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Evaluating the Impact of Clutter in Euler Diagrams. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alqadah, M., Stapleton, G., Howse, J., & Chapman, P. (2014, July). Evaluating the Impact of Clutter in Euler Diagrams

Euler diagrams, used to visualize data and as a basis for visual languages, are an effective representation of information, but they can become cluttered. Previous research established a measure of Euler diagram clutter, empirically shown to correspo... Read More about Evaluating the Impact of Clutter in Euler Diagrams..

Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Acur, N., Lynn, A., Jagadeesan, A., Smith, M., & Agrawal, A. (2014, June). Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland. Presented at International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Economics and Management Study - SEM 2014, London, United Kingdom

Various surveys mentioned that the commercial benefits of Internet crowdsourcing are reaped largely by people located in metro areas and smaller cities. The impact of crowdsourcing on the rural population is questionable. The aim of this research is... Read More about Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland.

Relative energy consumption of low-cost 3D printers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Walls, S., Corney, J., & Vasantha, G. (2014, September). Relative energy consumption of low-cost 3D printers. Presented at 12th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR 2014), Southampton, UK

The potential of low cost, 3D printing to support distributed manufacture in remote, rural communities has been noted by several observers. However the economic practicality of such proposals has not yet been clearly established and although some ove... Read More about Relative energy consumption of low-cost 3D printers.

Towards crowdsourcing spatial manufacturing tasks from rural India (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Jagadeeshan, A., Lynn, A., Acur Bakir, N., Smith, M., & Agrawal, A. (2014, September). Towards crowdsourcing spatial manufacturing tasks from rural India. Presented at 12th International Conference on Manufacturing Research, Southampton, UK

Many tasks involving production software that involve spatial reasoning can only produce "good" rather than optimum solutions. It is frequently possible for humans to improve on algorithmically generated solutions computed by CAD/CAM software. The th... Read More about Towards crowdsourcing spatial manufacturing tasks from rural India.

Usage of gestures along with other interaction modes in collaborative design (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Prakash Ramesh, H., Mouli Sugavanam, C., & Chakrabarti, A. (2014, September). Usage of gestures along with other interaction modes in collaborative design. Presented at 12th International Conference on Manufacturing Research, Southampton, UK

Currently many computer-aided multi-modal interaction tools are under development, and some have demonstrated their applications in design. To avoid disruptive transformation from current design tools to multi-modal designing, there is a need for sev... Read More about Usage of gestures along with other interaction modes in collaborative design.

Computing the incomputable with human processing units (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Corney, J., Vasantha, G. A., Lynn, A., Jagadeesan, A., Acur, N., Smith, M., & Agarwal, A. (2013, March). Computing the incomputable with human processing units. Presented at International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia IITM 2013, Allahabad, India

Initially commercial crowdsourcing services (such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) were focused largely on providing micro-labor services for tasks such as image labeling and text processing. However it is becoming increasingly apparent that these servic... Read More about Computing the incomputable with human processing units.

Visual cleaning of genotype data. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kennedy, J., Graham, M., Paterson, T., & Law, A. (2013, October). Visual cleaning of genotype data. Presented at BioVis 2013

While some data cleaning tasks can be performed automatically, many more require expert human guidance to steer the cleaning process, especially if erroneous or unclean data is a product of relationships between entities. An example is pedigree genot... Read More about Visual cleaning of genotype data..

Pianola - visualization of multivariate time-series security event data. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomson, A., Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2013, July). Pianola - visualization of multivariate time-series security event data. Presented at 17th International Conference on Information Visualisation

Monitoring log files for network intrusions is unwieldy. To build a mental model of the log, an analyst is required to recognise continuous timelines and attack patterns from a dataset that is essentially limited to an ordered list of events. Informa... Read More about Pianola - visualization of multivariate time-series security event data..

A multidimensional sketching interface for corpus-based concatenative synthesis. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tsiros, A. (2013, July). A multidimensional sketching interface for corpus-based concatenative synthesis. Presented at international Conference on auditory Display

This paper presents Morpheme, a multidimensional interface that allows real-time control of concatenative synthesis through the act of sketching on a digital canvas. Morpheme extracts textural, spatial and volumetric features from a sketch developed... Read More about A multidimensional sketching interface for corpus-based concatenative synthesis..

The dimensions and complexities of audio-visual association. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tsiros, A. (2013, July). The dimensions and complexities of audio-visual association. Presented at Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2013)

This paper draws on literature from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and philosophy to portray a cross-modal conception of auditory and visual phenomena focusing on the similarities in form, structure, and function and exploring the links to pe... Read More about The dimensions and complexities of audio-visual association..

Requirements for Computer-Aided Product-Service Systems Modeling and Simulation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Hussain, R., Roy, R., & Corney, J. (2013, January). Requirements for Computer-Aided Product-Service Systems Modeling and Simulation. Presented at ICoRD'13: 4th International Conference on Research into Design, India

The design of product-service systems (PSS) is a co-production process which involves the manufacturer, customer and suppliers as well as any other stakeholders. This multi-organizational, collaborative environment along with the unique tangible and... Read More about Requirements for Computer-Aided Product-Service Systems Modeling and Simulation.

Influences of Design Tools on Concepts Generation (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G. A., Chakrabarti, A., & Corney, J. (2012, September). Influences of Design Tools on Concepts Generation. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2012)

Concept generation plays a vital role in establishing a broader foundation in the design process to create novel products. In globalized, collaborative, designing scenario, unambiguous representation of captured ideas to explicate designer‘s thoughts... Read More about Influences of Design Tools on Concepts Generation.

Sketching concatenative synthesis: audiovisual Isomorphism in reduced modes. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tsiros, A., LePlâtre, G., & Smyth, M. (2012, July). Sketching concatenative synthesis: audiovisual Isomorphism in reduced modes. Presented at 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference

This paper presents a prototype allowing the control of a
concatenative synthesis algorithm using a 2D sketching
interface. The design of the system is underpinned by a
preliminary discussion in which isomorphisms between
auditory and visual phen... Read More about Sketching concatenative synthesis: audiovisual Isomorphism in reduced modes..

Redeeming pedigree data with an interactive error cleaning visualisation. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Graham, M., Kennedy, J., Paterson, T., & Law, A. (2012, May). Redeeming pedigree data with an interactive error cleaning visualisation. Presented at AVI 2012

We describe a visual data cleansing application for pedigree genotype data, which is used to redeem otherwise unusable pedigree data sets. Biologists and bioinformaticians dynamically and iteratively mask pieces of information from a dirty data set a... Read More about Redeeming pedigree data with an interactive error cleaning visualisation..

MaTSE: The microarray time-series explorer (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Craig, P., Cannon, A., Kukla, R., & Kennedy, J. (2012, October). MaTSE: The microarray time-series explorer. Presented at 2012 IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis)

This paper describes the design, development and evaluation of the Microarray Time-Series Explorer (MaTSE), a novel information visualization application for the exploratory analysis of large scale microarray timeseries data. The software combines a... Read More about MaTSE: The microarray time-series explorer.

Product-Service Systems Design Using Stakeholders’ Information (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Annamalai Vasantha, G. V., Hussain, R., Cakkol, M., & Roy, R. (2012, March). Product-Service Systems Design Using Stakeholders’ Information. Presented at 22nd CIRP International Design Conference

Product-Service System (PSS) provides added value to customers through integrated product and service offerings. Currently, the development of PSS solutions is ad hoc and the roles and involvement of stakeholders at the various stages of PSS developm... Read More about Product-Service Systems Design Using Stakeholders’ Information.

Rich Pictures: understanding complexity through icons. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Berg, T. (2012, September). Rich Pictures: understanding complexity through icons. Presented at Operational Research (OR54) conference

Rich pictures are a powerful tool for understanding complexity. The rich picture is not only a tool to aid discussion and debate about problem situations. We claim that understanding the iconography produced during the picturing process leads to a k... Read More about Rich Pictures: understanding complexity through icons..

BioVis 2011 Conference Proceedings. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2011, October). BioVis 2011 Conference Proceedings

The rapidly expanding field of biology creates enormous challenges for computational visualization techniques for enabling researchers to gain insight from their large and highly complex data sets. The goal of the BioVis 2011 symposium is to create t... Read More about BioVis 2011 Conference Proceedings..

Evaluating the VIPER pedigree visualisation: detecting inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paterson, T., Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Law, A. (2011, October). Evaluating the VIPER pedigree visualisation: detecting inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees. Presented at 1st IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization

VIPER (Visual Pedigree Explorer) is a tool for exploring large complex animal pedigrees and their associated genotype data. The tool combines a novel, space-efficient visualisation of the pedigree structure with an inheritance-checking algorithm. Thi... Read More about Evaluating the VIPER pedigree visualisation: detecting inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees..