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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.

Airport Detection in SAR Images via Salient Line Segment Detector and Edge-Oriented Region Growing (2020)
Journal Article
Tu, J., Gao, F., Sun, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2020). Airport Detection in SAR Images via Salient Line Segment Detector and Edge-Oriented Region Growing. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 14, 314-326. https://doi.org/10.1109/jstars.2020.3036052

Airport detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images has attracted much concern in the field of remote sensing. Affected by other salient objects with geometrical features similar to those of airports, traditional methods often generate false d... Read More about Airport Detection in SAR Images via Salient Line Segment Detector and Edge-Oriented Region Growing.

Investigating the Talent Development Environment in Scottish Football: a Comparison between Elite and Grassroots Academies (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor, D., Armatas, V., & Andronikos, G. (2020, November). Investigating the Talent Development Environment in Scottish Football: a Comparison between Elite and Grassroots Academies. Paper presented at 3rd International e-Congress on Functional Rehabilitation of Injuries in Athletes and Trainees, Online

The Talent Development Environment (TDE) refers to the organised system influencing the progression of players and it is a crucial part of the development pathway. The purpose of the present study was to examine players’ perceptions regarding the qua... Read More about Investigating the Talent Development Environment in Scottish Football: a Comparison between Elite and Grassroots Academies.

Exploring Adversarial Attacks and Defences for Fake Twitter Account Detection (2020)
Journal Article
Kantartopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., Mylonas, A., & Kylilis, N. (2020). Exploring Adversarial Attacks and Defences for Fake Twitter Account Detection. Technologies, 8(4), Article 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies8040064

Social media has become very popular and important in people’s lives, as personal ideas, beliefs and opinions are expressed and shared through them. Unfortunately, social networks, and specifically Twitter, suffer from massive existence and perpetual... Read More about Exploring Adversarial Attacks and Defences for Fake Twitter Account Detection.

Getting Personal: the issues of trust and distrust in small and medium-sized enterprises in Nigeria (2020)
Journal Article
Omeihe, K., Amoako, I. O., Gustafsson, V., Omeihe, I., & Saud Khan, M. (2023). Getting Personal: the issues of trust and distrust in small and medium-sized enterprises in Nigeria. Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 35(6), 907-926. https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2020.1836550

There is a pronounced paucity of empirically rigorous study that focuses on the impact of trust on small and medium-sized enterprises operating in a developing market context. This article therefore offers a fresh perspective on the simultaneous rela... Read More about Getting Personal: the issues of trust and distrust in small and medium-sized enterprises in Nigeria.

FixM: Code generation of fixed point mathematical functions (2020)
Journal Article
Cattaneo, D., Chiari, M., Magnani, G., Fossati, N., Cherubin, S., & Agosta, G. (2021). FixM: Code generation of fixed point mathematical functions. Sustainable Computing, 29, part B, Article 100478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.suscom.2020.100478

Approximate computing has seen significant interest as a design philosophy oriented to performance and energy efficiency [1]. Precision tuning is an approximate computing technique that trades off the accuracy of operations for performance and energy... Read More about FixM: Code generation of fixed point mathematical functions.

Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts (2020)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., & D’Amico, B. (2020). Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts. Sustainability, 12(21), Article 9189. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12219189

Projected population growth and urbanization rates will create a huge demand for new buildings and put an unprecedented pressure on the natural environment and its limited resources. Architectural design has often focused on passive or low-energy app... Read More about Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts.

Improving Emergency Vehicles’ Response Times with the Use of Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bram-Larbi, K. F., Charissis, V., Khan, S., Harrison, D. K., & Drikakis, D. (2020, July). Improving Emergency Vehicles’ Response Times with the Use of Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence. Presented at 22nd HCI International Conference (HCII 2020), Copenhagen, Denmark

The rapid mobilization of Emergency Services (ES) could be particularly challenging for ES drivers and staff that have to navigate and manoeuvre through various traffic and weather conditions. Driving, in high speeds through dense traffic is a partic... Read More about Improving Emergency Vehicles’ Response Times with the Use of Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence.

Equality of restraint: Reframing road safety through the ethics of private motorised transport (2020)
Journal Article
Davis, A. L., & Obree, D. (2020). Equality of restraint: Reframing road safety through the ethics of private motorised transport. Journal of transport & health, 19, Article 100970. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2020.100970

Background
Motoring is an emancipation. It is both an individual freedom and a collective freedom with car ownership at 30, 491, 000 vehicles by 2019 in Great Britain. Yet, as the evidence of the impacts of road transport accumulates and the health... Read More about Equality of restraint: Reframing road safety through the ethics of private motorised transport.

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.

Keratin intermediate filaments in the colon: guardians of epithelial homeostasis (2020)
Journal Article
Polari, L., Alam, C. M., Nyström, J. H., Heikkilä, T., Tayyab, M., Baghestani, S., & Toivola, D. M. (2020). Keratin intermediate filaments in the colon: guardians of epithelial homeostasis. International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 129, Article 105878. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocel.2020.105878

Keratin intermediate filament proteins are major cytoskeletal components of the mammalian simple layered columnar epithelium in the gastrointestinal tract. Human colon crypt epithelial cells express keratins 18, 19 and 20 as the major type I keratins... Read More about Keratin intermediate filaments in the colon: guardians of epithelial homeostasis.

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.

Long‐term Impact of Hearing Aid Provision or Cochlear Implantation on Hearing Handicap (2020)
Journal Article
Kim, A. S., Betz, J. F., Nieman, C. L., Hoyer, M. R., Applebaum, J., Lin, F. R., & Goman, A. M. (2021). Long‐term Impact of Hearing Aid Provision or Cochlear Implantation on Hearing Handicap. Laryngoscope, 131(5), 1122-1126. https://doi.org/10.1002/lary.29175

Objectives/Hypothesis
Previous research has shown hearing handicap to be reduced following hearing aid use or cochlear implantation in short-to-medium follow-up periods, yet the impact of interventions for hearing loss on hearing handicap in the lon... Read More about Long‐term Impact of Hearing Aid Provision or Cochlear Implantation on Hearing Handicap.

Separation Techniques of Partial Discharges and Electrical Noise Sources: A Review of Recent Progress (2020)
Journal Article
Ardila-Rey, J. A., Cerda-Luna, M. P., Rozas-Valderrama, R. A., de Castro, B. A., Andreoli, A. L., & Muhammad-Sukki, F. (2020). Separation Techniques of Partial Discharges and Electrical Noise Sources: A Review of Recent Progress. IEEE Access, 8, 199449-199461. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3035249

Partial discharge (PD) monitoring is one of the most used tools for diagnosing the condition of electrical equipment and machines that operate normally at high voltage levels. Ideally, PD identification can be easily done if there is a single source... Read More about Separation Techniques of Partial Discharges and Electrical Noise Sources: A Review of Recent Progress.

Study Skills: neoliberalism’s perfect Tinkerbell (2020)
Journal Article
Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2023). Study Skills: neoliberalism’s perfect Tinkerbell. Teaching in Higher Education, 28(3), 580-596. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2020.1839745

We argue that current approaches to Study Skills support are presented as being a panacea for resolving the issues presented by neoliberal approaches to educational expansion. We argue that for such a panacea to be believed pedagogically effective, f... Read More about Study Skills: neoliberalism’s perfect Tinkerbell.

ASPIRE - Real noisy audio-visual speech enhancement corpus (2020)
Data
Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Adeel, A., & Hussain, A. (2020). ASPIRE - Real noisy audio-visual speech enhancement corpus. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4585619

ASPIRE is a a first of its kind, audiovisual speech corpus recorded in real noisy environment (such as cafe, restaurants) which can be used to support reliable evaluation of multi-modal Speech Filtering technologies. This dataset follows the same sen... Read More about ASPIRE - Real noisy audio-visual speech enhancement corpus.