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Designing a direct manipulation HUD interface for in-vehicle infotainment (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Charissis, V., Naef, M., Papanastasiou, S., & Patera, M. (2007). Designing a direct manipulation HUD interface for in-vehicle infotainment. In Human-Computer Interaction: Interaction Platforms and Techniques (551-559). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73107-8_62

This paper introduces a novel design approach for an automotive direct manipulation interface. The proposed design, as applied in a full-windshield Head-Up Display system, aims to improve the driver’s situational awareness by considering information... Read More about Designing a direct manipulation HUD interface for in-vehicle infotainment.

Calibration requirements of an automotive HUD interface using a virtual reality environment: methodology and implementation (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Charissis, V., Naef, M., & Patera, M. (2007). Calibration requirements of an automotive HUD interface using a virtual reality environment: methodology and implementation. In GVE '07: Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Graphics and Visualization in Engineering (13-18)

This paper presents the methodology of a system which utilises a virtual reality (VR) environment to establish the calibration requirements for a prototype automotive fullwindscreen Head-Up Display (HUD) interface. An easy and fast calibration of the... Read More about Calibration requirements of an automotive HUD interface using a virtual reality environment: methodology and implementation.

Symbolic vs alphanumeric representations in human machine interface design (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Charissis, V., & Patera, M. (2007). Symbolic vs alphanumeric representations in human machine interface design. In Communication: Understanding / Misunderstanding - Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of the IASS/AIS - Helsinki-Imatra 11-17 June, 2007 (276-284)

This paper presents a study towards articulating what it is considered to be a simple, prompt and efficient interface for a novel automotive Head-Up Display system. In particular, the proposed interface aims to improve the driver's spatial awareness... Read More about Symbolic vs alphanumeric representations in human machine interface design.

Human machine interface for prototype head up display (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Charissis, V., Papanastasiou, S., & Patera, M. (2007). Human machine interface for prototype head up display. In Transport Science and Technology Congress (TRANSTEC) Prague 2007 (290-299)

Head Up Displays (HUDs) have recently enjoyed substantial research attention due to their wide scope of application and promise of real time information superimposed in the external scene environment. To this end we developed a prototype HUD interfac... Read More about Human machine interface for prototype head up display.

E-paper vs paper: a comparative study for future applications (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Nomikos, S., Charissis, V., Tsigonias, M., & Dargentas, J. (2007). E-paper vs paper: a comparative study for future applications. In Proceedings of 3rd International Conference in Typography and Visual Communication (3rd ICTVC 07)

Surgical education: Applied virtual anatomy: Can Virtual Reality Augment Postgraduate Anatomy Teaching? (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Ward, B. M., Charissis, V., Rowley, D., Anderson, P., & Young, I. (2007). Surgical education: Applied virtual anatomy: Can Virtual Reality Augment Postgraduate Anatomy Teaching?. In Proceedings of the British Association of Day Surgery Conference

This paper presents an inquiry into Virtual Reality (VR) training environments and their application in early postgraduate anatomy teaching. There is great interest in the use of VR applications, but there has been little practical application in the... Read More about Surgical education: Applied virtual anatomy: Can Virtual Reality Augment Postgraduate Anatomy Teaching?.

Human robot interaction in virtual reality (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Di Gironimo, G., Marzano, A., & Tarallo, A. (2007). Human robot interaction in virtual reality. In Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference (107-112). https://doi.org/10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/ItalChap/ItalianChapConf2007/107-112

In this paper, we describe a framework which helps designers visualize and verify the results of robotic work cell simulation in a Virtual Environment (VE). The system aims at significantly reducing production costs and error sources during manufactu... Read More about Human robot interaction in virtual reality.

Tracking control of a pendulum-driven cart-pole underactuated system (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Yu, H., Liu, Y., & Yang, T. (2007). Tracking control of a pendulum-driven cart-pole underactuated system. In 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. https://doi.org/10.1109/icsmc.2007.4413859

In this paper, we use an example - a pendulum-driven cart-pole system studied in Li et al. (2005) to investigate the tracking control of underactuated dynamic systems. In this paper, we propose a six-step motion strategy of the pendulum driven cart-p... Read More about Tracking control of a pendulum-driven cart-pole underactuated system.

Investigating children's eye-movements: Cause or effect of reversing ambiguous figures? (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Wimmer, M., & Doherty, M. (2007). Investigating children's eye-movements: Cause or effect of reversing ambiguous figures?. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society. , (1659-1664)

We examined whether eye-movements play a significant role in perceiving both interpretations (reversing) of ambiguous figures such as the duck/rabbit (Jastrow, 1900). In an eye tracking study we investigated 3-, 4- and 5-year-old children’s reversal... Read More about Investigating children's eye-movements: Cause or effect of reversing ambiguous figures?.

Dynamic deployment of semantic-based services in a highly distributed environment (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Chrysoulas, C., & Koufopavlou, O. (2007). Dynamic deployment of semantic-based services in a highly distributed environment. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST (416-419). https://doi.org/10.5220/0001278504160419

Today’s Networking Systems tend to increase in both heterogeneity and complexity. So there arises the need for an architecture for network-based services that provides flexibility and efficiency in the definition, deployment and execution of the serv... Read More about Dynamic deployment of semantic-based services in a highly distributed environment.

Performance analysis of offloading systems in mobile wireless environments (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Ou, S., Yang, K., Liotta, A., & Hu, L. (2007). Performance analysis of offloading systems in mobile wireless environments. In 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications (1821-1826). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2007.304

Offloading is an approach to leverage the severity of resource constrained nature of mobile devices (such as PDAs, mobile phones) by migrating part of the computation of applications to some nearby resource-rich surrogates (e.g., desktop PCs, mobilit... Read More about Performance analysis of offloading systems in mobile wireless environments.

Managing P2P services via the IMS (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Liotta, A., & Lin, L. (2007). Managing P2P services via the IMS. In 2007 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (586-600). https://doi.org/10.1109/INM.2007.374822

The key aim of our work was to illustrate the benefits and means to deploy P2P services via the IMS. Having demonstrated the technical viability of P2P-IMS we have also found a way to add a new management dimension to existing P2P systems. P2P-IMS co... Read More about Managing P2P services via the IMS.

Testing and Sampling Parallel Systems (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Kerridge, J. (2007). Testing and Sampling Parallel Systems. In A. A. McEwan, S. Schneider, W. Ifill, & P. Welch (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2007 (149-162)

The testing of systems using tools such as JUnit is well known to the sequential programming community. It is perhaps less well known to the parallel computing community because it relies on systems terminating so that system outputs can be compared... Read More about Testing and Sampling Parallel Systems.

Collecting Pedestrian Trajectory Data In Real-time (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Kerridge, J., Keller, S., Chamberlain, T., & Sumpter, N. (2007). Collecting Pedestrian Trajectory Data In Real-time. In N. Waldau-Drexler, P. Gattermann, H. Knoflacher, & M. Schreckenberg (Eds.), Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2005 (27-39). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47064-9_3

The ability to collect pedestrian flow data, without the need for subsequent post-processing and analysis to extract measurements such as density and flow rate is a goal, which up to now, has proved infeasible on a large scale for a number of reasons... Read More about Collecting Pedestrian Trajectory Data In Real-time.

Using biclustering for automatic attribute selection to enhance global visualization (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Abdullah, A., & Hussain, A. (2007). Using biclustering for automatic attribute selection to enhance global visualization. In Pixelization Paradigm Visual Information Expert Workshop, VIEW 2006, Paris, France, April 24-25, 2006, Revised Selected Papers (35-47). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71027-1

Data mining involves useful knowledge discovery using a data matrix consisting of records and attributes or variables. Not all the attributes may be useful in knowledge discovery, as some of them may be redundant, irrelevant, noisy or even opposing.... Read More about Using biclustering for automatic attribute selection to enhance global visualization.

A novel psychoacoustically motivated multichannel speech enhancement system (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Hussain, A., Cifani, S., Squartini, S., Piazza, F., & Durrani, T. (2007). A novel psychoacoustically motivated multichannel speech enhancement system. In Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviours COST Action 2102 International Workshop, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, March 29-31, 2007, Revised Selected and Invited Papers (190-199). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76442-7_17

The ubiquitous noise reduction / speech enhancement problem has gained an increasing interest in recent years. This is due both to progress made by microphone-array systems and to the successful introduction of perceptual models. In the last decade,... Read More about A novel psychoacoustically motivated multichannel speech enhancement system.

Establishing design best practices for users with cognitive and learning difficulties (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Keates, S., & Varker, P. (2007). Establishing design best practices for users with cognitive and learning difficulties. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), Universal Acess in Human Computer Interaction. Coping with Diversity: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007, Part I (706-715). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73279-2_78

In many respects, cognitive difficulties and learning impairments are the poor relation of Universal Access (UA) research. Research into emotional impairments is even less common. A simple review of almost any general UA or Assistive Technology confe... Read More about Establishing design best practices for users with cognitive and learning difficulties.

Defining acceptable levels of accessibility (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Keates, S. (2007). Defining acceptable levels of accessibility. In C. Stephanidis, & M. Pieper (Eds.), Universal Access in Ambient Intelligence Environment. 9th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, 2006. Revised Papers. Part III (287-303). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71025-7_19

This paper examines the issues facing companies when designing products and services for equitable access, particularly in view of the legislated requirements that they have to meet. The concepts of acceptability and accessibility are discussed and a... Read More about Defining acceptable levels of accessibility.