Projects (102)

Festival UK 2022 Nov 16, 2020 - Mar 31, 2021
This is an application for a funded R&D process to develop a bid for Festival 2022. Festival UK* 2022 will be ten open, original, optimistic, large-scale and extraordinary acts of public engagement that will showcase the UK's creativity and innovati... Read More about Festival UK 2022.

MeCCSA 2025 Conference: Identity and Belonging Sep 2, 2024 - Dec 19, 2025
Media and culture play a crucial role in shaping identity, especially in contemporary contexts marked by economic struggles, conflict, and migration. The significance of identity is heightened as individuals navigate their sense of self in new and ev... Read More about MeCCSA 2025 Conference: Identity and Belonging.

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.

Social media by proxy: Managing online information for adults with dementia Jan 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2019
As social media use by older people increases, along with an increased rate of dementia diagnoses, the management or oversight of social networking sites by carers is likely to increase. This research aims to investigate the “lived experiences” of pe... Read More about Social media by proxy: Managing online information for adults with dementia.

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.

Next Generation Trust Architecture Mar 1, 2018 - Feb 29, 2020
This work will provide proof-of-concept infrastructures and which will be used to create an ecosystem for strong use cases, and thus attract new funding for the building of new health and social care infrastructures, with a focus a cyber resilient tr... Read More about Next Generation Trust Architecture.

Walks & Waterfalls Innovation Voucher Mar 1, 2018 - May 31, 2018
Walks and Waterfalls is a multi-channel interactive project intended to design and roadmap a blended experience between a fine art photography book, a mobile augmented reality app and physical locations around Scotland.

It brings a unique approach... Read More about Walks & Waterfalls Innovation Voucher.

What Do Dovecot Weavers Do All Day? Jun 27, 2016 - Oct 26, 2016
Dovecot and the ENU team are exploring innovative digital solution for visitors to experience the work of weavers without disturbing the concentrated work required for tapestry weaving. With the creation of a virtual Dovecot world we will allow visit... Read More about What Do Dovecot Weavers Do All Day?.

dot.rural Portrait KE Oct 7, 2015 - Feb 29, 2016
Portrait is a software tool developed to help care staff get to know personal and social information about clients that live in residential care facilities. The Portrait system consists of a biography for individuals with dementia who live in a care... Read More about dot.rural Portrait KE.

ODPM's National E-Democracy Project Aug 1, 2004 - Jul 30, 2005

The knowledge trap: an intranet implementation in a corporate environment Nov 30, 1999 - Apr 1, 2004
The role of the intranet in knowledge sharing.
Primary research investigated in depth a single, maturing intranet in a large, distributed organisation. The qualitative approach that was adopted generated grounded explanation through case study descr... Read More about The knowledge trap: an intranet implementation in a corporate environment.

Expert Evaluation Team for the Local eDemocracy National Project Aug 1, 2003 - Mar 31, 2005
How can Local Authorities be sure that eDemocracy works? How can they be sure that they are using the right e-enabled tool for the job and that the use of these tools will result in effective input to the democratic process? And what about citizens?... Read More about Expert Evaluation Team for the Local eDemocracy National Project.

Ur'Say for Young Scot Mar 1, 2002 - May 1, 2004
The ITC worked with Young Scot on their Ur'Say channel, when they were just beginning to use their website to gather young people's opinions and host discussions on relevant issues.

ITC developed new action-research models for online facilitatio... Read More about Ur'Say for Young Scot.

Information Literacy for Democratic Engagement (IL-DEM) Oct 10, 2016 - Dec 8, 2016
The findings of this research will contribute to strategies to improve citizen engagement in the democratic process at community level.
Community Councillors are a vital link between local communities and higher levels of government in Scotland. The... Read More about Information Literacy for Democratic Engagement (IL-DEM).

Youth School: Donor and Beneficiary Interactions "Funding Lab" Nov 28, 2014 - Apr 13, 2015
User Experience report detailing system technology, persona's, scenarios, wire-frame and recommendations for future work. Partial on-line prototype developed utilising HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.Partner is keen to develop partnership with Edinburgh N... Read More about Youth School: Donor and Beneficiary Interactions "Funding Lab".

Hyperlocal engagement Sep 1, 2014 - Dec 31, 2014
A Community of Practice was found supporting the digital engagement practitioners in the neighbouring CCs, and that this is situated within a context of interested non-practitioners who share knowledge with practitioners.
However, the Community of... Read More about Hyperlocal engagement.

Visit_University May 9, 2014 - Sep 30, 2014
Due to a change in business focus by the client, some anticipated material was not available to the university and so the project was shortened (by 30%) and realigned. A Report was delivered containing key sources of information consulted by target u... Read More about Visit_University.

WhatsOnScotland Apr 21, 2014 - Jul 31, 2014
Based on a review of their existing information systems and plans, we worked with What's On Scotland to evaluate their information strategy with a focus on social media and other technologies which would turn the process of contacting clients on its... Read More about WhatsOnScotland.