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'I ain't going anywhere'. The House, the Mobile Hero and the Frontier in Winter's Bone (2013)
Book Chapter
Cicchetti, P. (2013). 'I ain't going anywhere'. The House, the Mobile Hero and the Frontier in Winter's Bone. In R. Hamilton, A. Macleod, & J. Munro (Eds.), Spaces of (Dis)location (73-89). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

There's no place like home, said a jaunty Judy Garland at the end of the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz. In the decade initiated by the 9/11 attacks and closed by the housing market crash of 2008, American imagination seemed to find it harder than exp... Read More about 'I ain't going anywhere'. The House, the Mobile Hero and the Frontier in Winter's Bone.

Introduction: Feminist perspectives in transitional justice (2013)
Book Chapter
Fineman, M., & Zinsstag, E. (2013). Introduction: Feminist perspectives in transitional justice. In M. Albertson Fineman, & E. Zinsstag (Eds.), Feminist Perspectives on Transitional Justice: From International and Criminal to Alternative Forms of Justice (1-6). Intersentia. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781839700682.001

The last two decades have produced a number of publications on topics such as gender and human rights or international law. However, with the exception of Gender in Transitional Justice (Buckley-Zistel and Stanley, eds.), there still is little writte... Read More about Introduction: Feminist perspectives in transitional justice.

Sexual violence against women in armed conflicts and restorative justice: an exploratory analysis (2013)
Book Chapter
Zinsstag, E. (2013). Sexual violence against women in armed conflicts and restorative justice: an exploratory analysis. In M. Albertson Fineman, & E. Zinsstag (Eds.), Feminist perspectives of transitional justice: from international and criminal to alternative forms of justice (189 - 214). Intersentia. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781839700682.012

Sexual violence against women has been a recurrent feature of armed conflicts throughout history, and as the above quote demonstrates, still occurs daily in on-going conflicts. This is also evidenced by the alarming reports of the scale of sexual vio... Read More about Sexual violence against women in armed conflicts and restorative justice: an exploratory analysis.

Using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 21 (DASS‐21) across cultures (2013)
Journal Article
Oei, T. P. S., Sawang, S., Goh, Y. W., & Mukhtar, F. (2013). Using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 21 (DASS‐21) across cultures. International Journal of Psychology, 48(6), 1018-1029. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207594.2012.755535

The DASS-21 is a well-established instrument for measuring depression, anxiety, and stress with good reliability and validity reported from Hispanic American, British, and Australian adults. However, the lack of appropriate validation among Asian pop... Read More about Using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 21 (DASS‐21) across cultures.

The effectiveness and maternal satisfaction of interventions supporting the establishment of breastfeeding for women from disadvantaged groups: A comprehensive systematic review (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacVicar, S. (2013, December). The effectiveness and maternal satisfaction of interventions supporting the establishment of breastfeeding for women from disadvantaged groups: A comprehensive systematic review. Poster presented at Robert Gordon University doctoral student conference, Aberdeen, Scotland

Poster presentation.

Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Favre, B., Cheung, K., Kazemian, S., Lee, A., Liu, Y., Munteanu, C., Nenkova, A., Ochei, D., Penn, G., Tratz, S., Voss, C., & Zeller, F. (2013, August). Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance?. Presented at Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France

We propose an alternative evaluation metric to Word Error Rate (WER) for the decision audit task of meeting recordings, which exemplifies how to evaluate speech recognition within a legitimate application context. Using machine learning on an initial... Read More about Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance?.

'Always Sea and Sea': The Night Land as Sea-scape (2013)
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2013). 'Always Sea and Sea': The Night Land as Sea-scape. Sargasso: The Journal of William Hope Hodgson Studies, 1(1), 89-101

Biographical accounts of William Hope Hodgson naturally tend to focus on two main features of his career before he became a full-time writer: sailing and physical culture (Everts). Both provide useful contexts for reading Hodgson’s fiction. In some e... Read More about 'Always Sea and Sea': The Night Land as Sea-scape.

Interactive virtual reality shopping and the impact in luxury brands (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Altarteer, S. A. A., Charissis, V., Harrison, D., & Chan, W. (2013, July). Interactive virtual reality shopping and the impact in luxury brands. Presented at 5th International Conference: VAMR 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA

This paper investigates the impact of human-computer interaction in virtual reality online shopping interface on the consumer experience. In particular, it measures the effectiveness of visualising a three dimensional photorealistic item, the real-ti... Read More about Interactive virtual reality shopping and the impact in luxury brands.

Gait analysis management and diagnosis in a prototype virtual reality environment (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alfalah, S., Harrison, D., & Charissis, V. (2013, July). Gait analysis management and diagnosis in a prototype virtual reality environment. Presented at VAMR 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Current medical data derived from gait analysis and diagnosis of various musculoskeletal pathologies offer a plethora of text based and imaging data. The large volume and complexity of the particular data present a number of issues during the collect... Read More about Gait analysis management and diagnosis in a prototype virtual reality environment.

Asynchronous telemedicine diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries through a prototype interface in virtual reality environment (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, M. S., Charissis, V., Harrison, D., Sakellariou, S., & Chan, W. (2013, July). Asynchronous telemedicine diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries through a prototype interface in virtual reality environment. Presented at VAMR 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Telehealth provides a much needed option for remote diagnosis and monitoring of various pathologies and patients. Remote provision of health care can offer a two fold support for the medical system and the patients. Primarily it could serve isolated... Read More about Asynchronous telemedicine diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries through a prototype interface in virtual reality environment.

The characterisation of a virtual reality system to improve the quality and to reduce the gap between information technology and medical education (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Falah, J. F. M., Harrison, D., Charissis, V., & Wood, B. (2013, July). The characterisation of a virtual reality system to improve the quality and to reduce the gap between information technology and medical education. Presented at VAMR 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Contemporary medical training is hindered by an excessive amount of information provided to students through mainly traditional teaching methods yet the younger generations are accustomed to digital data and information on-demand. As such they have d... Read More about The characterisation of a virtual reality system to improve the quality and to reduce the gap between information technology and medical education.

The design considerations of a virtual reality application for heart anatomy and pathology education (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nyamse, V. O., Charissis, V., Moore, D., Parker, C., Khan, M. S., & Chan, W. (2013, July). The design considerations of a virtual reality application for heart anatomy and pathology education. Presented at VAMR 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Anatomy and pathology of the human body are complex subjects that cannot be elucidated easily to the medical students through traditional description and illustration methods. The proposed interactive system aims to present clear information on deman... Read More about The design considerations of a virtual reality application for heart anatomy and pathology education.

Evolution of a full-windshield HUD designed for current VANET communication standards (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charissis, V., Papanastasiou, S., Chan, W., & Peytchev, E. (2013, October). Evolution of a full-windshield HUD designed for current VANET communication standards. Presented at 16th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2013), The Hague, Netherlands

Aspects of contemporary automotive research on infotainment and safety notifications have enjoyed mainstream adoption by vehicle manufacturers either as dashboard or Head-Up Display (HUD) visual cues. Such notifications, going beyond the traditional... Read More about Evolution of a full-windshield HUD designed for current VANET communication standards.

An interactive tool for the evaluation of ECG visualisation formats (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martin, E. S., Finlay, D. D., Nugent, C. D., Bond, R. R., & Breen, C. (2013, September). An interactive tool for the evaluation of ECG visualisation formats. Presented at Computing in Cardiology 2013, Zaragoza, Spain

Electrocardiograms are typically printed on graph paper. Based on these recordings clinicians look for changes in the various waveforms when they make a diagnosis. In some cases, however, these changes are not always obvious on the standard printed 1... Read More about An interactive tool for the evaluation of ECG visualisation formats.