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Sound Design (2019)
Book
McGregor, I. (2019). Sound Design. (2nd)

This book explores the underlying principles of sound design for linear and interactive media, and specifically how they apply to theatre and radio. The focus of the text is about how to design effective sound so that audiences' experiences are as cl... Read More about Sound Design.

Sound Stories: A Context-Based Study of Everyday Listening to Augmented Soundscapes (2019)
Journal Article
Droumeva, M., & McGregor, I. (2019). Sound Stories: A Context-Based Study of Everyday Listening to Augmented Soundscapes. Interacting with Computers, 31(3), 336-347. https://doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwz024

With an increasing number of everyday operations and communications becoming both automated and autonomous, ambient intelligent soundscapes are transforming to accommodate additional sonic feedback, and with it, new frameworks of listening. While thi... Read More about Sound Stories: A Context-Based Study of Everyday Listening to Augmented Soundscapes.

Exoscore: A Design Tool to Evaluate Factors Associated With Technology Acceptance of Soft Lower Limb Exosuits by Older Adults (2019)
Journal Article
Shore, L., Power, V., Hartigan, B., Schülein, S., Graf, E., de Eyto, A., & O’Sullivan, L. (2020). Exoscore: A Design Tool to Evaluate Factors Associated With Technology Acceptance of Soft Lower Limb Exosuits by Older Adults. Human Factors, 62(3), 391-410. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720819868122

Objective
This pilot study proposed and performs initial testing with Exoscore, a design evaluation tool to assess factors related to acceptance of exoskeleton by older adults, during the technology development and testing phases.

Background
As... Read More about Exoscore: A Design Tool to Evaluate Factors Associated With Technology Acceptance of Soft Lower Limb Exosuits by Older Adults.

RNN-ABC: A New Swarm Optimization Based Technique for Anomaly Detection (2019)
Journal Article
Qureshi, A., Larijani, H., Mtetwa, N., Javed, A., & Ahmad, J. (2019). RNN-ABC: A New Swarm Optimization Based Technique for Anomaly Detection. Computers, 8(3), Article 59. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers8030059

The exponential growth of internet communications and increasing dependency of users upon software-based systems for most essential, everyday applications has raised the importance of network security. As attacks are on the rise, cybersecurity should... Read More about RNN-ABC: A New Swarm Optimization Based Technique for Anomaly Detection.

Integrated GANs: Semi-Supervised SAR Target Recognition (2019)
Journal Article
Gao, F., Liu, Q., Sun, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2019). Integrated GANs: Semi-Supervised SAR Target Recognition. IEEE Access, 7, 113999-114013. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2935167

With the advantage of working in all weathers and all days, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging systems have a great application value. As an efficient image generation and recognition model, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been applie... Read More about Integrated GANs: Semi-Supervised SAR Target Recognition.

Deriving ChaCha20 Key Streams From Targeted Memory Analysis (2019)
Journal Article
McLaren, P., Buchanan, W. J., Russell, G., & Tan, Z. (2019). Deriving ChaCha20 Key Streams From Targeted Memory Analysis. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 48, Article 102372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2019.102372

There can be performance and vulnerability concerns with block ciphers, thus stream ciphers can used as an alternative. Although many symmetric key stream ciphers are fairly resistant to side-channel attacks, cryptographic artefacts may exist in memo... Read More about Deriving ChaCha20 Key Streams From Targeted Memory Analysis.

DeliveryCoin: An IDS and Blockchain-Based Delivery Framework for Drone-Delivered Services (2019)
Journal Article
Ferrag, M. A., & Maglaras, L. (2019). DeliveryCoin: An IDS and Blockchain-Based Delivery Framework for Drone-Delivered Services. Computers, 8(3), Article 58. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers8030058

In this paper, we propose an intrusion detection system (IDS) and Blockchain-based delivery framework, called DeliveryCoin, for drone-delivered services. The DeliveryCoin framework consists of four phases, including system initialization phase, creat... Read More about DeliveryCoin: An IDS and Blockchain-Based Delivery Framework for Drone-Delivered Services.

Design and development of a spatial mixed reality touring guide to the Egyptian museum (2019)
Journal Article
Hammady, R., Ma, M., Strathern, C., & Mohamad, M. (2020). Design and development of a spatial mixed reality touring guide to the Egyptian museum. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 79(5-6), 3465-3494. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08026-w

Many public services and entertainment industries utilise Mixed Reality (MR) devices to develop highly immersive and interactive applications. However, recent advancements in MR processing has prompted the tourist and events industry to invest and de... Read More about Design and development of a spatial mixed reality touring guide to the Egyptian museum.

A Semi-Supervised Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Image Recognition Algorithm Based on an Attention Mechanism and Bias-Variance Decomposition (2019)
Journal Article
Gao, F., Shi, W., Wang, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2019). A Semi-Supervised Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Image Recognition Algorithm Based on an Attention Mechanism and Bias-Variance Decomposition. IEEE Access, 7, 108617-108632. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2933459

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) target recognition is an important research direction of SAR image interpretation. In recent years, most of machine learning methods applied to SAR target recognition are supervised learning which requires a large numbe... Read More about A Semi-Supervised Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Image Recognition Algorithm Based on an Attention Mechanism and Bias-Variance Decomposition.

Blended Interactions Exhibition 2019 (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Flint, T. Blended Interactions Exhibition 2019. [https://www.list.co.uk/event/1303469-blended-interactions-exhibition-2019/]. 3 August 2019 - 3 August 2019. (Unpublished)

Farmingdale State College, New York and Edinburgh Napier University

Enjoy visions of tomorrow with a glass of wine. Celebrating the third year of collaboration between the two universities, this exhibition communicates work undertaken in a two-wee... Read More about Blended Interactions Exhibition 2019.

How speakers adapt object descriptions to listeners under load (2019)
Journal Article
Vogels, J., Howcroft, D. M., Tourtouri, E., & Demberg, V. (2020). How speakers adapt object descriptions to listeners under load. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35(1), 78-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1648839

A controversial issue in psycholinguistics is the degree to which speakers employ audience design during language production. Hypothesising that a consideration of the listener’s needs is particularly relevant when the listener is under cognitive loa... Read More about How speakers adapt object descriptions to listeners under load.

Rich Data for Wind Turbine Power Performance Analysis (2019)
Data
Davison, B. (2019). Rich Data for Wind Turbine Power Performance Analysis. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.13020/1etn-1q17

This dataset was created in order to support comparative analyses concerning the relationships between meteorological parameters and wind turbine power output. It addresses some of the limitations of existing datasets such as those compiled for comme... Read More about Rich Data for Wind Turbine Power Performance Analysis.

Evolving planar mechanisms for the conceptual stage of mechanical design (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lapok, P., Lawson, A., & Paechter, B. (2019, July). Evolving planar mechanisms for the conceptual stage of mechanical design. Presented at GECCO '19, Prague, Czech Republic

This study presents a method to evolve planar mechanism prototypes using an evolutionary computing approach. Ultimately, the idea is to provide drafts for designers at the conceptual design stage of mechanism design which meet their design brief. The... Read More about Evolving planar mechanisms for the conceptual stage of mechanical design.

An Experimental-Based Review of Image Enhancement and Image Restoration Methods for Underwater Imaging (2019)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Song, W., Fortino, G., Qi, L., Zhang, W., & Liotta, A. (2019). An Experimental-Based Review of Image Enhancement and Image Restoration Methods for Underwater Imaging. IEEE Access, 7, 140233-140251. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2932130

Underwater images play a key role in ocean exploration, but often suffer from severe quality degradation due to light absorption and scattering in water medium. Although major breakthroughs have been made recently in the general area of image enhance... Read More about An Experimental-Based Review of Image Enhancement and Image Restoration Methods for Underwater Imaging.

Next Generation Lightweight Cryptography for Smart IoT Devices: Implementation, Challenges and Applications (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gunathilake, N. A., Buchanan, W. J., & Asif, R. (2019). Next Generation Lightweight Cryptography for Smart IoT Devices: Implementation, Challenges and Applications. . https://doi.org/10.1109/WF-IoT.2019.8767250

High/ultra-high speed data connections are currently being developed, and by the year 2020, it is expected that the 5th generation networking (5GN) should be much smarter. It would provide great quality of service (QoS) due to low latency, less imple... Read More about Next Generation Lightweight Cryptography for Smart IoT Devices: Implementation, Challenges and Applications.

DNS-IdM: A Blockchain Identity Management System to Secure Personal Data Sharing in a Network (2019)
Journal Article
Alsayed Kassem, J., Sayeed, S., Marco-Gisbert, H., Pervez, Z., & Dahal, K. (2019). DNS-IdM: A Blockchain Identity Management System to Secure Personal Data Sharing in a Network. Applied Sciences, 9(15), Article 2953. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9152953

Identity management (IdM) is a method used to determine user identities. The centralized aspect of IdM introduces a serious concern with the growing value of personal information, as well as with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The pro... Read More about DNS-IdM: A Blockchain Identity Management System to Secure Personal Data Sharing in a Network.

Scalability analysis comparisons of cloud-based software services (2019)
Journal Article
Ahmad, A. A., & Andras, P. (2019). Scalability analysis comparisons of cloud-based software services. Journal of cloud computing: advances, systems and applications, 8, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-019-0134-y

Performance and scalability testing and measurements of cloud-based software services are necessary for future optimizations and growth of cloud computing. Scalability, elasticity, and efficiency are interrelated aspects of cloud-based software servi... Read More about Scalability analysis comparisons of cloud-based software services.

Intermediated Reality: A Framework for Communication Through Tele-Puppetry (2019)
Journal Article
Casas, L., & Mitchell, K. (2019). Intermediated Reality: A Framework for Communication Through Tele-Puppetry. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 6, https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2019.00060

We introduce Intermediated Reality (IR), a framework for intermediated communication enabling collaboration through remote possession of entities (e.g., toys) that come to life in mobile Mediated Reality (MR). As part of a two-way conversation, each... Read More about Intermediated Reality: A Framework for Communication Through Tele-Puppetry.

Big Data Analytics and Mining for Effective Visualization and Trends Forecasting of Crime Data (2019)
Journal Article
Feng, M., Zheng, J., Ren, J., Hussain, A., Li, X., Xi, Y., & Liu, Q. (2019). Big Data Analytics and Mining for Effective Visualization and Trends Forecasting of Crime Data. IEEE Access, 7, 106111-106123. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2930410

Big data analytics (BDA) is a systematic approach for analyzing and identifying different patterns, relations, and trends within a large volume of data. In this paper, we apply BDA to criminal data where exploratory data analysis is conducted for vis... Read More about Big Data Analytics and Mining for Effective Visualization and Trends Forecasting of Crime Data.