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Evaluation of collision avoidance prototype head-up display interface for older drivers (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charissis, V., Papanastasiou, S., Mackenzie, L., & Arafat, S. (2011, July). Evaluation of collision avoidance prototype head-up display interface for older drivers. Presented at HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA

Spatial and situational awareness could be decreased significantly under low visibility and adverse weather conditions. This could affect exponentially the reactions of the older drivers and increase dramatically their collision probability. To this... Read More about Evaluation of collision avoidance prototype head-up display interface for older drivers.

Optimised multimedia application for improved medical visualisation (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alfalah, S. F., Harrison, D. K., Charissis, V., & Evans, D. (2011, September). Optimised multimedia application for improved medical visualisation. Presented at 9th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2011), Glasgow

Efficient delivery of healthcare has become increasingly dependent on a broad range of medical data, which includes different media types. The use of technology in the medical field is rising rap-idly, while the method of storing and visualising medi... Read More about Optimised multimedia application for improved medical visualisation.

Investigation of prototype full-windshield head-up display interface impact on users' driving patterns under adverse weather conditions (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charissis, V. (2011). Investigation of prototype full-windshield head-up display interface impact on users' driving patterns under adverse weather conditions. In Proceedings of AUTO2: Display in Vehicles (511-514)

Contemporary Head-Down Display information portrayed by automotive infotainment devices, while useful, is often ignored by the driver due to field of  view  limitations  associated  with traditional  instrumentation  panels.  The proposed  interface,... Read More about Investigation of prototype full-windshield head-up display interface impact on users' driving patterns under adverse weather conditions.

Assessing motor performance with PCA (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hammerla, N. Y., Plötz, T., Andras, P., & Olivier, P. (2011). Assessing motor performance with PCA. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Frontiers in Activity Recognition using Pervasive Sensing (18-23)

Information about the motor performance, i.e. how well an activity is performed, is valuable information for a variety of novel applications in Activity Recognition (AR). Its assessment represents a significant challenge, as requirements depend on th... Read More about Assessing motor performance with PCA.

Optimisation of concentrator in the solar photonic optoelectronic transformer: Optical gain analysis (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muhammad-Sukki, C., Ramirez-Iniguez, R., McMeekin, S., Stewart, B., & Clive, B. (2011, September). Optimisation of concentrator in the solar photonic optoelectronic transformer: Optical gain analysis. Presented at IET Conference on Renewable Power Generation (RPG 2011), Edinburgh, UK

The Solar Photonic Optoelectronic Transformer (SPOT) is one of the components of the SolarBrane, a Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) system developed by SolarEmpower Ltd. Recently, an optimised design for the optical concentrator in the SPOT ha... Read More about Optimisation of concentrator in the solar photonic optoelectronic transformer: Optical gain analysis.

Behavioural Antecedents of Inter-firm Linkages in the Irish Road Freight Industry (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Plant, E., & McGovern, J. (2011). Behavioural Antecedents of Inter-firm Linkages in the Irish Road Freight Industry. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Universities’ Transport Studies Group

The Irish road haulage industry exhibits a structure dominated by single-vehicle owner-managed operators. This has implications for the Irish economy through reduced efficiency. It is crucial that Ireland’s transport policies sustain its trade-depen... Read More about Behavioural Antecedents of Inter-firm Linkages in the Irish Road Freight Industry.

Experiments in Multicore and Distributed Parallel Processing using JCSP (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerridge, J. (2011, June). Experiments in Multicore and Distributed Parallel Processing using JCSP. Presented at 33rd Communicating Process Architecture (CPA) Conference, University of Limerick, Ireland

It is currently very difficult to purchase any form of computer system be it, notebook, laptop, desktop server or high performance computing system that does not contain a multicore processor. Yet the designers of applications, in general, have very... Read More about Experiments in Multicore and Distributed Parallel Processing using JCSP.

A novel dual band tunable balanced handset antenna for WLAN application (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elfergani, I., Abd-Alhameed, R., Ali, N., Alhaddad, A., See, C., & Cabongomuqueba, E. (2011, December). A novel dual band tunable balanced handset antenna for WLAN application. Presented at 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems - (ICECS 2011), Beirut, Lebanon

This paper presents a tunable balanced antenna covering WLAN frequency bands near 2.4 GHz (2.4-2.4835 GHz) and 5 GHz (5.15-5.35 GHz & 5.650-5.925 GHz), for mobile application. The design is based on loading two variable capacitors onto the planar bal... Read More about A novel dual band tunable balanced handset antenna for WLAN application.

Switching between different ways to think: Multiple approaches to affective common sense reasoning (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Mazzocco, T., Hussain, A., & Durrani, T. (2010, September). Switching between different ways to think: Multiple approaches to affective common sense reasoning. Presented at COST 2102 International Conference, Budapest, Hungary

Emotions are different Ways to Think that our mind triggers to deal with different situations we face in our lives. Our ability to reason and make decisions, in fact, is strictly dependent on both our common sense knowledge about the world and our in... Read More about Switching between different ways to think: Multiple approaches to affective common sense reasoning.

Sentic medoids: Organizing affective common sense knowledge in a multi-dimensional vector space (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Mazzocco, T., Hussain, A., & Eckl, C. (2011, May). Sentic medoids: Organizing affective common sense knowledge in a multi-dimensional vector space. Presented at ISNN 2011: 8th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Guilin, China

Existing approaches to opinion mining and sentiment analysis mainly rely on parts of text in which opinions and sentiments are explicitly expressed such as polarity terms and affect words. However, opinions and sentiments are often conveyed implicitl... Read More about Sentic medoids: Organizing affective common sense knowledge in a multi-dimensional vector space.

Sentic avatar: Multimodal affective conversational agent with common sense (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Hupont, I., Hussain, A., Cerezo, E., & Baldassarri, S. (2010, March). Sentic avatar: Multimodal affective conversational agent with common sense. Presented at Third COST 2102 International Training School, Caserta, Italy

The capability of perceiving and expressing emotions through different modalities is a key issue for the enhancement of human-computer interaction. In this paper we present a novel architecture for the development of intelligent multimodal affective... Read More about Sentic avatar: Multimodal affective conversational agent with common sense.

Multi-stage classification of Gyrodactylus species using machine learning and feature selection techniques (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali, R., Hussain, A., Bron, J. E., & Shinn, A. P. (2011, November). Multi-stage classification of Gyrodactylus species using machine learning and feature selection techniques. Presented at 2011 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Cordoba, Spain

This study explores the use of multi-stage machine learning based classifiers and feature selection techniques in the classification and identification of fish parasites. Accurate identification of pathogens is a key to their control and as a proof o... Read More about Multi-stage classification of Gyrodactylus species using machine learning and feature selection techniques.

Isanette: A common and common sense knowledge base for opinion mining (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Song, Y., Wang, H., & Hussain, A. (2011). Isanette: A common and common sense knowledge base for opinion mining. In 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (315-322). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW.2011.106

The ability to understand natural language text is far from being emulated in machines. One of the main hurdles to overcome is that computers lack both the common and the common sense knowledge humans normally acquire during the formative years of th... Read More about Isanette: A common and common sense knowledge base for opinion mining.

A holistic model of governance for SMEs (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crossan, K., & Henschel, T. (2011, December). A holistic model of governance for SMEs. Paper presented at BAFA South East Area Group Annual Conference

No abstract available.

Meander-line filter for short range radio communications (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alqahtani, S., See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Hussaini, A., Abidin, Z., Excell, P., & Noras, J. (2011, September). Meander-line filter for short range radio communications. Presented at 4th International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications, ITA 11, Wrexham

Filters and antennas play a significant part in many different RF and microwave transceiver systems. This paper describes the design and testing of two RF filters for use in narrow-band short-range radio communications. The structures of these filter... Read More about Meander-line filter for short range radio communications.

Using motion sensing remote controls with older adults (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
von Bruhn Hinné, T., & Keates, S. (2011, July). Using motion sensing remote controls with older adults. Presented at 6th International Conference, UAHCI 2011, Orlando, FL, USA

This paper examines how motion sensitive remote control devices can improve the usability of television sets for older adults. It investigates the use of a pointing remote control where the actions are read and selected on the TV screen by a group of... Read More about Using motion sensing remote controls with older adults.

Teaching the next generation of universal access designers: a case study (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keates, S. (2011, July). Teaching the next generation of universal access designers: a case study. Presented at 6th International Conference, UAHCI 2011, Orlando, FL, USA

This paper describes the development of the ?Usability and Accessibility? course for M.Sc. students at the IT University of Copenhagen. The aim is to examine whether this course provides an effective and useful method for raising the issues around Un... Read More about Teaching the next generation of universal access designers: a case study.

An ontology for product-service systems (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Annamalai, G., Hussain, R., Cakkol, M., Roy, R., Evans, S., & Tiwari, A. (2011, May). An ontology for product-service systems. Presented at Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Industries are transforming their business strategy from a product-centric to a more service-centric nature by bundling products and services into integrated solutions to enhance the relationship between their customers. Since Product- Service System... Read More about An ontology for product-service systems.