All Outputs (25)

Virtual reality approach to enhancing hazard perception in construction using eye-tracking and deep learning (2025)
Book Chapter

Over 50% of onsite hazards remain unrecognized, primarily due to poor hazard perception and attention deficits. Eye-tracking can help in understanding human visual attention and cognitive response, but its application in construction has been restric... Read More about Virtual reality approach to enhancing hazard perception in construction using eye-tracking and deep learning.

Virtual Reality (VR) application for exploring earthship houses for second-time house buyers in the UK (2025)
Book Chapter

The use of digitalization to advance sustainability is a path the construction industry is eager to take. earthships as the summit of sustainable housing solutions are facing the challenge of low awareness. To overcome this challenge, this study expl... Read More about Virtual Reality (VR) application for exploring earthship houses for second-time house buyers in the UK.

General public’s perception of earthship buildings in the UK: An immersive VR based approach (2025)
Book Chapter

Earthship homes are exceptionally sustainable forms of housing, designed as passive solar homes with an emphasis on waste minimisation, water conservation, and energy efficiency. This chapter aims to elicit the perceptions of Earthship homes among in... Read More about General public’s perception of earthship buildings in the UK: An immersive VR based approach.

Towards a metaverse platform for immersive collaborative design: A critical review of a Furniture, Fixture and Equipment (FFE) application (2025)
Book Chapter

The current technological revolution is rapid and a disruptive catalyst to existing ways of doing business in every aspect of human endeavour. One of the most recent technologies gaining attention is the metaverse, which offers computer-generated s... Read More about Towards a metaverse platform for immersive collaborative design: A critical review of a Furniture, Fixture and Equipment (FFE) application.

Virtual reality simulation of pedestrian evacuation in earthquake scenarios: Informing urban design for enhanced evacuation (2025)
Book Chapter

Urban risk analysis traditionally relies on 2D maps and models, which, while effective for static risk mapping, lack the ability to realistically simulate dynamic emergency scenarios. The investigation presented in this chapter explores the integrati... Read More about Virtual reality simulation of pedestrian evacuation in earthquake scenarios: Informing urban design for enhanced evacuation.

Navigating urban futures: Crafting an experimental framework for eye-tracking integrated virtual reality in co-creative planning (2025)
Book Chapter

Wheelchair users (WCUs) often face unnecessary risks and socio-economic exclusion due to inadequate urban infrastructure. In this context, adopting participatory design (PD) in urban infrastructure planning proffers socially inclusive urban developme... Read More about Navigating urban futures: Crafting an experimental framework for eye-tracking integrated virtual reality in co-creative planning.

Immersive emergency preparedness: Enhancing tunnel operations with virtual reality door closure training (2025)
Book Chapter

Infrastructure projects, particularly tunnel construction, demand meticulous safety measures due to the complexities involved and the significant risks posed by heavy machinery operations. Despite relying on traditional safety drills and standardized... Read More about Immersive emergency preparedness: Enhancing tunnel operations with virtual reality door closure training.

Towards freezing global warming (2025)
Book Chapter

Numerous policies have been proposed to mitigate the problem of climate change as reducing emissions alone will not be sufficient. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), which captures carbon at the source, and Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs), whic... Read More about Towards freezing global warming.

Human-centered robotics for healthcare: Perspectives of cognitive ergonomics and neuroergonomics (2025)
Book Chapter

The pervasive integration of human-centred robotic systems in healthcare encompasses applications like assistance, prosthetics, rehabilitation, and surgery. However, the introduction of smart mechatronic devices in biomedical contexts faces significa... Read More about Human-centered robotics for healthcare: Perspectives of cognitive ergonomics and neuroergonomics.

Industry 4.0 more than a challenge in modeling, identification, and control for cyber-physical systems (2024)
Book Chapter

Modeling, Identification, and Control for Cyber-Physical Systems Towards Industry 4.0 studies and analyzes the role of algorithms in identifying and controlling such a system towards Industry 4.0, which is the digital transformation of manufacturing... Read More about Industry 4.0 more than a challenge in modeling, identification, and control for cyber-physical systems.

Neuroergonomics for human-centered technological contexts (2024)
Book Chapter

Enabling technologies constitute key milestones for humankind, expanding the capabilities of individuals and societies. Such a disruptive impact can also shape the perspective of any users beyond their own mind, body, and environment. For instance, t... Read More about Neuroergonomics for human-centered technological contexts.

Embedding sustainability in built environment curricula: Opportunities and challenges (2024)
Book Chapter

In the face of climate emergency, the built environment professional is required to engage meaningfully with a range of emotive topics across pollution, tackling inequalities, resource scarcity, acute weather events, ecological damage and financial c... Read More about Embedding sustainability in built environment curricula: Opportunities and challenges.

Towards robots with common sense (2024)
Book Chapter

This study explores the question: could a robot be equipped with an artificial “common sense” and if so, how? The study outlines a method for equipping social robots with an artificial theory of mind. The method is based on a simulation-based interna... Read More about Towards robots with common sense.

On the relationship between benchmarking, standards and certification in robotics and AI (2024)
Book Chapter

Benchmarking, standards and certification are closely related processes. Standards can provide normative requirements that robotics and AI systems may or may not conform to. Certification generally relies upon conformance with one or more standards a... Read More about On the relationship between benchmarking, standards and certification in robotics and AI.

Sustainable low carbon and bioaugmentation strategies for bioremediation of oil-contaminated acidic wetlands (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter delves into the critical issue of remediating oil-contaminated acidic wetlands, which pose significant ecological threats globally. These wetlands, vulnerable to pollution, particularly from hydrocarbons, have driven the adoption of vari... Read More about Sustainable low carbon and bioaugmentation strategies for bioremediation of oil-contaminated acidic wetlands.

Soil bioamendment as a low-carbon approach for microbial remediation of organic and inorganic pollutants (2024)
Book Chapter

Soil contamination is an important aspect of concern as environmental pollution continues to be a global problem. This is because soil provides diverse ecological functions important to humans, animals, microbes, and other life forms. Petroleum and i... Read More about Soil bioamendment as a low-carbon approach for microbial remediation of organic and inorganic pollutants.

Multibody simulations of distributed flight arrays for Industry 4.0 applications (2024)
Book Chapter

Distributed Flight Arrays (DFAs) are an experimental type of aerial, multi-rotor, vehicle capable of land-based navigation and cooperative aerial flight involving physically docking with N-number of other agents forming a larger structure with some d... Read More about Multibody simulations of distributed flight arrays for Industry 4.0 applications.

U-model-based dynamic inversion control for quadrotor UAV systems (2024)
Book Chapter

A Model-Independent Design approach (U-Model) is studied with the example of Quadrotor UAV. A Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) dynamic model of a quadrotor UAV is derived, and U-Model-based Dynamic Inverse control approach is used to design a co... Read More about U-model-based dynamic inversion control for quadrotor UAV systems.

Biodiversity and ecosystem functions in Southern African Savanna rangelands: Threats, impacts and solutions (2024)
Book Chapter

Savanna rangelands provide diverse communities across southern Africa with livestock and wildlife-based livelihoods, as well as extensive ecosystem services. Historical usage patterns, however, are increasingly challenged by widespread degradation. W... Read More about Biodiversity and ecosystem functions in Southern African Savanna rangelands: Threats, impacts and solutions.

Visual inspection of impact damage in composite materials (2024)
Book Chapter

Visual inspection is one of the most common nondestructive evaluation techniques that is performed through vision. This chapter will summarize visual inspection principles for detecting impact damage in composite materials. Effective parameters and a... Read More about Visual inspection of impact damage in composite materials.