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Get Your Project Funded: Using Biometric Data to Understand What Makes People Trust and Support Crowdfunding Campaigns (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mcneill, M., Lawson, A., Raeside, R., & Peisl, T. (2018, July). Get Your Project Funded: Using Biometric Data to Understand What Makes People Trust and Support Crowdfunding Campaigns. Presented at 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2018), Belfast

Creating a good crowdfunding campaign is difficult. By understanding why people contribute to crowdfunding campaigns we can make campaigns better and raise more money. Crowdfunding websites allow entrepreneurs to make a pitch, which is watched by pot... Read More about Get Your Project Funded: Using Biometric Data to Understand What Makes People Trust and Support Crowdfunding Campaigns.

Ford and the First World War (2018)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2018). Ford and the First World War. In The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford. Routledge

This chapter surveys Ford Madox Ford's writings about war. He was conscious of war writing by the beginning of the twentieth century via his friendship with Stephen Crane; the First World War, however, was the major conflict for Ford. He wrote abou... Read More about Ford and the First World War.

Feature-preserving detailed 3D face reconstruction from a single image (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, Y., Ma, L., Fan, H., & Mitchell, K. (2018, December). Feature-preserving detailed 3D face reconstruction from a single image. Presented at the 15th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference, London, United Kingdom

Dense 3D face reconstruction plays a fundamental role in visual media production involving digital actors. We improve upon high fidelity reconstruction from a single 2D photo with a reconstruction framework that is robust to large variations in expre... Read More about Feature-preserving detailed 3D face reconstruction from a single image.

How to Overcome the Dichotomous Nature of Smart City Research: Proposed Methodology and Results of a Pilot Study (2018)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Deakin, M., Reid, A., & Angelidou, M. (2019). How to Overcome the Dichotomous Nature of Smart City Research: Proposed Methodology and Results of a Pilot Study. Journal of Urban Technology, 26(2), 89-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2018.1525265

Overcoming the dichotomous nature of smart city research is fundamental to providing cities with a clear understanding of how smart city development should be approached. This paper introduces a research methodology for conducting the multiple-case s... Read More about How to Overcome the Dichotomous Nature of Smart City Research: Proposed Methodology and Results of a Pilot Study.

A framework for exploring intelligent artificial personhood. (2018)
Book Chapter
Kane, T. (2018). A framework for exploring intelligent artificial personhood. In V. C. Müller (Ed.), Philosophy and theory of artificial intelligence 2017 (255-258). Springer

The paper presents a framework for examining the human use of, and the activities of, artificial persons. This paper applies Hobbesian methodology to ascribe artificial personhood to business organisations, professional persons and algorithmic artifi... Read More about A framework for exploring intelligent artificial personhood..

2-Dimensional Outline Shape Representation for Generative Design with Evolutionary Algorithms (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lapok, P., Lawson, A., & Paechter, B. (2018, September). 2-Dimensional Outline Shape Representation for Generative Design with Evolutionary Algorithms. Presented at EngOpt 2018 International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Lisboa, Portugal

In this paper, we investigate the ability of genetic representation methods to describe two-dimensional outline shapes, in order to use them in a generative design system. A specific area of mechanical design focuses on planar mechanisms. These are a... Read More about 2-Dimensional Outline Shape Representation for Generative Design with Evolutionary Algorithms.

Image Based Proximate Shadow Retargeting (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Casas, L., Fauconneau, M., Kosek, M., Mclister, K., & Mitchell, K. (2018, September). Image Based Proximate Shadow Retargeting. Presented at Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2018, Swansea University, United Kingdom

We introduce Shadow Retargeting which maps real shadow appearance to virtual shadows given a corresponding deformation of scene geometry, such that appearance is seamlessly maintained. By performing virtual shadow reconstruction from un-occluded real... Read More about Image Based Proximate Shadow Retargeting.

Intelligence and co-creation in smart specialisation strategies: towards the next stage of RIS3 (2018)
Report
Komninos, N., Kakderi, C., Panori, A., Garcia, E., Reid, A., Cvijanović, V., Roman, M., Deakin, M., & Mora, L. (2018). Intelligence and co-creation in smart specialisation strategies: towards the next stage of RIS3. European Commission

The white paper on “Intelligence and Co-creation in Smart Specialisation Strategies” outlines some key conclusions from the Online S3 project, funded under the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Commission. The Online S3 project has produced an o... Read More about Intelligence and co-creation in smart specialisation strategies: towards the next stage of RIS3.

Optimisation and Illumination of a Real-world Workforce Scheduling and Routing Application via Map-Elites (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N., & Hart, E. (2018, September). Optimisation and Illumination of a Real-world Workforce Scheduling and Routing Application via Map-Elites. Presented at Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) 2018, Coimbra, Portugal

Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problems (WSRP) are very common in many practical domains, and usually have a number of objectives. Illumination algorithms such as Map-Elites (ME) have recently gained traction in application to design problems, in p... Read More about Optimisation and Illumination of a Real-world Workforce Scheduling and Routing Application via Map-Elites.

Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices (2018)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2019). Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 142, 70-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.035

Recent studies reveal a deep-rooted division in research on smart cities, which surfaces as a set of dichotomies that question whether smart city development should be based on a: (1) technology-led or holistic strategy; (2) double or quadruple-helix... Read More about Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices.

Combining Co-Citation Clustering and Text-Based Analysis to Reveal the Main Development Paths of Smart Cities (2018)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2019). Combining Co-Citation Clustering and Text-Based Analysis to Reveal the Main Development Paths of Smart Cities. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 142, 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.019

Bibliometrics is a powerful tool for analyzing knowledge domains and revealing their cognitive-epistemological structure. Different mathematical models and statistical techniques have been proposed and tested to carry out bibliometric analyses and de... Read More about Combining Co-Citation Clustering and Text-Based Analysis to Reveal the Main Development Paths of Smart Cities.

GPU-accelerated depth codec for real-time, high-quality light field reconstruction (2018)
Journal Article
Koniaris, B., Kosek, M., Sinclair, D., & Mitchell, K. (2018). GPU-accelerated depth codec for real-time, high-quality light field reconstruction. Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 1(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3203193

Pre-calculated depth information is essential for efficient light field video rendering, due to the prohibitive cost of depth estimation from color when real-time performance is desired. Standard state-of-the-art video codecs fail to satisfy such per... Read More about GPU-accelerated depth codec for real-time, high-quality light field reconstruction.

Can justice be fair when it is blind? How social network structures can promote or prevent the evolution of despotism (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Perret, C., Powers, S. T., Pitt, J., & Hart, E. (2018, July). Can justice be fair when it is blind? How social network structures can promote or prevent the evolution of despotism. Presented at The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, Tokyo, Japan

Hierarchy is an efficient way for a group to organize, but often goes along with inequality that benefits leaders. To control despotic behaviour, followers can assess leaders' decisions by aggregating their own and their neighbours' experience, and i... Read More about Can justice be fair when it is blind? How social network structures can promote or prevent the evolution of despotism.

Democratic Participation through Crocheted Memes. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor-Smith, E., Smith, C. F., & Smyth, M. (2018, July). Democratic Participation through Crocheted Memes. Presented at 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society - SMSociety '18

In a UK city, various crocheted protest banners have appeared, containing political statements concerning planned developments in their locations. Photos of these banners are shared across social media, raising awareness and potentially playing a rol... Read More about Democratic Participation through Crocheted Memes..

Modelling enduring institutions: The complementarity of evolutionary and agent-based approaches (2018)
Journal Article
Powers, S. T., Ekárt, A., & Lewis, P. R. (2018). Modelling enduring institutions: The complementarity of evolutionary and agent-based approaches. Cognitive Systems Research, 52, 67-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2018.04.012

Empirical work has shown that societies can sometimes avoid antisocial outcomes , such as the Tragedy of the Commons, by establishing institutional rules that govern their interactions. Moreover, groups are more likely to avoid antisocial outcomes wh... Read More about Modelling enduring institutions: The complementarity of evolutionary and agent-based approaches.

From work-integrated learning to learning-integrated work: motivations and apprehensions of Graduate Apprentices (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S., Taylor-Smith, E., Smith, C., & Varey, A. (2018, June). From work-integrated learning to learning-integrated work: motivations and apprehensions of Graduate Apprentices. Presented at 3rd International Research Symposium on Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education (WACE), Stuttgart, Germany

Graduate Apprenticeship (GA) degrees bring new collaborations between universities and employers and new opportunities for apprentices—to gain a university degree, while also being in formal employment. In 2017, Scotland introduced funding for GAs: s... Read More about From work-integrated learning to learning-integrated work: motivations and apprehensions of Graduate Apprentices.

Applications of Blockchain Within Healthcare. (2018)
Journal Article
Bell, L., Buchanan, W. J., Cameron, J., & Lo, O. (2018). Applications of Blockchain Within Healthcare. Blockchain in Healthcare Today,

There are several areas of healthcare and well-being that could be enhanced using blockchain technologies. These include device tracking, clinical trials, pharmaceutical tracing, and health insurance. Within device tracking, hospitals can trace their... Read More about Applications of Blockchain Within Healthcare..

From Faces to Outdoor Light Probes (2018)
Journal Article
Calian, D. A., Lalonde, J.-F., Gotardo, P., Simon, T., Matthews, I., & Mitchell, K. (2018). From Faces to Outdoor Light Probes. Computer Graphics Forum, 37(2), 51-61. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13341

Image‐based lighting has allowed the creation of photo‐realistic computer‐generated content. However, it requires the accurate capture of the illumination conditions, a task neither easy nor intuitive, especially to the average digital photography en... Read More about From Faces to Outdoor Light Probes.