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Persuasive Strategies for Encouraging Social Interaction for Older Adults (2016)
Journal Article
Vargheese, J. P., Sripada, S., Masthoff, J., & Oren, N. (2016). Persuasive Strategies for Encouraging Social Interaction for Older Adults. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 32(3), 190-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2016.1136176

Social isolation among older adults represents a significant societal challenge in which persuasion offers a potential solution. To develop a persuasive interactive system for this purpose, we conducted a modeling study with carers to discover how p... Read More about Persuasive Strategies for Encouraging Social Interaction for Older Adults.

Unsupervised Commonsense Knowledge Enrichment for Domain-Specific Sentiment Analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Ofek, N., Poria, S., Rokach, L., Cambria, E., Hussain, A., & Shabtai, A. (2016). Unsupervised Commonsense Knowledge Enrichment for Domain-Specific Sentiment Analysis. Cognitive Computation, 8(3), 467-477. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-015-9375-3

Sentiment analysis in natural language text is a challenging task involving a deep understanding of both syntax and semantics. Leveraging the polarity of multiword expressions—or concepts—rather than single words can mitigate the difficulty of such a... Read More about Unsupervised Commonsense Knowledge Enrichment for Domain-Specific Sentiment Analysis.

Sample Size Determination Algorithm for fingerprint-based indoor localization systems (2016)
Journal Article
Kanaris, L., Kokkinis, A., Fortino, G., Liotta, A., & Stavrou, S. (2016). Sample Size Determination Algorithm for fingerprint-based indoor localization systems. Computer Networks, 101, 169-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2015.12.015

Provision of accurate location information is an important task in the Internet of Things (IoT) applications and scenarios. This need has boosted the research and development of fingerprint based, indoor localization systems, since GPS information is... Read More about Sample Size Determination Algorithm for fingerprint-based indoor localization systems.

Rating the revolution: Silicon Valley in normative perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Duff, A. S. (2016). Rating the revolution: Silicon Valley in normative perspective. Information, Communication and Society, 19(11), 1605-1621. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2016.1142594

Silicon Valley, California – home of Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and so on – is widely regarded as the epicentre of the information revolution. However, it is not just a technical or economic phenomenon; it has also made a social revolution. Th... Read More about Rating the revolution: Silicon Valley in normative perspective.

The paradigmatic hearts of subjects which their "English" flows through (2016)
Journal Article
Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2016). The paradigmatic hearts of subjects which their "English" flows through. Higher Education Research and Development, 35(5), 997-1010. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2016.1138455

Much research into the use of corpora and discourse to support higher education students on pre-sessional and in-sessional courses champions subject specificity. Drawing on the work of writers such as Bakhtin (1981) and Voloshinov (1973), in this art... Read More about The paradigmatic hearts of subjects which their "English" flows through.

How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies (2016)
Journal Article
Powers, S. T., van Schaik, C. P., & Lehmann, L. (2016). How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 371(1687), 20150098. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.201

What drove the transition from small-scale human societies centred on kinship and personal exchange, to large-scale societies comprising cooperation and division of labour among untold numbers of unrelated individuals? We propose that the unique huma... Read More about How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies.

Morpheme (2016)
Digital Artefact
Tsiros, A. (2016). Morpheme. [MaxMSP 5 32 bit software]

This is a MaxMSP 5 32 bit software, Morpheme allows the control of a concatenative synthesis module (IMTR CataRT) through the act of sketching on a digital canvas. The aim is to enable synthesis of sound and the expression of compositional intention... Read More about Morpheme.

An Approach to a Laser-Touchscreen System (2016)
Book Chapter
Aizeboje, J., & Peng, T. (2016). An Approach to a Laser-Touchscreen System. In Enterprise Information Systems; Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (476-495). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29133-8_23

As modern day technologies advance, so have different methods in which users can interact with computers. Computers are currently being used in combination with devices like projectors for teaching and presentations, in which the mouse and the USB wi... Read More about An Approach to a Laser-Touchscreen System.

The adoption process in management innovation: A Knowledge Management case study (2016)
Journal Article
Rasmussen, L., & Hall, H. (2016). The adoption process in management innovation: A Knowledge Management case study. Journal of Information Science, 42(3), 356-368. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551515625032

is based on the findings of a study that explores and discusses in depth a Knowledge Management programme that was introduced within a large distributed public sector agency in Europe. The aim of this research was to provide insight into the adoption... Read More about The adoption process in management innovation: A Knowledge Management case study.