Dr Alistair Armitage
Senior Lecturer
A. Armitage received his PhD in Physics from Warwick University. He is a Senior Lecturer and Subject Group leader in the area of Computer Systems and Networks. He is also the Research Degree Coordinator for the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Creative Industries. His research is mostly in the area of Sensor Systems, particularly using infrared for applications such as pedestrian tracking and gesture recognition. He has been holder of a number of external grants, most recently for the use of pyroelectric sensors for energy saving in the home and in the miniaturisation of pyroelectric sensors for security applications. He has published nearly 50 papers and acts as a referee for journals such as Sensors and Microprocessors & Microsystems. He is a chartered engineer, a chartered physicist and a chartered measurement and control technologist and a member of the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Measurement & Control.
Areas of Expertise 
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The institute's expertise in software engineering encompasses the entire development lifecycle, and we focus on the approaches and tools to improve the engineering process of both emerging and widely used software systems. Increasing the productivity and improving the quality of software remains a...
Contact
a.armitage@napier.ac.uk
+44 (0)131 455 2784
Room D58
Merchiston Campus
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
PhD Project Involvement
Emilia Sobolewska (PhD 2009-)
Learning to cope with digital technology. Technology surrounds people; it functions as their best friend and the worst enemy. From a trip to the local supermarket, to almost every aspect of people’s professional and social lives technology...
Omair Uthmani (PhD 2008-)
Context-aware definition, modelling and implementation for policy-compliant information sharing between Police and Community Partners. The exchange of information between the police and community partner organisations forms a core aspect of effective policing and community service provision.
Keshava Grama (PhD 2006-)
Binary matrix for pedestrian tracking in infrared images.
Robert Irvine (PhD 2004-)
Success factors for organisational information systems development projects: a Scottish suppliers' perspective. The very idea that a modern day organisation might operate effectively without computerised information systems seems almost absurd. Yet, the projects that provide these systems have an unenviable...
Augoustinos Tsiros (PhD 2009-)
Morpheme a 2D sketching interface for the control of concatenative synthesis. An investigation in the similarities between qualities of auditory and visual precepts.. The aim of this study is to explore graphical interfaces for comprehension, organization, and transformation of sound through direct manipulation of visual representations.
Sarah Clayton (PhD 2005-)
Tracking, Analysis and Measurement of Pedestrian Trajectories. The realistic simulation of pedestrian movement is a challenging problem, a large number of individual pedestrians may be included in the simulation. Rapid decisions must be made about the trajectory...
Louise Rasmussen (PhD 2003-)
Evolution of knowledge working in a public sector agency. The research is concerned with the evolution and trajectory of knowledge networking (the ‘Knowledge Working’ (KW) initiative) in a public sector agency (PuSA) in lowland Scotland.
Recent Publications
Wojtczuk, P., Armitage, A., Binnie, D., Chamberlain, T. (2012). Recognition of Simple Gestures Using a PIR Sensor Array. Sensors & Transducers Journal, 14(1), 83-94.
Walczyk, R., Balazs, A., Armitage, A., Binnie, D. (2011, June). System architectures for infrared pedestrian tracking. Paper presented at 22nd IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Trinity College, Dublin.
Wojtczuk, P., Armitage, A., Binnie, D., Chamberlain, T. (2011, August). PIR sensor array for hand motion recognition. Paper presented at SensorDevices 2011, Nice, France.
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