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What we cannot ask: how information poverty manifests on the internet

Professor Ian Ruthven | Science and Technology Studies | 17 June 2010

The internet has become an important social resource and a particular use of the internet is to gain support in times of personal crisis. The anonymous interaction facilitated by the internet allows people to find information outside of their normal ...

Training researchers in online research methods (tri-orm)

Dr Clare Madge | Statistics, Methods and Computing | 01 May 2007

This project, tri-orm, will develop a comprehensive three-stranded training programme in online research methods catering for the needs of both novice and more experienced online social science researchers. Online research methods (orm) represent cut ...

East living ict project

Mr Andrew Minnion | Social Work | 01 December 2008

A business placement exchange will take place between the rix centre, which specialises in research and development of new media for the benefit of people with intellectual disabilities (id) and east living, a residential care provider. The project c ...

Merging cognition and technology to enhance learning in the field

Professor David Martin | Statistics, Methods and Computing | 01 December 2006

Academic and professional organisations are involved in teaching and learning through the use of fieldwork. Fieldwork is costly in both time and financial resources and there is thus a concern to maximise its productivity. An important aspect of fiel ...

Understanding new forms of digital record for e-social science

Professor Tom Rodden | Linguistics (General) | 01 April 2005

The dress research node seeks to develop new forms of digital record for the social sciences. Its activities are structured around the exploration of three core themes: record, which focuses on the development of technologies to support the recordin ...

The use of grid computing to facilitate disclosure risk assessment

Professor John Gurd | Social Stats., Comp. & Methods | 01 April 2005

The target application of this project is statistical disclosure control, whose purpose is to prevent the identification of individual population units from released statistical data.   the process of comprehensively locating and grading such re ...

Experiences and uses of technology in older age

Professor Judith Sixsmith | Sociology | 01 November 2006

While technology is usually designed to improve people’s lives, the impact of technology is not always beneficial. Research suggests that the psycho-social and organisational effects of technologies are contradictory, especially concerning the health ...

Rank based spectral estimation

Professor Graham Finlayson | Image & Vision Computing | 01 September 2012

Suppose we gave you 50 grey tiles all of which have a different brightness. It would be an easy task for you to rank them from darkest to brightest. But, now suppose we change the colour of the light. Depending on the spectral shape of the grey refle ...

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