All Outputs (2107)

The digital matrix and the paperless print. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
THOMPSON, P. 2009. The digital matrix and the paperless print. In Hoskins, S. (ed.) Proceedings of the IMPACT 6 multidisciplinary printmaking conference, September 2009, Bristol, UK. Bristol: Impact Press, pages 44-56.

This paper examines, from the perspective of a critically engaged practioner within the context of contemporary fine art printmaking practice, the concept of a digital matrix and the consequent paperless print. It identifies that digital printmaking... Read More about The digital matrix and the paperless print..

Evaluation of Hydrogen Office wind/hydrogen demonstration system using operational data and simulation tools. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GAZEY, R., ALI, D. and AKLIL, D. 2011. Evaluation of hydrogen office wind/hydrogen demonstration system using operational data and simulation tools. Presented at 4th World hydrogen technology convention 2011 (WHTC 2011): renewables to hydrogen, 14-16 September 2011, Glasgow, UK.

The first minister for Scotland, Alex Salmond, opened the Hydrogen Office officially in January 2011. Within the Hydrogen Office, a groundbreaking autonomous wind/hydrogen energy storage system has been installed. The main components installed in the... Read More about Evaluation of Hydrogen Office wind/hydrogen demonstration system using operational data and simulation tools..

Resolution of disputes arising from major infrastructure projects in developing countries. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MANTE, J., NDEKUGRI, I., ANKRAH, N. and HAMMOND, F. 2011. Resolution of disputes arising from major infrastructure projects in developing countries. In Ruddock, L. and Chynoweth, P. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2011 CIB commission meeting on law and dispute resolution, in conjuction with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) construction and property conference (COBRA 2011) [online], 12-13 September 2011, Manchester, UK. Manchester: RICS, pages 94-106. Available from: http://www.irbnet.de/daten/iconda/CIB_DC24504.pdf

Multilateral Development Banks including the World Bank have identified infrastructure development as a crucial component of any poverty alleviation strategy in developing countries. The last two decades have seen tremendous increase in the percentag... Read More about Resolution of disputes arising from major infrastructure projects in developing countries..

Artificial reaction networks. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GERRARD, C.E., MCCALL, J., COGHILL, G.M. and MACLEOD, C. 2011. Artificial reaction networks. Presented at the 11th UK workshop on computational intelligence (UKCI 2011), 7-9 September 2011, Manchester, UK.

In this paper we present a novel method of simulating cellular intelligence, the Artificial Reaction Network (ARN). The ARN can be described as a modular S-System, with some properties in common with other Systems Biology and AI techniques, including... Read More about Artificial reaction networks..

Techno-economic assessment of energy storage systems for enabling projected increase of renewables onto electrical power grids. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GAZEY, R., ALI, D. and AKLIL, D. 2011. Techno-economic assessment of energy storage systems for enabling projected increase of renewables onto electrical power grids. In Proceedings of IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Renewable power generation conference 2011 (RPG 2011), 6-8 September 2011, Glasgow, UK. London: IET [online], session 9, article 9.2. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2011.0135

Hydrogen is seen by many industry leaders as an energy vector that has the potential to provide essential energy stores required to facilitate the wide spread connection of renewable energy inputs. The techno economic assessment of using hydrogen as... Read More about Techno-economic assessment of energy storage systems for enabling projected increase of renewables onto electrical power grids..

Economic assessment of energy storage systems. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GAZEY, R., ALI, D., AKLIL, D. and FINNEY, S. 2011. Economic assessment of energy storage systems. Presented at the 2011 IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Renewable power generation conference (IET RPG 2011), 6-8 September 2011, Edinburgh, UK.

The Scottish Government's ambitious national target is to achieve renewable generation of 80% by the year 2020. Existing electrical infrastructure in becoming increasingly constrained. Electrolysis as a network deferrable balancing load has the poten... Read More about Economic assessment of energy storage systems..

User preferences for virtual information retrieval: a qualitative study. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MACLENNAN, A. 2011. User preferences for virtual information retrieval: a qualitative study. In Katsirikou, A. and Skiadas, C. (eds.) New trends in qualitative and quantitative methods in libraries: selected papers from the proceedings of the 2nd International conference on qualitative and quantitative methods in libraries (QQML2010), 25-28 May 2010, Chania, Greece. London: World Scientific [online], pages 279-285. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814350303_0034

This paper presents results of a piece of research conducted in order to determine user preferences as to the nature of virtual worlds to be used as an environment for information retrieval. A study was carried out amongst postgraduate students and s... Read More about User preferences for virtual information retrieval: a qualitative study..

Eliciting usable security requirements with misusability cases. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S. and FLÉCHAIS, I. 2011. Eliciting usable security requirements with misusability cases. Presented at the 19th IEEE international requirements engineering conference (RE 2011), 29 August - 2 September 2011, Trento, Italy.

Although widely used for both security and usability concerns, scenarios used in security design may not necessarily inform the design of usability, and vice-versa. One way of using scenarios to bridge security and usability involves explicitly descr... Read More about Eliciting usable security requirements with misusability cases..

Bridging user-centered design and requirements engineering with GRL and persona cases. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S. 2011. Bridging user-centered design and requirements engineering with GRL and persona cases. In Castro, J., Franch, X., Mylopoulos, J. and Yu, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th International i* workshop (iStar 2011), 28-29 August 2011, Trento, Italy. CEUR workshop proceedings, 766. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 114-119. Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-766/paper20.pdf

Despite the large body of i* research, there has been comparatively little work on how goal-modelling techniques can help identify usability concerns. Recent work has considered how goal models might better integrate with User-Centered Design. This p... Read More about Bridging user-centered design and requirements engineering with GRL and persona cases..

From targets to occupied low carbon homes: assessing the challenges of delivering low carbon affordable housing. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MUSAU, F. and DEVECI, G. 2011. From targets to occupied low carbon homes: assessing the challenges of delivering low carbon affordable housing. In Bodart, M. and Evrard, A. (eds.) Architecture and sustainable development: proceedings of the 27th International conference on passive and low energy architecture (PLEA2011), 13-15 July 2011, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain [online], volume 2, pages 261-266. Available from: http://www.plea2011.be/

This paper investigates the challenges of achieving affordable low carbon housing in the context of the Scottish, UK, and Passivhaus Standards. It also investigates the potential for bridging the gaps between set targets and what is happening in real... Read More about From targets to occupied low carbon homes: assessing the challenges of delivering low carbon affordable housing..

Plan recommendation for well engineering. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
THOMSON, R., MASSIE, S., CRAW, S., AHRIZ, H. and MILLS, I. 2011. Plan recommendation for well engineering. In Mehrotra, K.G., Mohan, C.K., Oh, J.C., Varshney, P.K. and Ali, M. (eds.) Modern approaches in applied intelligence: proceedings of the 24th International conference on industrial, engineering and other applications of applied intelligent systems (IEA/AIE 2011), 28 June - 1 July 2011, Syracuse, USA. Lecture notes in computer science, 6704. Berlin: Springer [online], part II, pages 436-445. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21827-9_45

Good project planning provides the basis for successful offshore well drilling projects. In this domain, planning occurs in two phases: an onshore phase develops a project plan; and an offshore phase implements the plan and tracks progress. The Perfo... Read More about Plan recommendation for well engineering..

Motivating all our students? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BOUVIER, D., CARTER, J., CARDELL-OLIVER, R., HAMILTON, M., KURKOVSKY, S., MARKHAM, S., MCCLUNG, O.W., MCDERMOTT, R., RIEDESEL, C., SHI, J. and WHITE, S. 2011. Motivating all our students? In Proceedings of the 16th Innovation and technology in computer science education annual conference: working group reports (ITiCSE-WGR '11), 27-29 June 2011, Darmstadt, Germany. New York: ACM [online], pages 1-18. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2078856.2078858

Academics expend a large amount of time and effort to sustain and enhance the motivation of undergraduate students. Typically based on a desire to ensure that all students achieve their full potential, approaches are based on an understanding that st... Read More about Motivating all our students?.

Does Scotland 'like' this? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BAXTER, G. and MARCELLA, R. 2011. Does Scotland 'like' this? The use of social media by political parties and candidates in Scotland during the 2010 UK General Election campaign. Presented at the 3rd Information: interactions and impact conference (i3 2011), 20-23 June 2011, Aberdeen, UK.

This conference paper reported the main results of a study that examined the use of social media by political parties and individual candidates in Scotland during the five weeks preceding the 2010 UK General Election. The paper presented the key find... Read More about Does Scotland 'like' this?.

Do we know each other or is it just our devices? A federated context model for describing social activity across devices. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GIONIS, G., DESRUELLE, H., BLOMME, D., LYLE, J., FAILY, S. and BASSBOUSS, L. 2011. Do we know each other or is it just our devices? A federated context model for describing social activity across devices. Presented at the Federated social web Europe conference, 3-5 June 2011, Berlin, Germany.

The availability of connected devices is rapidly growing. In our everyday life, we already use a multitude of personal devices that are connected to the Internet. The number of shipped smart-phones at the end of 2010 even surpassed the traditional co... Read More about Do we know each other or is it just our devices? A federated context model for describing social activity across devices..

Cultivating creativity: building the creative and cultural industries of North-East Scotland. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HARRIS, P. 2011. Cultivating creativity: building the creative and cultural industries of North-East Scotland. Presented at the Cultivating creativity, sowing seeds: growing networks conference, 20 May 2011, Aberdeen, UK.

Keynote speech delivered at Cultivating Creativity, Sowing Seeds: Growing Networks Conference, held at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen on 20th May 2011.

Hydrogen Office: modelling an energy storage system. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GAZEY, R., ALI, A., AKLIL, D. and FINNEY, S. 2011. Hydrogen office: modelling an energy storage system. Presented at the 2011 All energy conference and exhibition: power storage: the holy grail, 18-20 May 2011, Aberdeen, UK.

United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) predict global renewable energy output is to increase by over 50% (excluding bio-fuels) between 2010 and 2023. Scotland's ambitious targets are focused on achieving renewable generation of 80% by... Read More about Hydrogen Office: modelling an energy storage system..

Security goes to ground: on the applicability of security entrepreneurship to grassroot activism. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S. 2011. Security goes to ground: on the applicability of security entrepreneurship to grassroot activism. Presented at the Workshop on HCI, politics and the city, part of the 29th Annual CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2011), 7-8 May 2011, Vancouver, Canada.

Designing security for grassroot movements raises several challenges not particular to the organisations that are catered to by conventional approaches to security design. Drawing on analogies between Social Entrepreneurship and Grassroot Activism, a... Read More about Security goes to ground: on the applicability of security entrepreneurship to grassroot activism..

Persona cases: a technique for grounding personas. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S. and FLÉCHAIS, I. 2011. Persona cases: a technique for grounding personas. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2011), 7-12 May 2011, Vancouver, Canada. New York: ACM [online], pages 2267-2270. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979274

Personas are a popular technique in User-Centered Design, however their validity can be called into question. While the techniques used to developed personas and their integration with other design activities provide some measure of validity, a perso... Read More about Persona cases: a technique for grounding personas..

Innovation by design: using design thinking to support SMEs. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MALINS, J.P. 2011. Innovation by design: using design thinking to support SMEs. Presented at the 9th International conference of the European Academy of Design (EAD 09): the endless end, 4-7 May 2011, Porto, Portugal [online]. Available from: http://endlessend.up.pt/site/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/EAD9-Conference-Proceedings_r.pdf

Small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are generally clear on the need for innovation; however they are very often less clear on how innovation can be brought about. One possible reason for this may be because of a lack of an innovation culture wit... Read More about Innovation by design: using design thinking to support SMEs..

Colours in office buildings under a clear sunny sky: the occupants' point of view. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BELAKEHAL, A., TABET AOUL, K. and BENNADJI, A. 2011. Colours in office buildings under a clear sunny sky: the occupants' point of view. In Erkin, E., Kamuran, A. (eds.) Proceedings of 8th National lighting congress of the Turkish National Lighting Committee 2011 (ATMK 8), 14-15 April 2011, Istanbul, Turkey, pages 115-122. Instanbul: Aydınlatma Türk Milli Komitesi (ATMK).

This paper presents the results of a Daylight P.O.E. research undertaken in an office building in the city of Biskra, Algeria. The field work took place during summer in the building of La Caisse Nationale de l’Assurance Sociale (a major state insura... Read More about Colours in office buildings under a clear sunny sky: the occupants' point of view..