Past Events

Multidimensional Social Network

This week's journal club will be presented by Kevin McDonald, dot.rural PhD student in Room 919 MacRobert Building.

P.Kazienko, K.Musial, E.Kukla, T.Kajdanowicz, and P.Bródka. Multidimensional Social Network: Model and Analysis.

In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence: technologies and applications - Volume Part I, 2011.

Crowdsourcing for Problem Solving

This week's journal club will be presented by Toni Etuk, PhD student in Room 919, MacRobert Buliding.

Daren C. Brabham. Crowdsourcing as a Model for Problem Solving: An Introduction and Cases.

In Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 14(1):75–90, 2008.

Social Networking

This week's journal club will be presented by Dr Leanne Townsend, dot.rural Research Fellow in Room 919 MacRobert Building.

Patterson, A. Social-networkers of the world, unite and take over: A meta-introspective perspective on the Facebook brand.

In Journal of Business Research, 65, 527-534, 2012.

Human Computer Interaction.

This week's journal club will be presented by Konstantinos Papangelis, dot.rural PhD student in Room 919 MacRobert Building.

W.E. Mackay and A.L. Fayard. HCI, Natural Science and Design: A framework for triangulation across disciplines.

In Proceedings of the 2nd conference on designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques, pages 223–234, 1997.

This week's seminar will be given by Dr Chris Burnett, a Research Fellow on the TRUMP: A Trusted Mobile Platform for the Self-Management of Chronic Illness in Rural Areas project at the University of Aberdeen.

This week's seminar will be given by Stuart Robertson, from Highlands and Islands Enterprise .

Experiencing the natural world through digital technologies.

This week's journal club will be presented by Gillian Dowds, dot.rural PhD student in Room 919 MacRobert Building.

P. Kahn et al. A plasma display window? - The shifting baseline problem in a technologically mediated natural world.

In Journal of Environmental Psychology, 28(2):192–199, 2008.

Link to paper: http://faculty.washington.edu/pkahn/articles/520_kahn.pdf (paywall)

All welcome

This week's dot.rural seminar will be given by Dr Amy W Guo, the leading researcher in the Older Driver Study and the development of a driving lab, which is part of the SiDE Digital Economy Hub at Newcastle University.

As part of the EPSRC-funded FRRIICT initiative (Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT) dot.rural will be running a case study workshop ‘Ethics in Healthcare ICT’ in Inverness at the Centre for Health Science (located beside Raigmore Hospital) on Tuesday 12 June 2012 from 10am to 2.30pm.  

As part of the EPSRC-funded Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT initiative, the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub is hosting a one day meeting to discuss issues surrounding personal privacy and the Web of Linked Data.  The workshop will be held at the University of Aberdeen on Thursday 14th June 2012, from 10am to 4om.

This week's journal club is presented by Audrey Verma, dot.rural PhD student in Room 919 MacRobert Building.

 The philosophical short stories of Jorge Luis Borges as a foreshadow of New Media developments: a discussion on the relationship between fiction and research.

This week's journal club will be presented by Robert Craig, dot.rural PhD student in Room 919 MacRobert Building. This will be the last journal club of the 2011-2012 academic year.

Luis Justo and Fabiana Erazun. In a marginal voice. From participatory to emancipatory research,  2005.

Internet Users and Infrastructures for the Rural Economy in the Digital Age: A Forum for Policy and Practice 29 June 2012.

Organized by dot.rural Digital Economy Research Hub (dot.rural), University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, to be held at OII Oxford and University of Aberdeen.

This week's dot.rural seminar will be given by Professor David Frohlich, who is Director of Digital World Research Centre at the University of Surrey and Professor of Interaction Design.

This week's dot.seminar will be given by Dr Angela Marqui, dot.rural Research Fellow on SMiLE, dot.rural's transport logistics project.

dot.rural will be hosting several events at the British Science Festival, being held in Aberdeen from the 4th to 9th September 2012. The events are:

The current generation of smartphones combine incredible computing power with sophisticated sensors in a lightweight package. What does this mean for rural communities? In this event discover and see demonstrations of how these technologies can deliver innovative new services. Dr Chris Burnett will discuss work from the dot.rural and TRUMP Digital Economy projects at the University of Aberdeen on how smart phones may enable a smarter countryside in realms as diverse as culture, conservation, enterprise, health and transport. 

​What happens when you take the quick-fire Speed Dating format and invite scientists to present their cutting-edge research in an exciting and innovative way? Can they beat the clock and impress you, to be voted the winner? Come along to this unique event to hear about exciting digital innovations, before voting for your favourite researcher. You will then get the chance to hear more from the ‘winner’ and join in with the lively discussion that follows. The clock’s ticking!

What: Half-day workshop to explore the needs of institutions responsible for the conservation of culture in the West of Scotland, and a tour of digital cultural conservation in action.

Where: Robert Burns Birthplace Museum and Culzean Castle, Ayrshire

Ambassador Suite, Mercure Ayr Hotel and Conference Centre, Ayr

When: 12-6pm Tuesday October 2nd

            830am-1pm Wednesday October 3rd

What: Half-day workshop to explore the needs of institutions responsible for the conservation of culture in the East of Scotland, and a tour of digital cultural conservation in action.

Where: Salmon Bothy, Portsoy

When: 12-6pm Thursday October 18^th

            9am-1pm Friday October 19^th

dot.rural are hosting Digital Futures 2012 The Third Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference over 2.5 days at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on the 23-25 October 2012. More information , including the call for papers, is available on the website:  www.de2012.org.

dot.rural is hosting the 3rd Rural Connective workshop in Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire on October 26th and 27th.  The workshop, entitled "On the Edge" will explore isolated communities and the potential of connected digital technologies to add value to their creative and cultural activities. The Rural Connectives workshop series is a partnership between dot.rural, University College Falmouth and BT and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).