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A sweetspot for innovation: developing games with purpose through student-staff collaboration (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sloan, R. J. S., Galloway, D., & Donald, I. (2014, September). A sweetspot for innovation: developing games with purpose through student-staff collaboration. Presented at 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-Games 2014

Within industry as well as academia, developing games that have wider impact on society has been of particular interest in the last decade. The increasing use of terms such as ‘games with purpose’, ‘serious games’ and gamification’ has been mirrored... Read More about A sweetspot for innovation: developing games with purpose through student-staff collaboration.

Intellibike: a cycle path surface quality assessment tool (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Calvey, J., Taylor, M. D., Shackleton, J. P., & Llewellyn, R. (2014). Intellibike: a cycle path surface quality assessment tool.

The IntelliBike is an instrumented bicycle capable of monitoring cycle path surface quality through onboard measuring and logging devices, as well as other key variables pertinent to infrastructure and environmental quality and thus cyclist comfort.... Read More about Intellibike: a cycle path surface quality assessment tool.

It's All in the Cloud: Reviewing Cloud Security (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pitropakis, N., Darra, E., Vrakas, N., & Lambrinoudakis, C. (2013, December). It's All in the Cloud: Reviewing Cloud Security. Presented at 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing and 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Autonomic & Trusted Computing (UIC/ATC), Vietri sul Mere, Italy

Cloud computing is gradually replacing traditional IT infrastructures. However, an important issue that has emerged through that revolution is the preservation of an adequate level of security for the infrastructure. Currently there are many research... Read More about It's All in the Cloud: Reviewing Cloud Security.

Performance investigation of a regenerative-type indirect evaporative cooler in Qatar climate (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alimohammadisagvand, B., Hasan, A., & Siren, K. (2014, January). Performance investigation of a regenerative-type indirect evaporative cooler in Qatar climate. Paper presented at International Sustanable Built Environment Conference (ISBE 2014), Doha, Qatar

The building sector is responsible of some 40% of the total energy consumption in the world. Cooling energy is an important part of the energy needed in buildings and is increasing as a result of the higher levels of indoor air conditions and the glo... Read More about Performance investigation of a regenerative-type indirect evaporative cooler in Qatar climate.

Chinese consumer attitudes and barriers towards green energy (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alimohammadisagvand, B., Hast, A., Syri, S., Cao, G., & Xiang, Z. (2014, January). Chinese consumer attitudes and barriers towards green energy. Paper presented at International Sustainable Built Environment Conference (ISBE 2014), Doha, Qatar

China’s energy consumption has more than doubled in less than 10 years and China is now the world’s greatest consumer of energy. China produced 1/5 of the world’s total electricity by 2010, and 60% of energy is generated by coal. Therefore, China alo... Read More about Chinese consumer attitudes and barriers towards green energy.

Norms and standards in modular medical architectures. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fricker, S., Fiedler, M., Grottland, A., Jell, T., Magedanz, T., Thuemmler, C., Mival, O., Benyon, D., Buchanan, W. J., & Paulin, A. (2013, October). Norms and standards in modular medical architectures. Presented at 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom 2013)

Recent Internet of Things (IoT) research has been aiming at interoperability of devices and the integration of sensor networks. The Future Internet - Private Public Partnership (FI-PPP) has created a whole array of different purpose-oriented modules... Read More about Norms and standards in modular medical architectures..

An architecture for designing Future Internet (FI) applications in sensitive domains: Expressing the software to data paradigm by utilizing hybrid cloud technology (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sotiriadis, S., Petrakis, E. G. M., Covaci, S., Zampognaro, P., Georga, E., & Thuemmler, C. (2013, November). An architecture for designing Future Internet (FI) applications in sensitive domains: Expressing the software to data paradigm by utilizing hybrid cloud technology. Presented at 13th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, Chania, Greece

The emergency of cloud computing and Generic Enablers (GEs) as the building blocks of Future Internet (FI) applications highlights new requirements in the area of cloud services. Though, due to the current restrictions of various certification standa... Read More about An architecture for designing Future Internet (FI) applications in sensitive domains: Expressing the software to data paradigm by utilizing hybrid cloud technology.

Impact of motorcycle’s driving behaviour on fuel consumption and emissions. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kumar, R., Saleh, W., & Ocana, L. (2014, January). Impact of motorcycle’s driving behaviour on fuel consumption and emissions. Paper presented at 46th Annual UTSG Conference

Many studies have confirmed that driving behaviour has a great influence on petrol-fuelled than on diesel-fuelled vehicles. Depending on the type of road and vehicle technology, fuel consumption may increase by up to 40% for aggressive driving compar... Read More about Impact of motorcycle’s driving behaviour on fuel consumption and emissions..

Reregulating the deregulated, a case study of the Scottish Bus market. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cowie, J. (2014, January). Reregulating the deregulated, a case study of the Scottish Bus market. Paper presented at 46th Universities Transport Studies Group Conference

Much research surrounds the move from publicly owned and operated bus markets to publicly controlled and privately operated markets, or in the case of Great Britain, a fully deregulated market. Little research however exists concerning the counter mo... Read More about Reregulating the deregulated, a case study of the Scottish Bus market..

A social technological alignment matrix. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thuemmler, C., Mival, O., Lim Jumelle, A. K., Holanec, I., & Fricker, S. (2014, January). A social technological alignment matrix. Paper presented at IEEE Healthcom 2014

This paper refers to the term “implementation” as the process of integrating a new technology into established workflows. Especially in health care this has proven to be a very critical phase and many large-scale projects have failed on this very las... Read More about A social technological alignment matrix..

The future of computer science education and observations from on-line learning. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J. (2014, January). The future of computer science education and observations from on-line learning. Paper presented at Higher Computing Science National Qualifications Support

This session will look at the opportunities at the present time and in the future for Computing, and provide key pointer to the skills that are required to undertake a career in related areas. Along with this Bill will outline the results of the work... Read More about The future of computer science education and observations from on-line learning..