Outputs (116)

Climbing up the leaderboard: An empirical study of applying gamification techniques to a computer programming class (2016)
Journal Article

Conventional taught learning practices often experience difficulties in keeping students motivated and engaged. Video games, however, are very successful at sustaining high levels of motivation and engagement through a set of tasks for hours without... Read More about Climbing up the leaderboard: An empirical study of applying gamification techniques to a computer programming class.

JourneyMap: Visualising the time-bound student journey (2016)
Book Chapter

A student’s view of higher education is often talked about as ‘transformative’ and as a ‘journey’ or ‘pathway’. The student experience of university is time-bound, covering a clearly specified duration. From a
learner’s perspective the Higher Educat... Read More about JourneyMap: Visualising the time-bound student journey.

What do we know of time when all we can know for real is now? (2016)
Book Chapter

How long is a moment ? How does a moment feel ? What is the past, what is the future ?
The Moments project investigates the perceptual length of ’a moment’ of attention and of the historical tension between the argument for and against time in the... Read More about What do we know of time when all we can know for real is now?.

GestureChords: Transparency in gesturally controlled digital musical instruments through iconicity and conceptual metaphor (2016)
Journal Article

This paper presents GestureChords, a mapping strategy for chord selection in freehand gestural instruments. The strategy maps chord variations to a series of hand postures using the concepts of iconicity and conceptual metaphor, influenced by their u... Read More about GestureChords: Transparency in gesturally controlled digital musical instruments through iconicity and conceptual metaphor.

Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Abstract Cloud providers commonly incur heavy upfront set up costs which remain almost constant whether they serve a single or many customers. In order to generate a return on this investment, a suitable pricing strategy is requi... Read More about Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users.

The Onto-CropBase – A semantic web application for querying crops linked-data (2016)
Journal Article

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. The lack of formal technical knowledge has been identified as one of the constraints to research and development on a group of crops collectively referred to as underutilized crops. Some informati... Read More about The Onto-CropBase – A semantic web application for querying crops linked-data.

Creating seating plans: A practical application (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Operational Research Society Ltd. All rights reserved. 0160-5682/16. This paper examines the interesting problem of designing seating plans for large events such as weddings and gala dinners where, among other things, the aim is to construct s... Read More about Creating seating plans: A practical application.

Counting Stars (2016)
Other

'Counting Stars' features the lyrical higher register of the trombone, whilst the piano’s wide range and shifting harmonies revolve around the soloist’s melody. The title reflects the evolving nature of the countryside where I live, in which a consta... Read More about Counting Stars.

On the development of slime mould morphological, intracellular and heterotic computing devices (2016)
Thesis

The use of live biological substrates in the fabrication of unconventional computing (UC) devices is steadily transcending the barriers between science fiction and reality, but efforts in this direction are impeded by ethical considerations, the fiel... Read More about On the development of slime mould morphological, intracellular and heterotic computing devices.

Obituary: Prof. Harold V. McIntosh, March 11, 1929 - November 30, 2015 (2016)
Journal Article

Professor Harold V. McIntosh was a prominent researcher who dedicated his life to Science. He was a big promoter of educating young students in several scientific fields simultaneously, such as physics, history, mathematics, biology, chemistry, and c... Read More about Obituary: Prof. Harold V. McIntosh, March 11, 1929 - November 30, 2015.