Events (13)

EA/Respawn Presentation: Selective Attention & Psychoacoustics
Nov 7, 2024

Location	Remote (Online via Zoom)
Description	This invited talk will discuss research undertaken by Ethan Robson. The main themes include selective attention and psychoacoustics for video game sound. Methods of implementation, specific application areas, and case studies of Respawn's video game products will be discussed.
People	Ethan Robson

Gamers' Audio Preferences invited talk (Sony IE)
Apr 10, 2024

Location	Remote (online via Teams)
Description	This invited talk will discuss the results of a survey on gamers' audio preferences, and how auditory selective attention could be used to improve engagement with gamers. How gamers listen to games, engage with and experience video games are main topics that will be covered.
People	Ethan Robson
Org Units	School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
URL	https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanrobsonaudio/

Playing with Archives: The Past, Present and Future
Mar 6, 2024

Location	Cardiff University
Description	HAP is an annual gathering of historians and archivists to explore new projects, practices and collections. The conference is run jointly by the Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research and The National Archives Panel 2: Playing with Archives: The Past, Present and Future Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, academics from the Applied Informatics group at Edinburgh Napier University consider the creative past, present and future of archives. With experience across information science, creative informatics, creative technology and game design they will discuss how their research considers creative interpretation and aesthetic experiences in public engagement with archives. Specifically, they will consider how design approaches can embed creative and playable components within archival-based practice to encourage future generations to connect with materials in new and engaging ways. The panel will discuss how creative mediums utilise archival materials for world building and reflect on the growth of digitised materials to allow new ‘audiences’ to play with history. The panel will consider how physical heritage sites can be an aesthetic, multisensorial experiences that can provoke visceral responses (Claisse et al 2020) and how in designing for interaction with digital collections, our challenge is to engender equivalent reactions with new ‘audiences’. We will present a range of technological and gaming interventions to consider how archival materials are played with through technology (Darzentas 2020; Wagner 2023), in games like Valiant Hearts (Ubisoft 2014), how they can portray complex histories such as in The Darkest Files (Paintbucket Games 2024 forthcoming), and how digital biographical or documentary storytelling are then themselves becoming archival materials that create new challenges for archivists (Donald and Houghton 2018; Tarvet 2022). The aim of this panel is not to consider how we preserve this new digital content, but to discuss how we can make existing archive material more accessible for people to 'play' with material and in the process create new artefacts. We seek to address the question of "how can information scientists, creative technologists and game designers aid discovery, reading and interpretation of archive material?"
People	Ingi Helgason Rachel Salzano Iain Donald
Org Units	School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
URL	https://royalhistsoc.org/conference-programme-now-available-for-history-and-archives-in-practice-2024-in-cardiff/

Lions' Gate Open Day
Sep 24, 2022

Location	Lions' Gate Garden, Merchiston Campus
Description	Lions' Gate Garden free event as part of the Climate Fringe and the Great Big Green Week, supported by the Permaculture Association. At 3.30pm influential, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at Aberdeen University Tim Ingold, presented his latest work ‘Generation Now‘ from our Storytelling Chair. Tim has made a huge impact on design philosophy, and was a favourite of Edinburgh Napier’s late, great Prof. David Benyon, whose own design work on Blended Spaces has fundamentally informed The Lions’ Gate. Other wholesome and life-affirming activities of the day included: Holistic Therapies by Emma J @ Blue Butterfly Therapies Student exhibits from the School of Arts and Creative Industries Campus-grown food Cocktails and drinks Music, including DJ Someone’s Dad and Blue Heron Garden tours All 100 Eventbrite tickets were used. A blog post on the event is available here: https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/thelionsgate/thinking-back-on-the-lions-gate-open-day/
People	Callum Egan
Org Units	School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
URL	https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/thelionsgate/thinking-back-on-the-lions-gate-open-day/

Hasten Slowly
Aug 26, 2021

Location	The Lions' Gate Garden: ENU, 10 Colinton Road, EH10 5DT
Description	Over 30 attendees ate, drank, blethered, engaged, questioned, laughed, listened, chilled-out, and learnt a thing or two about what living sustainably actually is. We unveiled our interactive storytelling chair and memorial to Professor David Benyon, crafted by Neil Fyffe (https://www.facebook.com/Neil-Fyffes-Workshop-1405191703026383). Brian Davison demonstrated an environmental sensor network developed in collaboration with students. Kris Plum exhibited an interactive plastics-recycling bin. Aisling Murphy delved into the wildlife and plants of The Lions' Gate and demonstrated Shona Burns' interactive Lions' Gate audio tour. Graham Bell talked eloquently of the history of Hasten Slowly (Festina Lente), the impact of climate collapse, and shared insights into how to live sustainably. Participants added their wishes to our COP26 Wishing Tree on tags with seeds embedded in them, that we'll plant up as a COP26 garden. Juliete, Sally and Zhoa served up - herb teas, courgette cake and pizzas. Allan MacMillan provided soothing background to it all with delightful acoustic guitar work. We kept the door to the library open, and inside was a wee chill-out area next to our book case.
People	Callum Egan
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
URL	https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/thelionsgate/

PhD students present their work at the school of computing post-graduate research conference
May 11, 2016

Location	H5 & H9 Merchiston Campus
Description	This years post-graduate research conference will be held Wednesday (11th of May) on H-floor.  Presentations and the keynote will be in H5, the poster session, breaks and the reception will be in H9. We are proud to welcome Dr Wendy Moncur from the University of Dundee as this years keynote speaker. The programme schedule, the running order of all sessions, presentation titles and abstracts and can be downloaded here: http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/~zz388/soc-pgrc2016/SoC-PGRC2016-Programme.pdf The conference is organised and chaired by student volunteers and Dr Kevin Chalmers.
People	Frances Ryan Andreas Steyven Baraq Ghaleb
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

Ahmed Al-Dubai organised the annual Firbush trip, workshop for the 1st and 2nd PhD students of School of Computing
May 4, 2015

People	Ahmed Al-Dubai
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

FECCI Research Conference 2014
May 13, 2014

Location	09:30, Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre, Craiglockhart Campus.
Description	The faculty research conference will take place on Tuesday 13th May 2014 at the Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre, Craiglockhart Campus. Please register on eventbrite (for catering). Professor Annette Markham will deliver the keynote: Remix(ing) methods, remix(ing) disciplines: Provocations for grappling with complexity in digitally-saturated research contexts. Annette Markham teaches within the Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden, the Department of Aesthetics & Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark and the School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago, U.S.A. A researcher from each school will then present one project, followed by a panel focusing on research funding. A selection of research students from each school will then present their work. There will be musical interludes, posters and prizes. The conference will run from 9.30am - 5.15pm followed by an evening reception. There are more details, including the full program,  on the conference webpage.
People	Michael Smyth Aurelien Ammeloot Imed Romdhani Ella Taylor-Smith
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

Faculty Research Conference 2014
May 13, 2014

Location	Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre, Craiglockhart Campus
Description	Research students and staff from the 3 FECCI schools (SACI, SEBE and SOC) gathered on Tuesday for the annual faculty research conference. Professor Annette Markham delivered the keynote: Remix(ing) methods, remix(ing) disciplines: Provocations for grappling with complexity in digitally-saturated research contexts. This was the inspiration for lively conversations throughout the day and into the following week. In a first for the conference, the day was punctuated by 2 musical interludes, provided by students from SACI, including a piece composed specially for the day. Post-doctoral researchers presented a current project from each school and then formed a panel, for Q&A, with a focus on applying for and implementing funded research. Eleven first year students, from the 3 schools, each presented a 20x20 style introduction to their research. Three students in the equivilant of their second year presented their work and answered questions, followed by the same format for three students (one from each school) from 3rd and later years. Posters were displayed over lunch. More information about the presentations and music is available on the conference webpage. The day finished a reception and prizes. This was one of the most successful faculty conferences of recent years, with a good attendance and positive feedback. Tweets form the day may be available using the hashtag #FECCI14.
People	Aurelien Ammeloot Ella Taylor-Smith Michael Smyth Brian Davison Imed Romdhani
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

Visit by Tomintoul and Glenlivet Development Trust
Oct 24, 2013

Description	There was a visit from Visit by Tomintoul and Glenlivet Development Trust to discuss their plans for digital tourism, and digital innovation more generally. This should lead to an innovation voucher application.
People	Brian Davison
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

FECCI Research Student Conference
May 16, 2013

Location	Thursday 16th May, 09:30, Craiglockhart Campus
Description	This year's all faculty student research conference features a welcome (09:30) from Professor Alistair Sambell (Vice Principal: Academic), a keynote, "Like Humans Do" (09:45) , from Riccardo Marini (Senior Consultant at Gehl Architects and City Design Leader at City of Edinburgh Council). (Full program). Plus a panel session (11:00) with the heads of each research institute, chaired by Ben Paechter. Research students from IIDI (School of Computing), along with students from the School of Arts & Creative Industries, the School of Engineering & the Built Environment, will present their work in short (20/20) presentations, full presentations and posters (all afternoon from 13:30). The conference is closed by Professor Chris Atton (16:45), followed by a Reception and Prize Giving (17:00) Come along and find out what's going on in FECCI and beyond. Hashtag is #FECCI13
People	Michael Smyth Ben Paechter Ella Taylor-Smith
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

Tech-Talk: Stable Probabilistic Routing Schemes for High Mobility Ad hoc Networks, Mustafa Bani Khalaf, PhD Candidate, School of Computing
Dec 5, 2012

Location	2pm-3pm, F29
Description	Talk tile: Stable Probabilistic  Routing Schemes for High Mobility Ad hoc Networks  Speaker: Mustafa Bani Khalaf, PhD Candidate, School of Computing  In this talk, we investigate efficient strategies for supporting stable probabilistic route discovery in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). MANETs usually use broadcast mechanisms to discover routes between nodes by flooding the network with RREQ packets. Usually, routes of the high mobility nodes have frequent breakages which result in discovering the same routes frequently. Hence, uncontrolled RREQ packets can cause more channel contention and increase packets collision rate. This is well-known as the broadcast storm problem, and different probabilistic solutions have been suggested to mitigate its side effect. Unlike other proposed schemes, In this study we utilize the probabilistic concept to develop new probabilistic routing schemes called Velocity Aware Probabilistic (VAP) route discovery schemes, to solve the frequent link breakages problem and guarantee that all constructed links are stable in MANETs.  Node velocity is anticipated as a key parameter to control the routing function among the nodes. Routing in Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) communications is also handled in this talk. Simulation experiments confirm that our proposed model significantly outperforms existing well known solutions in terms of RREQ packet overhead and link stability.    Bio: Mustafa Bani Khalaf is a PhD candidate at the School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University. He joined Edinburgh Napier in January 2010. He received his BSc and MSc in computer Science from the Jordan University for Science and Technology in 2007 and 2009. His PhD thesis is on group communications in Mobile ad hoc Networks (MANETs) and Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs). Mustafa has already reported a number of his findings in international scholarly journals and IEEE conferences proceedings. He is currently at the writing-up stage. He is a member of the Networks Theme at IIDI under the supervision of Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai and Professor Bill Buchanan. Mustafa is a Chartered Engineer and a member of IEEE.    
People	Emma Hart Ahmed Al-Dubai
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

IIDI hosts BCS ISSG seminar "The Insider Threat" on Thursday 30th June at Merchiston Campus, B32
Jun 28, 2011

Description	In a team effort, Tom McEwan, as chair of BCS Interaction SG and speakers Bill Buchanan and Niladri Bose welcome top information security professionals to discuss the interface between humans and computer security. Amongst the attendees Prof Jim Norton, president of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. Speakers are listed at http://www.bcs-issg.org.uk/events.html#Insider 
People	Bill Buchanan
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment