From Real-time Attention Assessment to “With-me-ness” in Human-Robot Interaction (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Lemaignan, S., Garcia, F., Jacq, A., & Dillenbourg, P. (2016). From Real-time Attention Assessment to “With-me-ness” in Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference (157-164). https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2016.7451747

© 2016 IEEE. Measuring "how much the human is in the interaction" - the level of engagement - is instrumental in building effective interactive robots. Engagement, however, is a complex, multi-faceted cognitive mechanism that is only indirectly obser... Read More about From Real-time Attention Assessment to “With-me-ness” in Human-Robot Interaction.

From Characterising Three Years of HRI to Methodology and Reporting Recommendations (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Kennedy, J., Baxter, P., Senft, E., Lemaignan, S., & Belpaeme, T. (2016). From Characterising Three Years of HRI to Methodology and Reporting Recommendations. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference (alt.HRI) (391-398). https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2016.7451777

© 2016 IEEE. Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research requires the integration and cooperation of multiple disciplines, technical and social, in order to make progress. In many cases using different motivations, each of these disciplines bring with the... Read More about From Characterising Three Years of HRI to Methodology and Reporting Recommendations.

Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces (2016)
Journal Article
Abu-Alqumsan, M., & Peer, A. (2016). Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces. Journal of Neural Engineering, 13(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2560/13/3/036005

© 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd. Objective. Spatial filtering has proved to be a powerful pre-processing step in detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials and boosted typical detection rates both in offline analysis and online SSVEP-based brain-co... Read More about Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces.

On hybrid circuits exploiting thermistive properties of slime mould (2016)
Journal Article
Walter, X. A., Horsfield, I., Mayne, R., Ieropoulos, I. A., & Adamatzky, A. (2016). On hybrid circuits exploiting thermistive properties of slime mould. Scientific Reports, 6(23924), https://doi.org/10.1038/srep23924

Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a single cell visible by the unaided eye. Let the slime mould span two electrodes with a single protoplasmic tube: if the tube is heated to approximately ≈40 °C, the electrical resistance of the protoplasmic tube... Read More about On hybrid circuits exploiting thermistive properties of slime mould.

Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration (2016)
Journal Article
Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., Santoro, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2016). Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration. Bioresource Technology, 215, 285-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.04.004

© 2016 The Authors. This work reports on the novel formation of caustic potash (KOH) directly on the MFC cathode locking carbon dioxide into potassium bicarbonate salt (kalicinite) while producing, instead of consuming electrical power. Using potassi... Read More about Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration.

Overcoming the uncanny valley: Displays of emotions reduce the uncanniness of humanlike robots (2016)
Book Chapter
Koschate, M., Potter, R., Bremner, P., & Levine, M. (2016). Overcoming the uncanny valley: Displays of emotions reduce the uncanniness of humanlike robots. In Proceedings of the eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (359-365). New Jersey: IEEE Press

In this paper we show empirically that highly humanlike robots make thoughts of death more accessible, leading to perceptions of uncanniness and eeriness of such robots. Rather than reducing the humanlikeness of robots, our research suggests the addi... Read More about Overcoming the uncanny valley: Displays of emotions reduce the uncanniness of humanlike robots.

Personality perception of robot avatar tele-operators (2016)
Book Chapter
Bremner, P., Celiktutan, O., & Gunes, H. (2016). Personality perception of robot avatar tele-operators. In C. Bartneck, Y. Nagai, A. Paiva, & S. Sabanovic (Eds.), Proceedings of the eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (141-148). New Jersey: IEEE Press

Nowadays a significant part of human-human interaction takes place over distance. Tele-operated robot avatars, in which an operator’s behaviours are portrayed by a robot proxy, have the potential to improve distance interaction, e.g., improving soc... Read More about Personality perception of robot avatar tele-operators.

A brief introduction to ... Assistive robotics for independent living (2016)
Journal Article
Caleb-Solly, P. (2016). A brief introduction to ... Assistive robotics for independent living. Perspectives in Public Health, 136(2), 70-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913915627445

Assistive technologies are important tools for helping older people to live independently. Praminda Caleb-Solly, Associate Professor in Independent Living Systems at Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) and Institute of Bio Sensing Technologies, Univers... Read More about A brief introduction to ... Assistive robotics for independent living.

Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling towards intuitive and biologically-inspired robot assistance (2016)
Journal Article
Geravand, M., Korondi, P. Z., Werner, C., Hauer, K., & Peer, A. (2017). Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling towards intuitive and biologically-inspired robot assistance. Autonomous Robots, 41(3), 575-592. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-016-9553-5

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Sit-to-stand (STS) transfers are a common human task which involves complex sensorimotor processes to control the highly nonlinear musculoskeletal system. In this paper, typical unassisted and assiste... Read More about Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling towards intuitive and biologically-inspired robot assistance.

Towards effective small scale microbial fuel cells for energy generation from urine (2016)
Journal Article
Chouler, J., Padgett, G. A., Cameron, P. J., Preuss, K., Titirici, M. M., Ieropoulos, I., & Di Lorenzo, M. (2016). Towards effective small scale microbial fuel cells for energy generation from urine. Electrochimica Acta, 192, 89-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2016.01.112

© 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. To resolve an increasing global demand in energy, a source of sustainable and environmentally friendly energy is needed. Microbial fuel cells (MFC) hold great potential as a sustainable and green bioener... Read More about Towards effective small scale microbial fuel cells for energy generation from urine.

Iconic gestures for robot avatars, recognition and integration with speech (2016)
Journal Article
Bremner, P., & Leonards, U. (2016). Iconic gestures for robot avatars, recognition and integration with speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00183

© 2016 Bremner and Leonards. Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency and efficacy for information conveyance. One possible means by which such multi-modal communication might be realized remotely is t... Read More about Iconic gestures for robot avatars, recognition and integration with speech.

From single MFC to cascade configuration: The relationship between size, hydraulic retention time and power density (2016)
Journal Article
Walter, X. A., Forbes, S., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. A. (2016). From single MFC to cascade configuration: The relationship between size, hydraulic retention time and power density. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 14, 74-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2016.01.006

© 2016 The Authors. Achieving useful electrical power production with the MFC technology requires a plurality of units. Therefore, the main objective of much of the MFC research is to increase the power density of each unit. Collectives of MFCs will... Read More about From single MFC to cascade configuration: The relationship between size, hydraulic retention time and power density.

A user-centric design of service robots speech interface for the elderly (2016)
Book Chapter
Wang, N., Broz, F., Di Nuovo, A., Belpaeme, T., & Cangelosi, A. A user-centric design of service robots speech interface for the elderly. In A. Esposito (Ed.), Recent Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing (275-283). Springer International Publishing Switzerland

The elderly population in the Europe have quickly increased and will keep growing in the coming years. In facing the elder care challenges posed by the amount of seniors staying alone in their own homes, great efforts have been made to develop advanc... Read More about A user-centric design of service robots speech interface for the elderly.

Comprehensive Study on Ceramic Membranes for Low-Cost Microbial Fuel Cells (2016)
Journal Article
Pasternak, G., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2016). Comprehensive Study on Ceramic Membranes for Low-Cost Microbial Fuel Cells. ChemSusChem, 9(1), 88-96. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201501320

© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) made with different types of ceramic membranes were investigated to find a low-cost alternative to commercially available proton exchange membranes. The MFCs operated wi... Read More about Comprehensive Study on Ceramic Membranes for Low-Cost Microbial Fuel Cells.

Adaptive foraging for simulated and real robotic swarms: The dynamical response threshold approach (2016)
Journal Article
Castello, E., Yamamoto, T., Liu, W., Winfield, A. F., Nakamura, Y., & Ishiguro, H. (2016). Adaptive foraging for simulated and real robotic swarms: The dynamical response threshold approach. Swarm Intelligence, 10(1), 1-31

Developing self-organised swarm systems capable of adapting to environmental changes as well as to dynamic situations is a complex challenge. An efficient labour division model, with the ability to regulate the distribution of work among swarm robots... Read More about Adaptive foraging for simulated and real robotic swarms: The dynamical response threshold approach.

Systematic and realistic testing in simulation of control code for robots in collaborative human-robot interactions (2016)
Journal Article
Araiza-Illan, D., Western, D., Pipe, A. G., & Eder, K. (2016). Systematic and realistic testing in simulation of control code for robots in collaborative human-robot interactions. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9716, 20-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40379-3_3

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. Industries such as flexible manufacturing and home care will be transformed by the presence of robotic assistants. Assurance of safety and functional soundness for these robotic systems will requi... Read More about Systematic and realistic testing in simulation of control code for robots in collaborative human-robot interactions.

Written evidence submitted to the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Science and Technology Inquiry on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (2016)
Report
Winfield, A. F. (2016). Written evidence submitted to the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Science and Technology Inquiry on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

This paper was submitted in response to question 4 of the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee Inquiry on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence* on: 'The social, legal and ethical issues raised by developments in robotics and artificial inte... Read More about Written evidence submitted to the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Science and Technology Inquiry on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

Rational imitation for robots (2016)
Journal Article
Winfield, A. F., Vanderelst, D., & Winfield, A. F. (2016). Rational imitation for robots. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9825 LNCS, 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43488-9_6

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. Infants imitate behaviour flexibly. Depending on the circumstances, they copy both actions and their effects or only reproduce the demonstrator’s intended goals. In view of this selective imitatio... Read More about Rational imitation for robots.

Anthropomorphic surgical system for soft tissue robot-assisted surgery (2016)
Thesis
Tzemanaki, A. Anthropomorphic surgical system for soft tissue robot-assisted surgery. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/924040

Over the past century, abdominal surgery has seen a rapid transition from open procedures to less invasive methods such as laparoscopy and robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (R-A MIS). These procedures have significantly decreased blood loss,... Read More about Anthropomorphic surgical system for soft tissue robot-assisted surgery.

euRathlon 2015: A multi-domain multi-robot grand challenge for search and rescue robots (2016)
Journal Article
Winfield, A. F., Franco, M. P., Brueggemann, B., Castro, A., Limon, M. C., Ferri, G., …Viguria, A. (2016). euRathlon 2015: A multi-domain multi-robot grand challenge for search and rescue robots. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9716, 351-363. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40379-3_36

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. Staged at Piombino, Italy in September 2015, euRathlon 2015 was the world’s first multi-domain (air, land and sea) multi-robot search and rescue competition. In a mock-disaster scenario inspired b... Read More about euRathlon 2015: A multi-domain multi-robot grand challenge for search and rescue robots.