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Dot-to-Dot: Pre-Reading Assessment of Literacy Risk via a Visual-Motor Mechanism on Touchscreen Devices (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Park, W., Reves, P., Esteves, A., Kerridge, J. M., Yim, D., & Oh, U. (2021). Dot-to-Dot: Pre-Reading Assessment of Literacy Risk via a Visual-Motor Mechanism on Touchscreen Devices. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021: 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Bari, Italy, August 30 – September 3, 2021, Proceedings, Part I (192-212). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85623-6_13

While early identification of children with dyslexia is crucial, it is difficult to assess literacy risks of these children early on before they learn to read. In this study, we expand early work on Dot-to-Dot (DtD), a non-linguistic visual-motor mec... Read More about Dot-to-Dot: Pre-Reading Assessment of Literacy Risk via a Visual-Motor Mechanism on Touchscreen Devices.

Parallel Programming Made Simple: Using Groovy Parallel Patterns (2021)
Book
Kerridge, J. (2021). Parallel Programming Made Simple: Using Groovy Parallel Patterns. Copenhagen: Bookboon.com

The use of the Groovy Parallel Patterns Library is described, using many diverse examples, showing how a parallel application can be easily created from existing sequential codes.

Solving the Santa Claus Problem Over a Distributed System (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Marchant, D., & Kerridge, J. (2018). Solving the Santa Claus Problem Over a Distributed System. In K. Chalmers, J. Bækgaard Pedersen, F. Barnes, J. Broenink, R. Ivimey-Cook, A. Sampson, …B. Vinter (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2018

A working solution to the Santa Claus Problem is demonstrated that operates over a distributed system. It is designed and modelled using the client/server model to maintain a deadlock and livelock free architecture. The system was developed using the... Read More about Solving the Santa Claus Problem Over a Distributed System.

Investigation of visual aspects of developmental dyslexia in children (2017)
Journal Article
Piotrowska, B., Murray, J., Willis, A., & Kerridge, J. (2017). Investigation of visual aspects of developmental dyslexia in children. Journal of Vision, 17(10), 640. https://doi.org/10.1167/17.10.640

Developmental dyslexia is a disorder characterised by difficulties with reading, despite adequate intelligence and education. Phonological deficits are often indicated as the primary cause of dyslexia. Because a range of lower-level perceptual, atten... Read More about Investigation of visual aspects of developmental dyslexia in children.

Communicating Connected Components: Extending Plug-and-Play to Support Skeletons (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Chalmers, K., Kerridge, J., & Pedersen, J. B. (2017). Communicating Connected Components: Extending Plug-and-Play to Support Skeletons. In Communicating Process Architectures 2016

For a number of years, the Communicating Process Architecture (CPA) community have developed languages and runtimes supporting message passing concurrency. For these we always provide a set of reusable processes called plug and play. These components... Read More about Communicating Connected Components: Extending Plug-and-Play to Support Skeletons.

Visual-spatial-motor integration in a cross-section of primary-aged children: implications for assessing risk of Dyslexia (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Piotrowska, B., Willis, A., MacLean, R., Murray, J., & Kerridge, J. (2015). Visual-spatial-motor integration in a cross-section of primary-aged children: implications for assessing risk of Dyslexia. In Proceedings European Conference on Visual Perception ECVP 2015

Dyslexia is a common condition characterized by difficulties with reading and writing despite adequate intelligence, education and motivation. Many individuals with dyslexia also have problems integrating visual information over space and time, and /... Read More about Visual-spatial-motor integration in a cross-section of primary-aged children: implications for assessing risk of Dyslexia.

Performance on a tablet-based visual-spatial-motor task is compromised in adults and children with dyslexia: implications for the development of a novel screening tool (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Willis, A., Piotrowska, B., Bannach-Brown, A., MacLean, R. D. J., & Kerridge, J. (2014, March). Performance on a tablet-based visual-spatial-motor task is compromised in adults and children with dyslexia: implications for the development of a novel screening tool

Many adults and children with dyslexia also have problems with lower-level sensory, attentional, or motor tasks. In particular, there may be problems with auditory processing1, visual motion processing2-3, visual-spatial attention4, and motor control... Read More about Performance on a tablet-based visual-spatial-motor task is compromised in adults and children with dyslexia: implications for the development of a novel screening tool.

Verifying the CPA Networking Stack using SPIN/Promela. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Chalmers, K., & Kerridge, J. (2013). Verifying the CPA Networking Stack using SPIN/Promela. In P. H. Welch, F. R. M. Barnes, J. F. Broenink, K. Chalmers, J. B. Pedersen, & A. T. Sampson (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2013 (39-56)

This paper presents a verification of the CPA Networking Stack, using the SPIN Model Checker. Our work shows that the system developed for general networking within CPA applications works under the conditions defined for it. The model itself focuses... Read More about Verifying the CPA Networking Stack using SPIN/Promela..

RDF recipes for context-aware interoperability in pervasive systems. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Kosek, A., Syed, A., & Kerridge, J. (2012). RDF recipes for context-aware interoperability in pervasive systems. In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (1017-1022). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2010.5546647

Nowadays home automation systems integrate many devices from security system, heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, lighting system or audio-video systems. Every time a new device is installed, problems with connecting it to other devices... Read More about RDF recipes for context-aware interoperability in pervasive systems..

Evaluating an emergent behaviour algorithm in JCSP for energy conservation in lighting systems. (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Kosek, A., Syed, A., & Kerridge, J. (2011). Evaluating an emergent behaviour algorithm in JCSP for energy conservation in lighting systems. In P. Welch, A. T. Sampson, J. B. Pedersen, J. Kerridge, J. F. Broenink, & F. R. M. Barnes (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2011 (143-156). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-774-1-143

Since the invention of the light bulb, artificial light is accompanying people all around the world every day and night. As the light bulb itself evolved a lot through years, light control systems are still switch-based and require users to make most... Read More about Evaluating an emergent behaviour algorithm in JCSP for energy conservation in lighting systems..

Experiments in Multicore and Distributed Parallel Processing using JCSP (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Kerridge, J. (2011). Experiments in Multicore and Distributed Parallel Processing using JCSP. In J. F. Broenink, F. R. Barnes, J. Kerridge, P. H. Welch, A. T. Sampson, & J. B. Pedersen (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2011 (131-142). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-774-1-131

It is currently very difficult to purchase any form of computer system be it, notebook, laptop, desktop server or high performance computing system that does not contain a multicore processor. Yet the designers of applications, in general, have very... Read More about Experiments in Multicore and Distributed Parallel Processing using JCSP.

Performance of the distributed CPA protocol and architecture on traditional networks. (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Chalmers, K. (2011). Performance of the distributed CPA protocol and architecture on traditional networks. In P. Welch, A. T. Sampson, J. B. Pedersen, J. Kerridge, J. F. Broenink, & J. Barnes (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2011 (227-242). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-774-1-227

Performance of communication mechanisms is very important in distributed systems frameworks, especially when the aim is to provide a particular type of behavior across a network. In this paper, performance measurements of the distributed Communicatin... Read More about Performance of the distributed CPA protocol and architecture on traditional networks..

Application of CoSMoS parallel design patterns to a pedestrian simulation. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Clayton, S., Urquhart, N. B., & Kerridge, J. (2009). Application of CoSMoS parallel design patterns to a pedestrian simulation. In R. Wyrzykowski, J. Dongarra, K. Karczewski, & J. Wasniewski (Eds.), Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (505-512). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14403-5_53

In this paper, we discuss the implementation of a simple pedestrian simulation that uses a multi agent based design pattern developed by the CoSMoS research group. Given the nature of Multi Agent Systems (MAS), parallel processing techniques are inev... Read More about Application of CoSMoS parallel design patterns to a pedestrian simulation..

Let's Meander Through a Measured Space (2009)
Book Chapter
Kerridge, J. (2009). Let's Meander Through a Measured Space. In Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (17-25). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-020-2.ch002

This chapter concerns the question of how people navigate through a space in which other people are also present. Issues addressed include how the space itself affects the way people navigate, how this is changed by the presence of others in the spac... Read More about Let's Meander Through a Measured Space.

JCSP agents-based service discovery for pervasive computing. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Kosek, A., Kerridge, J., Syed, A., & Armitage, A. (2009). JCSP agents-based service discovery for pervasive computing. In P. H. Welch, H. Roebbers, J. F. Broenink, F. R. M. Barnes, C. G. Ritson, A. T. Sampson, & G. S. Vinter (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2009 - WoTUG-32 (363-373). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-065-0-363

Device and service discovery is a very important topic when considering pervasive environments. The discovery mechanism is required to work in networks with dynamic topology and on limited software, and be able to accept different device descriptions... Read More about JCSP agents-based service discovery for pervasive computing..

An application of CoSMoS design methods to pedestrian simulation. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Clayton, S., Urquhart, N., & Kerridge, J. (2009). An application of CoSMoS design methods to pedestrian simulation. In P. H. Welch, H. Roebbers, J. F. Broenink, F. R. M. Barnes, C. G. Ritson, A. T. Sampson, …B. Vinter (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2009 WoTUG-32. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-065-0-197

In this paper, we discuss the implementation of a simple pedestrian simulation that uses a multi agent based design pattern developed by the CoSMoS research group. Given the nature of Multi Agent Systems (MAS), parallel processing techniques are inev... Read More about An application of CoSMoS design methods to pedestrian simulation..