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Understanding and preventing corruption: Lessons from the UK expenses scandal
Presentation / Conference
Newell, J. Understanding and preventing corruption: Lessons from the UK expenses scandal. Presented at ‘Organized Crime – The Dark Side of Globalization’, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Paper prepared for presentation at the Karlsruhe Dialogues, ‘Organized Crime – The Dark Side of Globalization’, 5 – 7 February 2010, Centre for Cultural and General Studies, University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Liberate your avatar; the revolution will be social networked
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P., & Gould, C. Liberate your avatar; the revolution will be social networked. Presented at Digital Art & Culture 2009, University of California Irvine

This paper brings together the practice-based creative research of artists Charlotte Gould and Paul Sermon, culminating in a collaborative interactive installation that investigates new forms of social and political narrative in multi-user virtual en... Read More about Liberate your avatar; the revolution will be social networked.

Puppeteers, performers or avatars - A perceptual difference in telematic space
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P. Puppeteers, performers or avatars - A perceptual difference in telematic space. Presented at Object and Identity in a Digital Age (CHArt 2009), CHArt COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART Seeing, Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture CHArt twenty-fourth Annual Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom

My work in the field of telematic arts explores the emergence of a user-determined narrative by bringing remote participants together in a shared telepresent environment. Through the use of live chroma-keying and videoconferencing technology, two pub... Read More about Puppeteers, performers or avatars - A perceptual difference in telematic space.

Liberate your avatar
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P. Liberate your avatar. Presented at Creating Second Lives Conference, Bangor University, Wales, UK

The merged realities of 'All Saints Gardens' on Oxford Road, and its online three-dimensional counterpart in 'Second Life' will, for the first time, allow 'first life' visitors and 'second life' avatars to coexist and share the same park bench in a l... Read More about Liberate your avatar.

The performance of the EU in the international institutional landscape of the internet
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Christou, G., & Simpson, S. The performance of the EU in the international institutional landscape of the internet. Presented at Europe in Global Governance: Performance, Reform, Power, Rapallo, Italy

The paper undertakes a review of the how the EU has ‘acted’ within the Internet governance space that exists and is still being developed at the international level. In the process, the paper assesses the utility of some of the main approaches taken... Read More about The performance of the EU in the international institutional landscape of the internet.

City centre crime: Design thinking for safer city centres
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Wootton, A., Marselle, M., & Davey, C. City centre crime: Design thinking for safer city centres. Presented at 8th European Academy of Design Conference, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland

This paper presents the findings of research investigating the relationship between the urban environment and the occurrence of crime, with the aim of devising and implementing practical design interventions to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour.... Read More about City centre crime: Design thinking for safer city centres.

Art, enterprise, activism
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Haywood, P., & Ingleson, S. Art, enterprise, activism. Presented at 5th International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference 2010, Cardiff University

“We publicly declare that education divorced from life and politics is lies and hypocrisy” (V. I. Lenin, 1918). Enterprise Education can be a medium of artistic creation within which shared identities are recognisable because of common experiences... Read More about Art, enterprise, activism.

'Hold your nose -you're going underwater': An integrated experiential approach to marketing in the heritage sector
Presentation / Conference
Leighton, D. 'Hold your nose -you're going underwater': An integrated experiential approach to marketing in the heritage sector. Presented at Cultural and Event Tourism: Issues and Debates, Alanya, Turkey

This paper investigates experiential marketing from the perspective of cultural heritage sites and attractions operating in a highly competitive leisure and tourism marketplace. The paper explores the rise of the heritage industry and the urgent need... Read More about 'Hold your nose -you're going underwater': An integrated experiential approach to marketing in the heritage sector.

The scrapbook-letter: embodiment and value in pictorial correspondence
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Carson, J., & Miller, R. The scrapbook-letter: embodiment and value in pictorial correspondence. Presented at Picture This: postcards and letters beyond text, University of Sussex, UK

Collaborative artists Carson & Miller present a two part paper. Part one will allow the artists to examine a letter from collector Sir Harry Page to his friend Mrs Nicholl, who inspired his collection of scrapbooks (1). The letter, an invitation fro... Read More about The scrapbook-letter: embodiment and value in pictorial correspondence.

The emotive city
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Rooney, J. The emotive city. Presented at School of Art and Design Post Graduate Research Seminar Programme, The University of Salford

How can a city, with its connections, people and architecture be viewed as a living cultural artefact? Every city has at least one ArtSpace; larger urban conurbations have a multitude of spaces devoted to art. The ArtSpace is a venue designed to con... Read More about The emotive city.

Youth design against crime : a catalyst for change amongst young people
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Wootton, A., Davey, C., & Marselle, M. Youth design against crime : a catalyst for change amongst young people. Presented at Endless End, Porto, Portugal

The literature reveals a number of programmes across Europe to involve young people in design, planning and/or community safety. This paper describes a programme developed by the Design Against Crime Solution Centre in partnership with the young peop... Read More about Youth design against crime : a catalyst for change amongst young people.

Over the waterfall in a barrel: Experiential marketing and the building of brand
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Leighton, D., & Lehman, K. Over the waterfall in a barrel: Experiential marketing and the building of brand. Presented at The AM Brand, Corporate Identity and Reputation SIG

Experiential marketing has evolved in response to a move away from a service economy to an economy that is shaped and defined by consumer experiences. As consumers seek ever more unique and memorable experiences, experiential marketing has become inc... Read More about Over the waterfall in a barrel: Experiential marketing and the building of brand.

Creative academy: Reflective stories
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Ingleson, S., & Clements, J. Creative academy: Reflective stories. Presented at 1st Annual International Conference on Fine and Performing Arts, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece

The Creative Academy centres around Clements and Ingleson’s notion of creativity centred learning. Involving single structure learning platforms (tiered engagement, ‘sliding scale’ benchmarks and achievements) with peer/inter-relational, (community/p... Read More about Creative academy: Reflective stories.

An ontology-based approach to natural language generation from coded data in electronic health records
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electronic health records. Presented at 5th European Symposium on Computer Modeling and Simulation, Madrid, Spain

The worldwide adoption of the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) is promoting the availability of coded data (CDA entries) within sections of clinical documents. At the moment, an increasing number of studies are investigating ways to trans... Read More about An ontology-based approach to natural language generation from coded data in electronic health records.

City centre crime: Cooling crime hotspots by design
Presentation / Conference
Wootton, A. B., & Marselle, M. City centre crime: Cooling crime hotspots by design. Presented at British Criminology Conference, University of Huddersfield

City centres present particular challenges to the police. Crime prevention techniques that make the city centre safer would reduce the burden on the police. One such technique is Design Against Crime that uses effective design to prevent crime. The C... Read More about City centre crime: Cooling crime hotspots by design.

Electronic health records (EHRs) standards and the semantic edge: A case study of visualising clinical information from EHRs
Presentation / Conference
Arguello-Casteleiro, M., Des, J., Perez, R., Fernandez-Prieto, M., & Paniagua, H. Electronic health records (EHRs) standards and the semantic edge: A case study of visualising clinical information from EHRs. Presented at UKSim 2009: 11th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation, Cambridge, UK

Exchanging medical documents over healthcare networks is becoming a reality. This increases the need to effectively manage the growing amount of information for a single patient. Therefore, there is a current need to visualise Electronic Health Recor... Read More about Electronic health records (EHRs) standards and the semantic edge: A case study of visualising clinical information from EHRs.

The neural string network: An interactive collaborative drawing ‘machine’
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P. The neural string network: An interactive collaborative drawing ‘machine’. Presented at Drawing Research Network (DRN) 2012, Loughborough University

An interactive collaborative drawing ‘machine’ designed on the concept of a neural network, allowing participants to experience a shared creative process, using the principles of open-source and social networked communication through an analogue stri... Read More about The neural string network: An interactive collaborative drawing ‘machine’.

A literature review on information coordination in construction
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Biscaya, S., & Tah, H. A literature review on information coordination in construction. Presented at The Seventh International Postgraduate Conference in the Built and Human Environment, Salford, UK

Currently in Portugal, procedures for gathering construction project information as well as coordinating and communicating the information amongst all the stakeholders in the process are extremely bureaucratic, confusing and awfully time-consuming.... Read More about A literature review on information coordination in construction.

"All the world's a screen"
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Gould, C., & Sermon, P. "All the world's a screen". Presented at ISEA 2013 Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Charlotte Gould and Paul Sermon developed and presented this collaborative new artwork entitled All the World’s a Screen, a live interactive telecommunications performance, to link public audiences in Manchester and Barcelona. On the evening of... Read More about "All the world's a screen".

New school vs old school, new opportunities for the creative disciplines
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Peploe, G. New school vs old school, new opportunities for the creative disciplines. Presented at 2013 Sino-UK Higher Education Cooperation in New Media Industry, Shenzhen, Wuhan & Shanghai

Digital media is mainstream in contemporary culture. Within creative education (like its predecessors, the traditional high arts of the academy), it risks becoming siloed. The creative culture of the studio can be instrumental in addressing this... Read More about New school vs old school, new opportunities for the creative disciplines.