Route Planning for hillwalking
Modern navigation applications provide routes using roads and paths, with some taking into account elevation data. This data is often used to evaluate the difficulty of a suggested route, but why stop there? In this…
Search by category: computing in everyday life
But will you ever reject the cookies? Stress & decision-making with deceptive User Experience design patterns
Have you come across frustrating pop-ups asking for permission to use cookies (e.g. blocking half the webpage you’re trying to access)? This is no accident – they try to discourage you from clicking reject by using web…
Improving Digital Literacy in Older Adults
How accessible is the technology we use today? After assessing modern interfaces, we have found that many design choices are not made with consideration of the elderly demographic. In a society with an aging…
Women in the booktrade: patrons and dedicatees
We created a program that first sanitises scanned text of an historical Index which only contains the name of the dedicatee and an outdated reference to books. We then automatically search an online catalogue for the…
A Novel Approach to Improving the Digital Literacy of Older Adults
The global population is living longer. By 2036, it is estimated that 25% of the UK population will be over the age of 65. Several studies have demonstrated that the accessibility of digital technology presents…
Embedding Ethics into the CS Curriculum at St Andrews
“Computer, Digital and AI ethics” is becoming the new buzzword in Computer Science higher education across the world. Why should Computer Scientists care about Ethics and how will we address Ethics in a Computer…
Resources to support CS teaching in Scottish Schools
Promoting Computer Science as an exciting, important, and accessible subject to students in Scottish schools has been a priority for outreach efforts by the School of Computer Science. We have successfully delivered a…
Managing student requests during lab sessions
Keywords Education, Classroom Management Staff [Ruth Letham]{rah11}, Xu Zhu and Nicol Thomson
Pub Golf Generation App
The town of St Andrews in north east Fife is famous for three things: the university, its golf course and its pubs. Therefore, the game of Pub Golf has become a popular pastime amongst its university students. The ‘Pub…