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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

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., …Zeller, F. (2013). Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance?. In Proc. Interspeech 2013 (3463-3467). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeec

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?.

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). Interactive virtual reality shopping and the impact in luxury brands. In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Systems and Applications (221-230). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-3942

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). Gait analysis management and diagnosis in a prototype virtual reality environment. In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: Systems and Applications (3-11). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39420-1_1

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). Asynchronous telemedicine diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries through a prototype interface in virtual reality environment. In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: Systems a

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). The characterisation of a virtual reality system to improve the quality and to reduce the gap between information technology and medical education. In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality:

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). The design considerations of a virtual reality application for heart anatomy and pathology education. In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Systems and Applications (

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). Evolution of a full-windshield HUD designed for current VANET communication standards. In 16th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (1637-1643). http

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). An interactive tool for the evaluation of ECG visualisation formats. In Computing in Cardiology 2013

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.

Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, B., Dewar, M., Sellami, N., Stahl, H., & Blackford, J. (2013). Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (OS12A-06)

One of the concerns of employing CCS at engineering scale is the risk of leakage of storage CO2 on the environment and especially on the marine life. QICS, a scientific research project was launched with an aim to study the effects of a potential lea... Read More about Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment.

Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baig, H., Sellami, N., Bahaidarah, H., & Mallick, T. (2013). Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia. In Proceedings of the 28th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (653-657). h

Saudi Arabia receives an average insolation of 6 kWh/m2/day, making it one of the most likely candidates for a country to be using solar energy for meeting its energy needs in the near future. The energy from the sun can be directly converted into el... Read More about Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia.

Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, S., Li, R., & Hillenbrand, D. (2013). Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform. In 2013 13th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2013). https://doi.org/10.1109/nano.2013.6720

Designing nanoplasmonic devices presents a number of unique challenges. The time domain modelling and simulation of electromagnetic (EM) wave interaction with nanoplasmonic devices, at high spatial and time resolution, requires high computational pow... Read More about Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform.

Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013). Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB´12) (

Decision-making in the design of sustainable building envelopes will mostly consider the trade-off between initial cost and energy savings. However, this leads to an insufficiently holistic approach to the assessment of the sustainable performance of... Read More about Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance.

Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013). Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context. In Proceedings of IPGRC 2013: International post graduate research conference (1106-1113)

Thermal comfort is a complicatedsubjectand is thus hard to quantify generally and specificallyandthe existing quantification methods are unlikely to be reliable for naturally ventilated houses. The challenge for designers is to produce a com... Read More about Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context.

Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atojoko, A., Bin-Melha, M., Elkazmi, E., Usman, M., Abd-Alhameed, R., & See, C. .. (2013). Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags. In 2013 8th IEEE Design and Test Symposium. https://doi.org/10.1109/idt.2013.6727088

Tank flooding have become major causes of pollution both in residential and industrial areas majorly caused by overflows of water(mostly residential) and volatile poisonous industrial liquids from the storage tanks. An effective way of avoiding this... Read More about Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags.

Towards reduced EEG based brain-computer interfacing for mobile robot navigation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahmud, M., & Hussain, A. (2013). Towards reduced EEG based brain-computer interfacing for mobile robot navigation. In Advances in Soft Computing and Its Applications: 12th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2013, Mexico C

Rapid development in highly parallel neurophysiological recording techniques along with sophisticated signal processing tools allow direct communication with neuronal processes at different levels. One important level from the point of view of Rehabi... Read More about Towards reduced EEG based brain-computer interfacing for mobile robot navigation.

Music genre classification: A semi-supervised approach (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Poria, S., Gelbukh, A., Hussain, A., Bandyopadhyay, S., & Howard, N. (2013). Music genre classification: A semi-supervised approach. In Pattern Recognition: 5th Mexican Conference, MCPR 2013, Querétaro, Mexico, June 26-29, 2013. Proceedings (254-263). h

Music genres can be seen as categorical descriptions used to classify music basing on various characteristics such as instrumentation, pitch, rhythmic structure, and harmonic contents. Automatic music genre classification is important for music retri... Read More about Music genre classification: A semi-supervised approach.