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Perceptually Aware Communication in High-Risk Environments: A Conceptual Framework

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McGregor, I. (2025)
Perceptually Aware Communication in High-Risk Environments: A Conceptual Framework. Edinburgh Napier University
This paper presents a conceptual framework for perceptually optimised audio communication in high-risk and acoustically challenging environments. Drawing on principles from so...

Adaptive Sound Ethics Framework: Consent, Tone, and Respect in Feedback Design

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McGregor, I. (2025)
Adaptive Sound Ethics Framework: Consent, Tone, and Respect in Feedback Design. Geneva, Switzerland (Zenodo is hosted by CERN): Edinburgh Napier University
This technical report outlines an ethical framework for adaptive sound feedback systems grounded in behavioural consent, emotional tone sensitivity, and user autonomy. It intr...

Discipline-Sensitive Predictive Analytics for IPA-Driven Building Maintenance Management: Material Stock Quantity Modeling

Journal Article
Huang, Z., Liu, X., & Romdhani, I. (online)
Discipline-Sensitive Predictive Analytics for IPA-Driven Building Maintenance Management: Material Stock Quantity Modeling. Journal of Data Science and Intelligent Systems, https://doi.org/10.47852/bonviewJDSIS52023947
The study introduces a machine learning model for BMM (Building Maintenance Management), which utilized IPA (Intelligent Process Automation) to predict the material stock requ...

The Auditory Contract: Designing Trustworthy Sound in IoT

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McGregor, I. (2025)
The Auditory Contract: Designing Trustworthy Sound in IoT
This technical report introduces the concept of the auditory contract, the unspoken agreement between users and smart devices to interpret sound as meaningful and trustworthy....

Stethoscope 2.0: How Everyday Devices Could Help Doctors Listen Differently

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McGregor, I. (2025)
Stethoscope 2.0: How Everyday Devices Could Help Doctors Listen Differently
Traditional diagnostic tools like the stethoscope have long helped clinicians detect signs of illness through direct contact and active listening. In an era of ubiquitous sens...

Stabilising Sound: A Perceptual Audio Framework for Balance Support Inspired by Vestibular Stimulation

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McGregor, I. (2025)
Stabilising Sound: A Perceptual Audio Framework for Balance Support Inspired by Vestibular Stimulation. Edinburgh Napier University
This note outlines a proposal for a perceptual audio system that may help stabilise balance and reduce fall risk using low-frequency sound cues delivered through everyday list...

Evaluation of Privacy-Preserving Support Vector Machine (SVM) Learning Using Homomorphic Encryption

Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J., & Ali, H. (2025)
Evaluation of Privacy-Preserving Support Vector Machine (SVM) Learning Using Homomorphic Encryption. Cryptography, 9(2), Article 33. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryptography9020033
The requirement for privacy-aware machine learning increases as we continue to use PII (personally identifiable information) within machine training. To overcome the existing ...

Participatory Design for Positive Impact: Behind the Scenes of Three NLP Projects

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M., Howcroft, D. M., Konstas, I., Gkatzia, D., & Abercrombie, G. (2025, July)
Participatory Design for Positive Impact: Behind the Scenes of Three NLP Projects. Presented at ACL 2025 Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI 2025), Vienna
Researchers in Natural Language Processing (NLP) are increasingly adopting participatory design (PD) principles to better achieve positive outcomes for stakeholders. This pape...

Perceptually Adaptive Speech Clarity System for Reverberant Environments

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McGregor, I. (2025)
Perceptually Adaptive Speech Clarity System for Reverberant Environments. Not commissioned – self-initiated research and disclosure
This document outlines a perceptually adaptive audio system designed to improve the intelligibility of spoken announcements in highly reverberant environments. Using speech bu...

A Perceptual Approach to HRTF Personalisation: From Localisation to Spatial Literacy

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Mcgregor, I. (2025)
A Perceptual Approach to HRTF Personalisation: From Localisation to Spatial Literacy
Efforts to personalise Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) have traditionally focused on anatomical accuracy, modelling the head, ears and torso to predict how sound shoul...

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ENUclusion Conference: Connecting EDI Research and Action at and by ENU

2026 - 2029
This conference aims to connect and advance EDI research and action at ENU from all disciplines, students, staff, alumni, and our communities of research users. While showcasing and advancing research...
Funder: Fees (CPD courses and Conference Delegate)

An introduction to R: data handling, statistics, and graphics 2025/26

2025 - 2025
This online course is aimed at beginners as well as people with some experience of R or statistics who would like to take their skills to the next level. The course will teach you the fundamentals of ...
Funder: Fees (CPD courses and Conference Delegate)

Optimal Policies in ICT Standardization

2025 - 2026
The research project, titled 'Optimal Policies in ICT Standardization' (OPICTS), aims at strengthening the intellectual property (IP) policies to be implemented in the context of standard development ...
Funder: British Academy | Value: £4,150

A New Generation of Peer Advice Systems– Prototyping and Testing the Freelance Advisor App

2025 - 2026
Research shows a big knowledge gap in the freelance community, with 56.5% of freelancers not feeling well informed of their rights, 68.5% having issues with late or non-payment, and 57.1% relying on p...
Funder: British Academy | Value: £9,998

Device-based e-Assistant for People (DeAP)

2025 - 2025
This project will deliver a novel, integrated assistive technology: a mobile application platform interfacing with a physiological sensing device (DeAP). Together, they form a multimodal system that d...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £7,500

MAPFSI: Multiphysics Simulation of Magneto-Active Polymers and their Fluid-Structure Interaction

2025 - 2028
This project focuses on developing bespoke computational and analytical methods for studying and optimising the performance of Magnetoactive Polymers (MAPs) using state-of-the-art techniques in compu...
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Value: £992,992

The use of AI agents for lifestyle behaviour change in individuals with coronary heart disease (CHD)

2025 - 2025
Heart disease is a major health issue in the UK and worldwide. Coronary heart disease (CHD), caused by cholesterol buildup in the arteries, is one of the leading causes of death. Many people in the UK...
Funder: Burdett Trust for Nursing | Value: £19,283

ICURe - AudEvo: Intelligent Auditory Assessment for Precision Hearing Evaluation

2025 - 2025
This Innovate UK ICURe Discover is a 10-week, part-time online market discovery programme designed to support researchers and technicians in exploring their potential market. The programme aims to en...
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £2,500

Learning from Collaborative Storytelling: Enhancing Visual Scene Understanding through Human-Robot Interaction

2025 - 2028
The research project aims to revolutionise how robots comprehend and interact with the physical world by combining advanced techniques in video analysis, knowledge acquisition, and collaborative story...
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Value: £439,581

Advancing Innovation and Sustainability Research

2025 - 2027
Southeast Asia is a region of great potential but faces challenges such as environmental degradation, social inequalities, and demographic shifts due to rapid urbanisation, industrialisation, and popu...
Funder: British Academy | Value: £29,431

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Assessing the early impact of data skills training initiatives

2024 - date
Mr Fredrick Mbuya | Director of Studies: Dr Khristin Fabian | Second Supervisor: Prof Sally Smith

Cybersecurity training & awareness, and its effectiveness.

2024 - 2027
Basil Manoussos | Director of Studies: Dr Lorna Gillies | Second Supervisor: Prof Berk Canberk

On the Design of complex encryption schemes, for instance, chaos-based encryption, to achieve a desirable level of IoT security

2023 - date
Shahbaz Khan | Director of Studies: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai | Second Supervisor: Dr Nick Pitropakis

AI-Driven Conversational Storytelling with Humans in Natural Language

2023 - date
Lewis Watson | Director of Studies: Dr Yanchao Yu | Second Supervisor: Prof Kenny Mitchell

Mitigating the Threat of Digital Media Produced or Modified by Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Digital Forensics Perspective

2023 - date
Matthew Thomson | Director of Studies: Dr Sean McKeown | Second Supervisor: Rich Macfarlane

Digital twins and virtual reality: Assessing environmental impact on cognitive flexibility and creativity

2023 - date
Iyad Sawaftah | Director of Studies: Dr Marina Wimmer | Second Supervisor: Dr Suha Jaradat

Adaptive sound design for video games utilising selective attention with reference to gamers’ relative skill level

2022 - 2026
In video games, selective attention can be utilised to increase a player’s engagement ...
Mr. Ethan Robson | Director of Studies: Dr Iain McGregor | Second Supervisor: Dr John McGowan

AI enabled orchestration of next generation Internet-of-Things systems in the Cloud-to-Things computing continuum

2022 - date
Jaber Pournazari | Director of Studies: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai | Second Supervisor: Prof Xiaodong Liu

An adaptive mixing framework for a personalised listening experience.

2021 - date
This research aims to utilize current technology to develop an adaptive mixing framework for a personalised listening experience fo...
Ahmed Shalabi | Director of Studies: Dr Iain McGregor | Second Supervisor: Dr Linda Shore

A critical evaluation of the factors that influence visitor engagement with UK slavery heritage museums: a blended passive symbolic netnographic study

2020 - 2024
There is a substantial body of literature in slave...
Dr Shemroy Roberts | Director of Studies: Dr Craig Wight | Second Supervisor: Prof Anna Leask

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The Global Research Institute in Health and Care Technologies Showcase

5 June 2025
A first-of-its-kind research collaboration between Edinburgh Napier University and Heriot-Watt University is bringing together engineering and nursing students to develop cutting-edge health technolog...

3MT Competition is Open!

7 May 2025
3MT Competition is open for submissions! Can you convince non-specialist audiences that your research is really as important as you believe it is? Here’s your chance to find out!

TrueDeploy recognised as Start Up of the Year

28 March 2025
Last night’s awards also saw recognition for start-up company TrueDeploy. Founded by Dr Pavlos Papadopoulos, Lecturer within ENU’s School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment, TrueDeploy ...

Digital Health and Care Scotland 2025

19 February 2025
Holyrood’s flagship Digital Health and Care conference returns to Dynamic Earth on 18 and 19 February 2025 Digital technology continues to be at the heart of efforts to support the recovery of our h...

Educational Visit to a Retrofit Project and Offsite Manufacturing Facility

18 February 2025
Students from Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) have been learning first hand from the deep retrofit of Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST)’s National Retrofit Centre. The agenda includ...

Connecting people through dance: ENU-developed tech heads to world’s biggest gaming conference

21 August 2024
Immersive game Carousel Dancing aims to combat loneliness through fun. The Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) team behind new immersive gaming technology, which aims to tackle loneliness and social iso...

Dr Kulpa organises a gender & sexuality-focused event to celebrate inclusive queer-feminist politics across the month of March 2024.

6 March 2024
Dr Kulpa organises an inclusive queer-feminist event celebrating our diverse lives and work across Edinburgh Napier University.

AI research to look at student use of ChatGPT at UK universities

9 January 2024
An Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) project investigating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT in Universities across the UK is set to get underway after being backed by near...

Edinburgh Napier joins Turing University Network

2 October 2023
We are excited to announce that Edinburgh Napier University joins an elite group of 65 UK universities as part of the Turing University Network. As a member, ENU will have the opportunity to engage wi...

Basil Manoussos delivers Keynote at INTERPOL's DFEG2023 Conference

16 August 2023
Basil Manoussos delivers Keynote at INTERPOL's Digital Forensics Expert Group [DFEG2023] Conference. Basil's keynote is drawn from his personal experience as an Expert Witness in Digital Evidence & C...

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