The latest iidi news for "Motivating learner engagement in online environments: the relevance of social exchange theory"

24/05/2013: Workshop on Engaging the Human-Computer Interaction Community With Public Policymaking Internationally at CHI2013

t.mcewan@napier.ac.uk (Tom McEwan) — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:33:56 GMT

Tom McEwan was one of the organisers of, and represented the UK Human Computer Interaction community in, an international workshop within the world's leading HCI conference CHI2013 in Paris. This is part of an on ongoing effort to connect the outcomes of research with public policy making, which has already resulted in several publications in the ACM Digital Library. This brings together Tom's roles for BCS Interaction and BCS Entrepreneurs specialist groups with his role as the Scottish representative on the BCS Government Relations Group, and his work to create a European organisation to support human centred innovation.

24/05/2013: Manuscript of Epistemic Coping completed and sent to publisher

p.turner@napier.ac.uk (Phil Turner) — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:49:24 GMT

24/05/2013: Invitation to advisory board of the journal AI & Society accepted.

p.turner@napier.ac.uk (Phil Turner) — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:50:23 GMT

24/05/2013: Invitation to examine PhD at Bath University accepted

p.turner@napier.ac.uk (Phil Turner) — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:51:06 GMT

22/05/2013: Professor Bill Buchanan presents on The Challenges of Big Data

w.buchanan@napier.ac.uk (William Buchanan) — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:55:53 GMT

The presentation is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDejBzHfjuo

and the slides are here:

http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/binary/dl/file/publicationid/13374649

22/05/2013: The Centre for interaction Design exhibits at Digital Scotland

d.benyon@napier.ac.uk (David Benyon) — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:15:03 GMT

The Centre for interaction Design had a stand at Digital Scotland on 22nd May. Opened by Deputy First Minister, Nichola Sturgeon, Digital Scotland attracted over 400 delegates from across Scotland to discuss the digital future of Scotland.

22/05/2013: David Benyon attends Smart Tourism event.

d.benyon@napier.ac.uk (David Benyon) — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:18:33 GMT

David Benyon attended an event run by the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) in collaboration with Museums and Galleries Scotland to discuss ideas fo novel interactive applications for smart tourism.

11/05/2013: Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Guest-Co-Editor of a special issue in a leading international journal: Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Elsevier, 2013

a.al-dubai@napier.ac.uk (Ahmed Al-Dubai) — Sat, 11 May 2013 23:40:04 GMT

Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Guest –Co-Editor of a special issue: Frontiers and advance topics of computer and information technology in Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Elsevier, Volume 79, Issue 2, March 2013, Pages 173–174 2013.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022000012000967

09/05/2013: Professor Hazel Hall leads the programme committee of iDocQ 2013

h.hall@napier.ac.uk (Hazel Hall) — Thu, 09 May 2013 09:09:14 GMT

In her role of Convener of the ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Doctoral Training Centre's Information Science Pathway, Professor Hazel Hall has taken the lead in the setting up and management of the programme committee of iDocQ 2013.

iDocQ is an annual one-day doctoral colloquium for PhD students working in information science and related areas. This year it takes place on Monday 24th June at Robert Gordon University.

The iDocQ programme committee comprises a student representative from each of the four Information Science Pathway institutions: Edinburgh Napier, Glasgow, Strathclyde, and Robert Gordon universities. This year's Edinburgh Napier rep is Lynn Killick.

Registration is free to UK students, with a number of travel bursaries also available. Hazel Hall has posted further details on the event to her blog at http://hazelhall.org.

09/05/2013: Professor Bill Buchanan invited to present at 2013 Annual Computing, ICT and Digital Media Conference at City of Glasgow College

w.buchanan@napier.ac.uk (William Buchanan) — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:44:34 GMT

Professor Bill Buchanan has accepted an invite to present at 2013 Annual Computing, ICT and Digital Media Conference on Monday 17 June at the City of Glasgow College. The proposed title is:

Let’s Get More Pupils/Students into Computing/ICT

and it will cover:

There are so many opportunities at the present time in Computing, and we cannot attract enough graduates to fill the demand from the jobs market. When companies demand graduates not in the one’s, or the ten’s, but in the hundreds there is a massive change going on. Along with this there are so many routes for a graduate to take, and few professions can offer such opportunities. Unfortunately there seems to be several barriers to attracting pupils into computing, and this presentation will outline some of these, and show some results from previous dissemination events. As an overview, the presentation will also show some examples of how universities can help in the engagement of pupils, including work around presenting Cyber cracking and in making Computing fun, while presenting the opportunities that exist in the jobs market.

If you are interesting in some of the things we have been work on.