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Head-mounted displays as opera glasses: using mixed-reality to deliver an egalitarian user experience during live events (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bishop, C., Esteves, A., & McGregor, I. (2017, November). Head-mounted displays as opera glasses: using mixed-reality to deliver an egalitarian user experience during live events. Presented at Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction - ICMI 2017

This paper explores the use of head-mounted displays (HMDs) as a way to deliver a front row experience to any audience member during a live event. To do so, it presents a two-part user study that compares participants reported sense of presence acros... Read More about Head-mounted displays as opera glasses: using mixed-reality to deliver an egalitarian user experience during live events.

WaveTrace Demo at the Dutch Design Week (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
Verweij, D., Abreu Esteves, A., Khan, V., & Bakker, S. WaveTrace Demo at the Dutch Design Week. Exhibited at Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 21 October 2017 - 29 October 2017. (Unpublished)

Every design has its own story, a story about ideas, exploring, decisions and adaptations. During Mind the Story, the lecture program that accompanies Mind the Step, the focus is on people involved in the design process. As user, client, organization... Read More about WaveTrace Demo at the Dutch Design Week.

Listening loudspeakers: a quieter and more intelligible world (2017)
Digital Artefact
McGregor, I. (2017). Listening loudspeakers: a quieter and more intelligible world. [Website]

Loudspeakers can now truly be described as ubiquitous, being part of many portable and fixed technologies. They are an important part of everyday life, providing both entertainment and essential information. Unfortunately, growth in utilisation has... Read More about Listening loudspeakers: a quieter and more intelligible world.

Permaculture as a foundation for sustainable interaction design and UX (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Egan, C., Benyon, D., & Thompson, R. (2017). Permaculture as a foundation for sustainable interaction design and UX. In Proceedings of British HCI 2017. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.93

The main objective of this work is to gain an understanding of the relationships between UX and permaculture. This will deliver insights as to how digital media development can support the need for people to live and work in more ecologically conscio... Read More about Permaculture as a foundation for sustainable interaction design and UX.

Make-Believing Animated Films Featuring Digital Humans: A Qualitative Inquiry Using Online Sources (2017)
Journal Article
Hetherington, R., & McRae, R. (2017). Make-Believing Animated Films Featuring Digital Humans: A Qualitative Inquiry Using Online Sources. Animation, 12(2), 156-173. https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847717710738

A qualitative inquiry of reviews of films featuring digital humanlike characters was performed by sampling user comments from three online reviewer aggregator sites: the Internet Movie Database, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. The movies chosen for a... Read More about Make-Believing Animated Films Featuring Digital Humans: A Qualitative Inquiry Using Online Sources.

Multi-user motion matching interaction for interactive television using Smartwatches. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Verweij, D., Khan, V., Esteves, A., & Bakker, S. (2017, June). Multi-user motion matching interaction for interactive television using Smartwatches. Poster presented at Adjunct Publication of the 2017 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video - TVX '17 Adjunct

Motion matching input, following continuously moving targets by performing bodily movements, offers new interaction possibilities in multiple domains. Unlike optical motion matching input systems, our technique utilizes a smartwatch to record motion... Read More about Multi-user motion matching interaction for interactive television using Smartwatches..

Sustainable HCI: Blending permaculture and user-experience (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., & Egan, C. (2017, June). Sustainable HCI: Blending permaculture and user-experience. Presented at DIS: Designing Interactive Systems, Edinburgh

For approximately 10 years the SIGCHI Sustainable HCI (sHCI) and Sustainable Interaction Design (SID) communities have debated the contribution that HCI can make to sustainability. However, there has been little real progress in the field with few, i... Read More about Sustainable HCI: Blending permaculture and user-experience.

Scotland's Mental Health and Capacity Law: A Case for Reform (2017)
Report
Stavert, J., & McKay, C. (2017). Scotland's Mental Health and Capacity Law: A Case for Reform. Edinburgh: Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland

Report of joint Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland and Centre for Mental Health and Capacity Law law reform scoping exercise.

WaveTrace: Motion Matching Input using Wrist-Worn Motion Sensors (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Verweij, D., Esteves, A., Khan, V., & Bakker, S. (2017, May). WaveTrace: Motion Matching Input using Wrist-Worn Motion Sensors. Poster presented at Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '17

We present WaveTrace, a novel interaction technique based on selection by motion matching. In motion matching systems, targets move continuously in a singular and pre-defined path -- users interact with these by performing a synchronous bodily moveme... Read More about WaveTrace: Motion Matching Input using Wrist-Worn Motion Sensors.

Estimating 3D trajectories from 2D projections via disjunctive factored four-way conditional restricted Boltzmann machines (2017)
Journal Article
Mocanu, D. C., Bou Ammar, H., Puig, L., Eaton, E., & Liotta, A. (2017). Estimating 3D trajectories from 2D projections via disjunctive factored four-way conditional restricted Boltzmann machines. Pattern Recognition, 69, 325-335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2017.04.017

Estimation, recognition, and near-future prediction of 3D trajectories based on their two dimensional projections available from one camera source is an exceptionally difficult problem due to uncertainty in the trajectories and environment, high dime... Read More about Estimating 3D trajectories from 2D projections via disjunctive factored four-way conditional restricted Boltzmann machines.

Use and Implementation of OCR Chapter 33AA in Section 11 Order Proceedings. (2017)
Report
Whitecross, R., & Lindsay, C. (2017). Use and Implementation of OCR Chapter 33AA in Section 11 Order Proceedings. Edinburgh: Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service

This report presents the findings of a small-scale study designed and undertaken by the researchers between October 2016 and February 2017. The research was commissioned by the Scottish Civil Justice Council. This chapter outlines the background to... Read More about Use and Implementation of OCR Chapter 33AA in Section 11 Order Proceedings..

Article 3 and Adoption in and from India and Nepal (2016)
Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. (2016). Article 3 and Adoption in and from India and Nepal. In E. E. Sutherland, & L. Barnes MacFarlane (Eds.), Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (213-230). Cambridge University Press

Nepal has experienced an increase in intercountry adoption in recent years. Following the opening up of authorisation to arrange adoptions, the number of child centres offering children for adoption significantly increased after 2000. The emergence i... Read More about Article 3 and Adoption in and from India and Nepal.

Application of Mixed Effects Limits of Agreement in the Presence of Multiple Sources of Variability: Exemplar from the Comparison of Several Devices to Measure Respiratory Rate in COPD Patients (2016)
Journal Article
Parker, R. A., Weir, C. J., Rubio, N., Rabinovich, R., Pinnock, H., Hanley, J., McCloughan, L., Drost, E. M., Mantoani, L. C., MacNee, W., & McKinstry, B. (2016). Application of Mixed Effects Limits of Agreement in the Presence of Multiple Sources of Variability: Exemplar from the Comparison of Several Devices to Measure Respiratory Rate in COPD Patients. PLOS ONE, 11(12), Article e0168321. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168321

Introduction
The Bland-Altman limits of agreement method is widely used to assess how well the measurements produced by two raters, devices or systems agree with each other. However, mixed effects versions of the method which take into account multi... Read More about Application of Mixed Effects Limits of Agreement in the Presence of Multiple Sources of Variability: Exemplar from the Comparison of Several Devices to Measure Respiratory Rate in COPD Patients.

The utilization of system usability scale in learning management systems: a case study of Jeddah Community College (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Binyamin, S., Rutter, M., & Smith, S. (2016). The utilization of system usability scale in learning management systems: a case study of Jeddah Community College. In ICERI2016 Proceedings (5314-5323). https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2016.2290

Learning Management Systems (LMS) have been widely adopted in many higher educational institutions to support teaching and learning activities. The study was conducted with the aim of investigating the usability of the learning management system (Bla... Read More about The utilization of system usability scale in learning management systems: a case study of Jeddah Community College.

Evaluating the Usability of Learning Management Systems from Students' Perception: A Case Study of King Abdulaziz University (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Binyamin, S., Smith, S., & Rutter, M. (2016). Evaluating the Usability of Learning Management Systems from Students' Perception: A Case Study of King Abdulaziz University. In 15th European Conference on eLearning (ECEL 2016) (112-113)

Due to the rapid improvement in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), adopting technologies has become a major focus of interest in the field of education. The integration between ICT and education has introduced various positives and advan... Read More about Evaluating the Usability of Learning Management Systems from Students' Perception: A Case Study of King Abdulaziz University.

A topological insight into restricted Boltzmann machines (2016)
Journal Article
Mocanu, D. C., Mocanu, E., Nguyen, P. H., Gibescu, M., & Liotta, A. (2016). A topological insight into restricted Boltzmann machines. Machine Learning, 104(2-3), 243-270. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-016-5570-z

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) and models derived from them have been successfully used as basic building blocks in deep artificial neural networks for automatic features extraction, unsupervised weights initialization, but also as density esti... Read More about A topological insight into restricted Boltzmann machines.

Factors influencing change in clinical practice: a qualitative evaluation of the implementation of the quality improvement in colonoscopy study. (2016)
Journal Article
Rajasekhar, P. T., Rees, C. J., Nixon, C., East, J. E., & Brown, S. (2016). Factors influencing change in clinical practice: a qualitative evaluation of the implementation of the quality improvement in colonoscopy study. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 29(1), 5-15. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHCQA-09-2014-0093

Purpose

The quality improvement in colonoscopy study was a region wide service improvement study to improve adenoma detection rate at colonoscopy by implementing evidence into routine colonoscopy practice. Implementing evidence into clinical prac... Read More about Factors influencing change in clinical practice: a qualitative evaluation of the implementation of the quality improvement in colonoscopy study..

From the Virtual to the RealWorld: Referring to Objects in Real-World Spatial Scenes (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Rieser, V., Bartie, P., & Mackaness, W. (2015, September). From the Virtual to the RealWorld: Referring to Objects in Real-World Spatial Scenes. Presented at 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Lisbon

Predicting the success of referring expressions (RE) is vital for real world applications such as navigation systems. Traditionally, research has focused on studying Referring Expression Generation (REG) in virtual, controlled environments. In this p... Read More about From the Virtual to the RealWorld: Referring to Objects in Real-World Spatial Scenes.