective is to reduce 30-day reattendance by a fifth in patients presenting with acute chest pain to the Emergency Room using artificial intelligence tools to augment clinical decisions. To achieve this, we will provide diagnostic probabilities... Read More about Co-design of a clinical decision support tool for use in patients with acute chest pain in the Emergency Department.