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Digital Media & Games Project: Designing Blended Spaces: Creating a Digital And Physical Experience Tourism, Sport & Leisure Project: Smart Beacons Mobile devices allow access to information, and museums want to exploit this to enhance visitor experience through engagement with exhibits. Smart Beacons delivers content relevant to an exhibit at indoor/outdoor locations, triggered by BLE as the visitor explores the museum. An in-built recommender system, which maintains user and content models, provides a tailored experience in the form of personalised tours and information. This research aims to explore the issues of user experience with new forms of interaction in the field of mobile and ubiquitous computing. More than a billion smartphones have now been sold and devices such as smart watches, glasses and other wearable technologies are entering people’s lives. Thus movement and the awareness of geographic locations of the device create new forms of interaction. Serkan Ayan Edinburgh Napier University Ben Horsburgh Robert Gordon University Project: CURIOS/CURIOS Mobile How community heritage groups can produce sustainable digital archives using linked data. How best to exploit the use of linked data for community groups and tourists. Many community heritage groups struggle to find sustainable methods to digitisation collections for the long-term, this is often due to the way in which such projects are funded. Dr David Beel University of Aberdeen Project: Modelling Place Attractiveness for Time-Aware Venue Suggestion People now use the Web to provide