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Exploring the potential of ocean plastic - 3D printing (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tao, X. (2021, October). Exploring the potential of ocean plastic - 3D printing. Presented at International Conference on Sustainable Technology and Development, Shenzhen, China

One of the biggest environmental problems facing this planet today is plastic pollution in the marine environment. This research explored the possibilities of 3D printing ocean plastic in an attempt to alleviate this worldwide problem. From understan... Read More about Exploring the potential of ocean plastic - 3D printing.

Defining an Optimal Configuration Set for Selective Search Strategy - A Risk-Sensitive Approach (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mothe, J., & Ullah, M. Z. (2021, November). Defining an Optimal Configuration Set for Selective Search Strategy - A Risk-Sensitive Approach. Presented at 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, Queensland, Australia

A search engine generally applies a single search strategy to any user query. The search combines many component processes (e.g., indexing, query expansion, search-weighting model, document ranking) and their hyperparameters, whose values are optimiz... Read More about Defining an Optimal Configuration Set for Selective Search Strategy - A Risk-Sensitive Approach.

Developing Visualisations to Enhance an Insider Threat Product: A Case Study (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Graham, M. (2021, October). Developing Visualisations to Enhance an Insider Threat Product: A Case Study. Presented at 18th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security, New Orleans, USA [Online]

This paper describes the process of developing data visualisations to enhance a commercial software platform for combating insider threat, whose existing UI, while perfectly functional, was limited in its ability to allow analysts to easily spot the... Read More about Developing Visualisations to Enhance an Insider Threat Product: A Case Study.

The Scottish Witch Hunts: the Religious and Legal Contexts (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dodd, L. (2021, October). The Scottish Witch Hunts: the Religious and Legal Contexts. Paper presented at Witches' Stories: Folk healers and midwives accused and persecuted for helping others (1563-1736), Edinburgh [Online]

An examination of the religious and legal contexts for the witch hunts of 16th and 17th century Scotland.

Evaluating Tooling and Methodology when Analysing Bitcoin Mixing Services After Forensic Seizure (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Young, E. H., Chrysoulas, C., Pitropakis, N., Papadopoulos, P., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021, October). Evaluating Tooling and Methodology when Analysing Bitcoin Mixing Services After Forensic Seizure. Paper presented at International Conference on Data Analytics for Business and Industry (ICDABI) 2021 - (DATA'21), Online

Little or no research has been directed to analysis and researching forensic analysis of the Bitcoin mixing or 'tumbling' service themselves. This work is intended to examine effective tooling and methodology for recovering forensic artifacts from tw... Read More about Evaluating Tooling and Methodology when Analysing Bitcoin Mixing Services After Forensic Seizure.

Static concentrating photovoltaic modelling using MATLAB (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muhammad-Sukki, F., Farooq, H., Abu-Bakar, S. H., Ardila-Rey, J. A., Sellami, N., Kilpatrick, C., …Zulkipli, M. (2021). Static concentrating photovoltaic modelling using MATLAB. . https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2053/1/012003

The world has recorded an increasing interest and staggering investment in renewable technology in the last two decades, specifically in solar photovoltaic (PV). Concentrating PV (CPV) is one of PV's technology advancements and is gaining popularity... Read More about Static concentrating photovoltaic modelling using MATLAB.

Bleeding Free – advocacy and activism in the production of a student led documentary on period poverty and menstrual health education (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacLeod, K. (2021, October). Bleeding Free – advocacy and activism in the production of a student led documentary on period poverty and menstrual health education. Paper presented at Menstruation in the Media (in collaboration with Menstruation Research Network), Sheffield Halam University

This paper will discuss the a university produced social impact documentary, Bleeding Free, produced by an advocacy and impact collective, Bleedin Saor . The collective (meaning Bleeding Free in Scots & Gaelic) aimed to increase access to period prod... Read More about Bleeding Free – advocacy and activism in the production of a student led documentary on period poverty and menstrual health education.

Combining Visual and Social Dialogue for Human-Robot Interaction (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gunson, N., Hernandez Garcia, D., Part, J. L., Yu, Y., Sieińska, W., Dondrup, C., & Lemon, O. (2021, October). Combining Visual and Social Dialogue for Human-Robot Interaction. Presented at 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Montréal, QC, Canada

We will demonstrate a prototype multimodal conversational AI system that will act as a receptionist in a hospital waiting room, combining visually-grounded dialogue with social conversation. The system supports visual object conversation in the waiti... Read More about Combining Visual and Social Dialogue for Human-Robot Interaction.

Sales is not just about action but interaction (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mackenzie, C. (2021, October). Sales is not just about action but interaction. Presented at Turku University of Applied Science, Online

An explanation about how sales is not simply about talking but about the process of interacting.

More than the sum of their parts - How UK Timber Houses can be Deconstructed and Reused (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cramer, M., & Sandin, Y. (2021, October). More than the sum of their parts - How UK Timber Houses can be Deconstructed and Reused. Presented at Annual Meeting of the Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering, Kaunas, Lithuania

The InFutUReWood project (infuturewood.info) focuses on the reuse of structural timber and is working on improving the design of buildings to facilitate deconstruction and reuse. For this purpose, we conducted five case studies in four of the partner... Read More about More than the sum of their parts - How UK Timber Houses can be Deconstructed and Reused.

Factors Influencing the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in the Construction Industry – A System Dynamics Approach (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Olawumi, T., Ojo, S., Chan, D., & Yam, M. (2020, November). Factors Influencing the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in the Construction Industry – A System Dynamics Approach. Presented at CRIOCM 2020 Conference – 25th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, Online

The construction industry is always a slow adopter of innovative technologies than other sectors of the economy. Although some technologies, such as Building Information Modelling (BIM), robotics, among others, have been implemented, their ad... Read More about Factors Influencing the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in the Construction Industry – A System Dynamics Approach.

Electromyographic Signal Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Transfer Learning (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Song, S., Yang, L., Huo, B., Wu, M., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. Electromyographic Signal Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Transfer Learning. Presented at 2021 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference, Zhanjiang, China

Recent years, the research of gesture recognition based on surface EMG signal has become an active topic. The conventional methods mainly focus on feature engineering, but the sEMG signal is non-stationary temporally, which makes proper feature desig... Read More about Electromyographic Signal Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Transfer Learning.

Observer-Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Soft Actuators with Input Constraints (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cao, G., Shi, H., Xia, D., Zheng, Y., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. Observer-Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Soft Actuators with Input Constraints. Presented at 2021 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference, Zhanjiang, China

Fabricated by superelastic materials, soft actuators are an emerging field to provide a solution of safe interaction with complicated, unstructured and frequently brittle work environments, while they also bear challenges in fragility and controlling... Read More about Observer-Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Soft Actuators with Input Constraints.

Metadata can kill (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Haynes, D. (2021, October). Metadata can kill. Paper presented at DCMI Virtual 2021 - Metadata Innovation, Online

A number of events in the recent years have raised concerns about how private companies and government institutions collect and use metadata about their clients and citizens, from the highly-mediatized National Security Agency and Cambridge Analytica... Read More about Metadata can kill.

Microservices in IoT Security: Current Solutions, Research Challenges, and Future Directions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Driss, M., Hasan, D., Boulila, W., & Ahmad, J. (2021, September). Microservices in IoT Security: Current Solutions, Research Challenges, and Future Directions. Presented at 25th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Szczecin, Poland

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) technology has led to the emergence of multiple smart applications in different vital sectors including healthcare, education, agriculture, energy management, etc. IoT aims to interconnect several intelli... Read More about Microservices in IoT Security: Current Solutions, Research Challenges, and Future Directions.

A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2021, September). A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times. Paper presented at 6th Critical Autoethnography Conference, Melbourne, Australia and online

In these pandemic times there are couple-bubbles and household bubbles and social bubbles. And then there is me, uncoupled, unchilded, in a bubble of one. (Four if you count the cats.) In early modern Scotland, the Witchcraft Act (1563) held my t... Read More about A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times.