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Embodied design improvisation for autonomous vehicles (2016)
Book Chapter
Sirkin, D., Baltodano, S., Mok, B., Rothenbücher, D., Gowda, N., Li, J., Martelaro, N., Miller, D., Sibi, S., & Ju, W. (2016). Embodied design improvisation for autonomous vehicles. In H. Plattner, C. Meinel, & L. Leifer (Eds.), Design Thinking Research: Taking Breakthrough Innovation Home (125-143). Springer

We have developed a generative, improvisational and experimental approach to the design of expressive everyday objects, such as mechanical ottomans, emotive dresser drawers and roving trash barrels. We have found that the embodied design improvisatio... Read More about Embodied design improvisation for autonomous vehicles.

Ms. robot will be teaching you: Robot lecturers in four modes of automated remote instruction (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., & Ju, W. (2016, March). Ms. robot will be teaching you: Robot lecturers in four modes of automated remote instruction. Presented at AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, Palo Alto, USA

Methods and materials are described for employing a human-shaped robot as a lecturer in automated remote instruction. Video segments from the stimuli of a 2 (participant substrate: VR or non-VR) x 2 (robot embodiment: copresent or screen) balanced be... Read More about Ms. robot will be teaching you: Robot lecturers in four modes of automated remote instruction.

Translators and their Prologues in Medieval England (2016)
Book
Dearnley, E. (2016). Translators and their Prologues in Medieval England. Boydell & Brewer

An examination of French to English translation in medieval England, through the genre of the prologue.

The prologue to Layamon's Brut recounts its author's extensive travels "wide yond thas leode" (far and wide across the land) to gather the Fren... Read More about Translators and their Prologues in Medieval England.

Die Kinamo-Kamera (2016)
Journal Article
Stutterheim, K. (2016). Die Kinamo-Kamera. Auslöser, 3, 24-26

Die Kinamo-Kamera, die von Emanuel Goldberg entwickelt wurde, hat den poetischen Dokumentarfilm beeinflusst. In dem Artikel wird ein Überblick gegeben, in welchem ästhetischen Umfeld die Kamera entwickelt wurde, und wie sie den poetischen Dokumentarf... Read More about Die Kinamo-Kamera.

Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives? (2016)
Journal Article
Langmead, K. (2016). Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?. The Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 5(1), 79-98. https://doi.org/10.5947/jeod.2016.005

This paper uses data collected through written narratives, focus groups and participant observation in three small UK worker cooperatives to investigate the role of democracy in maintaining cooperatives’ dual social-economic characteristic and resist... Read More about Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?.

My kulturBOT 1.0: A robotic art reviewer (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Smith, D. H., Zeller, F., & Men, I. My kulturBOT 1.0: A robotic art reviewer. [Robotics and multimedia]. Exhibited at You Me Gallery, Hamilton, ON. 2016

Training an adaptive dialogue policy for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Eshghi, A., & Lemon, O. (2016, September). Training an adaptive dialogue policy for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings. Presented at 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Los Angeles, US

We present a multi-modal dialogue system for interactive learning of perceptually grounded word meanings from a human tutor. The system integrates an incremental, semantic parsing/generation framework - Dynamic Syntax and Type Theory with Records (DS... Read More about Training an adaptive dialogue policy for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings.

An Incremental Dialogue System for Learning Visually Grounded Language (demonstration system) (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Eshghi, A., & Lemon, O. (2016, July). An Incremental Dialogue System for Learning Visually Grounded Language (demonstration system). Presented at 20th Workshop Series on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 2016, New Brunswick, US

We present a multi-modal dialogue system for interactive learning of perceptually grounded word meanings from a human tutor. The system integrates an incremental, semantic, and bi-directional grammar framework – Dynamic Syntax and Type Theory with Re... Read More about An Incremental Dialogue System for Learning Visually Grounded Language (demonstration system).

Comparing dialogue strategies for learning grounded language from human tutors (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Lemon, O., & Eshghi, A. (2016, July). Comparing dialogue strategies for learning grounded language from human tutors. Presented at 20th Workshop Series on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 201, New Brunswick, US

We address the problem of interactively learning perceptually grounded word meanings in a multimodal dialogue system. Human tutors can correct, question, and confirm the statements of a dialogue agent which is trying to interactively learn the meanin... Read More about Comparing dialogue strategies for learning grounded language from human tutors.

Incremental Generation of Visually Grounded Language in Situated Dialogue (demonstration system) (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Eshghi, A., & Lemon, O. (2016, September). Incremental Generation of Visually Grounded Language in Situated Dialogue (demonstration system). Presented at 9th International Natural Language Generation conference, Edinburgh

Interactively learning visually grounded word meanings from a human tutor (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Eshghi, A., & Lemon, O. (2016, August). Interactively learning visually grounded word meanings from a human tutor. Presented at 5th Workshop on Vision and Language, Berlin, Germany

We present a multi-modal dialogue system for interactive learning of perceptually grounded word meanings from a human tutor. The system integrates an incremental, semantic parsing/generation framework - Dynamic Syntax and Type Theory with Records (DS... Read More about Interactively learning visually grounded word meanings from a human tutor.

Core-selecting payment rules for combinatorial auctions with uncertain availability of goods (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moor, D., Seuken, S., Grubenmann, T., & Bernstein, A. (2016, July). Core-selecting payment rules for combinatorial auctions with uncertain availability of goods. Presented at Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York

In some auction domains, there is uncertainty regarding the final availability of the goods being auctioned off. For example, a government may auction off spectrum from its public safety network, but it may need this spectrum back in times of emergen... Read More about Core-selecting payment rules for combinatorial auctions with uncertain availability of goods.

Analysing Social Media and Other Data Sources: A Methodological Overview (2016)
Book Chapter
Zeller, F. (2016). Analysing Social Media and Other Data Sources: A Methodological Overview. In L. Sloan, & A. Quan-Haase (Eds.), SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473983847

Photomediations: An Open Book (2016)
Other
Wamposzyc, M. (2016). Photomediations: An Open Book. [Digital content]

The Open and Hybrid Publishing project ‘Photomediations’ is an experimental design pilot in the domains of Education, Research, Leisure and Tourism, exploring different scenarios of content re-use in the six thematic areas defined by Europeana Space... Read More about Photomediations: An Open Book.

Photomediations: A Reader (2016)
Book
Kuc, K., & Zylinska, J. (Eds.). (2016). Photomediations: A Reader. Open Humanities Press

Photomediations: A Reader offers a radically different way of understanding photography. The concept that unites the twenty scholarly and curatorial essays collected here cuts across the traditional classification of photography as suspended between... Read More about Photomediations: A Reader.

An Energy-Aware Embedding Algorithm for Virtual Data Centers (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nam, T. M., Huynh, N. V., Dai, L. Q., & Thanh, N. H. (2016, September). An Energy-Aware Embedding Algorithm for Virtual Data Centers. Presented at 2016 28th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 28), Würzburg, Germany

Cloud computing has emerged in the recent years as a promising paradigm that facilitates such new service models as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). As the number of cloud service prov... Read More about An Energy-Aware Embedding Algorithm for Virtual Data Centers.

Dataset for Fully spray-coated organic solar cells on woven polyester cotton fabric for wearable energy harvesting applications (2016)
Data
Arumugam, S., Li, Y., Sundaram, S., Torah, R., Kanibolotsky, A. L., Inigo, A., Skabara, P. J., & Beeby, S. (2016). Dataset for Fully spray-coated organic solar cells on woven polyester cotton fabric for wearable energy harvesting applications. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/376690

This paper presents the novel use of spray coating to fabricate organic solar cells on fabrics for wearable energy harvesting applications. The surface roughness of standard woven 65/35 polyester cotton fabric used in this work is of the order of 150... Read More about Dataset for Fully spray-coated organic solar cells on woven polyester cotton fabric for wearable energy harvesting applications.

Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production: Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance (2016)
Book
Sundaram, S., Benson, D., & Kumar Mallick, T. (2016). Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production: Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/c2014-0-04034-8

Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production: Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance provides an overview of the emerging industrial PV sector, its technologies, and the regulatory frameworks supporting them. This new book review... Read More about Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production: Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance.

The development of law schools in Japan during the Meiji period (2016)
Journal Article
Piegzik, M. (2016). The development of law schools in Japan during the Meiji period. Folia Iuridica Universitatis Wratislaviensis, 5(1), 69-84

The main goal of this paper is to describe the process of creating law schools in Japan during the codification of the Meiji period (1868-1912). After more than 200 years of isolation the Empire of Japan realized the need for modernization of the sta... Read More about The development of law schools in Japan during the Meiji period.

A bipartite graph-based ranking approach to query subtopics diversification focused on word embedding features (2016)
Journal Article
Ullah, M. Z., & Aono, M. (2016). A bipartite graph-based ranking approach to query subtopics diversification focused on word embedding features. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 99(12), 3090-3100. https://doi.org/10.1587/transinf.2016EDP7190

Web search queries are usually vague, ambiguous, or tend to have multiple intents. Users have different search intents while issuing the same query. Understanding the intents through mining subtopics underlying a query has gained much interest in rec... Read More about A bipartite graph-based ranking approach to query subtopics diversification focused on word embedding features.