Edinburgh Napier University

Personal online reputation: the development of an approach to investigate how personal reputation is evaluated and managed in online environments.

Conference Proceeding

Ryan, F., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2016)

Personal online reputation: the development of an approach to investigate how personal reputation is evaluated and managed in online environments. In IDIMC 2016: Exploring our digital shadow - from data to intelligence, (98-108

The main theme of the paper is the development of a framework to investigate how online information is used in the creation, building, and evaluation of personal reputations. ...

Presence: Is it just pretending?

Journal Article

Turner, P. (2015)

Presence: Is it just pretending?. AI & society, 31(2), 147-156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-014-0579-y

Our sense of presence in the real world helps regulate our behaviour within it by telling us about the status and effectiveness of our actions. As such, this ability offers us...

Assessing the available and accessible evidence: how personal reputations are determined and managed online.

Presentation / Conference

Ryan, F., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2015, June)

Assessing the available and accessible evidence: how personal reputations are determined and managed online. Paper presented at Information: interactions and impact (i3) 2015

This paper is concerned with how online information contributes to the determination of personal reputations. The term “personal reputation” in this context means the reputati...

The place probe: exploring a sense of place in real and virtual environments.

Journal Article

McCall, R., Benyon, D., Smyth, M., O'Neill, S., McCall, R., & Carroll, F. (2006)

The place probe: exploring a sense of place in real and virtual environments. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 15(6), 668-687. https://doi.org/10.1162/pres.15.6.668

This paper describes the design, application, and refinement of a qualitative tool designed to study sense of place. The Place Probe incorporates a range of stimuli and techni...

Place, Sense of Place, and Presence

Journal Article

Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2006)

Place, Sense of Place, and Presence. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 15(2), 204-217. https://doi.org/10.1162/pres.2006.15.2.204

Recreating real places--as distinct from virtual spaces or environments--using virtual reality technology raises a series of significant challenges. Fortunately there is a lar...

Affordance as context

Journal Article

Turner, P. (2005)

Affordance as context. Interacting with Computers, 17(6), 787-800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2005.04.003

The concept of affordance is relatively easy to define, but has proved to be remarkably difficult to engineer. This paradox has sparked numerous debates as to its true nature....

Responsive environments, place and presence.

Journal Article

McCall, R., O'Neill, S., Carroll, F., Benyon, D., & Smyth, M. (2005)

Responsive environments, place and presence. PsychNology journal, 3, 34-74

This paper examines the effect that changing arena (i.e. an immersive CAVE or head mounted display) and adding an augmented barrier has on the sense of place and presence in t...

A question of realism.

Conference Proceeding

Hetherington, R., Crerar, A., & Turner, P. (2004)

A question of realism. In User-Centered Interaction Paradigms for Universal Access in the Information Society, 68-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30111-0_6

We present the results of an exploratory study investigating the feasibility of using multimedia software to teach life skills to adults with learning difficulties. As a precu...

Supporting spatial learning in virtual environments.

Thesis

Sykes, J. R. Supporting spatial learning in virtual environments. (Thesis)

Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2786

This thesis explores the acquisition of spatial knowledge as a means to support wayfinding in virtual environments. Specifically, the thesis presents an investigation into the...

Evaluating soundscapes as a means of creating a sense of place

Conference Proceeding

Turner, P., McGregor, I., Turner, S., & Carroll, F. (2003)

Evaluating soundscapes as a means of creating a sense of place

We report an empirical study into the creation of, and response to, a soundscape of a computer centre. We contrast the use of presence questionnaires, as means of assessing th...