All Outputs (653)

Perceiving the temperature coefficients of carbon-based perovskite solar cells (2020)
Journal Article
Bhandari, S., Roy, A., Ghosh, A., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Perceiving the temperature coefficients of carbon-based perovskite solar cells. Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 4(12), 6283-6298. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0se00782j

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged in a “catfish effect” of other established photovoltaic technologies with the rapid development of high-power conversion efficiency (PCE) and low-cost fabrication. Among various kinds of PSCs, organic hole t... Read More about Perceiving the temperature coefficients of carbon-based perovskite solar cells.

A survey on underactuated robotic systems: Bio-inspiration, trajectory planning and control (2020)
Journal Article
Liu, P., Huda, M. N., Sun, L., & Yu, H. (2020). A survey on underactuated robotic systems: Bio-inspiration, trajectory planning and control. Mechatronics, 72, 102443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2020.102443

Underactuated robotic systems have become an important research topic aiming at significant improvement of the behavioural performance and energy efficiency. Adopting some bio-inspired ideas and properties, the self-organisation and main tasks of the... Read More about A survey on underactuated robotic systems: Bio-inspiration, trajectory planning and control.

Design Trade-Offs and Feasibility Assessment of a Novel One-Body, Laminated-Rotor Flywheel Switched Reluctance Machine (2020)
Journal Article
Rocca, R., Papadopoulos, S., Rashed, M., Prassinos, G., Giulii Capponi, F., & Galea, M. (2020). Design Trade-Offs and Feasibility Assessment of a Novel One-Body, Laminated-Rotor Flywheel Switched Reluctance Machine. Energies, 13(22), Article 5857. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13225857

In a bid to respond to the challenges being faced in the installation of flywheel-based electric energy storage systems (EESSs) in customer-side facilities, namely high safety, high energy/power densities and low cost, research work towards the devel... Read More about Design Trade-Offs and Feasibility Assessment of a Novel One-Body, Laminated-Rotor Flywheel Switched Reluctance Machine.

Improving VIP viewer Gaze Estimation and Engagement Using Adaptive Dynamic Anamorphosis (2020)
Journal Article
Pan, Y., & Mitchell, K. (2021). Improving VIP viewer Gaze Estimation and Engagement Using Adaptive Dynamic Anamorphosis. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 147, Article 102563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102563

Anamorphosis for 2D displays can provide viewer centric perspective viewing, enabling 3D appearance, eye contact and engagement, by adapting dynamically in real time to a single moving viewer’s viewpoint, but at the cost of distorted viewing for othe... Read More about Improving VIP viewer Gaze Estimation and Engagement Using Adaptive Dynamic Anamorphosis.

Making a case for smart buildings in preventing corona-virus: focus on maintenance management challenges (2020)
Journal Article
Osunsanmi, T. O., Aigbavboa, C. O., Oke, A., & Onyia, M. E. (2022). Making a case for smart buildings in preventing corona-virus: focus on maintenance management challenges. International journal of construction management, 22(16), 3109-3118. https://doi.org/10.1080/15623599.2020.1842960

The major prevention for the COVID-19 pandemic is staying indoors. But research has discovered that COVID-19 can be spread indoors through the touching of building components. Therefore, this study makes a case for the development of contactless smar... Read More about Making a case for smart buildings in preventing corona-virus: focus on maintenance management challenges.

Music classroom as the shifting ground for patriotism: National Anthem Law in Hong Kong (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cheng, L. (2020, July). Music classroom as the shifting ground for patriotism: National Anthem Law in Hong Kong. Presented at 20th International Seminar of the ISME Commission on Policy: Culture, Media and Education, Online

Music as an expressive art form can convey meaning and carry emotional associations. It can promote universal values such as anti-war and equality, or political ideology including both pro- and anti-establishment sentiments. As a result, various coun... Read More about Music classroom as the shifting ground for patriotism: National Anthem Law in Hong Kong.

How does a (Smart) Age-Friendly Ecosystem Look in a Post-Pandemic Society? (2020)
Journal Article
Marston, H. R., Shore, L., & White, P. (2020). How does a (Smart) Age-Friendly Ecosystem Look in a Post-Pandemic Society?. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(21), Article 8276. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218276

COVID-19 has impacted not only the health of citizens, but also the various factors that make up our society, living environments, and ecosystems. This pandemic has shown that future living will need to be agile and flexible to adapt to the various c... Read More about How does a (Smart) Age-Friendly Ecosystem Look in a Post-Pandemic Society?.

Cloud Security, Privacy and Trust Baselines (2020)
Book Chapter
Pitropakis, N., Katsikas, S., & Lambrinoudakis, C. (2020). Cloud Security, Privacy and Trust Baselines. In J. R. Vacca (Ed.), Cloud Computing Security: Foundations and Challenges. Boca Raton, US: CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429055126

Cloud services vary from data storage and processing to software provision, posing requirements for high availability and on-demand commitment-free provision of services. Cloud providers must provide information through their privacy policy and/or up... Read More about Cloud Security, Privacy and Trust Baselines.

Motivational Effects of Immersive Media on Adolescents’ Engagement in Cantonese Opera (2020)
Book Chapter
Cheng, L., & Leung, B. (2020). Motivational Effects of Immersive Media on Adolescents’ Engagement in Cantonese Opera. In W. W. Ma, K. Tong, & W. Bo Anna Tso (Eds.), Learning Environment and Design: Current and Future Impacts (213-226). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8167-0_13

Recent advancements in communication and computer technology have made available and affordable the immersive technology necessary for broader applications beyond industrial use. Facing growing competition from the emergence of new media as an attrac... Read More about Motivational Effects of Immersive Media on Adolescents’ Engagement in Cantonese Opera.

An Initial Study of Biogas Upgrading to Bio-Methane with Carbon Dioxide Capture using Ceramic Membranes (2020)
Journal Article
Ogunlude, P., Abunumah, O., Orakwe, I., Shehu, H., Muhammad- Sukki, F., & Gobina, E. (2022). An Initial Study of Biogas Upgrading to Bio-Methane with Carbon Dioxide Capture using Ceramic Membranes. Catalysis Today, 388-389, 87-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2020.11.006

Supplement to the depleting energy resources and the stringent environmental laws regarding the atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases, the development of clean and renewable sources of energy has been a great issue. Worldwide, energy usage is ste... Read More about An Initial Study of Biogas Upgrading to Bio-Methane with Carbon Dioxide Capture using Ceramic Membranes.

Double Trouble: The Effect of Eye Gaze on the Social Impression of Mobile Robotic Telepresence Operators (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wolf, E. D., & Li, J. (2020, November). Double Trouble: The Effect of Eye Gaze on the Social Impression of Mobile Robotic Telepresence Operators. Presented at International Conference on Social Robotics, Golden, CO, USA

Eye gaze is used to convey crucial information during interactions with humans and robots. Modern video conferencing systems, an aspect of mobile robotic telepresence (MRP) systems, have limited eye gaze functionality due to the Mona Lisa effect. Thi... Read More about Double Trouble: The Effect of Eye Gaze on the Social Impression of Mobile Robotic Telepresence Operators.

Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ellen Foster, M., Ali, S., Litwin, S., Parker, J., Petrick, R. P. A., Harris Smith, D., Stinson, J., & Zeller, F. (2020, November). Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences. Presented at International Conference on Social Robotics, Golden, Colorado

This paper describes a new research project that aims to develop an autonomous and responsive social robot designed to help children cope with painful procedures in hospital emergency departments. While this is an application domain where psychologic... Read More about Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences.

Airport Detection in SAR Images via Salient Line Segment Detector and Edge-Oriented Region Growing (2020)
Journal Article
Tu, J., Gao, F., Sun, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2020). Airport Detection in SAR Images via Salient Line Segment Detector and Edge-Oriented Region Growing. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 14, 314-326. https://doi.org/10.1109/jstars.2020.3036052

Airport detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images has attracted much concern in the field of remote sensing. Affected by other salient objects with geometrical features similar to those of airports, traditional methods often generate false d... Read More about Airport Detection in SAR Images via Salient Line Segment Detector and Edge-Oriented Region Growing.

Exploring Adversarial Attacks and Defences for Fake Twitter Account Detection (2020)
Journal Article
Kantartopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., Mylonas, A., & Kylilis, N. (2020). Exploring Adversarial Attacks and Defences for Fake Twitter Account Detection. Technologies, 8(4), Article 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies8040064

Social media has become very popular and important in people’s lives, as personal ideas, beliefs and opinions are expressed and shared through them. Unfortunately, social networks, and specifically Twitter, suffer from massive existence and perpetual... Read More about Exploring Adversarial Attacks and Defences for Fake Twitter Account Detection.

FixM: Code generation of fixed point mathematical functions (2020)
Journal Article
Cattaneo, D., Chiari, M., Magnani, G., Fossati, N., Cherubin, S., & Agosta, G. (2021). FixM: Code generation of fixed point mathematical functions. Sustainable Computing, 29, part B, Article 100478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.suscom.2020.100478

Approximate computing has seen significant interest as a design philosophy oriented to performance and energy efficiency [1]. Precision tuning is an approximate computing technique that trades off the accuracy of operations for performance and energy... Read More about FixM: Code generation of fixed point mathematical functions.

Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts (2020)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., & D’Amico, B. (2020). Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts. Sustainability, 12(21), Article 9189. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12219189

Projected population growth and urbanization rates will create a huge demand for new buildings and put an unprecedented pressure on the natural environment and its limited resources. Architectural design has often focused on passive or low-energy app... Read More about Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts.

Equality of restraint: Reframing road safety through the ethics of private motorised transport (2020)
Journal Article
Davis, A. L., & Obree, D. (2020). Equality of restraint: Reframing road safety through the ethics of private motorised transport. Journal of transport & health, 19, Article 100970. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2020.100970

Background Motoring is an emancipation. It is both an individual freedom and a collective freedom with car ownership at 30, 491, 000 vehicles by 2019 in Great Britain. Yet, as the evidence of the impacts of road transport accumulates and the health... Read More about Equality of restraint: Reframing road safety through the ethics of private motorised transport.

Design of a Smart and Intelligent Energy Efficient Controller for a Bathroom System (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Oye, T. K., Gupta, N., Goh, K., & Oye, T. T. (2020, September). Design of a Smart and Intelligent Energy Efficient Controller for a Bathroom System. Presented at 2020 9th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Application (ICRERA), Glasgow, United Kingdom

One of the major issues facing the world in the 21 st century is climate change. However, sustainability has become a crucial concept to combat extreme consumption of environmental resources. The bathroom has been estimated to be the principal user o... Read More about Design of a Smart and Intelligent Energy Efficient Controller for a Bathroom System.

Development of Optimized Smart Indoor Control for Renewable Air-Conditioning (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Oye, T. T., Gupta, N., Goh, K., & Oye, T. K. (2020, September). Development of Optimized Smart Indoor Control for Renewable Air-Conditioning. Presented at 2020 9th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Application (ICRERA), Glasgow, United Kingdom

This paper presents the modelling of smart indoor control for renewable air-conditioning using fuzzy logic control and proportional-integral-derivatives for improved thermal comfort. The proposed control techniques are systematically designed and tun... Read More about Development of Optimized Smart Indoor Control for Renewable Air-Conditioning.

Development of biomass-fueled cogeneration systems for off-grid electrification (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bagherian, M. A., Mehranzamir, K., Ahmed, J., Nafea, M., Nabipour-Afrouzi, H., & Wooi, C. (2020, September). Development of biomass-fueled cogeneration systems for off-grid electrification. Presented at 2020 2nd International Conference on Smart Power & Internet Energy Systems (SPIES), Bangkok, Thailand

Over the past centuries, discovery and utilization of fossil fuels has revolutionized the world pushing societies towards modernization. This source of energy that is being referred as black gold, has faced extensive consumption which consequently st... Read More about Development of biomass-fueled cogeneration systems for off-grid electrification.