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Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2022, June). Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism. Paper presented at The 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Step on Me Charlotte Rampling or on Arrakis No One Can Hear You Orgasm (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Artt, S. (2022, June). Step on Me Charlotte Rampling or on Arrakis No One Can Hear You Orgasm. Paper presented at Association of Adaptation Studies annual conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal

In Dune (Denis Villeneuve, 2021), the much-anticipated adaptation of the Frank Herbert series, Charlotte Rampling briefly appears as Mother Helen Mohiam, high priestess of the Bene Gesserit. Veiled in an elaborate costume, it is Rampling’s voice that... Read More about Step on Me Charlotte Rampling or on Arrakis No One Can Hear You Orgasm.

Finding the Female Users: A Feminist Historiography of the Fairlight CMI (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P., & Blackburn, M. (2022, June). Finding the Female Users: A Feminist Historiography of the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at Rethinking the History of Technology-based Music, University of Huddersfield

The story of the Fairlight CMI, a digital synthesizer that was designed in Sydney, Australia in the mid-to-late 1970s, is dominated by a few high-profile male users: Peter Gabriel, Herbie Hancock, and Stevie Wonder. In both academic and popular histo... Read More about Finding the Female Users: A Feminist Historiography of the Fairlight CMI.

Staging the Modern Nightmare (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2022, May). Staging the Modern Nightmare. Presented at Nightmare/s in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge

Raymond Williams, Norman Nicholson, and rural modernity (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2022, April). Raymond Williams, Norman Nicholson, and rural modernity. Paper presented at Raymond Williams @ 100: A Centenary Conference, Manchester

This paper reads the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson’s writings about the impact of deindustrialisation on rural communities through the lens of Raymond Williams’s theorisation of the rural in modernity – notably The Country and the City, but also tak... Read More about Raymond Williams, Norman Nicholson, and rural modernity.

Creatures of Moonshine: H. G. Wells’s ‘The Sea Raiders’ and the Oceanic Romance (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2022, April). Creatures of Moonshine: H. G. Wells’s ‘The Sea Raiders’ and the Oceanic Romance. Paper presented at BSLS 2022 Annual Conference, Manchester

There is a strand of nineteenth-century fiction interested in tentacled monsters based to a greater or lesser extent on cephalopods. Although the legendary kraken remained a legend, biology had learned a little about the real existence of giant squid... Read More about Creatures of Moonshine: H. G. Wells’s ‘The Sea Raiders’ and the Oceanic Romance.

How users experience autonomous vehicle driving: provision of information through AR HUD (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charissis, V. (2022, December). How users experience autonomous vehicle driving: provision of information through AR HUD. Presented at 29th International Display Workshops (IDW '22), Fukuoka, Japan

This work examines if the provision of information through Augmented Reality (AR) Head-Up Display (HUD) alleviates passengers' anxiety during autonomous vehicle (AV) driving. The evaluation was performed in a VR driving simulator, by ten volunteer us... Read More about How users experience autonomous vehicle driving: provision of information through AR HUD.

Scottish Modernism as Renaissance (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2022, January). Scottish Modernism as Renaissance. Presented at Extension Lecture, Department of English, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri University of North Bengal [Online]

'Kids rock Akademiks but they're not academic': hip-hop, academia and the liminal spaces between (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hook, D. (2022, January). 'Kids rock Akademiks but they're not academic': hip-hop, academia and the liminal spaces between. Paper presented at PANTHEON: Hip-Hop’s Global Pathways to Cultural “Legitimacy” (European Hip-Hop Studies Network Meeting), Paris, France

Presenting a ra/p/aper, demonstrating and arguing that hip-hop practice is hip-hop studies. Building on AD Carson’s artist-research in the form of mixtap/e/ssays (Carson, 2020), the work asserts that rap is research, art is scholarship, rather than r... Read More about 'Kids rock Akademiks but they're not academic': hip-hop, academia and the liminal spaces between.

Development and preliminary evaluation of a serious game to communicate a digitally enhanced advance service (DEAS) offer (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, M. S., Charissis, V., & Harrison, D. (2021, May). Development and preliminary evaluation of a serious game to communicate a digitally enhanced advance service (DEAS) offer. Presented at Spring Servitization Conference 2021, Online

DEAS are a cluster of high-value business models that focus on the delivery of outcomes rather than products to customers (DEAS NetworkPlus, 2020). Advance Service offers can be challenging to communicate and limit businesses understanding in the val... Read More about Development and preliminary evaluation of a serious game to communicate a digitally enhanced advance service (DEAS) offer.

Design principles and user experience of automotive head-up display development (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charissis, V., Bram Larbi, K. F., Lagoo, R., Wang, S., & Khan, S. (2021, December). Design principles and user experience of automotive head-up display development. Presented at International Display Workshops (IDW '21), Online

The paper presents a comparison of three prototype Head-Up Display interfaces aiming to improve drivers' safety. The evaluation attempts to identify their user-experience commonalities which are preferred by the drivers and improve their driving patt... Read More about Design principles and user experience of automotive head-up display development.

A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Freestone, P. (2021, December). A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF. Paper presented at Concepts in Popular Genre Fiction Symposium, Deakin University / Online

The rose has been valued, revered, and infused with meaning across time and cultures—from the earliest chemists to appear in the historical record to today's mass-market perfumes, from the religious festivals of ancient Rome to the works of the Roman... Read More about A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF.

Reducing Driver’s Cognitive Load with the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bram-Larbi, K. F., Charissis, V., Lagoo, R., Wang, S., Khan, S., Altarteer, S., Harrison, D. K., & Drikakis, D. (2021, July). Reducing Driver’s Cognitive Load with the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality. Presented at 23rd HCI International Conference (HCII 2021), Online

Multiple infotainment sources can significantly overload the driver’s cognitive load and increase the collision probabilities. Current solutions provided have attempted to alleviate this issue with the centralization of infotainment devices to single... Read More about Reducing Driver’s Cognitive Load with the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality.

Virtual Reality for Simulation and Evaluation: Technology Acceptance Models for Automotive Consumer Electronics (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charissis, C., Bram-Larbi, K. F., Lagoo, R., Wang, S., Khan, S., Altarteer, S., Harrison, D. K., & Drikakis, D. (2021, July). Virtual Reality for Simulation and Evaluation: Technology Acceptance Models for Automotive Consumer Electronics. Presented at HCI International 2021, Online

The design, development and evaluation of consumer electronics pose many challenges in the transition from initial concept to final product market release. In the automotive sector, in particular, due to the nature of these devices and to alleviate u... Read More about Virtual Reality for Simulation and Evaluation: Technology Acceptance Models for Automotive Consumer Electronics.

Rethinking First World War literature: The War Books Boom, 1928-30 (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2021, November). Rethinking First World War literature: The War Books Boom, 1928-30. Presented at Northumbria University Institute of Humanities Seminar Series, Northumbria University

Research talk (50 min) at Northumbria University Institute of Humanities Seminar Series (online).

Exploring the potential of ocean plastic - 3D printing (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tao, X. (2021, October). Exploring the potential of ocean plastic - 3D printing. Presented at International Conference on Sustainable Technology and Development, Shenzhen, China

One of the biggest environmental problems facing this planet today is plastic pollution in the marine environment. This research explored the possibilities of 3D printing ocean plastic in an attempt to alleviate this worldwide problem. From understan... Read More about Exploring the potential of ocean plastic - 3D printing.