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Computing degree apprenticeships: An opportunity to address gender imbalance in the IT sector? (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S., Taylor-Smith, E., Fabian, K., Barr, M., Berg, T., Cutting, D., Paterson, J., Young, T., & Zarb, M. (2020, October). Computing degree apprenticeships: An opportunity to address gender imbalance in the IT sector?. Presented at Frontiers in Education, Upsala, Sweden

This paper explores the potential for new work-based apprenticeship degrees to encourage more women into computing degrees and the IT sector. In the UK, women are currently under-represented on computing courses. Meanwhile the IT industry requires mo... Read More about Computing degree apprenticeships: An opportunity to address gender imbalance in the IT sector?.

PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. (2020, December). PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism. Presented at ICVISP 2020: The 2020 4th International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Bangkok

The original consensus algorithm-Proof of Work (PoW) has been widely utilized in the blockchain systems and is been adopted by many cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, among many others. Nevertheless, the concept has received criticisms o... Read More about PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism.

Sdn heading north: Towards a declarative intent-based northbound interface (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alalmaei, S., Elkhatib, Y., Bezahaf, M., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2020, November). Sdn heading north: Towards a declarative intent-based northbound interface. Presented at 2020 16th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Izmir, Turkey

The Intent-Based Northbound Interface (NBI) offers users the ability to express what they want to achieve instead of how to achieve it, enabling improvements to network management and reducing operational costs. However, development of an Intent-Base... Read More about Sdn heading north: Towards a declarative intent-based northbound interface.

The Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Of 2-Fraction Granular Soils And The Internal Stability (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Imre, E., Illés, Z., Bálint, Á., Barreto, D., Khaliunaa, A., Tsendsuren, B., Huong, T. Q. D., & Lizeth Guadalupe, L. L. (2020, November). The Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Of 2-Fraction Granular Soils And The Internal Stability. Presented at 11th ICEEE – 2020 Conference, Budapest, Hungary

The four grading entropy coordinates can be used for soil classification on the basis of grain size and the grading curve shape (similarly e.g., to the diameter values). The grading entropy coordinates give information on several basic Physics featur... Read More about The Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Of 2-Fraction Granular Soils And The Internal Stability.

Optimal Electricity Trading Strategy for a Household Microgrid (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qin, Z., Hua, H., Liang, H., Herzallah, R., Zhou, Y., & Cao, J. (2020, October). Optimal Electricity Trading Strategy for a Household Microgrid. Presented at 2020 IEEE 16th International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), Singapore

The recent integration of distributed generators (DGs) and renewable energy sources (RESs) into the power system led to the manifestation of a significant number of household microgrid (MG) systems in the electricity market. However, in most of the c... Read More about Optimal Electricity Trading Strategy for a Household Microgrid.

Recent Advances and Trends in Lightweight Cryptography for IoT Security (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gunathilake, N. A., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020, November). Recent Advances and Trends in Lightweight Cryptography for IoT Security. Presented at 2020 16th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Izmir, Turkey

Lightweight cryptography is a novel diversion from conventional cryptography to minimise its high level of resource requirements, thus it would impeccably fit in the internet-of-things (IoT) environment. The IoT platform is constrained in terms of ph... Read More about Recent Advances and Trends in Lightweight Cryptography for IoT Security.

Effect of Freezing and Fixation on Quantitative Ultrasound Parameters in Phantoms of Brain and Brain Tumour (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomson, H., Yang, S., Cochran, S., Stritch, T., & Baldwin, M. (2020, September). Effect of Freezing and Fixation on Quantitative Ultrasound Parameters in Phantoms of Brain and Brain Tumour. Presented at 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Las Vegas, NV, USA

Quantitative ulltrasound (QUS) analyzes unprocessed radio frequency data from an ultrasound transducer or array and infers properties about tissue microstructure. Whilst it has shown success in diagnosing various soft tissue diseases, there have been... Read More about Effect of Freezing and Fixation on Quantitative Ultrasound Parameters in Phantoms of Brain and Brain Tumour.

FaceMagic: Real-time Facial Detail Effects on Mobile (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Casas, L., Li, Y., & Mitchell, K. (2020). FaceMagic: Real-time Facial Detail Effects on Mobile. In SA '20: SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Technical Communications (1-4). https://doi.org/10.1145/3410700.3425429

We present a novel real-time face detail reconstruction method capable of recovering high quality geometry on consumer mobile devices. Our system firstly uses a morphable model and semantic segmentation of facial parts to achieve robust self-calibrat... Read More about FaceMagic: Real-time Facial Detail Effects on Mobile.

Compact, Low-profile and Robust Inversely E-shaped Antenna Integrated with EBG Structures for Wearable Application (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ashyap, A., Abidin, . Z., Dahlan, S. H., Shah, . S., Yee, S., Majid, H., Qureshi, . S., & See, C. H. (2020, September). Compact, Low-profile and Robust Inversely E-shaped Antenna Integrated with EBG Structures for Wearable Application. Presented at 2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD), Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia

A compact and robust inversely E-shaped antenna (IESA) integrated with electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) is presented for wearable applications at 2.4 GHz. The EBG introduced in this paper to shield the antenna from body effects, due to it... Read More about Compact, Low-profile and Robust Inversely E-shaped Antenna Integrated with EBG Structures for Wearable Application.

Liquid-Sensing Metamaterial Ring Resonator in Millimeter-wave Band for 5G Applications (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gureshi, S., Ashyap, . A., Abidin,, Z., Dahlan, S. H., Majid, . H., & See, C. H. (2020, September). Liquid-Sensing Metamaterial Ring Resonator in Millimeter-wave Band for 5G Applications. Presented at 2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD), Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia

A novel microwave technology-based biosensor operating at 36 GHz is developed for liquid-sensing properties for 5G applications. The metamaterial resonator in the designed biosensor consists of a single ring connected by two microstrip lines. The ove... Read More about Liquid-Sensing Metamaterial Ring Resonator in Millimeter-wave Band for 5G Applications.

Towards Continuous User Authentication Using Personalised Touch-Based Behaviour (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aaby, P., Giuffrida, M. V., Buchanan, W. J., & Tan, Z. (2020, August). Towards Continuous User Authentication Using Personalised Touch-Based Behaviour. Presented at CyberSciTech 2020, Calgary, Canada

In this paper, we present an empirical evaluation of 30 features used in touch-based continuous authentication. It is essential to identify the most significant features for each user, as behaviour is different amongst humans. Thus, a fixed feature s... Read More about Towards Continuous User Authentication Using Personalised Touch-Based Behaviour.

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.

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.

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.

Fast Probabilistic Consensus with Weighted Votes (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Müller, S., Penzkofer, A., Ku´smierz, B., Camargo, D., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020, November). Fast Probabilistic Consensus with Weighted Votes. Presented at FTC 2020 - Future Technologies Conference 2020, Vancouver, Canada

The fast probabilistic consensus (FPC) is a voting consensus protocol that is robust and efficient in Byzantine infrastructure. We propose an adaption of the FPC to a setting where the voting power is proportional to the nodes reputations. We model t... Read More about Fast Probabilistic Consensus with Weighted Votes.

Screen-Printed Flexible Carbon versus Silver Electrodes for Electrochemical Sensors (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Franco, F. F., Manjakkal, L., & Dahiya, R. (2020, August). Screen-Printed Flexible Carbon versus Silver Electrodes for Electrochemical Sensors. Presented at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS), Manchester, United Kingdom

This paper presents the carbon-based screen-printed electrodes (C-SPEs) and compares them with conventional SPEs made of Ag. The electrochemical performance of the two types of electrodes is compared in the presence of common salts found in water bod... Read More about Screen-Printed Flexible Carbon versus Silver Electrodes for Electrochemical Sensors.

Flexible Supercapacitor with Sweat Equivalent Electrolyte for Safe and Ecofriendly Energy Storage (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Manjakkal, L., Pullanchiyodan, A., Hosseini, E. S., & Dahiya, R. (2020, August). Flexible Supercapacitor with Sweat Equivalent Electrolyte for Safe and Ecofriendly Energy Storage. Presented at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS), Manchester, UK

Textile based wearable, biocompatible and low-cost energy storage devices are highly in demand to overcome the issue of powering wearable sensors and electronic devices. In this work, we designed an environmentally friendly textile supercapacitor (SC... Read More about Flexible Supercapacitor with Sweat Equivalent Electrolyte for Safe and Ecofriendly Energy Storage.