Research
Exploring Ethical AI in Accounting
Accounting is one of the latest professions to consider the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support decision-making.
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Smart Transactions in Public Spaces
From communicating with loved ones to organising our finances, IoT technology enables us to perform an increasingly wide range of tasks on the move, and in a variety of public spaces.
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Community Hacking
The Community Web2.0: creative control through hacking project sought to explore whether concepts and vocabularies emerging in relation to the Internet could usefully be applied to understandings of off-line contemporary community relations and practices.
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Sixth Sense Transport
Sixth Sense Transport research is investigating the extent to which behavioural change and better understanding of transport habits and practices can be facilitated through the creation of a new form of ‘transport network’, based on extending social networking principles to transport users, their individual vehicles and objects around them.
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Memories of Mr Seel’s Garden
The Memories of Mr. Seel’s was an AHRC Connected Communities Pilot Demonstrator Project
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Internet of Second Hand Things
Adopting more sustainable patterns of consumption offers positive outcomes for improving personal wellbeing, minimising resource depletion and meeting environmental targets.
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Design in Action
Doing things in new ways, solving problems and pushing boundaries are the essence of any good economy.
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Block Exchange
Explore the future of value beyond money in a dynamic workshop activity, run by you! Design Informatics and Design In Action has created a workshop toolkit for anyone interested in exploring the rapidly developing area of Blockchain and DLTs
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OxChain
Ox-Chain is a major research project between the Universities of Edinburgh, Northumbria and Lancaster, and research partners Oxfam, Zero Waste Scotland, Volunteer Scotland and WHALE Arts, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. It brings together experts in digital design, cryptography, business and international development. Through collaborative research, we will design a Blockchain for Oxfam to better support the circulation and re-circulation of valuable items within its business model – hence ‘Ox-Chain’.
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After Money
If you change the representation of value, does it change the values that you can represent?
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