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Areas of Expertise

Internet Technologies & Society

The technologies that help us to organise and share information on the internet are changing the way we live and work. This information society or knowledge economy people affects is in all kinds of new ways – as individuals, groups and organisations.

Projects

iDTV

to produce a review of the Scottish Interactive Digital Television (iDTV) pilot

HANDS: Helping Answers Decision Service

aims at validating in the European market the results obtained from the IST EDEN project which Napier was previously a partner in. Two natural language based tools developed by Italian partners under EDEN are being further developed and deployed in other public authorities and Utility companies.

Smartgov

The main objective of the project is to help public authority employees to design, deliver and maintain electronic services. They will do this through use of the SmartGov software platform that is being developed in the project.

e-Representative: A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected Representative

The primary focus of the “eRepresentative” package was to investigate the potential impact of a “virtual elected representative’s desktop” to support the work of elected representatives at national, regional and local level by making legislative services more effective and more tailored to meet...

EDEN: Electronic Democracy European Network

The ITC's role is to identify what officials and the public require and to evaluate the likely impact of the EDEN software toolkit. This toolkit is a set of web-based applications that use Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology.

AVANTI: Added Value Access to New Technologies and services on the Internet

Added Value Access to New Technologies and services on the Internet (IST-2000-28585). AVANTI aims to use digital avatars in public service provision, with the objective of increasing the acceptability of technology for the use of citizens.

Members

Peter Cruickshank

Lecturer

p.cruickshank@napier.ac.uk

+44 131 455 2309

Ella Taylor-Smith

Research Student (previously Senior Research Fellow)

e.taylor-smith@napier.ac.uk

+44 131 455 2392

Publications

Cruickshank, P. (2011). Customer Journey Mapping. Smart Cities Guide, (), ..

Cruickshank, P. (2011). Mobile Apps for bus users in Edinburgh. Smart Cities Research Brief, (19), ..

Cruickshank, P. (2011). SCRAN: The Network. Journal of Urban Technology , 18, (2), 83-97.

Cruickshank, P. (2011). Your Library: Supporting mobile users in Edinburgh. Smart Cities Research Brief, (18), ..

Deakin, M., Cruickshank, P. (2010). Transformation of City portals. Smart Cities Research Brief, (6), ..

Taylor-Smith, E., Cruickshank, P. (2010, October). Web 2.0 for Collaborative Production. Paper presented at Digital Futures 2010, Nottingham, UK.

Karamagioli, E., Koulolias, V., Smith, C., Cruickshank, P. (2008). Bringing social and technological innovation to the work of national, regional and local elected representatives: The eRepresentative Project. In: Parycek, P., Prosser, A. (Eds.) EDem08 E-Democracy Conference, , () ( ed.). (pp. ). Vienna, Austria: . Austrian Computer Society.