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There Be Dragons: Navigating the uncharted data territories of creative practice (2023)
Report
Panneels, I., Helgason, I., & Smyth, M. (2023). There Be Dragons: Navigating the uncharted data territories of creative practice. Creative Informatics

This report documents the work of the Creative Informatics Creative Horizons 4: There be Dragons project. The There Be Dragons project starts from the premise that data can empower creative businesses to do more and to do it better. Data can be u... Read More about There Be Dragons: Navigating the uncharted data territories of creative practice.

Manipulating Foley Footsteps and Character Realism to Influence Audience Perceptions of a 3D Animated Walk Cycle (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Cunningham, S., & Mcgregor, I. (2022). Manipulating Foley Footsteps and Character Realism to Influence Audience Perceptions of a 3D Animated Walk Cycle. In AM '22: Audio Mostly 2022

Foley artistry is an essential part of the audio post-production process for film, television, games, and animation. By extension, it is as crucial in emergent media such as virtual, mixed, and augmented reality. Footsteps are a core activity that a... Read More about Manipulating Foley Footsteps and Character Realism to Influence Audience Perceptions of a 3D Animated Walk Cycle.

Acoustics versus Psychoacoustics in Mixed Reality (2022)
Digital Artefact
McGregor, I. (2022). Acoustics versus Psychoacoustics in Mixed Reality. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pCD99RcDts&list=PLtnYW6qlPmyg4EcCMqRmVrXtopztUyUSx&index=3]

In Mixed Reality there is often a highly understandable desire to capture the “ground truth” and to represent it in its entirety. A typically strong belief is that the greater the amount of resolution, the better potential sense of immersion. This... Read More about Acoustics versus Psychoacoustics in Mixed Reality.

Procedural Audio For Virtual Environments Workshop (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Di Donato, B., & Selfridge, R. (2022, September). Procedural Audio For Virtual Environments Workshop. Presented at Audio Mostly, St. Pölten, Austria

Sound design is a crucial aspect of interactive virtual environments (VEs). Often, this activity is fixated by the constraints of the tools we use or our perception of that medium. In this on-site workshop, we present methods to model sound-producing... Read More about Procedural Audio For Virtual Environments Workshop.

Connecting, Collaborating, Creating: The Experiences of Creative Freelancers in Edinburgh in 2022 (2022)
Report
Connell, L., Orme, A., Osborne, N., Panneels, I., Patrick-Thomson, H., Terras, M., & Wojtkiewicz, O. (2022). Connecting, Collaborating, Creating: The Experiences of Creative Freelancers in Edinburgh in 2022. Creative Edinburgh

This report provides a snapshot of the state and needs of creative freelancers in the Edinburgh region in 2022. The last few years have been both interesting and challenging for creative freelancers in Scotland. Given the constraints caused by the... Read More about Connecting, Collaborating, Creating: The Experiences of Creative Freelancers in Edinburgh in 2022.

Data-Driven Innovation for Sustainable Creative Practice (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Lechelt, S., Panneels, I., & Helgason, I. (2022). Data-Driven Innovation for Sustainable Creative Practice. In Proceedings of the 35th British HCI and Doctoral Consortium 2022, UK. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2022.51

We present a film exhibiting eight case studies of projects dealing with the intersections of environmental sustainability, data and technology, which have all been led by and rooted in the creative industries in Scotland. The film highlights how the... Read More about Data-Driven Innovation for Sustainable Creative Practice.

Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future? (2022)
Journal Article
Smyth, M. (2022). Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?. DOC - Design and Society, 1(1),

The fusion of architecture and cultures that comprised the cityscape of Blade Runner (1982) was a key part in how the narrative humanised the vision of the future, it provided a backdrop in which characters displaying human emotions played out a stor... Read More about Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?.

Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education (2022)
Journal Article
Helgason, I., Encinas, E., Mitrovic, I., & Smyth, M. (2022). Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education. Interaction Design and Architecture(s) IxDetA, 5-7. https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-051-001psi

As guest editors of this special edition we are delighted to present this selection of papers responding to our call about Speculative and Critical Design in education. The response to the call demonstrates that interest in this approach is increasin... Read More about Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education.

Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future? (2022)
Working Paper
Smyth, M. Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?

The fusion of architecture and cultures that comprised the cityscape of Blade Runner (1982) was a key part in how the narrative humanised the vision of the future, it provided a backdrop in which characters displaying human emotions played out a stor... Read More about Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?.

A hefty dose of lemons: the importance of rituals for audiences and performers at the online Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2020 (2022)
Journal Article
Piccio, B., Helgason, I., Elsden, C., & Terras, M. (2022). A hefty dose of lemons: the importance of rituals for audiences and performers at the online Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2020. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 18(1), 154-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2022.2036489

When the pandemic began to affect the performance world, both festival artists and producers started to adopt creative approaches to moving their work online. In the study presented here, we focus on the 2020 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which offered... Read More about A hefty dose of lemons: the importance of rituals for audiences and performers at the online Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2020.

From a PhD to Assisting BioMusic Research (2021)
Book Chapter
Di Donato, B. (2021). From a PhD to Assisting BioMusic Research. In C. Vear (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research (642-649). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429324154-50

This chapter describes the author’s practice and experience in transitioning from being a PhD in Music Technology candidate to a research assistant on a large-scale funded project. Both research works were delivered in a multidisciplinary environment... Read More about From a PhD to Assisting BioMusic Research.

Recorded performance as digital content: Perspectives from Fringe 2020 (2021)
Book Chapter
Elsden, C., Yu, D., Piccio, B., Helgason, I., & Terras, M. (2021). Recorded performance as digital content: Perspectives from Fringe 2020. In L. Bissell, & L. Weir (Eds.), Performance in a Pandemic. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003165644

Within days of performance venues being forced to close their doors in 2020, the National Theatre began broadcasting high-quality recordings of the best of London’s West End. Few other companies could dream of having such rich recorded archives to dr... Read More about Recorded performance as digital content: Perspectives from Fringe 2020.

Mapping the Anthropocene: The Harrisons’ and The Deep Wealth of this Nation, Scotland (2021)
Book Chapter
Panneels, I. (2021). Mapping the Anthropocene: The Harrisons’ and The Deep Wealth of this Nation, Scotland. In C. Travis, & V. Valentino (Eds.), Narratives in the Anthropocene era (321-342). Lago, Italy: Il Silent Edizioni

Mapping the Anthropocene considers The Deep Wealth of this Nation, Scotland (2018) by eco-art pioneers Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison. Known as the Harrisons, they deploy mapping to explore how a future Scotland could thrive and create surplus of ec... Read More about Mapping the Anthropocene: The Harrisons’ and The Deep Wealth of this Nation, Scotland.

Disembodied Voice (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Di Donato, B. (2021). Disembodied Voice. [Music Performance]. Performed at Naples (Italy). 27 November 2021 - 27 November 2021. (Unpublished)

Disembodied Voice, for live electronics and voice, uses of electroacoustic technologies to disembody the voice from its singer. The singer will articulate and conduct her voice across the audience through the embodiment of sound manipulations. The... Read More about Disembodied Voice.

Disembodied Voice (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Di Donato, B. (2021). Disembodied Voice. [Live performance]. Performed at Matera Intermedia Festival 2021, Matera, Italy. 21 November 2021 - 5 December 2021. (Unpublished)

Disembodied Voice, for live electronics and voice, uses of electroacoustic technologies to disembody the voice from its singer. The singer will articulate and conduct her voice across the audience through the embodiment of sound manipulations. The... Read More about Disembodied Voice.

tiNNbre: a timbre-based musical agent (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Bolzoni, A., Di Donato, B., & Laney, R. (2021). tiNNbre: a timbre-based musical agent. In 2nd Nordic Sound and Music Conference

In this paper, we present tiNNbre, a generative music prototype-system that reacts to timbre gestures. By timbre gesture we mean a sonic (as opposed to body) gesture that mainly conveys artistic meaning through timbre rather than other sonic properti... Read More about tiNNbre: a timbre-based musical agent.

Echoes of Futures Past - Speculations and Fictions from History (2021)
Book Chapter
Smyth, M., Auger, J., & Helgason, I. (2021). Echoes of Futures Past - Speculations and Fictions from History. In I. Mitrović, J. Auger, J. Hanna, & I. Helgason (Eds.), Beyond Speculative Design: Past-Present-Future (24-67). Split, Croatia: SpeculativeEDU, Arts Academy, University of Split

“He’s adorable and I want to take him home”. Trust Perceptions Before and After First-Time Encounters with Social Robots (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Sobolewska, E., Vanderschantz, N., & Bitcon, F. (2021). “He’s adorable and I want to take him home”. Trust Perceptions Before and After First-Time Encounters with Social Robots. In Proceedings of the BCS 34th British HCI Conference 2021 (324-328). https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2021.35

For users who have not interacted with a robot their perceptions are shaped by society, inculturation, and popular media. With the steady increase of robots in workplaces, during consumer encounters, and increasingly in the home, research is required... Read More about “He’s adorable and I want to take him home”. Trust Perceptions Before and After First-Time Encounters with Social Robots.

“I would call them, it seems faster”. The state of Telemedicine in Scotland. (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Sfakakis, G., & Sobolewska, E. (2021). “I would call them, it seems faster”. The state of Telemedicine in Scotland. In Proceedings of the BCS 34th British HCI Conference 2021 (220-225). https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2021.23

The novel Coronavirus pandemic has affected the way people interact with others and services. Online re-mote solutions have been proposed for most interactions including health care. This position paper shows thatonline health services areunder-utili... Read More about “I would call them, it seems faster”. The state of Telemedicine in Scotland..