Projects (62)

Project Maestro - Ai Musical Analysis Platform Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2026
The Project Objective Algorivm will work in collaboration with our project partners Queen Mary University London and Edinburgh Napier University to develop a groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning digital musical analysis platfor... Read More about Project Maestro - Ai Musical Analysis Platform.

In Our Hands II Aug 4, 2023 - Apr 30, 2024
Since 2020, British Council has worked with partners from academic and creative sectors (private) to develop the necessary spaces where youth can reinterpret Nepal’s natural and cultural heritage to develop a stronger understanding of their contribut... Read More about In Our Hands II.

Sound Design pipeline for cross-platform 360 virtual productions Sep 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
With the increasing formats and devices for spatial audio in 360 VPs, the question of the most efficient way to deliver spatial audio becomes more complex. Being aware of audience perception and preferences is fundamental to delivering immersive 360... Read More about Sound Design pipeline for cross-platform 360 virtual productions.

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.

The Library of Inspiration Feb 1, 2024 - Jul 31, 2025
The project's ultimate aim is to empower 12 and 13-year-olds from under-represented groups in engineering to become future leaders. This will be achieved through "The Library of Inspiration," physically located in local high schools, using co-creatio... Read More about The Library of Inspiration.

Platform to platform: an investigation into audience engagement with digitised archives and its transformative impact across different online formats Feb 2, 2022 - Jul 31, 2022
This project was closely tied to two goals of the AHRC/Creative Informatics call: unlocking value from digitised heritage content, and online performance.
In respect of ‘unlocking value from digitised heritage’, the practical aspect of the research... Read More about Platform to platform: an investigation into audience engagement with digitised archives and its transformative impact across different online formats.

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.

Creative Informatics: Data Driven Innovation for the Creative Industries Oct 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2024
Data Driven Innovation (DDI) is transforming society and the economy. DDI is defined as the challenge to make effective use of data to shape, develop and deliver innovative products and services to consumers and citizens. The Creative Industries are... Read More about Creative Informatics: Data Driven Innovation for the Creative Industries.

Audio Mostly 2023 Nov 1, 2022 - Oct 31, 2023
This project's aim is to host the Audio Mostly conference 2023 here at Edinburgh Napier University (https://audiomostly.com/).

Conference Theme:
Embodied Sound in the Virtual

Conference Abstract:
Sound design can play a crucial role in suppo... Read More about Audio Mostly 2023.

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.

BSL in Embodied Music Interaction Feb 1, 2022 - Apr 30, 2023
This is an exploratory study in the field of Embodied Music Interaction (EMI) to greater understand how British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters categorise music for the hearing impaired. EMI looks at how music makes us move, the affordances of soun... Read More about BSL in Embodied Music Interaction.

Creative Coin Aug 1, 2021 - Jul 21, 2022
This project uses data and technology to design a “Creative Coin”, an alternative currency as a method for exploring the contributory value of the Creative Industries to a Circular Economy.

RSE COP26 International Climate Change Network Grants Jun 1, 2021 - Nov 30, 2021
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), with the support of the Scottish Funding Council, is pleased to invite applications for the RSE COP26 International Climate Change Network Grants.

The RSE COP26 International Climate Change Network Grants are... Read More about RSE COP26 International Climate Change Network Grants.

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.

Road to COP26 Innovation Grant Programme Nov 1, 2020 - Feb 28, 2022
Description:
Crafting Futures Nepal (CFN) is a partnership between Edinburgh Napier University (Inge Panneels, Creative Informatics), Kathmandu University and Applied Arts Scotland (AAS), funded by the British Council. Applied Arts Scotland (AAS) ar... Read More about Road to COP26 Innovation Grant Programme.

Gaze tracking through in-ear sensing Jan 1, 2019 - Apr 30, 2019
Eye-tracking is an increasingly popular technique in which user’s eye movements are captured by a computer system, allowing it to ascertain where the user is looking in a display or visual scene (fixations), and the sequence in which these fixations... Read More about Gaze tracking through in-ear sensing.

ENSEMBLE Performing Together Apart: Enhancing Immersive Multi-Location Co-Performance in Real Time Jan 1, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018
The feeling of being immersed within a live performance by an ensemble of world class musicians can be a deeply engaging and highly valued cultural experience for audiences as well as for the performers themselves. Operas, orchestral performances and... Read More about ENSEMBLE Performing Together Apart: Enhancing Immersive Multi-Location Co-Performance in Real Time.

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.

Research visit @ University of Bielefeld Jun 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2017
Research exchange with the Bielefeld Dialogue Systems group

Information for Action on Climate Change Jul 1, 2017 - Jun 30, 2019
The challenge that climate change poses to humanity and the natural environment is critical and well documented. Faced with such an unprecedented challenge, three responses are needed: drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation), action to... Read More about Information for Action on Climate Change.