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“I am Spartacus”: privacy enhancing technologies, collaborative obfuscation and privacy as a public good (2014)
Journal Article
Kwecka, Z., Buchanan, W. J., Schafer, B., & Rauhofer, J. (2014). “I am Spartacus”: privacy enhancing technologies, collaborative obfuscation and privacy as a public good. Artificial Intelligence and Law, 22(2), 113-139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-014-9155-5

The paper introduces an approach to privacy enhancing technologies that sees privacy not merely as an individual right, but as a public good. This understanding of privacy has recently gained ground in the debate on appropriate legal protection for p... Read More about “I am Spartacus”: privacy enhancing technologies, collaborative obfuscation and privacy as a public good.

The Risks and Opportunities of Mobile Working within Cloud Environments. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., & Smales, A. (2014, February). The Risks and Opportunities of Mobile Working within Cloud Environments. Paper presented at Practical Perspectives on Secure Mobile Working

This presentation outlines the changing architecture of business systems, and with the increasing use of Cloud-based systems. It outlines some of the key risks around using mobile devices for business and social uses, and define some best practice me... Read More about The Risks and Opportunities of Mobile Working within Cloud Environments..

Colonial Machine: the Image of the Industry (2014)
Book Chapter
Supartono, A. (2014). Colonial Machine: the Image of the Industry. In G. Newton (Ed.), Garden of the East: Photography in Indonesia 1860s-1940s (56-59). National Gallery of Australia

No abstract available.

Techniques for Auditing the ICT Carbon Footprint of an Organisation (2014)
Journal Article
Mouchet, C., Urquhart, N., & Kemmer, R. (2014). Techniques for Auditing the ICT Carbon Footprint of an Organisation. International Journal of Green Computing, 5(1), 44-61. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijgc.2014010104

This article has presents an extensive survey of the state of the art in Green IT/S. The findings of the survey suggest that there is scope for a reliable carbon footprint auditing tool for organisational ICT usage. A prototype auditing tool is devel... Read More about Techniques for Auditing the ICT Carbon Footprint of an Organisation.

Signals and Signposts of the Future: Literary Festival Consumption in 2050 (2014)
Journal Article
Robertson, M., & Yeoman, I. (2014). Signals and Signposts of the Future: Literary Festival Consumption in 2050. Tourism Recreation Research, 39(3), 321-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2014.11087004

This conceptual paper uses a scenario planning process to facilitate possible futures for literary festivals, a form of festival tourism that has grown rapidly in the developed and developing countries of the world in the early decades of the 21st Ce... Read More about Signals and Signposts of the Future: Literary Festival Consumption in 2050.

It's All in the Cloud: Reviewing Cloud Security (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pitropakis, N., Darra, E., Vrakas, N., & Lambrinoudakis, C. (2013, December). It's All in the Cloud: Reviewing Cloud Security. Presented at 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing and 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Autonomic & Trusted Computing (UIC/ATC), Vietri sul Mere, Italy

Cloud computing is gradually replacing traditional IT infrastructures. However, an important issue that has emerged through that revolution is the preservation of an adequate level of security for the infrastructure. Currently there are many research... Read More about It's All in the Cloud: Reviewing Cloud Security.

Norms and standards in modular medical architectures. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fricker, S., Fiedler, M., Grottland, A., Jell, T., Magedanz, T., Thuemmler, C., Mival, O., Benyon, D., Buchanan, W. J., & Paulin, A. (2013, October). Norms and standards in modular medical architectures. Presented at 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom 2013)

Recent Internet of Things (IoT) research has been aiming at interoperability of devices and the integration of sensor networks. The Future Internet - Private Public Partnership (FI-PPP) has created a whole array of different purpose-oriented modules... Read More about Norms and standards in modular medical architectures..

I film therefore I am: Mediating Island Identity through community based filmmaking (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2014, January). I film therefore I am: Mediating Island Identity through community based filmmaking. Paper presented at Community Filmmaking Conference, British Film Institute, 2014

This paper will discuss Community Media as a networked knowledge practice through which participants mediate identity. It draws on examples from a community video project directed by the author on the Isle of Bute on the West coast of Scotland, supp... Read More about I film therefore I am: Mediating Island Identity through community based filmmaking.

An architecture for designing Future Internet (FI) applications in sensitive domains: Expressing the software to data paradigm by utilizing hybrid cloud technology (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sotiriadis, S., Petrakis, E. G. M., Covaci, S., Zampognaro, P., Georga, E., & Thuemmler, C. (2013, November). An architecture for designing Future Internet (FI) applications in sensitive domains: Expressing the software to data paradigm by utilizing hybrid cloud technology. Presented at 13th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, Chania, Greece

The emergency of cloud computing and Generic Enablers (GEs) as the building blocks of Future Internet (FI) applications highlights new requirements in the area of cloud services. Though, due to the current restrictions of various certification standa... Read More about An architecture for designing Future Internet (FI) applications in sensitive domains: Expressing the software to data paradigm by utilizing hybrid cloud technology.

‘O Cursed Spite: On Ethics and Time’ (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2014, January). ‘O Cursed Spite: On Ethics and Time’. Paper presented at Symposium Depsychologizing / Deneurologizing Modern Subjectivity

“We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2014, January). “We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production. Paper presented at MeCCSA (Media, Communication & Cultural Studies) Annual Conference, University of Bournemouth (2014)

“We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production.

How can media production techniques enhance the participation and representation of marginalized groups and communities? In this paper I will draw on my resea... Read More about “We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production..

Antenatal interventions to reduce maternal distress: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials (2014)
Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y., Nieuwenhuijze, M., Ausems, M., Budé, L., & de Vries, R. (2014). Antenatal interventions to reduce maternal distress: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 121(4), 389-397. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.12500

Background: Maternal distress can have adverse health outcomes
for mothers and their children. Antenatal interventions may reduce maternal distress.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of antenatal interventions for the reduction of maternal d... Read More about Antenatal interventions to reduce maternal distress: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials.

Innovation and human resource development (HRD) (2014)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Garavan, T. N., & Carbery, R. (2014). Innovation and human resource development (HRD). European Journal of Training and Development, 38(1/2), 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-11-2013-0128

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a prologue to the issue of human resource development (HRD) and innovation which has been under-researched despite the widespread recognition of the critical role of innovation for sustained national... Read More about Innovation and human resource development (HRD).

‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance (2014)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2014). ‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance. European Journal of English Studies, 18(1), 73-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2014.881106

This essay argues that the twentieth-century movement of literary and cultural revival known as the Scottish Renaissance was, like the Irish Revival lead by W.B. Yeats, a counter-Renaissance against the anti-national ideals of the Renaissance; it was... Read More about ‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance.

Creating engaging and stimulating Web based material (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J. (2014, January). Creating engaging and stimulating Web based material. Presented at LTT 2014

This presentation outlines the collaboration between Edinburgh Napier University and Bright Red Publishing

The New Enlightenment in Scotland. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J. (2014, January). The New Enlightenment in Scotland. Paper presented at Secure Scotland

Scotland, as a nation, has been built on enterprise and innovation, and, at one time, led the world in terms of enlightenment for its scientific and cultural approach. This presentation outlines the current growth of confidence in Scotland as a place... Read More about The New Enlightenment in Scotland..

The future of computer science education and observations from on-line learning. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J. (2014, January). The future of computer science education and observations from on-line learning. Paper presented at Higher Computing Science National Qualifications Support

This session will look at the opportunities at the present time and in the future for Computing, and provide key pointer to the skills that are required to undertake a career in related areas. Along with this Bill will outline the results of the work... Read More about The future of computer science education and observations from on-line learning..

Effects of transit real-time information usage strategies. (2014)
Journal Article
Fonzone, A., & Schmoecker, J.-D. (2014). Effects of transit real-time information usage strategies. Transportation research record, 2417, 121-129. https://doi.org/10.3141/2417-13

Real-time information is becoming increasingly available to transit travellers. This paper discusses the effects of RTI available before the start of a journey in terms of line loads as well as passenger benefits. We consider that it can affect the c... Read More about Effects of transit real-time information usage strategies..