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Double- or Single-Skin Façades for Low-Carbon Office Refurbishments in the UK: A Comparative Case Study (2015)
Book Chapter
Pomponi, F., & Piroozfar, P. A. (2015). Double- or Single-Skin Façades for Low-Carbon Office Refurbishments in the UK: A Comparative Case Study. In A. Sayigh (Ed.), Renewable Energy in the Service of Mankind Vol I (379-389). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17777-9_34

In the UK, 75% of non-domestic buildings will still exist in 2050, and the reduction of their emissions represents a major challenge for the UK government to meet the greenhouse gases (GHG) target. There is a growing tendency towards the use of doubl... Read More about Double- or Single-Skin Façades for Low-Carbon Office Refurbishments in the UK: A Comparative Case Study.

Generating and Evaluating Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cercas Curry, A., Gkatzia, D., & Rieser, V. (2015, September). Generating and Evaluating Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments. Presented at 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2015), University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

Referring to landmarks has been identified to lead to improved navigation instructions. However, a previous corpus study suggests that human “wizards” also choose to refer to street names and generate user-centric instructions. In this paper, we cond... Read More about Generating and Evaluating Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments.

A Snapshot of NLG Evaluation Practices 2005 - 2014 (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., & Mahamood, S. (2015). A Snapshot of NLG Evaluation Practices 2005 - 2014. . https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w15-4708

In this paper we present a snapshot of endto-end NLG system evaluations as presented in conference and journal papers1 over the last ten years in order to better understand the nature and type of evaluations that have been undertaken. We find that re... Read More about A Snapshot of NLG Evaluation Practices 2005 - 2014.

A Game-Based Setup for Data Collection and Task-Based Evaluation of Uncertain Information Presentation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Cercas Curry, A., Rieser, V., & Lemon, O. (2015, September). A Game-Based Setup for Data Collection and Task-Based Evaluation of Uncertain Information Presentation. Presented at 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2015), University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

Decision-making is often dependent on uncertain data, e.g. data associated with confidence scores, such as probabilities. A concrete example of such data is weather data. We will demo a game-based setup for exploring the effectiveness of different ap... Read More about A Game-Based Setup for Data Collection and Task-Based Evaluation of Uncertain Information Presentation.

Cruise sector challenges related to corporate social responsibility. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stantchev, D., Neumann, S., & Pawlik, T. (2015, September). Cruise sector challenges related to corporate social responsibility. Paper presented at The 20th LRN Annual Conference and PhD Workshop 2015, University of Derby

The cruise industry’s growth has led to increased levels of competition in the sector. The Cruise Lines International Association, which is the world's largest cruise industry trade association, reports in the beginning of 2014 that their member line... Read More about Cruise sector challenges related to corporate social responsibility..

SQL-IDS: evaluation of SQLi attack detection and classification based on machine learning techniques (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sheykhkanloo, N. M. (2015, September). SQL-IDS: evaluation of SQLi attack detection and classification based on machine learning techniques. Presented at 8th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks - SIN '15, Sochi, Russia

Structured Query Language injection (SQLi) attack is a code injection technique where malicious SQL statements are inserted into a given SQL database by simply using a web browser. Injected SQL commands can alter the database and thus compromise the... Read More about SQL-IDS: evaluation of SQLi attack detection and classification based on machine learning techniques.

Service quality and user satisfaction of outsourced facilities management (FM) services in Nigeria’s public hospitals (2015)
Journal Article
Ikediashi, D. I., Ogunlana, S. O., & Odesola, I. A. (2015). Service quality and user satisfaction of outsourced facilities management (FM) services in Nigeria’s public hospitals. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 5(4), 363-379. https://doi.org/10.1108/bepam-03-2014-0024

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the concepts of satisfaction and service quality of outsourced facilities management (FM) services. Design/methodology/approach An empirical survey of 208 stakeholders in Nigeria’s hospitals was us... Read More about Service quality and user satisfaction of outsourced facilities management (FM) services in Nigeria’s public hospitals.

Orbits: enabling gaze interaction in smart watches using moving targets (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A., Velloso, E., Bulling, A., & Gellersen, H. (2015, September). Orbits: enabling gaze interaction in smart watches using moving targets. Presented at 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers - UbiComp '15, Osaka, Japan

In this paper we demonstrate Orbits, a novel gaze interaction technique that accounts for both the reduced size of smart watch displays and the hands-free nature of conventional watches. Orbits combines graphical controls that display one or multiple... Read More about Orbits: enabling gaze interaction in smart watches using moving targets.

Source-filter separation of speech signal in the phase domain (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Loweimi, E., Barker, J., & Hain, T. (2015). Source-filter separation of speech signal in the phase domain. In Proc. Interspeech 2015 (598-602). https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2015-211

Deconvolution of the speech excitation (source) and vocal tract (filter) components through log-magnitude spectral processing is well-established and has led to the well-known cepstral features used in a multitude of speech processing tasks. This pap... Read More about Source-filter separation of speech signal in the phase domain.

A Low Cost Non-Contact and Non-Destructive Method for Evaluating the Variation of the Shear Modulus for Glued Laminated Timber Beams using a Photogrammetric Approach (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mohamed, A., Zhang, H., Smith, I., & Xiao, Z. (2015, September). A Low Cost Non-Contact and Non-Destructive Method for Evaluating the Variation of the Shear Modulus for Glued Laminated Timber Beams using a Photogrammetric Approach. Presented at Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing

This paper presents the experimental studies performed to investigate the feasibility of the proposed photogrammetric system for torsion tests. In this study, two binocular stereo systems were used to measure the surface rotation of timber glulam bea... Read More about A Low Cost Non-Contact and Non-Destructive Method for Evaluating the Variation of the Shear Modulus for Glued Laminated Timber Beams using a Photogrammetric Approach.