Projects (24)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Landscaping Digital Augmentation of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo May 2, 2016 - Aug 31, 2016
I-POS produce an Intelligent Point of Sale application which runs on Apple iPad hardware for use in bars and restaurants. The application generates transaction based sales data and re-ordering data from each user of the system. Whilst individual user... Read More about Landscaping Digital Augmentation of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

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".

IIDI & Jupiter Artland Foundation Jul 1, 2011 - Nov 1, 2011
This project involved developing audio guides for Jupiter Artland.  A traditional audio guide was developed, including introductions of the work and discussions from the artists.  Alongside this was an extension of a long-term collaboration between J... Read More about IIDI & Jupiter Artland Foundation.

Convivio Summer School Oct 10, 2005 - Aug 1, 2006
Convivio Summer School is a EU Framework Programmes project funded by EU

Ensemble Apr 1, 2006 - Mar 31, 2007
Ensemble is an interactive suite of jewellery to be experienced by up to ten people within a gallery environment, which provides an alternative, ambigious style of interaction in wearable computing. It explores the issue of user control of personal i... Read More about Ensemble.

Peach May 1, 2006 - Apr 30, 2009
Presence Research in Action, ‘Peach’, is a co-ordination action, part of the European Union’s 6th Research and Development Framework Programme in Information Systems Technologies. Peach is a project aimed at coordinating research in Presence across t... Read More about Peach.