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Evaluation of collision avoidance prototype head-up display interface for older drivers (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Charissis, V., Papanastasiou, S., Mackenzie, L., & Arafat, S. (2011). Evaluation of collision avoidance prototype head-up display interface for older drivers. In Human-Computer Interaction: Towards Mobile and Intelligent Interaction Environments (367-375). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21616-9_41

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)
Conference Proceeding
Alfalah, S. F., Harrison, D. K., Charissis, V., & Evans, D. (2011). Optimised multimedia application for improved medical visualisation. In Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXV: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2011)

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)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
Muhammad-Sukki, C., Ramirez-Iniguez, R., McMeekin, S., Stewart, B., & Clive, B. (2011). Optimisation of concentrator in the solar photonic optoelectronic transformer: Optical gain analysis. In IET Conference on Renewable Power Generation (RPG 2011). https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2011.0201

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)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
Kerridge, J. (2011). Experiments in Multicore and Distributed Parallel Processing using JCSP. In J. F. Broenink, F. R. Barnes, J. Kerridge, P. H. Welch, A. T. Sampson, & J. B. Pedersen (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2011 (131-142). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-774-1-131

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)
Conference Proceeding
Elfergani, I., Abd-Alhameed, R., Ali, N., Alhaddad, A., See, C., & Cabongomuqueba, E. (2011). A novel dual band tunable balanced handset antenna for WLAN application. In 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (516-519). https://doi.org/10.1109/icecs.2011.6122326

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)
Conference Proceeding
Cambria, E., Mazzocco, T., Hussain, A., & Durrani, T. (2011). Switching between different ways to think: Multiple approaches to affective common sense reasoning. In Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment. The Processing Issues: COST 2102 International Conference, Budapest, Hungary, September 7-10, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (56-69). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25775-9_5

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)
Conference Proceeding
Cambria, E., Mazzocco, T., Hussain, A., & Eckl, C. (2011). Sentic medoids: Organizing affective common sense knowledge in a multi-dimensional vector space. In Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2011 8th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2011, Guilin, China, May 29–June 1, 2011, Proceedings, Part III (601-610). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21111-9_68

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)
Conference Proceeding
Cambria, E., Hupont, I., Hussain, A., Cerezo, E., & Baldassarri, S. (2011). Sentic avatar: Multimodal affective conversational agent with common sense. In Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces. Theoretical and Practical Issues Third COST 2102 International Training School, Caserta, Italy, March 15-19, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (81-95). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18184-9_8

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)
Conference Proceeding
Ali, R., Hussain, A., Bron, J. E., & Shinn, A. P. (2011). Multi-stage classification of Gyrodactylus species using machine learning and feature selection techniques. In 2011 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (457-462). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISDA.2011.6121698

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)
Conference Proceeding
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.

Meander-line filter for short range radio communications (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Alqahtani, S., See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Hussaini, A., Abidin, Z., Excell, P., & Noras, J. (2011). Meander-line filter for short range radio communications. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications, ITA 11 (560-565)

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)
Conference Proceeding
von Bruhn Hinné, T., & Keates, S. (2011). Using motion sensing remote controls with older adults. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design for All and eInclusion: 6th International Conference, UAHCI 2011, Proceedings, Part II (166-175). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21663-3_18

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)
Conference Proceeding
Keates, S. (2011). Teaching the next generation of universal access designers: a case study. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design for All and eInclusion: 6th International Conference, UAHCI 2011, Proceedings, Part I (70-79). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21672-5_9

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)
Conference Proceeding
Annamalai, G., Hussain, R., Cakkol, M., Roy, R., Evans, S., & Tiwari, A. (2011). An ontology for product-service systems. In Functional Thinking for Value Creation: Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems (231-236). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19689-8

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.

Conceptual Product-Service System CAD-An Application (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G. A., & Roy, R. (2011). Conceptual Product-Service System CAD-An Application. In Interdisciplinary Design: Proceedings of the 21st CIRP Design Conference (46-54)

Product-Service System (PSS) provides an enhanced view about the functional aspects of value creation. Manufacturers are increasingly transforming their whole systems including processes in order to support the provision of PSS throughout its lifecyc... Read More about Conceptual Product-Service System CAD-An Application.

A framework for designing product-service systems (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G. V. A., Hussain, R., Roy, R., Tiwari, A., & Evans, S. (2011). A framework for designing product-service systems. In DS 68-4: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 11), Impacting Society through Engineering Design, Vol. 4: Product and Systems Design (67-76)

In this competitive globalizing scenario, manufacturers are adopting a strategy of bundling products and services into an integrated solution to create sustainable competitive advantage. Servitizing manufacturers are increasingly transforming their p... Read More about A framework for designing product-service systems.