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Inclusive design for ordinary users in extraordinary circumstances (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keates, S. (2009, July). Inclusive design for ordinary users in extraordinary circumstances. Presented at 5th International Conference, UAHCI 2009, San Diego, CA, USA

Universal access is commonly interpreted as focusing on designing for users with atypical requirements ? specifically users with disabilities or older adults. However, universal access is also about providing access to users in all situations and cir... Read More about Inclusive design for ordinary users in extraordinary circumstances.

Cognitive impairments, HCI and daily living (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keates, S., Kozloski, J., & Varker, P. (2009, July). Cognitive impairments, HCI and daily living. Presented at 5th International Conference, UAHCI 2009, San Diego, CA, USA

As computer systems become increasingly more pervasive in everyday life, it is simultaneously becoming ever more important that the concept of universal access is accepted as a design mantra. While many physical impairments and their implications for... Read More about Cognitive impairments, HCI and daily living.

Practical interaction design. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2009, April). Practical interaction design. Presented at HCI Educators 2009 - Playing with our education, University of Abertay, Dundee, UK

Practical Interaction Design (PID) is a
method for teaching interaction design. It
incorporates elements of ‘pure’ interaction
design and human–computer interaction
(HCI) to convey some of the playful flavour
of the former with the tool-rich pra... Read More about Practical interaction design..

The end of cognition? (2009)
Journal Article
Turner, P. (2009). The end of cognition?. Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments, 5, 5-11

Presence and consciousness. (2009)
Book Chapter
Turner, P. (2009). Presence and consciousness. In D. Benyon, M. Smyth, & I. Helgason (Eds.), Presence for everyone: a short guide to presence research (21-24). Peach Consortium

Designing e-Participation with Balkan journalists. (2009)
Journal Article
Taylor-Smith, E., & Buckner, K. (2009). Designing e-Participation with Balkan journalists. JeDEM eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 1, 12-20

This paper describes the use of scenarios as a central part of the design methodology, in a project to create an e-participation initiative, working with the national news agencies in 3 Western Balkans countries. The stakeholders in the project came... Read More about Designing e-Participation with Balkan journalists..

Revisiting the potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Priss, U., & Old, L. J. (2009, May). Revisiting the potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus

This paper revisits the lattice-based thesaurus models which Margaret Masterman used for machine translation in the 1950’s and 60’s. Masterman’s notions are mapped onto modern, Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) terminology and three of her thesaurus algo... Read More about Revisiting the potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus..

The semantic structure of Roget’s Thesaurus cross-references. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Old, L. J. (2009, July). The semantic structure of Roget’s Thesaurus cross-references. Presented at 17th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS'09) - SENSE'09

This study analyzed a database version of Roget’s Thesaurus (Roget’s International Thesaurus, 3rd Edition, 1962) for connectivity patterns among cross-references in order to identify the implicit conceptual structure. Semantic patterns implicit in th... Read More about The semantic structure of Roget’s Thesaurus cross-references..

Companions and new forms of interaction design. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mival, O., & Bradley, J. (2009, April). Companions and new forms of interaction design. Presented at The European Future Technologies Conference,

Play up, play up and play the game. (2009)
Journal Article
McEwan, T. (2009). Play up, play up and play the game. Interfaces / the British HCI Group newsletter, 7

The rules of the game are changing – we now have rules! In many walks of life, competency frameworks are emerging to define and compare roles (meeting legal requirements such as gender pay equality), and individuals are to be benchmarked against role... Read More about Play up, play up and play the game..

JCSP agents-based service discovery for pervasive computing. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kosek, A., Kerridge, J., Syed, A., & Armitage, A. (2009, November). JCSP agents-based service discovery for pervasive computing. Presented at Communicating Process Architectures 2009 - WoTUG-32

Device and service discovery is a very important topic when considering pervasive environments. The discovery mechanism is required to work in networks with dynamic topology and on limited software, and be able to accept different device descriptions... Read More about JCSP agents-based service discovery for pervasive computing..

A Perspective on Middleware-Oriented Context-Aware Pervasive Systems (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2009, July). A Perspective on Middleware-Oriented Context-Aware Pervasive Systems. Presented at 2009 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference

The evolving concepts of mobile computing, context-awareness, and ambient intelligence are increasingly influencing user's experience of services. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to provide an overview of recent developments and implementations... Read More about A Perspective on Middleware-Oriented Context-Aware Pervasive Systems.

The secret life of the immune system: inspiring pervasive systems (2009)
Newspaper / Magazine
Hart, E. (2009). The secret life of the immune system: inspiring pervasive systems

The immune system performs more than simply defence and exploiting its additional functionality can lead to the design of better pervasive adaptive systems.

Application of CoSMoS parallel design patterns to a pedestrian simulation. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clayton, S., Urquhart, N. B., & Kerridge, J. (2009, September). Application of CoSMoS parallel design patterns to a pedestrian simulation. Presented at International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics PPAM 2009: Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

In this paper, we discuss the implementation of a simple pedestrian simulation that uses a multi agent based design pattern developed by the CoSMoS research group. Given the nature of Multi Agent Systems (MAS), parallel processing techniques are inev... Read More about Application of CoSMoS parallel design patterns to a pedestrian simulation..

An application of CoSMoS design methods to pedestrian simulation. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clayton, S., Urquhart, N., & Kerridge, J. (2009, November). An application of CoSMoS design methods to pedestrian simulation. Presented at 32nd Communicating Process Architectures Conference, CPA 2009, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

In this paper, we discuss the implementation of a simple pedestrian simulation that uses a multi agent based design pattern developed by the CoSMoS research group. Given the nature of Multi Agent Systems (MAS), parallel processing techniques are inev... Read More about An application of CoSMoS design methods to pedestrian simulation..

An investigation into distributed channel mobility support for Communicating Process Architectures. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K., & Kerridge, J. (2009, November). An investigation into distributed channel mobility support for Communicating Process Architectures. Presented at 32nd Communicating Process Architecture conference (CPA)

Localised mobile channel support is now a feature of Communicating Process Architecture (CPA) based frameworks, from JCSP and C++CSP to occam-pi. Distributed mobile channel support has also been attempted in JCSP Networking and occam-pi via the pony... Read More about An investigation into distributed channel mobility support for Communicating Process Architectures..

Investigating communicating sequential processes for Java to support ubiquitous computing (2009)
Thesis
Chalmers, K. Investigating communicating sequential processes for Java to support ubiquitous computing. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3507

Ubiquitous Computing promises to enrich our everyday lives by enabling the environment to be enhanced via computational elements. These elements are designed to augment and support our lives, thus allowing us to perform our tasks and goals. The main... Read More about Investigating communicating sequential processes for Java to support ubiquitous computing.

Presence for everyone - a short guide to presence research. (2009)
Book
Smyth, M. (2009). D. Benyon, M. Smyth, & I. Helgason (Eds.). Presence for everyone - a short guide to presence research. Centre for Interaction Design

Every day in countless interactions you and I use media to immerse ourselves in virtual environments of information, gaming, video, and social networking. For these moments we are not fully present in our rooms, offices, and streets. Connected by int... Read More about Presence for everyone - a short guide to presence research..

Security and Routing Scoped IP Multicast Addresses (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., Al-Dubai, A., & Kellil, M. (2009, September). Security and Routing Scoped IP Multicast Addresses. Presented at 2009 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops

IP multicast is an efficient and scalable network layer delivering method for multimedia content to a large number of receivers across the Internet. It saves the network bandwidth and optimizes the processing overhead of the source. However, current... Read More about Security and Routing Scoped IP Multicast Addresses.