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Technology for supporting care staff in residential homes. (2014)
Journal Article
Webster, G., & Hanson, V. L. (2014). Technology for supporting care staff in residential homes. ACM transactions on accessible computing, 5, 8. https://doi.org/10.1145/2543577

Care staff, those who attend to the day-to-day needs of people in residential facilities, represent an important segment of the health-care provision of those entrusted to their care. The potential use of technology by care staff has not been a focus... Read More about Technology for supporting care staff in residential homes..

Cloud-based identity and identity meta-data: secure and control own data in globalization era. (2014)
Journal Article
Spyra, G., Buchanan, W. J., Cruickshank, P., & Ekonomou, E. (2014). Cloud-based identity and identity meta-data: secure and control own data in globalization era. International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare, 3, https://doi.org/10.4018/ijrqeh.2014010105

This paper proposes a new identity, and its underlying meta-data, model. The approach enables secure spanning of identity meta-data across many boundaries such as health-care, financial and educational institutions, including all others that store an... Read More about Cloud-based identity and identity meta-data: secure and control own data in globalization era..

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.

Design challenges in motivating change for sustainable urban mobility (2014)
Journal Article
Gabrielli, S., Forbes, P., Jylha, A., Wells, S., Sirén, M., Hemminki, S., Nurmi, P., Maimone, R., Masthoff, J., & Jacucci, G. (2014). Design challenges in motivating change for sustainable urban mobility. Computers in Human Behavior, 41, 416-423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.05.026

In recent years, the design and deployment of persuasive interventions for inducing sustainable urban mobility behaviors has become a very active research field, leveraging on the pervasive usage of social media and mobile apps by citizens in their d... Read More about Design challenges in motivating change for sustainable urban mobility.

Digital Health (2014)
Book Chapter
Thuemmler, C. (2015). Digital Health. In S. Fricker, C. Thümmler, & A. Gavras (Eds.), Requirements Engineering for Digital Health (1-23). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09798-5_1

Healthcare is the biggest and fastest growing industry in the world and is one of the domains that are expected to grow significantly over decades to come. Underlying cause for this are the current demographic developments which are showing similar p... Read More about Digital Health.

AGADE how individual guidance leads to group behaviour and how this can be simulated (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M., Hoffmann, B., & Urquhart, N. B. (2014, September). AGADE how individual guidance leads to group behaviour and how this can be simulated. Presented at 12th German Conference, MATES 2014, Stuttgart, Germany

In this paper we will demonstrate how BDI agents can be used to model individuals as participants in social structures where they act as potential buyers in a simple mobile phone market simulation. The simulation presented here is run in AGADE (Agile... Read More about AGADE how individual guidance leads to group behaviour and how this can be simulated.

Helium: visualization of large scale plant pedigrees (2014)
Journal Article
Shaw, P. D., Graham, M., Kennedy, J., Milne, I., & Marshall, D. F. (2014). Helium: visualization of large scale plant pedigrees. BMC Bioinformatics, 15, Article 259. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-15-259

Plant breeders use an increasingly diverse range of data types to identify lines with desirable characteristics suitable to be taken forward in plant breeding programmes. There are a number of key morphological and physiological traits, such as disea... Read More about Helium: visualization of large scale plant pedigrees.

Correlation of affiliate performance against web evaluation metrics (2014)
Thesis
Miehling, M. J. Correlation of affiliate performance against web evaluation metrics. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7250

Affiliate advertising is changing the way that people do business online. Retailers are now offering incentives to third-party publishers for advertising goods and services on their behalf in order to capture more of the market. Online advertising sp... Read More about Correlation of affiliate performance against web evaluation metrics.