Using motion sensing remote controls with older adults (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
von Bruhn Hinné, T., & Keates, S. (2011, July). Using motion sensing remote controls with older adults. Presented at 6th International Conference, UAHCI 2011, Orlando, FL, USA

This paper examines how motion sensitive remote control devices can improve the usability of television sets for older adults. It investigates the use of a pointing remote control where the actions are read and selected on the TV screen by a group of... Read More about Using motion sensing remote controls with older adults.

Tracing innovation: an activity theoretical approach (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wiegel, V. (2011, December). Tracing innovation: an activity theoretical approach. Presented at ECIS 2011

This paper argues that tracing the diffusion of innovation is a challenging endeavour. The difficulty is that an innovation comes into existence as a cognitive and inter-personal idea and transforms over time into tangible and material manifestation.... Read More about Tracing innovation: an activity theoretical approach.

My Grandfather's iPod: an investigation of emotional attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2011, August). My Grandfather's iPod: an investigation of emotional attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts. Presented at 29th conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics, Rostock, Germany

Motivation -- to explore the nature and dimensions of attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts and explicate any differences in emotional attachment between digital and non-digital artefacts.

Research approach -- Repertory grid based study... Read More about My Grandfather's iPod: an investigation of emotional attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts..

Critical Design: Is It Just Designers Doing Ethnography or Does It Offer Something More for Interaction Design? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smyth, M., Speed, C., & Brynskov, M. (2011, September). Critical Design: Is It Just Designers Doing Ethnography or Does It Offer Something More for Interaction Design?. Presented at 13th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

The panel will discuss the contribution of Critical Design to the field of Interaction Design and reflect on the insights that it provides on interaction.

The city in cinema: how popular culture can influence research agendas. (2011)
Journal Article
Smyth, M., Helgason, I., Mitrovic, I., & Zaffiro, G. (2011). The city in cinema: how popular culture can influence research agendas. Procedia Computer Science, 7, 110-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2011.12.033

Where can researchers find inspiration for the transformative applications, concepts and infrastructures that they believe will characterise the next decade? One approach to predicting the future is to reflect on the visions of the future that have b... Read More about The city in cinema: how popular culture can influence research agendas..

Imagining urban interactions: strategies for exploring future design landscapes. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2011, July). Imagining urban interactions: strategies for exploring future design landscapes. Presented at 25th BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

For designers, attempting to respond to unknown design spaces can be a daunting task. This paper describes a series of workshops that presented rapid ethnographic design methods in city streets as a way of exploring human behaviours, and recording th... Read More about Imagining urban interactions: strategies for exploring future design landscapes..

An evaluation of name matching techniques. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Peng, T., Li, L., & Kennedy, J. (2011, June). An evaluation of name matching techniques

Abstract—There is a growing awareness that the high quality of string matching is a key to a variety of applications, such as data integration, text and web mining, information retrieval, search engine. In such applications, matching names is one of... Read More about An evaluation of name matching techniques..

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..

Advanced design approach to emerging software systems - principles, methodologies and tools. (2011)
Book
Liu, X., & Li, Y. (2011). Advanced design approach to emerging software systems - principles, methodologies and tools. IGI Global Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-735-7

Recently, rapid and fundamental advances in computing technologies have been driving the role and scope of software systems to a new level. A number of new types of software systems are emerging, among which service based systems, cloud computing, pe... Read More about Advanced design approach to emerging software systems - principles, methodologies and tools..

DACAR platform for eHealth services cloud. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., Thuemmler, C., Lo, O., Khedim, A. S., Uthmani, O., Lawson, A., & Bell, D. (2011, July). DACAR platform for eHealth services cloud. Presented at 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing

The use of digital technologies in providing health care services is collectively known as eHealth. Considerable progress has been made in the development of eHealth services, but concerns over service integration, large scale deployment, and securit... Read More about DACAR platform for eHealth services cloud..

Performance of the distributed CPA protocol and architecture on traditional networks. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K. (2011, June). Performance of the distributed CPA protocol and architecture on traditional networks. Presented at 33rd Communicating Process Architecture (CPA) conference

Performance of communication mechanisms is very important in distributed systems frameworks, especially when the aim is to provide a particular type of behavior across a network. In this paper, performance measurements of the distributed Communicatin... Read More about Performance of the distributed CPA protocol and architecture on traditional networks..

Heaven and Hell: Visions for Pervasive Adaptation (2011)
Journal Article
Paechter, B., Pitt, J., Serbedzija, N., Michael, K., Willies, J., & Helgason, I. (2011). Heaven and Hell: Visions for Pervasive Adaptation. Procedia Computer Science, 7, 81-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2011.12.025

With everyday objects becoming increasingly smart and the “info-sphere” being enriched with nano-sensors and networked to computationally-enabled devices and services, the way we interact with our environment has changed significantly, and will conti... Read More about Heaven and Hell: Visions for Pervasive Adaptation.

This Pervasive Day: Creative, Interactive Methods for Encouraging Public Engagement with FET Research (2011)
Journal Article
Helgason, I., Bradley, J., Egan, C., Paechter, B., & Hart, E. (2011). This Pervasive Day: Creative, Interactive Methods for Encouraging Public Engagement with FET Research. Procedia Computer Science, 7, 207-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2011.09.028

This paper describes a case study of a programme of interactive public engagement activities presented by the PerAda Co-ordination Action project (FET Proactive Initiative on Pervasive Adaptation) [1] in 2011. The intention behind these events was to... Read More about This Pervasive Day: Creative, Interactive Methods for Encouraging Public Engagement with FET Research.

Student project performance management system for effective final year and dissertation projects supervision. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., Tawse, M., & Habibullah, S. (2011, November). Student project performance management system for effective final year and dissertation projects supervision. Paper presented at London International Conference on Education LICE-2011

This paper presents the features of a new integrated and collaborative online supervision system for final year and dissertation projects. The system is currently under development and it aims to ease the supervision process, federate the tasks of al... Read More about Student project performance management system for effective final year and dissertation projects supervision..

Interaction Strategies for an Affective Conversational Agent (2011)
Journal Article
Smith, C., Crook, N., Dobnik, S., Charlton, D., Boye, J., Pulman, S., Santos de la Camara, R., Turunen, M., Benyon, D., Bradley, J., Gambäck, B., Hansen, P., Mival, O., Webb, N., & Cavazza, M. (2011). Interaction Strategies for an Affective Conversational Agent. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 20(5), 395-411. https://doi.org/10.1162/PRES_a_00063

The development of embodied conversational agents (ECA) as companions brings several challenges for both affective and conversational dialogue. These include challenges in generating appropriate affective responses, selecting the overall shape of the... Read More about Interaction Strategies for an Affective Conversational Agent.

Demo Hour: Anthony Otten, Daniel Schulze, Mie Sorensen, Di Mainstone, Tim Murray-Browne (2011)
Journal Article
Helgason, I. (2011). Demo Hour: Anthony Otten, Daniel Schulze, Mie Sorensen, Di Mainstone, Tim Murray-Browne. Interactions, 18, 8-9. https://doi.org/10.1145/2008176.2008179

These Demo Hour projects were curated by Ingi Helgason, a researcher and design lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University and the Open University. The projects were presented at Create ‘10, hosted by Edinburgh Napier University, as part of the conferen... Read More about Demo Hour: Anthony Otten, Daniel Schulze, Mie Sorensen, Di Mainstone, Tim Murray-Browne.

Curating Complex, Dynamic and Distributed Data: Telehealth as a Laboratory for Strategy (2011)
Journal Article
Ure, J., Hanley, J., Irshad, T., Whyte, A., Pagliari, C., Pinnock, H., & McKinstry, B. (2011). Curating Complex, Dynamic and Distributed Data: Telehealth as a Laboratory for Strategy. International Journal of Digital Curation, 6(2), 128-145. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v6i2.207

Telehealth monitoring data is now being collected across large populations of patients with chronic diseases such as stroke, hypertension, COPD and dementia. These large, complex and heterogeneous datasets, including distributed sensor and mobile dat... Read More about Curating Complex, Dynamic and Distributed Data: Telehealth as a Laboratory for Strategy.

PIR sensor array for hand motion recognition (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wojtczuk, P., Armitage, A., Binnie, D., & Chamberlain, T. (2011, August). PIR sensor array for hand motion recognition. Paper presented at SensorDevices 2011

Abstract—In this paper we present our work towards a hand gesture recognition system realised with a passive thermal infrared sensor array. In contrast with the majority of recent research activities into gesture recognition, which focus on the compl... Read More about PIR sensor array for hand motion recognition.

Learning to Cope with Digital Technology (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sobolewska, E., & Benyon, D. (2011, July). Learning to Cope with Digital Technology. Presented at 25th BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Technology surrounds people; it functions as their best friend and the worst enemy. From a trip to the local supermarket, to almost every aspect of people's professional and social lives technology is present; mediating their interactions, demanding... Read More about Learning to Cope with Digital Technology.

An approach to domain-based scalable context management architecture in pervasive environments (2011)
Journal Article
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2012). An approach to domain-based scalable context management architecture in pervasive environments. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 16(6), 741-755. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-011-0422-0

In pervasive environments, context management systems are expected to administrate large volume of contextual information that is captured from spatial to nonspatial elements. Research in context-aware computing produced a number of middleware system... Read More about An approach to domain-based scalable context management architecture in pervasive environments.