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Automated Reconfigurable Antenna Impedance for Optimum Power Transfer (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Hwang See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2020). Automated Reconfigurable Antenna Impedance for Optimum Power Transfer. . https://doi.org/10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038260

This paper presents an approach to implement an automatically tuning antenna for optimising power transfer suitable for software defined radio (SDR). The automatic tunability of the frequency selective antenna is achieved by a closed-loop automatic a... Read More about Automated Reconfigurable Antenna Impedance for Optimum Power Transfer.

A Novel 0.3-0.31 THz GaAs-Based Transceiver with On-Chip Slotted Metamaterial Antenna Based on SIW Technology (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Hwang See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2019, December). A Novel 0.3-0.31 THz GaAs-Based Transceiver with On-Chip Slotted Metamaterial Antenna Based on SIW Technology. Presented at 2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Singapore

This paper presents a novel on-chip antenna with fully integrated 0.3-0.31 THz transceiver implemented on 0.5μm GaAs substrate. The transceiver consists of a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), a buffer, a modulator, a power amplifier, a frequency t... Read More about A Novel 0.3-0.31 THz GaAs-Based Transceiver with On-Chip Slotted Metamaterial Antenna Based on SIW Technology.

The Bloody Big Project - Tackling Period Poverty with Design (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cochrane, R. (2020, March). The Bloody Big Project - Tackling Period Poverty with Design. Presented at Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2020, Edinburgh

The Bloody Big Project used Design Thinking to tackle Period Poverty. In collaboration with Industry Partners, Hey Girls and Wire Media, Edinburgh Napier University created a range of work based learning opportunities for students to respond to the S... Read More about The Bloody Big Project - Tackling Period Poverty with Design.

City resilience and transforming reason: a discussion of business event narratives (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M., & Pyke, J. (2020, February). City resilience and transforming reason: a discussion of business event narratives. Presented at CAUTHE 2020: 20:20 Vision: New Perspectives on the Diversity of Hospitality, Tourism and Events, Auckland University of Technology

In a time of tremendous environmental, social and economic change, the authors apply the reasoning that sustainability is a transcendent societal mega-mega trend (Varey, 2013), i.e. one of the most significant world mega trends. They acknowledge that... Read More about City resilience and transforming reason: a discussion of business event narratives.

Detecting critical responses from deliberate self-harm videos on YouTube (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhassan, M. A., & Pennington, D. (2020, March). Detecting critical responses from deliberate self-harm videos on YouTube. Presented at CHIIR '20: Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Vancouver BC, Canada

YouTube is one of the leading social media platforms and online spaces for people who self-harm to search and view deliberate self-harm videos, share their experience and seek help via comments. These comments may contain information that signals a c... Read More about Detecting critical responses from deliberate self-harm videos on YouTube.

Developing the Circular Economy through Usership (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cramphorn, C., & Pierron, X. (2020, March). Developing the Circular Economy through Usership. Poster presented at British Academy of Management Digital Transformation and Circular Entrepreneurship Symposium, Falmouth

Visioning and resilience of craft beer festival tourism: attendee as flaneur/flaneuse (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M., & Adams, A. (2020, February). Visioning and resilience of craft beer festival tourism: attendee as flaneur/flaneuse. Presented at CAUTHE 2020, 20:20 Vision: New Perspective on the diversity of Hospitality, Tourism and Events., Auckland University of Technology

In the work discussed here, the researchers focus on the changing form and function of consumption at Beer Festivals (BFs). The increasing significance of food variety and food origin matches the changing format of Beer Festivals, their attendees pro... Read More about Visioning and resilience of craft beer festival tourism: attendee as flaneur/flaneuse.

Class Feature Pyramids for Video Explanation (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stergiou, A., Kapidis, G., Kalliatakis, G., Chrysoulas, C., Poppe, R., & Veltkamp, R. (2020). Class Feature Pyramids for Video Explanation. . https://doi.org/10.1109/iccvw.2019.00524

Deep convolutional networks are widely used in video action recognition. 3D convolutions are one prominent approach to deal with the additional time dimension. While 3D convolutions typically lead to higher accuracies, the inner workings of the tra... Read More about Class Feature Pyramids for Video Explanation.

A Q-methodology study: MEtoWE project (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kuipers, Y. (2020, March). A Q-methodology study: MEtoWE project. Poster presented at Trinity Health and Education International Research Conference (THEconf2020), Dublin

Objective: In this study we aimed to reveal midwives’ distinct perspectives about midwifery support of women in their transition process during the continuum from pregnancy to one-year postpartum. Design: A Q-methodology study, a mixed quantitativ... Read More about A Q-methodology study: MEtoWE project.

Safe and Secure Software-Defined Networks for Smart Electricity Substations (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holik, F., Broadbent, M., Findrik, M., Smith, P., & Race, N. (2020, March). Safe and Secure Software-Defined Networks for Smart Electricity Substations. Presented at 12th Asian Conference, ACIIDS 2020, Phuket, Thailand

The next generation of smart electricity substations and grids are on the horizon. Part of the drive behind this movement is a need to improve safety and security. In parallel, software-defined networking has been proposed as a disruptive approach wh... Read More about Safe and Secure Software-Defined Networks for Smart Electricity Substations.

Vicinity-based replica finding in named data networking (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Suwannasa, A., Broadbent, M., & Mauthe, A. (2020). Vicinity-based replica finding in named data networking. In 2020 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) (146-151). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOIN48656.2020.9016429

In Named Data Networking (NDN) architectures, a content object is located according to the content's identifier and can be retrieved from all nodes that hold a replica of the content. The default forwarding strategy of NDN is to forward an Interest p... Read More about Vicinity-based replica finding in named data networking.

Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 10th International Conference, BICS 2019, Guangzhou, China, July 13–14, 2019, Proceedings (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2019, July). Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 10th International Conference, BICS 2019, Guangzhou, China, July 13–14, 2019, Proceedings. Presented at BICS: International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Guangzhou, China

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2019, held in Guangzhou, China, in July 2019. The 57 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed... Read More about Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 10th International Conference, BICS 2019, Guangzhou, China, July 13–14, 2019, Proceedings.

Legacy (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M. (2020, February). Legacy. Presented at Major Events as a Catalyst for Social Change, Melbourne, Australia

A discussion of the role of social legacy as drivers of events in Australia, with focus on the role of specialist sport events in social evolution of women in sport and society.

ANIMATION IN SCOTLAND 2020: A snapshot into the Animation industry within Scotland, with recommendations for future developments (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mortimer, J. (2020, February). ANIMATION IN SCOTLAND 2020: A snapshot into the Animation industry within Scotland, with recommendations for future developments. Presented at Animation Skillnet, Dublin, Ireland

A snapshot into the Animation industry within Scotland, with recommendations for future developments. The status quo in relation to animation training, education & talent develop in Scotland, and quite possibly the rest of the UK, is not working. Cer... Read More about ANIMATION IN SCOTLAND 2020: A snapshot into the Animation industry within Scotland, with recommendations for future developments.

Self-generated intent-based system (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bezahaf, M., Hernandez, M. P., Bardwell, L., Davies, E., Broadbent, M., King, D., & Hutchison, D. (2019, October). Self-generated intent-based system. Presented at 2019 10th International Conference on Networks of the Future (NoF), Rome, Italy

We propose an intent-based system where, on top of the user intentions, the system itself generates suitable Quality of Service and resilience parameters and may augment the intent characteristics if it detects any room for improvement. We demonstrat... Read More about Self-generated intent-based system.

Wall of Support: New Perspectives on Students’ Use of Graffiti (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2020, February). Wall of Support: New Perspectives on Students’ Use of Graffiti. Paper presented at Department of Learning and Teaching Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

What compels students to solicit personal advice from strangers by writing inscriptions on the toilet wall? Why resort to graffiti to cope with depression, deal with the fear of ‘coming out’ or even to express their (dis)satisfaction with the univer... Read More about Wall of Support: New Perspectives on Students’ Use of Graffiti.

Towards The Creation of A Threat Intelligence Framework for Maritime Infrastructures (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pitropakis, N., Logothetis, M., Andrienko, G., Karapistoli, I., Stephanatos, J., & Lambrinoudakis, C. (2019, September). Towards The Creation of A Threat Intelligence Framework for Maritime Infrastructures. Presented at 5th Workshop on the Security of Industrial Control Systems & of Cyber-Physical Systems (CyberICPS 2019), Luxembourg, Luxembourg

The maritime ecosystem has undergone through changes due to the increasing use of information systems and smart devices. The newly introduced technologies give rise to new attack surface in maritime infrastructures. In this position paper, we propose... Read More about Towards The Creation of A Threat Intelligence Framework for Maritime Infrastructures.

Training air traffic controllers through digital mobile applications versus traditional methods (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smy, P., Donald, I., Falconer, R. E., & Scott-Brown, K. (2020, September). Training air traffic controllers through digital mobile applications versus traditional methods. Presented at 14th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2020

Safety-critical industries, such as air traffic control, are highly regulated, with rigorous processes and procedures to ensure that safety remains of paramount importance despite the business environment. Training personnel in safety-critical indust... Read More about Training air traffic controllers through digital mobile applications versus traditional methods.

Linking gameplay metrics to computational thinking (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Panayotov, N., Donald, I., Falconer, R., & Kempe, V. (2020, September). Linking gameplay metrics to computational thinking. Presented at 14th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2020

Computational thinking (CT) is considered to be a fundamental skill underlying not only programming ability, but also an entire array of computational problem-solving competencies in a data-driven world. The need for accessible and engaging education... Read More about Linking gameplay metrics to computational thinking.