Projects (62)

Natural Language Generation for Low-resource Domains Mar 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2024
In the UK, around one in four people suffer from a mental health problem every year [1]. Mental well-being can affect all aspects of our lives, including our work, relationships, and family lives. A lack of personalised information along with the men... Read More about Natural Language Generation for Low-resource Domains.

COG-MHEAR: Towards cognitively-inspired, 5G-IoT enabled multi-modal hearing aids Mar 1, 2021 - Feb 28, 2026
Embracing the multimodal nature of speech presents both opportunities and challenges for hearing assistive technology:
on the one hand there are opportunities for the design of new multimodal audio-visual (AV) algorithms; on the other hand,
multimo... Read More about COG-MHEAR: Towards cognitively-inspired, 5G-IoT enabled multi-modal hearing aids.

Career information literacy and decision-making Oct 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2023
The main aim of this doctoral study is to generate new knowledge on career development learning with reference to decision-making amongst young people in S2-S6 preparing for their lives beyond school education. As well as developing theoretical insig... Read More about Career information literacy and decision-making.

Information literacy and society: a comprehensive review Feb 1, 2023 - Sep 30, 2023
This project sought to bring out how people learn to understand why and how they need information, and how they gather, process and use information, by reviewing research from 2005 to the present. The word ‘information’ was taken to mean not only wri... Read More about Information literacy and society: a comprehensive review.

A New Generation of Peer Advice Systems– Prototyping and Testing the Freelance Advisor App Jun 1, 2025 - May 31, 2026
Research shows a big knowledge gap in the freelance community, with 56.5% of freelancers not feeling well informed of their rights, 68.5% having issues with late or non-payment, and 57.1% relying on peer advice to solve issues relating to contract ne... Read More about A New Generation of Peer Advice Systems– Prototyping and Testing the Freelance Advisor App.

Towards multilingual audio-visual speech enhancement in real noisy environments Feb 17, 2023 - Aug 31, 2025
Speech enhancement aims to improve the overall quality and intelligibility of speech degraded by noise sources in real-world noisy environments. In recent years, researchers have proposed audio-visual speech enhancement models that go beyond traditio... Read More about Towards multilingual audio-visual speech enhancement in real noisy environments.

TRUST AND PRIVACY PRESERVING COMPUTING PLATFORM FOR CROSSBORDER FEDERATION OF PERSONAL DATA Jul 1, 2022 - Dec 31, 2025
As we live in a data-driven era, the emergence of interdisciplinary, geographically dispersed, data repositories, is inevitable. The fact that these repositories do not necessarily abide with existing interdisciplinary data representation standards,... Read More about TRUST AND PRIVACY PRESERVING COMPUTING PLATFORM FOR CROSSBORDER FEDERATION OF PERSONAL DATA.

AI Visual Sep 1, 2023 - Feb 29, 2024
The project is initiated by a company called 20 Photos, founded by Jo

Tennant, a professional photographer. The company has developed a concept that involves curating photos into a story that is beautiful, meaningful, and printed. The project's ma... Read More about AI Visual.

Let's Play Wester Hailes: Community Produced Video Games of Edinburgh May 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2022
This project aims to engage children and young people with the computer games industry. Working with WHALE Arts we will build games and upload them onto bespoke arcade machines. The games created will be displayed at numerous events that aim to bri... Read More about Let's Play Wester Hailes: Community Produced Video Games of Edinburgh.

Gendered information landscapes and their impact on routes into and through apprenticeships Oct 1, 2022 - Oct 31, 2025
The aim is to understand the myriad sources of gender stereotyping that impact on young people’s choices around apprenticeships and work-based learning (WBL). First, by a policy and literature review around occupational segregation in apprenticeships... Read More about Gendered information landscapes and their impact on routes into and through apprenticeships.

On the executability and malicious retention of adversarial malware samples generated using adversarial learning. Jan 27, 2023 - Jan 27, 2023
A SICSA Sponsored Research Theme Event
Machine Learning (ML) models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples designed to fool ML models to classify them as benign rather than malicious. This has led to several research efforts geared... Read More about On the executability and malicious retention of adversarial malware samples generated using adversarial learning..

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.

Role Models Framework Pilot Jan 24, 2022 - May 13, 2022
This project follows on from the project Gender Imbalance in Digital Technology, which created the Five Aspects Framework. This project pilots and evaluates the framework.

Scottish Gaelic Generation for Exhibitions Feb 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2023
Developing resources and prototype systems for Natural Language Generation in Scottish Gaelic for cultural and artistic exhibits.

Link Forty2 Feb 1, 2022 - Aug 31, 2022
The aim of the project is to design a recruitment service for jobseekers and employers in the form of a software system, e.g., a web service or mobile app. The system is intended to re-define and speed up the recruitment process and lower the recruit... Read More about Link Forty2.

Gender Imbalance in Digital Technology Feb 12, 2021 - May 31, 2021
This project will examine what tertiary education institutions are doing to help tackle the gender imbalance in their Digital Technology courses. It will focus on the area of positive female role models and their use to raise awareness, aspirations a... Read More about Gender Imbalance in Digital Technology.

Hyperheuristics for infrastructure system optimisation Jun 1, 2020 - Dec 31, 2020
Continuum Industries novel software tech allows engineers to automate their work and evaluate millions of possible combinations of design parameters. Primary application lies in linear infrastructure design - roads, railways, pipelines, cables. Wher... Read More about Hyperheuristics for infrastructure system optimisation.

Critical Infrastructure Protection & ICT Gender Equality (Women in IT) Guest Speaker's Travel Grant Nov 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2018
1st event: a speaker for the Cyber Security Conference (Critical Infrastructure Protection) (200 words):

Industrial Control Systems(ICS) are widely used in critical infrastructure such as nuclear power plants, water, and transportation industries... Read More about Critical Infrastructure Protection & ICT Gender Equality (Women in IT) Guest Speaker's Travel Grant.

Trisent: Innovation Voucher for Personal Context Data Project Feb 1, 2018 - Jun 30, 2018
This is a small project to initiate an engagement following an unsuccessful application for a larger Data Lab project.

Trisent’s core technology is called the Personal Context Management System (PCMS) which gathers context data into a database an... Read More about Trisent: Innovation Voucher for Personal Context Data Project.

CiViL: Common-sense- and Visual-enhanced natural Language generation Sep 28, 2020 - Sep 27, 2023
One of the most compelling problems in Artificial Intelligence is to create computational agents capable of interacting in
real-world environments using natural language. Computational agents such as robots can offer multiple benefits to
society, f... Read More about CiViL: Common-sense- and Visual-enhanced natural Language generation.