News (2009)

Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Organising/Steering Committee Member, the International Conference on Information and Communications Systems 20-22 December, 2009, Amman, Jordan.
20/12/2009 Conference Organisation
Chris Speed (ECA) gave a talk on his work
18/12/2009 External Visitor
Dr. Chris Speed is Reader in Digital Spaces across the Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art, where he teaches undergraduate, masters and supervises PhD students. The three year TOTeM research project funded by the EPSRC, investigates the potential for...
04/12/2009 External Visitor
HUWY event: Young people’s experience and advice on Internet Policies
On Thursday, 3rd December, the HUWY project held a very successful event at Edinburgh’s eScience Institute to mark the beginning of the interactive phase of HUWY.eu. http://itc.napier.ac.uk/ITC/NewsItem.asp?ID=45
03/12/2009 Media and Outreach Activity
The Award was presented to Hazel at a ceremony at the Online conference in London Olympia in December 2009 for her outstanding contribution to the information profession.The award is organised by IWR magazine and Online Information Conference organisers, Incisive Media and sponsored by the American...
01/12/2009 Award
Dr. Deborah Fels has a PhD (1994) in Human Factors from Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, and a Masters of Health Science (1987) in Clinical Engineering from the University of Toronto. She is currently employed as an associate professor in the School of Information Technology...
27/11/2009 External Visitor
Micjael Smyth gave an invited keynote to the SICSA whole body interaction wokrshop in Glasgow.
05/11/2009 Invited Presentation
Miracle Workshop, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
29/10/2009 Invited Presentation
There was a visit from Prof. Chaudray and Dr. Dutta Roy from IIT Delhi accompanied by Rama Venellakanti of HP Labs, Bangalore
27/10/2009 External Visitor
A group of delegates from Nigeria are visiting Scotland this week to delve deeper into the interface between formal politics and civil society. The group includes state representatives as well as representatives from non-governmental organisations and a number of attendees from the Niger Delta...
26/10/2009 External Visitor
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Co-Chair, the International Workshop on Design, Optimization and Management of Heterogeneous Networked Systems (DOM-HetNetS’09), held in conjunction with 38th ICPP 2009, IEEE Computer Society Press, Vienna, Austria, September 22-25, 2009.
22/09/2009 Conference Organisation
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Co-Chair of the International Workshop on Design, Optimization and Management of Heterogeneous Networked Systems (DOM-HetNetS’09), held in conjunction with 38th ICPP 2009, IEEE Computer Society Press, Vienna, Austria, September 22-25, 2009.
22/09/2009 Conference Organisation
01/09/2009 External Examiner
Online festival impact toolkit gets press coverage in Scotsman, other local news outlets and national specialised media.
The online festival impact toolkit developed by A Cannon and R Kukla in conjunction with Edinburgh Institute for Festival and Event Management featured in the Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News, The Express, the Event magazine and the TSNN website.
27/08/2009 Media and Outreach Activity
01/08/2009 Award
Alan Cannon and Robert Kukla have created an interactive website that implements a toolkit which has been developed by the Edinburgh Institute for Festival & Event Management.
Alan Cannon and Robert Kukla have created an interactive website that implements a toolkit which has been developed by the Edinburgh Institute for Festival & Event Management (part of the business school of ENU): http://www.impactkit.co.uk/.
18/07/2009 Developed Software
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Publicity Co Chair, the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Pervasive Applications (TSP-09), October 5-7, 2009 in Macau SAR, P.R. China.
05/07/2009 Conference Organisation
Bodies, Places and Interaction Design :: This lecture will explore how our understanding of artefacts and places are intimately connected with and through the body. Drawing from diverse fields such as skateboarding to illustrate both the nature of interaction and the re-appropriation of public...
23/05/2009 Invited Presentation
An 8 day workshop hosted as part of the Magdalena Festival, an International Festival of Creative Communication, Maribor, Slovenia
15/05/2009 Invited Presentation
Xiaodong Liu became Editorial board member of Journal of Software.
01/04/2009 Award
Director of the Centre for Social Informatics, Dr Hazel Hall, gave a presentation as part of the CSI seminar series on 24th March 2009. She discussed the main risks and opportunities of the adoption of social computing tools within organizations for collaborative work purposes from the perspective...
30/03/2009 Other News
Wednesday 1st April, 14.00-16.00, D40 Library 2.0 into practice - new rules of engagement Professor Gunilla Widén-Wulff, Department of Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Finland This presentation will focus on a large research project within the framework of Library 2.0.
26/03/2009 External Visitor
http://www.umas.hr/dvk/interactions/symposium/
18/03/2009 Invited Presentation
Coordinator of the SICSA SEABIS sub-theme
11/03/2009 Other News
Ahmed acted as a PhD external examiner , University of Glamorgan Thesis: Design and Investigation of Scalable Multicast Recursive Protocols for Wired and Wireless and Ad hoc Networks. Faculty of Advanced Tech. University of Glamorgan.
29/01/2009 External Examiner
Ahmed acted as a PhD external examiner, University of Sydney Thesis: A Real-Time Communication Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks, School of Information Tech. University of Sydney
22/01/2009 External Examiner