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Green in Blue: The environmental impacts of jazz production and consumption (2023)
Journal Article
Medboe, H. (2023). Green in Blue: The environmental impacts of jazz production and consumption. Jazz Research Journal, 16(2), 129-146

This article examines environmental consequences in the manufacture and dissemination of recorded jazz alongside the ecological impacts of jazz festivals as sites of fandom and convergence. By tracing the roots and development in the models for produ... Read More about Green in Blue: The environmental impacts of jazz production and consumption.

Unveiling NLG Human-Evaluation Reproducibility: Lessons Learned and Key Insights from Participating in the ReproNLP Challenge (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Watson, L., & Gkatzia, D. (2023). Unveiling NLG Human-Evaluation Reproducibility: Lessons Learned and Key Insights from Participating in the ReproNLP Challenge. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (69-74)

Human evaluation is crucial for NLG systems as it provides a reliable assessment of the quality, effectiveness, and utility of generated language outputs. However, concerns about the reproducibility of such evaluations have emerged, casting doubt on... Read More about Unveiling NLG Human-Evaluation Reproducibility: Lessons Learned and Key Insights from Participating in the ReproNLP Challenge.

Digital Twin-Empowered Smart Attack Detection System for 6G Edge of Things Networks (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Yigit, Y., Chrysoulas, C., Yurdakul, G., Maglaras, L., & Canberk, B. (2023). Digital Twin-Empowered Smart Attack Detection System for 6G Edge of Things Networks. In 2023 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps). https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps58843.2023.10465218

As global Internet of Things (IoT) devices connectivity surges, a significant portion gravitates towards the Edge of Things (EoT) network. This shift prompts businesses to deploy infrastructure closer to end-users, enhancing accessibility. However, t... Read More about Digital Twin-Empowered Smart Attack Detection System for 6G Edge of Things Networks.

Examination of the validity of the Injury-Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport (I-PRRS) scale in male professional football players: A worldwide study of 29 professional teams (2023)
Journal Article
Dunlop, G., Ivarsson, A., Einar Andersen, T., Brown, S., O’Driscoll, G., Lewin, C., …McCall, A. (2023). Examination of the validity of the Injury-Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport (I-PRRS) scale in male professional football players: A worldwide study of 29 professional teams. Journal of Sports Sciences, 41, 1906-1914 . https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2024.2307764

Perceived confidence is an important dimension of an athlete’s psychological readiness to return-to-play. However, there is no established and validated tool to evaluate confidence in professional football. This study aimed to provide preliminary eva... Read More about Examination of the validity of the Injury-Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport (I-PRRS) scale in male professional football players: A worldwide study of 29 professional teams.

Exploring the Customer Trust Building Strategies used by Fintech Firms (2023)
Journal Article
Gesing Kalinowska, A., Khaleel, F., Avdukic, A., & Harte, P. (2023). Exploring the Customer Trust Building Strategies used by Fintech Firms. Journal of business and economics, 15(2),

The Fintech industry remains broadly un-regulated compared to their banking counterparts; however, Fintech firms are aware that customer trust plays a vital role in defining success and failure within this industry. In this paper, we discuss the meas... Read More about Exploring the Customer Trust Building Strategies used by Fintech Firms.

Thou Shalt Not Squander Life – Comparing Five Approaches to Argument Strength (2023)
Journal Article
Zenker, F., Dębowska-Kozłowska, K., Godden, D., Selinger, M., & Wells, S. (2023). Thou Shalt Not Squander Life – Comparing Five Approaches to Argument Strength. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 68(1), 133-167. https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2023-0007

Different approaches analyze the strength of a natural language argument in different ways. This paper contrasts the dialectical, structural, probabilistic (or Bayesian), computational, and empirical approaches by exemplarily applying them to a singl... Read More about Thou Shalt Not Squander Life – Comparing Five Approaches to Argument Strength.

The stuff we swim in: Regulation alone will not lead to justifiable trust in AI (2023)
Journal Article
Powers, S. T., Linnyk, O., Guckert, M., Hannig, J., Pitt, J., Urquhart, N., …Weber, T. (2023). The stuff we swim in: Regulation alone will not lead to justifiable trust in AI. IEEE technology & society magazine, 42(4), 95-106. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2023.3341463

Information technology is used ubiquitously and has become an integral part of everyday life. With the ever increasing pervasiveness and persuasiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the function of socio-technical systems changes and must be consi... Read More about The stuff we swim in: Regulation alone will not lead to justifiable trust in AI.

Students’ gendered experiences of male-dominated Computing and Engineering courses (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Taylor-Smith, E., Smith, S., & Fabian, K. (2023). Students’ gendered experiences of male-dominated Computing and Engineering courses.

How does it feel to be in a gender minority on a STEM programme? Does it have an impact on individual students? Via an online survey (n=255), undergraduate students on Computing and Engineering programmes were asked whether they felt that gender had... Read More about Students’ gendered experiences of male-dominated Computing and Engineering courses.

Investing in degree apprenticeships: Analysing experiences through Conservation of Resources Theory (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Taylor-Smith, E., Smith, S., & Bratton, A. (2023). Investing in degree apprenticeships: Analysing experiences through Conservation of Resources Theory.

Degree apprentices have reported finding work-life-study balance challenging. This study uses the Theory of Conservation of Resources (COR) to investigate the resources invested and gained by apprentices in the achievement of their goal of a degree w... Read More about Investing in degree apprenticeships: Analysing experiences through Conservation of Resources Theory.

Reliability Analysis of Fault Tolerant Memory Systems (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Yigit, Y., Maglaras, L., Amine Ferrag, M., Moradpoor, N., & Lambropoulos, G. (2023). Reliability Analysis of Fault Tolerant Memory Systems. In 2023 8th South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference (SEEDA-CECNSM). https://doi.org/10.1109/SEEDA-CECNSM61561.2023.10470763

This paper delves into a comprehensive analysis of fault-tolerant memory systems, focusing on recovery techniques modelled using Markov chains to address transient errors. The study revolves around the application of scrubbing methods in conjunction... Read More about Reliability Analysis of Fault Tolerant Memory Systems.

An Egonet Analysis Exploring Social Support Structures of Construction Workers: A Pilot Study (2023)
Journal Article
Langdon, R. R., Newton, C. J., Sawang, S., & Bradley, L. M. (2023). An Egonet Analysis Exploring Social Support Structures of Construction Workers: A Pilot Study. Journal of Applied Sciences, 23(3), 132-142. https://doi.org/10.3923/jas.2023.132.142

Background and Objective: Construction industry workers have high levels of stress and suicide rates compared to other industries. Support mechanisms like social capital and social support help to protect against stress and distress, however, these s... Read More about An Egonet Analysis Exploring Social Support Structures of Construction Workers: A Pilot Study.

Itu Ninu (2023)
Digital Artefact
Jansen, I. (2023). Itu Ninu. [Film]

72-minute drama film in English and Mixtec (an endangered Indigenous language from Mexico). This is a practice-based research output exploring the concept of "Second-Hand" Cinema, as conceptualized by Nadia Bozak in her book The Cinematic Footprint... Read More about Itu Ninu.

Informative Causality-based Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Architecture for Domain Generalization (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Mao, C., Zhao, L., Min, G., Hawbani, A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., & Zomaya, A. Y. (2023). Informative Causality-based Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Architecture for Domain Generalization. In GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference. https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM54140.2023.10437409

Vehicle trajectory prediction is a promising technology for improving the performance of Cellular Vehicle-to Everything (C-V2X) applications by providing future road states. Various vehicle trajectory prediction methods have been proposed to increase... Read More about Informative Causality-based Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Architecture for Domain Generalization.

Green Building: An antidote to sick buliding syndrome menace in Africa (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Liphadzi, M., Osunsanmi, T., Aigbavboa, C. O., Thwala, W., Phuti, T., & Aliu, J. (2023). Green Building: An antidote to sick buliding syndrome menace in Africa. In Proceedings of the Creative Construction Conference 2023 (632-644). https://doi.org/10.3311/ccc2023-082

Sick building syndrome (SBS) is the leading cause of the reduction in the building's occupancy level of satisfaction, poor indoor air quality, and other shenanigans responsible for the underperformance of building occupants and loss in property value... Read More about Green Building: An antidote to sick buliding syndrome menace in Africa.

Tender Dialogues @ SAR2022 (2023)
Digital Artefact
Turtola, N. (2023). Tender Dialogues @ SAR2022. [artistic research writing]

Suspending Artistic Research Writing as Meaning-Making Tender Dialogues was a 3-hour workshop which took place on 2 July 2022 activated within the frame of the 13th Society of Artistic Research Conference (Mend, Blend, Attend) held at the Bauhaus-... Read More about Tender Dialogues @ SAR2022.

YASF: A Vendor-Agnostic Framework for Serverless Computing (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Giacomini, M., & Ullah, A. (2023). YASF: A Vendor-Agnostic Framework for Serverless Computing. In M. van Steen, & C. Pahl (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (46-56). https://doi.org/10.5220/0011847700003488

The serverless execution model allows application developers to deploy their software using tiny functions with zero administration, no handling of resource provisioning, monitoring and scaling. Due to such advantages, the serverless model emerged as... Read More about YASF: A Vendor-Agnostic Framework for Serverless Computing.

Video Games, Historical Representation and Soft Power (2023)
Journal Article
Donald, I., Webber, N., & Wright, E. (2023). Video Games, Historical Representation and Soft Power. Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, 15(2), 105-127. https://doi.org/10.1386/jgvw_00075_1

This article explores how historical video games have become tools for UK and Chinese ‘soft power’ or ‘public diplomacy’ and the role of historical representation in portraying cultural identity in the global marketplace. In the UK, state support has... Read More about Video Games, Historical Representation and Soft Power.

The shifting goalposts of Digital Technology Skills in Scotland (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Meharg, D., & Tungli, T. (2023). The shifting goalposts of Digital Technology Skills in Scotland. In SRHE International Conference 2023

Digital technologies and skills are critical to economic growth and embedded in everyday life 1. This paper presents a work-in-progress study that examines the effect of education policy on digital skills within Scotland. Through literature analysis,... Read More about The shifting goalposts of Digital Technology Skills in Scotland.

TaskMaster: A Novel Cross-platform Task-based Spoken Dialogue System for Human-Robot Interaction (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Strathearn, C., Yu, Y., & Gkatzia, D. (2023). TaskMaster: A Novel Cross-platform Task-based Spoken Dialogue System for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of The Joint CUI and HRI Workshop at HRI 2023

The most effective way of communication between humans and robots is through natural language communication. However, there are many challenges to overcome before robots can effectively converse in order to collaborate and work together with humans.... Read More about TaskMaster: A Novel Cross-platform Task-based Spoken Dialogue System for Human-Robot Interaction.

PFL-LDG: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning via Lightweight Device Grouping (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, Z., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2023). PFL-LDG: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning via Lightweight Device Grouping. In 2023 IEEE Smart World Congress (SWC). https://doi.org/10.1109/SWC57546.2023.10449141

The rapid growth of private data from distributed edge networks, driven by the proliferation of IoT sensors, wearable devices, and smartphones, offers significant opportunities for AI applications. However, traditional distributed machine learning me... Read More about PFL-LDG: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning via Lightweight Device Grouping.