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Designing blended spaces: historical echoes, testing a framework for digital tourism. (2014)
Journal Article
Ayan, S., & Benyon, D. (2014). Designing blended spaces: historical echoes, testing a framework for digital tourism. International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design, 7(2), 1-12

This work relates heavily to blended space theory and the trajectories approach previously done in this field. Imaz and Benyon have introduced the ideas of conceptual blending to analyze developments in HCI and software engineering. Benford explains... Read More about Designing blended spaces: historical echoes, testing a framework for digital tourism..

Evaluating the Perceived Similarity Between Audio-Visual Features Using Corpus-Based Concatenative Synthesis. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tsiros, A. (2014, June). Evaluating the Perceived Similarity Between Audio-Visual Features Using Corpus-Based Concatenative Synthesis. Presented at International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

This paper presents the findings of two exploratory studies. In these studies participants performed a series of image-sound association and detection tasks. The aim of the studies was to investigate the perceived similarity and the effectiveness of... Read More about Evaluating the Perceived Similarity Between Audio-Visual Features Using Corpus-Based Concatenative Synthesis..

city | data | future – Interactions in Hybrid Urban Space: The UrbanIxD Exhibition (2014)
Book
Mitrovic, I., Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2014). city | data | future – Interactions in Hybrid Urban Space: The UrbanIxD Exhibition. UrbanIxD: Designing Human Interactions in the Networked City

The focus of the emergent field of Urban Interaction Design is public space and the relationships between people – with and through technology. The currency of these interactions is data. Making sense of this data, and making it meaningful, transpare... Read More about city | data | future – Interactions in Hybrid Urban Space: The UrbanIxD Exhibition.

Health: RFID makes surgery safer. (2014)
Book Chapter
Mival, O., Thuemmler, C., Schneider, A., Paulin, A., Kranzfelder, M., & Hasan, A. (2014). Health: RFID makes surgery safer. In P. Cousin (Ed.), Internet of Things: Success Stories (54-60). Internet of Things Council

This document presents a novel technique to reduce the risk of forgotten surgical towels in surgery. It is an application of IoT in field of healthcare. Integrating RFID tags into towels and developing an application to read this information allow nu... Read More about Health: RFID makes surgery safer..

An introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Quinton, M., & McGregor, I. (2014, July). An introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape. Presented at Invisible places: sounding cities, Sound, Urbanism and Sense of Place

This is an introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape and is part of an even bigger project. It introduces a soundscape diced with traditional sounds which still echo in the present and mutate and conflict with the modern sounds that are becoming p... Read More about An introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape..

Walking & talking: probing the urban lived experience. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stals, S., Smyth, M., & Ijsselsteijn, W. (2014, October). Walking & talking: probing the urban lived experience. Presented at NordiCHI'14 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational

With ubiquitous mobile computing devices spreading throughout the urban environment of everyday life, there is a growing need to better understand person-place relationships and how technology can play a role in this urban experience. To this end, we... Read More about Walking & talking: probing the urban lived experience..

Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Roy, R., & Corney, J. (2014, October). Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers. Presented at 15th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Laser system industry is a complex network entity that includes laser component manufacturer, laser manufacturer, system integrator, laser job shop, laser process developer and end product manufacturer. Currently this market segment is predominately... Read More about Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers.

User experience (UX) design for medical personnel and patients (2014)
Book Chapter
Mival, O., & Benyon, D. (2015). User experience (UX) design for medical personnel and patients. In S. Fricker, C. Thuemmler, & A. Gavras (Eds.), Requirements Engineering for Digital Health and Care (117-131). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09798-5_6

UX design is concerned with all the issues that go into providing an engaging and enjoyable experience for people in both the short and longer term. This is more than mere functionality and includes aesthetics, pleasure, and emotional engagement in t... Read More about User experience (UX) design for medical personnel and patients.

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.

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.

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.

Towards the Posthuman: Materiality and process in the creation of stimulus-responsive jewellery objects (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vones, K. (2014, July). Towards the Posthuman: Materiality and process in the creation of stimulus-responsive jewellery objects. Presented at All Makers Now?

The idea of creating a jewellery organism that comes alive on the body has fascinated and inspired my research ever since learning about the potential inherent in smart materials almost ten years ago. While smart materials have been known to scientis... Read More about Towards the Posthuman: Materiality and process in the creation of stimulus-responsive jewellery objects.

Jupiter Artland iOS App (2014)
Digital Artefact
Mival, O., Ammeloot, A., McGregor, I., & Benyon, D. (2014). Jupiter Artland iOS App. [iOS app]

This free app can be used onsite or offsite to enhance the visitor experience and has film, audio, text and photographs providing an in-depth look at this private family collection. Onsite an interactive map allows you to locate yourself in relation... Read More about Jupiter Artland iOS App.

Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Prokofieva, E., Luciani, C., & McGregor, I. (2014, April). Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University. Presented at 136th International AES Convention, Berlin, Germany

The auralization room was designed as a joint project between School of Engineering and Built Environment and the School of Computing of Edinburgh Napier University. The interior acoustic design specialists conducted the acoustic design of the aurali... Read More about Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University.

Classifying physical strategies in tangible tasks: a video-coding framework for epistemic actions (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A., Bakker, S., Antle, A. N., May, A., Warren, J., & Oakley, I. (2014, April). Classifying physical strategies in tangible tasks: a video-coding framework for epistemic actions. Presented at 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Tangible interaction is a compelling interface paradigm that elegantly merges the fluency of physical manipulation with the flexibility of digital content. However, it is currently challenging to understand the real benefits and advantages of tangibl... Read More about Classifying physical strategies in tangible tasks: a video-coding framework for epistemic actions.

TouchCloud: An Exploratory Study in Physically Tagging the Cloud. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abreu Esteves, A., Quintal, F., & Oakley, I. (2014, February). TouchCloud: An Exploratory Study in Physically Tagging the Cloud. Poster presented at International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

Norms and standards in modular medical architectures. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fricker, S., Fiedler, M., Grottland, A., Jell, T., Magedanz, T., Thuemmler, C., Mival, O., Benyon, D., Buchanan, W. J., & Paulin, A. (2013, October). Norms and standards in modular medical architectures. Presented at 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom 2013)

Recent Internet of Things (IoT) research has been aiming at interoperability of devices and the integration of sensor networks. The Future Internet - Private Public Partnership (FI-PPP) has created a whole array of different purpose-oriented modules... Read More about Norms and standards in modular medical architectures..