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The Forum (Wood). (2015)
Digital Artefact
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2015). The Forum (Wood)

Contributor to pre-recorded BBC World Service programme.

Is our attitude to wood changing? In Africa it’s a still the dominant fuel for daily survival and in Canada an architect is designing wooden high rise buildings. To discuss wood, architect M... Read More about The Forum (Wood)..

POWKist: visualising cultural heritage linked datasets. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kay, A., Webster, G., Beel, D. E., & Nguyen, H. H. (2015, January). POWKist: visualising cultural heritage linked datasets. Presented at 2nd Connected Communities Heritage Network Symposium

A collaboration between dot.rural at the University of Aberdeen and the iSchool at Northumbria University, POWkist is a pilot-study exploring potential usages of currently available linked datasets within the cultural heritage domain.
Many privately... Read More about POWKist: visualising cultural heritage linked datasets..

The development of an intelligent tutorial system for system development (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Jumeily, D., Hussain, A., Alghamdi, M., Lamb, D., & Hamdan, H. (2014, November). The development of an intelligent tutorial system for system development. Presented at 2014 International Conference on Web and Open Access to Learning (ICWOAL), Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Educational software has frequently been criticized as it has not been explicitly planned to meet the demands of educational environment. Therefore, there is an increasing demand for an intelligent computer technology to become used in the environmen... Read More about The development of an intelligent tutorial system for system development.

Intelligent image processing techniques for cancer progression detection, recognition and prediction in the human liver (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali, L., Hussain, A., Li, J., Shah, A., Sudhakr, U., Mahmud, M., Zakir, U., Yan, X., Luo, B., & Rajak, M. (2014, December). Intelligent image processing techniques for cancer progression detection, recognition and prediction in the human liver. Presented at 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-health (CICARE), Orlando, FL, USA

Clinical Decision Support (CDS) aids in early diagnosis of liver cancer, a potentially fatal disease prevalent in both developed and developing countries. Our research aims to develop a robust and intelligent clinical decision support framework for d... Read More about Intelligent image processing techniques for cancer progression detection, recognition and prediction in the human liver.

Cognitively inspired speech processing for multimodal hearing technology (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abel, A., Hussain, A., & Luo, B. (2014, December). Cognitively inspired speech processing for multimodal hearing technology. Presented at 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-health (CICARE), Orlando, FL, USA

In recent years, the link between the various human communication production domains has become more widely utilised in the field of speech processing. Work by the authors and others has demonstrated that intelligently integrated audio and visual inf... Read More about Cognitively inspired speech processing for multimodal hearing technology.

An efficient computer aided decision support system for breast cancer diagnosis using Echo State Network classifier (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wajid, S. K., Hussain, A., & Luo, B. (2014, December). An efficient computer aided decision support system for breast cancer diagnosis using Echo State Network classifier. Presented at 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-health (CICARE), Orlando, FL, USA

The paper presents Echo State Network (ESN) as classifier to diagnose the abnormalities in mammogram images. Abnormalities in mammograms can be of different types. An efficient system which can handle these abnormalities and draw correct diagnosis is... Read More about An efficient computer aided decision support system for breast cancer diagnosis using Echo State Network classifier.

A novel cardiovascular decision support framework for effective clinical risk assessment (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farooq, K., Karasek, J., Atassi, H., Hussain, A., Yang, P., MacRae, C., Mahmud, M., Luo, B., & Slack, W. (2014, December). A novel cardiovascular decision support framework for effective clinical risk assessment. Presented at 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-health (CICARE), Orlando, FL, USA

The aim of this study is to help improve the diagnostic and performance capabilities of Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinics (RACPC), by reducing delay and inaccuracies in the cardiovascular risk assessment of patients with chest pain by helping clinician... Read More about A novel cardiovascular decision support framework for effective clinical risk assessment.

The ATB Framework: quantifying and classifying epistemic strategies in tangible problem-solving tasks. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A., Bakker, S., Antle, A., May, A., Warren, J., & Oakley, I. (2015, January). The ATB Framework: quantifying and classifying epistemic strategies in tangible problem-solving tasks. Presented at 9th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

In task performance, pragmatic actions refer to behaviors that make direct progress, while epistemic actions involve altering the world so that cognitive processes are faster, more reliable or less taxing. Epistemic actions are frequently presented a... Read More about The ATB Framework: quantifying and classifying epistemic strategies in tangible problem-solving tasks..

The benefit of being physically present: A survey of experimental works comparing copresent robots, telepresent robots and virtual agents (2015)
Journal Article
Li, J. (2015). The benefit of being physically present: A survey of experimental works comparing copresent robots, telepresent robots and virtual agents. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 77, 23-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2015.01.001

The effects of physical embodiment and physical presence were explored through a survey of 33 experimental works comparing how people interacted with physical robots and virtual agents. A qualitative assessment of the direction of quantitative effect... Read More about The benefit of being physically present: A survey of experimental works comparing copresent robots, telepresent robots and virtual agents.

Convergence Analysis of a New Self Organizing Map Based Optimization (SOMO) Algorithm (2015)
Journal Article
Khan, A., Xue, L. Z., Wei, W., Qu, Y. P., Hussain, A., & Vencio, R. Z. N. (2015). Convergence Analysis of a New Self Organizing Map Based Optimization (SOMO) Algorithm. Cognitive Computation, 7(4), 477-486. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-014-9315-7

The self-organizing map (SOM) approach has been used to perform cognitive and biologically inspired computing in a growing range of cross-disciplinary fields. Recently, the SOM based neural network framework was adapted to solve continuous derivative... Read More about Convergence Analysis of a New Self Organizing Map Based Optimization (SOMO) Algorithm.