Applying the Right UX based on Users' Needs and Future Trends of UX
Oct 18, 2024
Location
BINUS Business School campus, Jakarta, Indonesia, and online.
Description
In this guest lecture, delivered to students online and at campuses across Indonesia, Dr Jackie Cameron provides a comprehensive overview of user experience (UX) principles and their application in digital marketing contexts. Covering key definitions, industry practices and current research, Dr Cameron explores the subjective and dynamic nature of UX, emphasising its impact on user satisfaction and brand loyalty. Through practical examples, an examination of findings from contemporary studies and exploring likely future trends, the lecture highlights strategies for aligning UX design with evolving user expectations. It encourages participants to incorporate a user-centred approach in their digital strategies.
This lecture was delivered during the 6th BINUS Business School International Lecture Week, October 18-23, 2024. Theme: "AI Integration in Business and Education: Practices, Research, and the Way Forward. A Collaboration of Academic Research & Industry Practices."
Engaging £eithChooses - a community conversation
May 3, 2023
Location
Norton park Conference Centre
57 Albion Rd
Edinburgh
EH7 5QY
Description
An opportunity for in person networking around £eithChooses (http://www.leithchooses.net) & learning how to improve community-based participatory budgeting (PB) for future years.
Attendees will include representatives of organisations that have or may in future apply for funding from LeithChooses, which disburses funding from Edinburgh Council for the Leith 'neighbourhood network' area. Other attendees will be representatives of Edinburgh Council, COSLA, Scottish Government who have interests in participatory budgeting.
Dark Tourism Research Symposium: Memory, Pilgrimage and the Digital Realm
May 5, 2022
Location
Craiglockhart Campus
Description
The Tourism and Languages Subject Group (the Business School) and the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University are delighted to announce details of a dark tourism research symposium, which will take place at the Craiglockhart Campus at Edinburgh Napier University and online on May 5th, 2022.
A growing interest in dark tourism as a recognised special category of tourism behaviour continues to attract the attention of academics from a variety of disciplines, including sociology, cultural studies and anthropology. Recent contributors to the field have looked at contexts such as gulag tourism in Kazakhstan, edutainment interpretation at ‘lighter’ dark tourism attractions, the ethics and politics of digital displays in police museums, and the use of netnographic research methods to understand the motives and reactions of visitors to iconic Holocaust heritage sites.
This interdisciplinary symposium led by Professor Anne Schwan, Dr Craig Wight, and Dr Phiona Stanley seeks to bring together academics from a range of backgrounds to share ideas and recent research achievements as well as foster conversations between academic researchers and tourism or creative practitioners.
Speakers include:
Kat Brogan (Managing Director, Mercat Tours Edinburgh)
Professor John Lennon (Glasgow Caledonian University)
Professors Justin Piché (University of Ottawa) and Kevin Walby (University of Winnipeg)
Dr Brianna Wyatt (Oxford Brookes University)
Professor Jeffrey S Podoshen (Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania, USA)
The symposium organizers welcome theoretical or applied research contributions in the form of structured abstracts on the following topics:
Digital dark tourism, including, but not limited to netnographic research and the uses of social media and web 2.0 in dark tourism
Dark tourism and memory
Visitor motives and visitor interpretation
Ethics and social justice in relation to dark tourism sites
Prisons and other penal history sites as examples of dark tourism
Creative practice artefacts involving dark tourism, e.g. films/photographs/installations
Dark tourism, mobilities and pilgrimage
Novel research methodological approaches and dark tourism
Deadline for abstract submissions: 1st February 2022
Please send your 250-word abstract and a short biographical statement (no more than 100 words) to darktourism@napier.ac.uk.
The German Diaspora during World War I: Remembering Internment Camps in Britain and the Commonwealth
Mar 9, 2018
Location
The National Archives, Kew.
Description
Invited talk to promote the above project at one-day public event on Cultural History in Practice: Spies and Spying. Public study day, c. 25 attendees from both academia and general public. (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cultural-history-in-practice-spies-and-spying-tickets-42859779755)
Centre for Social Informatics contribution to ASIST2017
Oct 27, 2017
Location
Washington DC, USA
Description
Centre for Social Informatics PhD student Frances Ryan presented a poster at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST2017). This work, which Frances developed with the members of her supervision team (Hazel Hall, Peter Cruickshank, and Alistair Lawson), is entitled ‘Building identity in online environments: an Information Science perspective‘.
Centre for Social Informatics contribution to Ways of Being in a Digital Age conference
Oct 10, 2017
Location
Liverpool
Description
Centre for Social Informatics PhD student Alicja Pawluczuk presented a paper entitled ‘Digital culture co-creation: capturing the social impact of small-scale community projects’ at the Ways of Being in a Digital Age conference in October 2017. The paper was co-authored with Alicja's PhD supervisors Dr Gemma Webster, Dr Colin Smith, and Professor Hazel Hall.
Centre for Social Informatics contribution to ECIL
Sep 18, 2017
Location
St Malo, France
Description
Dr Bruce Ryan presented the paper 'Exploring Information Literacy through the lens of Activity Theory' at the 5th European Conference on Information Literacy in St-Malo, France on Wednesday 20th September 2016. During the presentation Dr Ryan argued that Activity Theory is valuable in projects that investigate group information practices, and can contribute to the generation of findings that relate to existing Information Literacy models.
The full paper, which is co-authored with Peter Cruickshank and Professor Hazel Hall, will be published in due course by Springer in the ECIL conference proceedings as part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science series.
Centre for Social Informatics contribution to ECKM 2017
Sep 7, 2017
Location
Barcelona, Spain
Description
Centre for Social Informatics PhD student Iris Buunk presented ‘Skills in sight: how social media affordances increase network awareness’ at the 18th European Conference on Knowledge Management in Barcelona at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC).
This work, coauthored with Professor Hazel Hall and Dr Colin Smith, examines the extent to which social media afford new capabilities in the sharing of tacit knowledge.
Activity theory as a tool for data analysis - School of Computing Seminar Series
Sep 6, 2017
Location
Core44, room C44, Merchiston Campus
Description
This seminar reports on recent research designed to understand how community-level elected representatives (Scotland’s community councillors)
1. learn about their roles
2. gather, process and share information of interest to the citizens they represent and higher authorities such as local authorities (e.g. Edinburgh Council, NHS Lothian).
In this presentation, and the corresponding conference paper, Activity Theory is presented as a framework for explaining Information Literacy as a technologically mediated social practice.
This work demonstrates the value of Activity Theory as
· a tool for Information Literacy research that seeks to present information practices in their social contexts
· as a means of highlighting underlying issues within the social environment under review through the identification of contradictions within the activity system.
These aspects of the research are particularly important because Information Literacy is generally conceived as an aspect of individuals, particularly students in higher education. However, work roles involving information gathering, processing and sharing are often collective/social, and mediated by workplace hierarchies and norms.
22 March at Banqueting Hall, Glasgow City Chambers, George St, Glasgow G2 1DU
Description
Peter Cruickshank and Bruce Ryan will run a workshop on digital engagement for community councils in Glasgow this month. This workshop will bring together community council members from Glasgow and environs to learn and share knowledge on how CCs can use the internet to engage with their citizens. It will enable CC members to learn of support for CCs from the Scottish Government and the Improvement Service, and to learn about the Democratic Society's work on participatory budgeting.
The workshop is funded from Edinburgh Napier University's public engagement stream and hosted by Glasgow City Council Democratic Services team.
Digital engagement workshop for community councillors
Jan 27, 2015
Location
Glassroom, Merchiston. Friday 30 January 2015
Description
Peter Cruickshank and Bruce Ryan will host a workshop on digital engagement for community councillors. This one-day workshop, on Friday 30 January, is aimed at finding solutions to major problems around Community Councils’ internet communication. It will build on recent projects such as Hyperlocal Government Engagement Online and the 2012 and 2014 surveys of Community Council internet use.
The workshop is supported by the Scottish Government's Community Empowerment unit and digital engagement team, the Improvement Service and The Democratic Society, and has been funded by the IIDI public engagement budget.
Envisaged follow-up work includes seeding a Community of Practice to support Community Councils’ digital engagement work, via match-making community councillors’ internet skills and needs, hosting development via the KnowledgeHub, and research and practical action to support knowledge management around CCs’ digital engagement.
Presentation of Community Council project results to Local Authorities' Liaison Officers
Oct 22, 2014
Description
As part of the bi-annual Scotland-wide Community Council Liaison Officer meeting, Peter Cruickshank and Bruce Ryan made a presentation on their findings on the low use of the internet to engage with their citizens by Community Councils as found in the 2012 and 2014 surveys. The CCLOs were asked to help prioritise responses to the recommendations made.
The follow up research ('Hyperlocal Engagement') was also presented - it is hoped that a strategy to build up a community of proactive for sharing knowledge and skills in online communication could be part of the solution.
From centre to community – Reclaiming local democracy
Apr 5, 2014
Description
Bruce Ryan will be taking part and acting as a note-taker in From centre to community - reclaiming local democracy. This follows on from submissions by Bruce and Peter to the Commission for Strengthening Local Democracy and the Scottish Parliament's Inquiry into the Flexibility and Autonomy of Local Government. At this event, as in the submissions, Bruce will argue that Community Councils do not yet have the strength and resources to communicate with their citizens. Hence more training and raising the profile of Community Councils are among necessary first steps if they are to take part in a modern, participatory democracy.
IIDI team to give presentation at Eurocall 2013 in Portugal
Sep 13, 2013
Description
Alistair Lawson and Piotr Mikuta of IIDI are giving a presentation at the European Conference on Computer Aided Language Learning (Eurocall 2013) in Portugal on 13 September 2013. The presentation relates to their work with Peter Cruickshank on Using ICT to Support Course Developers, Tutors, and Students of Scottish Gaelic. This paper will report on the first phase of design and development of this work, and an evaluation of the initial results of providing feedback to students, tutors and course developers. Future plans for development will also be discussed; in particular the use of mobile applications and video conferencing to further support the students, tutors and course providers.
On 12 July 2012 over 100 invited guests enjoyed an evening of music, readings and celebration of Scottish and Gaelic culture when we unveiled the first ever e-book, and a new print edition, of this classic Scottish novel.
Held in honour of the Clan Campbell Society, members of which attended from the USA.
The Awareness team led by Edinburgh Napier University hold a 2-day kick-off meeting of the FET Proactive Initiative in Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems in Amsterdam
Dec 14, 2010
Description
The Aware coordination action www.aware-project.eu is a Coordination Action (CA), supporting 5 research projects under the FP7: FET Proactive Intiative:
Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems (AWARENESS). The CA is a 3 year project: 2010 – 2013.
AWARE provide a supportive environment for research into self-awareness in autonomic systems, helping to create a well-connected community of researchers and conveying a coherent prospect to a wider scientific and technological audience.
AWARE supports 5 Projects:
ASCENS: Autonomic Service-Component EnsemblesEPICS: Engineering Proprioception in Computing SystemsRECOGNITION: Relevance and cognition for self-awareness in a content-centric InternetSAPERE: Self-aware Pervasive Service EcosystemsSYMBRION: Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot Organisms (funded by PerAda)
