HI-Risk: a socio-technical method for the identification and monitoring of healthcare information security risks in the information society (2014)
Thesis
van Deursen Hazelhoff Roelfze, N. HI-Risk: a socio-technical method for the identification and monitoring of healthcare information security risks in the information society. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6921

This thesis describes the development of the HI-risk method to assess socio-technical information security risks. The method is based on the concept that related organisations experience similar risks and could benefit from sharing knowledge in order... Read More about HI-Risk: a socio-technical method for the identification and monitoring of healthcare information security risks in the information society.

An introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Quinton, M., & McGregor, I. (2014, July). An introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape. Presented at Invisible places: sounding cities, Sound, Urbanism and Sense of Place

This is an introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape and is part of an even bigger project. It introduces a soundscape diced with traditional sounds which still echo in the present and mutate and conflict with the modern sounds that are becoming p... Read More about An introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape..

A Blended Space for Heritage Storytelling. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Keefe, B., Benyon, D., Chandwani, G., & Menon, M. (2014, September). A Blended Space for Heritage Storytelling. Presented at 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

This paper explores the role of Blending Theory, as a framework, to aid in design decisions while
deploying mobile experiences for heritage storytelling. Blending Theory provides a structured way
of thinking about how digital and physical spaces ca... Read More about A Blended Space for Heritage Storytelling..

Can a Theory-Informed Interactive Animation Increase Intentions to Engage in Physical Activity in Young People with Asthma? (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Murray, J., Williams, B., Hoskins, G., Skar, S., McGhee, J., Gauld, D., Brown, G., Treweek, S., Sniehotta, F., Cameron, L., Sheikh, A., & Hagen, S. (2014, June). Can a Theory-Informed Interactive Animation Increase Intentions to Engage in Physical Activity in Young People with Asthma?. Presented at International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction HCI 2014: Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services

A theoretically-informed interactive animation was developed, using themes drawn from psychology, sociology, applied health research, and narrative theory, which aimed to encourage young people with asthma to engage in physical activity. The animatio... Read More about Can a Theory-Informed Interactive Animation Increase Intentions to Engage in Physical Activity in Young People with Asthma?.

Poxels: polygonal voxel environment rendering (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Miller, M., Cumming, A., Chalmers, K., Kenwright, B., & Mitchell, K. (2014, November). Poxels: polygonal voxel environment rendering. Presented at Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology - VRST '14

We present efficient rendering of opaque, sparse, voxel environments with data amplified in local graphics memory with stream-out from a geomery shader to a cached vertex buffer pool. We show that our Poxel rendering primitive aligns with optimized r... Read More about Poxels: polygonal voxel environment rendering.

A Unified Platform for the Dynamic Evolution of Context-Aware Highly Agile Services (2014)
Book Chapter
Liu, X., Jaroucheh, Z., Smith, S., & Zhao, H. (2014). A Unified Platform for the Dynamic Evolution of Context-Aware Highly Agile Services. In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition (2806-2815). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch274

No abstract available.

Designing blended spaces: historical echoes, testing a framework for digital tourism. (2014)
Journal Article
Ayan, S., & Benyon, D. (2014). Designing blended spaces: historical echoes, testing a framework for digital tourism. International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design, 7(2), 1-12

This work relates heavily to blended space theory and the trajectories approach previously done in this field. Imaz and Benyon have introduced the ideas of conceptual blending to analyze developments in HCI and software engineering. Benford explains... Read More about Designing blended spaces: historical echoes, testing a framework for digital tourism..

Temporal Multivariate Networks. (2014)
Book Chapter
Archambault, D., Abello, J., Kennedy, J., Kobourov, S., Ma, K.-L., Miksch, S., Muelder, C., & Telea, A. C. (2014). Temporal Multivariate Networks. In A. Kerren, H. Purchase, & M. Ward (Eds.), Multivariate Network Visualization (151-175). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06793-3_8

In this chapter, we define, characterize, and summarize the data and visualization techniques relating to temporal multivariate networks. Section 2.1.1 provides definitions and examples that characterize the networks we address in this chapter. We fu... Read More about Temporal Multivariate Networks..

Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications. (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, W. J. (2014). Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications

We have always been been intrigued by keeping secrets and uncovering the secrets of others, whether that’s childhood secret messages, or secrets and codebreaking of national importance. With a film, The Imitation Game, reprising the life of Alan Turi... Read More about Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications..

Better locks to secure our data are the inevitable result of too many prying eyes (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, W. J. (2014). Better locks to secure our data are the inevitable result of too many prying eyes

Robert Hannigan, the new head of British signals intelligence agency GCHQ, has accused technology companies of aiding terrorists and criminals by providing them secure communications through their products and networks. Far from adopting a conciliato... Read More about Better locks to secure our data are the inevitable result of too many prying eyes.

Planar character animation using genetic algorithms and GPU parallel computing (2014)
Journal Article
Kenwright, B. (2014). Planar character animation using genetic algorithms and GPU parallel computing. Entertainment Computing, 5(4), 285-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2014.09.003

The emergence of evolving search techniques (e.g., genetic algorithms) has paved the way for innovative character animation solutions. For example, generating human movements without key-frame data. Instead character animations can be created using b... Read More about Planar character animation using genetic algorithms and GPU parallel computing.

Novel Hyper-heuristics Applied to the Domain of Bin Packing (2014)
Thesis
Sim, K. Novel Hyper-heuristics Applied to the Domain of Bin Packing. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7563

Principal to the ideology behind hyper-heuristic research is the desire to increase the level of generality of heuristic procedures so that they can be easily applied to a wide variety of problems to produce solutions of adequate quality within pract... Read More about Novel Hyper-heuristics Applied to the Domain of Bin Packing.

QoS-aware Inter-domain multicast for scalable wireless community networks (2014)
Journal Article
Al-Dubai, A. Y., Zhao, L., Zomaya, A. Y., & Min, G. (2014). QoS-aware Inter-domain multicast for scalable wireless community networks. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 26(11), 3136-3148. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2014.2365190

Wireless Community Networks (WCNs) have emerged as a cost-effective ubiquitous broadband connectivity solution, offering a wide range of services in a given geographical area. QoS-aware multicast over WCNs is among the most challenging issues and has... Read More about QoS-aware Inter-domain multicast for scalable wireless community networks.

When the ATM runs Windows, how safe is your money? (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, W. J. (2014). When the ATM runs Windows, how safe is your money?

How safe is Microsoft Windows? After all, the list of malware that has caused major headaches worldwide over the last 15 years is long – viruses, worms and Trojans have forced computers to shut down, knocked South Korea offline and even overloaded Go... Read More about When the ATM runs Windows, how safe is your money?.

Digital Health (2014)
Book Chapter
Thuemmler, C. (2015). Digital Health. In S. Fricker, C. Thümmler, & A. Gavras (Eds.), Requirements Engineering for Digital Health (1-23). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09798-5_1

Healthcare is the biggest and fastest growing industry in the world and is one of the domains that are expected to grow significantly over decades to come. Underlying cause for this are the current demographic developments which are showing similar p... Read More about Digital Health.

iWorm hack shows Macs are vulnerable too (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, W. J. (2014). iWorm hack shows Macs are vulnerable too

The computer operating systems and applications we use today have often evolved over many years, decades even, and contain tens or hundreds of millions of lines of code. Flaws in that code – and there will always be some – give rise to security probl... Read More about iWorm hack shows Macs are vulnerable too.

Is British HCI Important? A topic-based comparison with CHI (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Padilla, S., Methven, T. S., & Chandler, M. J. (2014, September). Is British HCI Important? A topic-based comparison with CHI. Paper presented at HCI 2014 - Sand, Sea and Sky - Holiday HCI, Southport, UK

We have applied topic modelling to the full-text British HCI and CHI corpora in order to automatically derive one hundred topics and their trends. We use these to compare the distributions of topics and changing foci of two conferences over the last... Read More about Is British HCI Important? A topic-based comparison with CHI.

Vesper: Visualising species archives (2014)
Journal Article
Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2014). Vesper: Visualising species archives. Ecological Informatics, 24, 132-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.004

Vesper (Visual Exploration of SPEcies-referenced Repositories) is a tool that visualises Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) datasets, and is aimed at reducing the amount of time and effort expended by biologists to ascertain the quality of data they are gen... Read More about Vesper: Visualising species archives.

An aspect oriented model for software energy efficiency in decentralised servers. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chinenyeze, S., Liu, X., & Al-Dubai, A. (2014, August). An aspect oriented model for software energy efficiency in decentralised servers. Presented at 2nd International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S 2014)

Green software is currently gaining interests with the increasing impact of IT in energy consumption. Green-ness in software however, can be achieved at various stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Consequently, several software engi... Read More about An aspect oriented model for software energy efficiency in decentralised servers..

Specification for Generic Enablers as Software (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brogan, J. P., & Thuemmler, C. (2014, April). Specification for Generic Enablers as Software. Presented at 2014 11th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations

Generic Enablers are a specialism of software engineering. They are components used for providing reusable building blocks that enable the construction of applications for future internet technology. The Generic Enablers satisfy requirements of appli... Read More about Specification for Generic Enablers as Software.