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Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control. (2015)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S.-P. (2015). Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control. In J. Edwards (Ed.), Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics (99-112). Routledge

The Gothic has long been interested in failed communities, the snapping or violating of ties between kin or neighbours. As the Gothic mutates into new forms today, it is increasingly characterising texts which depict whole societies as wounded in the... Read More about Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control..

Using the blended spaces framework to design heritage stories with schoolchildren. (2015)
Journal Article
O'Keefe, B., & Benyon, D. (2015). Using the blended spaces framework to design heritage stories with schoolchildren. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 6, 7-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2016.02.001

Blended spaces are spaces where a physical space is deliberately integrated in a close-knit way with a digital space. Blended spaces may take the form of a carefully designed meeting room, for example, that integrates collaborative media with the des... Read More about Using the blended spaces framework to design heritage stories with schoolchildren..

Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G. V. A., Ramesh, H. P., Sugavanam, C. M., Chakrabarti, A., & Corney, J. (2015, January). Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design. Presented at The Third International Conference on Design Creativity (3rd ICDC), Bangalore, India

Although a digital design tool like CAD has a strong influence on creative design, it is merely used in the detail design stage to present the visualized final product in 3D space. Limitations in CAD have led to the great emphasis on employing suppor... Read More about Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design.

Advances in designing product-service systems (2015)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G. V. A., Roy, R., & Corney, J. R. (2015). Advances in designing product-service systems. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 95, 429-448

Product-Service Systems (PSS) have emerged as a class of hybrid business models that have evolved particular relevance to enterprises operating in a resource-efficient, circular economy (environments that places an emphasis on sustainable, collaborat... Read More about Advances in designing product-service systems.

Patterns of place: an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of real and virtual environments. (2015)
Book Chapter
Smyth, M., Benyon, D., McCall, R., O’Neill, S., & Carroll, F. (2015). Patterns of place: an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of real and virtual environments. In M. Lombard, F. Biocca, J. Freeman, W. IJsselsteijn, & R. J. Schaevitz (Eds.), Immersed in Media (237-260). Springer Science + Business Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10190-3_10

This chapter describes an approach to the development of virtual representations of real places. The work was funded under the European Union’s €20 m Future and Emerging Technologies theme of the 5th Framework Programme, “Presence”. The aim of the pr... Read More about Patterns of place: an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of real and virtual environments..

Mapping the library, archives, records, information and knowledge management and related professions in the United Kingdom: final report (2015)
Report
Hall, H., Raeside, R., Chen, T., Dutton, M., Irving, C., & Ryan, B. (2015). Mapping the library, archives, records, information and knowledge management and related professions in the United Kingdom: final report. United Kingdom: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and Archives and Records Association (ARA)

Unpublished research report. (2015)

Informal feedback : feedback via participation (2015)
Report
Sambell, K. (2015). Informal feedback : feedback via participation. Hong Kong: Centre for the enhancement of teaching and learning (CELT)

This Briefing has been written by Professor Kay Sambell at the invitation of the HKU Wise Assessment Project. Its theme, capitalising on opportunities for informal feedback to enhance learning, has been explored by Professor Sambell in a number of pu... Read More about Informal feedback : feedback via participation.

US hack shows data is the new frontier in cyber security conflict. (2015)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, W. J. (2015). US hack shows data is the new frontier in cyber security conflict

More than four million personal records of US government workers are thought to have been hacked and stolen, it has been. With US investigators blaming the Chinese government (although the Chinese deny involvement), this incident shows how data could... Read More about US hack shows data is the new frontier in cyber security conflict..

When amateurs do the job of a professional, the result is smart grids secured by dumb crypto. (2015)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, W. J. (2015). When amateurs do the job of a professional, the result is smart grids secured by dumb crypto

Security relies upon good programming and correct adherence to well-designed standards. If the standards are sloppy, then security has been compromised from the outset. Smart grids, which include the smart meters being rolled out to millions of homes... Read More about When amateurs do the job of a professional, the result is smart grids secured by dumb crypto..

Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin de Siecle Literary Scene. (2015)
Book
Dryden, L. (2015). Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin de Siecle Literary Scene. Palgrave

This is the first sustained examination of of the literary friendship between Conrad and Wells. Drawing upon archival research, diaries, letters and a close analysis of texts, the book traces the relationship between the two authors at the close of t... Read More about Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin de Siecle Literary Scene..

The Poetry of Modernity (1870–1950) (2015)
Book Chapter
Dymock, E., & Lyall, S. (2015). The Poetry of Modernity (1870–1950). In C. Sassi (Ed.), The International Companion to Scottish Poetry (74-82). Association for Scottish Literary Studies

No abstract available.

Third sector internships Scotland: final report (2015)
Report
Caddell, M., Boyle, F., Jones, H., & Mcilwhan, R. (2015). Third sector internships Scotland: final report. Scotland: Scottish Funding Council

Third Sector Internships Scotland helped students gain paid work experience in the Third Sector. This five-year programme, part of the Scottish Funding Council’s Learning to Work 2 initiative, was open to students from all Scottish universities.

Grid diversity operator for some population-based optimization algorithms. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salah, A., & Hart, E. (2015, July). Grid diversity operator for some population-based optimization algorithms. Presented at GECCO’15 Companion

We present a novel diversity method named Grid Diversity
Operator (GDO) that can be incorporated into multiple
population-based optimization algorithms that guides the
containing algorithm in creating new individuals in sparsely
visited areas of... Read More about Grid diversity operator for some population-based optimization algorithms..

Review of e-Health Frameworks. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Prajapati, B., Buchanan, W. J., Smales, A., Macfarlane, R., & Spyra, G. (2015, October). Review of e-Health Frameworks. Presented at Health Informatics Conference 2015

In order to improve the quality of health care and widen the accessibility, health care providers are consistently looking to inject information and communication technology to the traditional health care system (Mair, et al., 2012). This process can... Read More about Review of e-Health Frameworks..

QAA Student Transitions Project: A Benchmarking Exercise of Skills Award Frameworks ‘outwith’ Edinburgh Napier University (2015)
Other
Weaver, M., brodie, J., & devlin, J. (2015). QAA Student Transitions Project: A Benchmarking Exercise of Skills Award Frameworks ‘outwith’ Edinburgh Napier University. [Internal Report to QAA]. Edinburgh Napier University

A skills award provides an awareness framework which captures extra-curricular student activity with the intention of advancing student learning enhancement, future career and employability prospects. Active learning approaches will be combined with... Read More about QAA Student Transitions Project: A Benchmarking Exercise of Skills Award Frameworks ‘outwith’ Edinburgh Napier University.

Impact of 5g telematics (2015)
Journal Article
Thuemmler, C., Jell, T., Nunna, S., & Jumelle, A. K. L. (2015). Impact of 5g telematics. Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management,

New technologies such as wearable wireless medical devices are transforming the way healthcare is delivered. As these devices become more powerful and numerous, the daunting challenge is whether the existing communications infrastructure can meet the... Read More about Impact of 5g telematics.

Illegal pedestrian crossing at signalised junctions in urban areas: the impact of spatial factors. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mayeux, A., Lovreglio, R., Saleh, W., & Fonzone, A. (2015, January). Illegal pedestrian crossing at signalised junctions in urban areas: the impact of spatial factors. Presented at Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Much has still to be done to increase pedestrian safety. Illegal crossing at signalised junctions may increase the risk of accidents at the intersections where it takes place and induce dangerous habits. Therefore efforts to prevent such a harmful be... Read More about Illegal pedestrian crossing at signalised junctions in urban areas: the impact of spatial factors..

Extending the semiotics of embodied interaction to blended spaces. (2015)
Journal Article
O'Neill, S., & Benyon, D. (2015). Extending the semiotics of embodied interaction to blended spaces. Human technology an interdisciplinary journal on humans in ICT environments, 11, 30-56. https://doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.201505061739

In this paper, we develop a new way of understanding interactions in blended spaces. We do this by developing ideas about embodied semiotics and then apply these ideas to the analysis of interaction in mixed-reality blended spaces (where the physical... Read More about Extending the semiotics of embodied interaction to blended spaces..