Green services, engineering, optimization and modelling in the technological age (2015)
Book
Liu, X., & Li, Y. (Eds.). (2015). Green services, engineering, optimization and modelling in the technological age. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8447-8

Concerns surrounding environmental sustainability have led to an increase of interest in environmentally-friendly systems. In the ICT realm, attention has been largely paid to green aspects of hardware; however, it is equally necessary to address thi... Read More about Green services, engineering, optimization and modelling in the technological age.

Orbits: gaze Interaction for smart watches using smooth pursuit eye movements. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A., Velloso, E., Bulling, A., & Gellersen, H. (2015, November). Orbits: gaze Interaction for smart watches using smooth pursuit eye movements. Presented at 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology

We introduce Orbits, a novel gaze interaction technique that enables hands-free input on smart watches. The technique relies on moving controls to leverage the smooth pursuit movements of the eyes and detect whether and at which control the user is l... Read More about Orbits: gaze Interaction for smart watches using smooth pursuit eye movements..

An approach to unified cloud service access, manipulation and dynamic orchestration via semantic cloud service operation specification framework (2015)
Journal Article
Fang, D., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., & Pahl, C. (2015). An approach to unified cloud service access, manipulation and dynamic orchestration via semantic cloud service operation specification framework. Journal of cloud computing: advances, systems and applications, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-015-0039-3

Cloud computing offers various computational resources via convenient on-demand service provision. Currently, heterogeneous services and cloud resources are usually utilized and managed through diverse service portals. This significantly limits the e... Read More about An approach to unified cloud service access, manipulation and dynamic orchestration via semantic cloud service operation specification framework.

The ATB Framework: quantifying and classifying epistemic strategies in tangible problem-solving tasks. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A., Bakker, S., Antle, A., May, A., Warren, J., & Oakley, I. (2015, January). The ATB Framework: quantifying and classifying epistemic strategies in tangible problem-solving tasks. Presented at 9th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

In task performance, pragmatic actions refer to behaviors that make direct progress, while epistemic actions involve altering the world so that cognitive processes are faster, more reliable or less taxing. Epistemic actions are frequently presented a... Read More about The ATB Framework: quantifying and classifying epistemic strategies in tangible problem-solving tasks..

A Unified Platform for the Dynamic Evolution of Context-Aware Highly Agile Services (2014)
Book Chapter
Liu, X., Jaroucheh, Z., Smith, S., & Zhao, H. (2014). A Unified Platform for the Dynamic Evolution of Context-Aware Highly Agile Services. In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition (2806-2815). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch274

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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.

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..

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.

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..

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.

A novel Information sharing model using binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation. (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper
Uthmani, O., Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., & Lawson, A. A novel Information sharing model using binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation

This paper outlines a novel information sharing method using Binary Decision Diagrams (BBDs). It is inspired by the work of Al-Shaer and Hamed, who applied BDDs into the modelling of network firewalls. This is applied into an information sharing poli... Read More about A novel Information sharing model using binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation..

Evaluation of binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation in an Information sharing model. (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper
Uthmani, O., Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., & Lawson, A. Evaluation of binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation in an Information sharing model

This paper defines a structured methodology which is based on the foundational work of Al-Shaer et al. in [1] and that of Hamed and Al-Shaer in [2]. It defines a methodology for the declaration of policy field elements, through to the syntax, ontolog... Read More about Evaluation of binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation in an Information sharing model..

Conducting Performance Evaluation of an e-Health Platform (2013)
Book Chapter
Lo, O., Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., & Thuemmler, C. (2013). Conducting Performance Evaluation of an e-Health Platform. In T. Issa, P. Isaías, & P. Kommers (Eds.), Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics; Information Systems and Technology for Organizations in a Networked Society (295-315). IGI Global Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4062-7.ch016

For increased awareness and adoption of e-Health implementations, results from evaluation must be catered towards three primary perspectives: organizational, end-user and technical perspective. This chapter addresses the issue of conducting performan... Read More about Conducting Performance Evaluation of an e-Health Platform.

Schutz der Anonymität als Gemeinschaftsaufgabe – eine neue Generation von PETs? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kwecka, Z., Buchanan, W. J., Schafer, B., & Rauhofer, J. (2013, September). Schutz der Anonymität als Gemeinschaftsaufgabe – eine neue Generation von PETs?. Presented at INFORMATIK 2013

Technologies, der seine rechtstheoretische Motivation aus einem Verständnis der Privatsphäre als kollektivem Gut gewinnt. In diesem Modell willigen alle Mitglieder einer Gruppe in eine theoretisches Risiko ein, um gegenseitig ihre Anonymität und dami... Read More about Schutz der Anonymität als Gemeinschaftsaufgabe – eine neue Generation von PETs?.

Modelling of integrated trust, governance and access safi.re: Information Sharing Architecture. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., Uthmani, O., Fan, L., Burns, N., Lo, O., Lawson, A., Varga, J., & Anderson, C. (2013, April). Modelling of integrated trust, governance and access safi.re: Information Sharing Architecture. Presented at CSP 2013: Cyber Security and Privacy

We live in a world where trust relationships are becoming ever more important. This paper outlines how an architecture which abstracts these relationships between domains, organisations and units, into a formal definition, and then implement these as... Read More about Modelling of integrated trust, governance and access safi.re: Information Sharing Architecture..

Blended spaces and digital tourism. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., Mival, O., & O'Keefe, B. (2013, April). Blended spaces and digital tourism. Presented at CHI2013 workshop on Blended Interaction Spaces

UrbanixD: designing human interactions in the networked city (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smyth, M., Helgason, I., Brynskov, M., Mitrovic, I., & Zaffiro, G. (2013, April). UrbanixD: designing human interactions in the networked city. Presented at CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Interaction Design, in an urban context, is an increasingly important field of research. City populations are currently in a state of rapid flux. Conurbations are fast becoming a hybrid of the physical environment and the digital datasphere. How we,... Read More about UrbanixD: designing human interactions in the networked city.