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Touching a mechanical body: tactile contact with body parts of a humanoid robot is physiologically arousing (2017)
Journal Article
Li, J. J., Ju, W., & Reeves, B. (2017). Touching a mechanical body: tactile contact with body parts of a humanoid robot is physiologically arousing. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 6(3), 118-130. https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Li

A large literature describes the use of robots' physical bodies to support communication with people. Touch is a natural channel for physical interaction, yet it is not understood how principles of interpersonal touch might carry over to a robot. Exp... Read More about Touching a mechanical body: tactile contact with body parts of a humanoid robot is physiologically arousing.

A simple nod of the head: The effect of minimal robot movements on children's perception of a low-anthropomorphic robot (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zaga, C., De Vries, R. A., Li, J., Truong, K. P., & Evers, V. (2017, May). A simple nod of the head: The effect of minimal robot movements on children's perception of a low-anthropomorphic robot. Presented at CHI conference on human factors in computing systems, Denver, Colorado, USA

In this note, we present minimal robot movements for robotic technology for children. Two types of minimal gaze movements were designed: social-gaze movements to communicate social engagement and deictic-gaze movements to communicate task-related ref... Read More about A simple nod of the head: The effect of minimal robot movements on children's perception of a low-anthropomorphic robot.

Towards Next-Generation Lip-Reading Driven Hearing-Aids: A preliminary Prototype Demo (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adeel, A., Gogate, M., & Hussain, A. (2017, August). Towards Next-Generation Lip-Reading Driven Hearing-Aids: A preliminary Prototype Demo. Presented at 1st International Workshop on Challenges in Hearing Assistive Technology (CHAT 2017), Stockholm, Sweden

Speech enhancement aims to enhance the perceived speech quality and intelligibility in the presence of noise. Classical speech enhancement methods are mainly based on audio only processing which often perform poorly in adverse conditions, where overw... Read More about Towards Next-Generation Lip-Reading Driven Hearing-Aids: A preliminary Prototype Demo.

The BURCHAK corpus: A challenge data set for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Eshghi, A., Mills, G., & Lemon, O. J. (2017, April). The BURCHAK corpus: A challenge data set for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings. Presented at The Sixth Workshop on Vision and Language, Valencia, Spain

We motivate and describe a new freely available human-human dialogue data set for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings through ostensive definition by a tutor to a learner. The data has been collected using a novel, character-by-ch... Read More about The BURCHAK corpus: A challenge data set for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings.

Alana: Social dialogue using an ensemble model and a ranker trained on user feedback (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Papaioannou, I., Curry, A. C., Part, J. L., Shalyminov, I., Xu, X., Yu, Y., Dušek, O., Rieser, V., & Lemon, O. (2017, December). Alana: Social dialogue using an ensemble model and a ranker trained on user feedback. Presented at Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 1

We describe our Alexa prize system (called ‘Alana’) which consists of an ensemble of bots, combining rule-based and machine learning systems, and using a contextual ranking mechanism to choose system responses. This paper reports on the version of th... Read More about Alana: Social dialogue using an ensemble model and a ranker trained on user feedback.

VOILA: An optimised dialogue system for interactively learning visually-grounded word meanings (demonstration system) (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Eshghi, A., & Lemon, O. (2017, August). VOILA: An optimised dialogue system for interactively learning visually-grounded word meanings (demonstration system). Presented at 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Saarbrücken, Germany

We present VOILA: an optimised, multi-modal dialogue agent for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings from a human user. VOILA is: (1) able to learn new visual categories interactively from users from scratch; (2) trained on real hum... Read More about VOILA: An optimised dialogue system for interactively learning visually-grounded word meanings (demonstration system).

Decentralizing the Semantic Web: Who Will Pay to Realize It? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grubenmann, T., Dell'Aglio, D., Bernstein, A., Moor, D., & Seuken, S. (2017, October). Decentralizing the Semantic Web: Who Will Pay to Realize It?. Presented at DeSemWeb 2017: Decentralizing the Semantic Web, Vienna

Fueled by enthusiasm of volunteers, government subsidies, and open data legislation, the Web of Data (WoD) has enjoyed a phenomenal growth. Commercial data, however, has been stuck in proprietary silos, as the monetization strategy for sharing data i... Read More about Decentralizing the Semantic Web: Who Will Pay to Realize It?.

The gamification of cybersecurity training (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Coull, N., Donald, I., Ferguson, I., Keane, E., Mitchell, T., Smith, O. V., Stevenson, E., & Tomkins, P. (2017, June). The gamification of cybersecurity training. Presented at 11th International Conference on E-Learning and Games, Edutainment 2017

Due to the rapidly and continued evolving nature of technology, there is a constant need to update police officers{\textquoteright} training in cyber security to ensure that the UK continues to be a secure place to live and do business. Rather than d... Read More about The gamification of cybersecurity training.

Photovoltaics fundamentals, technology and application (2017)
Book Chapter
Messenger, R., Goswami, D. Y., Upadhyaya, H. M., Sundaram, S., Ivaturi, A., Buecheler, S., & Tiwari, A. N. (2017). Photovoltaics fundamentals, technology and application. In D. Yogi Goswami, & F. Kreith (Eds.), Energy Conversion (765-850). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315374192-20

Photovoltaic (PV) conversion is the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity with no intervening heat engine. This chapter briefly reviews the physics of PV electrical generation, followed by a discussion of the PV system design process. The PV... Read More about Photovoltaics fundamentals, technology and application.

Forensic analysis of large capacity digital storage devices (2017)
Thesis
Penrose, P. Forensic analysis of large capacity digital storage devices. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

Digital forensic laboratories are failing to cope with the volume of digital evidence required to be analysed. The ever increasing capacity of digital storage devices only serves to compound the problem. In many law enforcement agencies a form of adm... Read More about Forensic analysis of large capacity digital storage devices.