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Investigation into Stress Triggers in Autistic Adults for the Development of Technological Self-Interventions (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGowan, J. J., & Mcgregor, I. P. (2023, October). Investigation into Stress Triggers in Autistic Adults for the Development of Technological Self-Interventions. Presented at The 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, New York, United States

Adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face daily challenges dealing with stress, for example, at work, or in public spaces, which can be overwhelming in terms of coping with sensory overload. Technological interventions have been created in orde... Read More about Investigation into Stress Triggers in Autistic Adults for the Development of Technological Self-Interventions.

Non-Linear Model Predictive Speed Control of Six Phase Squirrel Cage Generator in Wind Energy System (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdulwahab, I., Musa, U., Sarip, S., Mas'ud, A. A., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Faskari, S. A., & Mahmud, A. T. (2023, August). Non-Linear Model Predictive Speed Control of Six Phase Squirrel Cage Generator in Wind Energy System. Presented at 2023 IEEE 6th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, and System Engineering (ICEESE), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Due to the intermittent nature of wind, varying wind speed causes imbalance in the current of the six phase squirrel cage induction generator (SCIG). These changes in the input signal create inbalance in the current and therefore causes deviations in... Read More about Non-Linear Model Predictive Speed Control of Six Phase Squirrel Cage Generator in Wind Energy System.

Strength grading options for unusual resources (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cramer, M., & Ridley-Ellis, D. (2023, October). Strength grading options for unusual resources. Paper presented at WSE: 19th Annual Meeting of the Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering, Oslo, Norway

Towards a Framework of Aesthetics in Sonic Interaction (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cunningham, S., McGregor, I., Weinel, J., Darby, J., & Stockman, T. (2023, August). Towards a Framework of Aesthetics in Sonic Interaction. Presented at AM '23: Audio Mostly 2023, Edinburgh

As interaction design has advanced, increased attention has been directed to the role that aesthetics play in shaping factors of user experience. Historically stemming from philosophy and the arts, aesthetics in interaction design has gravitated towa... Read More about Towards a Framework of Aesthetics in Sonic Interaction.

FASS: Firefighter Audio Safety Systems (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elliot, A., & McGregor, I. (2023). FASS: Firefighter Audio Safety Systems. In AM '23: Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/3616195.3616220

A series of auditory cues were designed to assist firefighters with navigation and general safety in a fire emergency. Firefighters must maintain situational awareness at all times and this can be lost with disorientation, which is one of the main ca... Read More about FASS: Firefighter Audio Safety Systems.

CellSecure: Securing Image Data in Industrial Internet-of-Things via Cellular Automata and Chaos-Based Encryption (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali, H., Khan, M. S., Driss, M., Ahmad, J., Buchanan, W. J., & Pitropakis, N. (2023, October). CellSecure: Securing Image Data in Industrial Internet-of-Things via Cellular Automata and Chaos-Based Encryption. Presented at 2023 IEEE 98th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2023-Fall), Hong Kong, Hong Kong

In the era of Industrial IoT (IIoT) and Industry 4.0, ensuring secure data transmission has become a critical concern. Among other data types, images are widely transmitted and utilized across various IIoT applications, ranging from sensor-generated... Read More about CellSecure: Securing Image Data in Industrial Internet-of-Things via Cellular Automata and Chaos-Based Encryption.

UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sailaja, N., Castle-Green, T., Coulton, P., Stead, M., Lindley, J. G., Urquhart, L. D., & Darzentas, D. (2023, October). UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices. Presented at UbiComp/ISWC '23: The 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico

IoT products are increasingly becoming the default, with non-IoT versions of common hardware (e.g., TVs and printers) harder to find. Alongside this adoption surge, lack of support, outdated security, and planned obsolescence present concerning susta... Read More about UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices.

Tri-Band Endfire Antenna Array with Wide Angles of Beam-Scanning Capability for 5G mmWave Mobile Communications (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zidour, A., Ayad, M., Alibakhshikenari, M., Basherlou, H. J., Parchin, N. O., & See, C. H. (2023, October). Tri-Band Endfire Antenna Array with Wide Angles of Beam-Scanning Capability for 5G mmWave Mobile Communications. Paper presented at IEEE MTTW Conference 2023, Riga, Latvia

In this paper, a novel multiband phased array antenna with endfire radiation pattern is designed at millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency bands for 5G mobile applications. The proposed antenna element is a compact quasi-Yagi with a modified dipole drive... Read More about Tri-Band Endfire Antenna Array with Wide Angles of Beam-Scanning Capability for 5G mmWave Mobile Communications.

Wide-Scan/High-Gain Phased Array Antenna for 5G/6G Cellular Networks (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jahanbakhsh Basherlou, H., Parchin, N. O., Alibakhshikenari, M., & See, C. H. (2023, October). Wide-Scan/High-Gain Phased Array Antenna for 5G/6G Cellular Networks. Paper presented at IEEE MTTW Conference 2023, Riga, Latvia

This paper explores the features of a novel beam-steerable phased array antenna design that exhibits high radiation capabilities, catering to the needs of future cellular networks such as 5G/6G. The focus of the discussion is on smartphones, given th... Read More about Wide-Scan/High-Gain Phased Array Antenna for 5G/6G Cellular Networks.

Establishing A Timber-Focused Competency Framework To Up- And Re-Skill Built Environment Professionals To Meet Sustainability Goals Sustainability Goals (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hitt, S. J., Hairstans, R., & Connell-Skinner, K. (2023, September). Establishing A Timber-Focused Competency Framework To Up- And Re-Skill Built Environment Professionals To Meet Sustainability Goals Sustainability Goals. Presented at 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) 2023, Dublin, Ireland

Engineers equipped with skills for a sustainable built environment have never been more critical, as government and industry sustainability goals such as the 2050 net zero target have significant implications for the construction sector. Concurrently... Read More about Establishing A Timber-Focused Competency Framework To Up- And Re-Skill Built Environment Professionals To Meet Sustainability Goals Sustainability Goals.

Effect of COVID-19 on Photovoltaic Demand and Installation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zulfiqar, F., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Hawa Abu-Bakar, S., Bani, N. A., & Mas'ud, A. A. (2023, July). Effect of COVID-19 on Photovoltaic Demand and Installation. Presented at International Conference on Green Energy, Computing and Intelligent Technology (GEn-CITy 2023), Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia; online

The research investigates the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the photovoltaic (PV) sector. This research examines the alterations in PV demand and installation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and identifies the underlying factors that have influenc... Read More about Effect of COVID-19 on Photovoltaic Demand and Installation.

Solving the cocktail party problem using Multi-modal Hearing Assistive Technology Prototype (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., & Hussain, A. (2023, December). Solving the cocktail party problem using Multi-modal Hearing Assistive Technology Prototype. Presented at Acoustics 2023, Sydney, Australia

Hearing loss is a major global health problem, affecting over 1.5 billion people. According to estimations by the World Health Organization, 83% of those who could benefit from hearing assistive devices do not use them. The limited adoption of hearin... Read More about Solving the cocktail party problem using Multi-modal Hearing Assistive Technology Prototype.

Resolving the Decreased Rank Attack in RPL’s IoT Networks (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ghaleb, B., Al-Duba, A., Hussain, A., Romdhani, I., & Jaroucheh, Z. (2023, June). Resolving the Decreased Rank Attack in RPL’s IoT Networks. Presented at 19th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2023), Pafos, Cyprus

The Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy networks (RPL) has been developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standardization body to serve as a part of the 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks) standard, a core... Read More about Resolving the Decreased Rank Attack in RPL’s IoT Networks.

Hotel refurbishment and building information modelling (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaradat, S., & Henderson, H. (2022, September). Hotel refurbishment and building information modelling. Presented at The World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium: WMCAUS 2022, Prague, Czech Republic

Research on Building Information Modelling (BIM) focused on the design and construction stages of engineering projects. Fewer studies investigated the use of BIM in refurbishment projects. The aim of this research is to examine the process of hotel r... Read More about Hotel refurbishment and building information modelling.

The Threat of Adversarial Attacks Against Machine Learning-based Anomaly Detection Approach in a Clean Water Treatment System (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moradpoor, N., Maglaras, L., Abah, E., & Robles-Durazno, A. (2023, June). The Threat of Adversarial Attacks Against Machine Learning-based Anomaly Detection Approach in a Clean Water Treatment System. Presented at 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), Pafos, Cyprus

The protection of Critical National Infrastructure is extremely important due to nations being dependent on their operation and steadiness. Any disturbance to this infrastructure could have a devastating consequence on physical security, economic wel... Read More about The Threat of Adversarial Attacks Against Machine Learning-based Anomaly Detection Approach in a Clean Water Treatment System.

A Blockchain-based two Factor Honeytoken Authentication System (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Papaspirou, V., Maglaras, L., Kantzavelou, I., Moradpoor, N., & Katsikas, S. (2023, September). A Blockchain-based two Factor Honeytoken Authentication System. Poster presented at 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), The Hague

This paper extends and advances our recently introduced two-factor Honeytoken authentication method by incorporating blockchain technology. This novel approach strengthens the authentication method, preventing various attacks, including tampering att... Read More about A Blockchain-based two Factor Honeytoken Authentication System.

Remote Acoustic Soundscape evaluation using Ambisonic recordings (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Di Donato, B., & McGregor, I. (2023, September). Remote Acoustic Soundscape evaluation using Ambisonic recordings. Paper presented at Basic Auditory Science 2023, London, UK

The Acoustic Soundscape ISO standard has been used in previous work to assess the soundscape during soundwalks. This approach has different results and contributions to the field. However, there are several challenges to this approach, such as logist... Read More about Remote Acoustic Soundscape evaluation using Ambisonic recordings.

Design for Additive Manufacturing and Finite Element Analysis of Fe-Mn Biodegradable Fracture Fixation Plate with Varying Porosity Levels (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shaikh, M., Kahwash, F., Lu, Z., Alkhreisat, M., & Shyha, I. (2023, September). Design for Additive Manufacturing and Finite Element Analysis of Fe-Mn Biodegradable Fracture Fixation Plate with Varying Porosity Levels. Presented at International Conference on Additive Manufacturing in Products and Applications 2023, Zurich, Switzerland

Fracture fixation plates are osteosynthesis implants used to fix fractured bones in a human body. They are either left in the body or required to be removed after a bone healing period of 3–6 months. Recent trends focus on developing iron (Fe) based... Read More about Design for Additive Manufacturing and Finite Element Analysis of Fe-Mn Biodegradable Fracture Fixation Plate with Varying Porosity Levels.

enunlg: a Python library for reproducible neural data-to-text experimentation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howcroft, D. M., & Gkatzia, D. (2023). enunlg: a Python library for reproducible neural data-to-text experimentation. In Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference: System Demonstrations (4-5)

Over the past decade, a variety of neural ar-chitectures for data-to-text generation (NLG) have been proposed. However, each system typically has its own approach to pre-and post-processing and other implementation details. Diversity in implementatio... Read More about enunlg: a Python library for reproducible neural data-to-text experimentation.

Building a dual dataset of text-and image-grounded conversations and summarisation in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howcroft, D. M., Lamb, W., Groundwater, A., & Gkatzia, D. (2023, September). Building a dual dataset of text-and image-grounded conversations and summarisation in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic). Presented at The 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference

Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic; gd) is spoken by about 57k people in Scotland, but remains an under-resourced language with respect to natural language processing in general and natural language generation (NLG) in particular. To address this gap, we deve... Read More about Building a dual dataset of text-and image-grounded conversations and summarisation in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic).