Mr Callum Egan
Multimedia Producer
Information architect, hypermedia specialist &
researcher with expert skills in developing digital/internet strategies,
building web/eCommerce/CMS systems, producing audio and directing video.
Delivering creative new media solutions and value-added digital services to
SME's and the public sector, esp. EU funded research programs and
university-based projects.
Experience designer, interface designer, responsive designer, interaction
designer, human-centred designer, web manager and editor, video director, audio
producer, proposal and tender writer, exhibition exhibitor, educator and
researcher
Work interests include; strategic design planning, building novel optimised
interactive hypermedia artefacts, producing & directing video and audio,
creating content-rich immersive digital experiences, professional doodling.
Expert knowledge of XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Joomla, Wordpress, Zencart,
Actinic, Adobe Design Platform, Mac and PC, audio and video technologies,
social media, the guitar, popular culture, art, history, politics.....
Specialties:Responsive Design, Systems analysis, information architecture,
internet and new/social/trans/hyper-media development, client management,
experience design, audio and video production, visual design, search engine
optimsiation, information design, digital humanities
Areas of Expertise 
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Information & Communications Technologies (ICT) covers all technology-enabled internal and external business processes - including software, hardware and any online activity. Many owners/managers "don't know what they don't know" and are missing opportunities for business improvement, because...
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Expressive interaction describes the range of new forms of human-computer interaction that are made available through technologies based on speech, touch and gesture. The opportunities presented by these developments promise to be far-reaching, enabling new forms of interaction with information...
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Information visualisation is the use of enhanced Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) to communicate and interact with complex data sets such as social networks, multiattribute tables, and financial data. Pages of text and numbers are not the most effective way to communicate or understand information.
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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.
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In our increasingly global economy, companies are under pressure to optimise their activities in order to gain a competitive edge or to even remain sustainable. our optimisation research specialises in developing state-of-the-art algorithms that are capable of obtaining solutions to complex...
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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
callum.egan@napier.ac.uk
+44 (0)131 455 2790
Room D32
Merchiston Campus
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
Recent Projects
For latest news and events, please see the project webpage here Awareness is a Coordination Action (CA), supporting research under the FP7: FET Proactive Intiative:Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems (Awareness). Awareness provide a supportive environment for research into self-awareness in...
FOCAS is a coordination action in the area of collective adaptive systems. It provides increased visibility to the research carried out by projects funded by the FOCAS FET Proactive Initiative and others in research fields related to collective adaptive systems.
Recent Publications
Helgason, I., Bradley, J., Egan, C., Paechter, B., Hart, E. (2011). This Pervasive Day: Creative Interactive Methods for Encouraging Public Engagement with FET Research . In: Fet 11 essence. Elsevier.
Helgason, I., Bradley, J., Egan, C. (2011, March). This Pervasive Day: Design and Development Case Study. Paper presented at i-Docs, A Symposium on Interactive Documentary, Watershed Media Centre / Bristol, UK.
