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DES prediction of a 3-element high-lift airfoil with a blown flap (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ouyang, B., Yao, Y., & Bouferrouk, A. (2017, March). DES prediction of a 3-element high-lift airfoil with a blown flap. Presented at 52nd 3AF International Conference on Applied Aerodynamics, Lyon, France

Over the last 20 years, research on aerodynamic flow control methods has received considerable attention due to its ability to improve aircraft aerodynamic performance beyond current capabilities (Ternoy et al., 2013). It is evident that a successful... Read More about DES prediction of a 3-element high-lift airfoil with a blown flap.

Protocol for a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled, crossover trial of Melatonin for treatment of Nocturia in adults with Multiple Sclerosis (MeNiMS) (2017)
Journal Article
Delgado, D., Canham, L., Cotterill, N., Cottrell, D., Drake, M. J., Inglis, K., …White, P. (2017). Protocol for a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled, crossover trial of Melatonin for treatment of Nocturia in adults with Multiple Sclerosis (MeNiMS). BMC Neurology, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-017-0845-y

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: Nocturia (the symptom of needing to wake up to pass urine) is common in progressive Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. Moderate-to-severe nocturia affects quality of life, can exacerbate fatigue and may affect capacit... Read More about Protocol for a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled, crossover trial of Melatonin for treatment of Nocturia in adults with Multiple Sclerosis (MeNiMS).

“Robots Vs Animals”: Establishing a Culture of Public Engagement and Female Role Modeling in Engineering Higher Education (2017)
Journal Article
Fogg-Rogers, L., Sardo, M., & Boushel, C. (2017). “Robots Vs Animals”: Establishing a Culture of Public Engagement and Female Role Modeling in Engineering Higher Education. Science Communication, 39(2), 195-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547017696169

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. A widespread culture supporting public engagement activities in higher education is desirable but difficult to establish. Drawing on social cognitive theory, this science communication project aimed to enhance culture ch... Read More about “Robots Vs Animals”: Establishing a Culture of Public Engagement and Female Role Modeling in Engineering Higher Education.

Photoferrotrophy: Remains of an ancient photosynthesis in modern environments (2017)
Journal Article
Walter, X. A., Camacho, A., Walter, X. A., Picazo, A., & Zopfi, J. (2017). Photoferrotrophy: Remains of an ancient photosynthesis in modern environments. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8(MAR), 323. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00323

© 2017 Camacho, Walter, Picazo and Zopfi. Photoferrotrophy, the process by which inorganic carbon is fixed into organic matter using light as an energy source and reduced iron [Fe(II)] as an electron donor, has been proposed as one of the oldest phot... Read More about Photoferrotrophy: Remains of an ancient photosynthesis in modern environments.

Air Breathing Cathodes for Microbial Fuel Cell using Mn-, Fe-, Co- and Ni-containing Platinum Group Metal-free Catalysts (2017)
Journal Article
Atanassov, P., Matanovic, I., Artyushkova, K., Kabir, S., Serov, A., Kodali, M., & Santoro, C. (2017). Air Breathing Cathodes for Microbial Fuel Cell using Mn-, Fe-, Co- and Ni-containing Platinum Group Metal-free Catalysts. Electrochimica Acta, 231, 115-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2017.02.033

© 2017 The Authors The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is one of the major factors that is limiting the overall performance output of microbial fuel cells (MFC). In this study, Platinum Group Metal-free (PGM-free) ORR catalysts based on Fe, Co, Ni, M... Read More about Air Breathing Cathodes for Microbial Fuel Cell using Mn-, Fe-, Co- and Ni-containing Platinum Group Metal-free Catalysts.

Measuring site fidelity and spatial segregation within animal societies (2017)
Journal Article
Sendova-Franks, A. B., Franks, N. R., Richardson, T. O., & Giuggioli, L. (2017). Measuring site fidelity and spatial segregation within animal societies. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8(8), 965-975. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12751

© 2017 The Authors. Methods in Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. Animals often display a marked tendency to return to previously visited locations that contain important resources, suc... Read More about Measuring site fidelity and spatial segregation within animal societies.

Experimental validation of motor primitive-based control for leg exoskeletons during continuous multi-locomotion tasks (2017)
Journal Article
Ruiz Garate, V., Parri, A., Yan, T., Munih, M., Lova, R. M., Vitiello, N., & Ronsse, R. (2017). Experimental validation of motor primitive-based control for leg exoskeletons during continuous multi-locomotion tasks. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 11, Article 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2017.00015

An emerging approach to design locomotion assistive devices deals with reproducing desirable biological principles of human locomotion. In this paper, we present a bio-inspired controller for locomotion assistive devices based on the concept of motor... Read More about Experimental validation of motor primitive-based control for leg exoskeletons during continuous multi-locomotion tasks.

A novel observer algorithm of voltages across capacitors based on the higher sliding mode control: Application to multi-cells converter (2017)
Journal Article
Nouri, H. (2017). A novel observer algorithm of voltages across capacitors based on the higher sliding mode control: Application to multi-cells converter. International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 27(2), 136-145. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMIC.2017.10003913

In this paper, advanced automatic sliding mode observers are applied to multi-cells converter. The technique facilitates the generation of the voltages image across capacitors of the converter simply by measuring the current. Also, the technique pos... Read More about A novel observer algorithm of voltages across capacitors based on the higher sliding mode control: Application to multi-cells converter.

Goal-recognition-based adaptive brain-computer interface for navigating immersive robotic systems (2017)
Journal Article
Abu-Alqumsan, M., Ebert, F., & Peer, A. (2017). Goal-recognition-based adaptive brain-computer interface for navigating immersive robotic systems. Journal of Neural Engineering, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/aa66e0

© 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd. Objective. This work proposes principled strategies for self-adaptations in EEG-based Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) as a way out of the bandwidth bottleneck resulting from the considerable mismatch between the low-bandwi... Read More about Goal-recognition-based adaptive brain-computer interface for navigating immersive robotic systems.

Spotlighting shared goals for science education and communication (2017)
Journal Article
Fogg Rogers, L. (2017). Spotlighting shared goals for science education and communication. JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 16(1),

van den Sanden and Vries curate reflections and insights about the shared goals, practices and processes which bring together academics and practitioners in science education and communication. The book spotlights areas of productive overlap but is j... Read More about Spotlighting shared goals for science education and communication.

People like me do that – and it’s okay! (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Fogg Rogers, L. (2017, March). People like me do that – and it’s okay!. Paper presented at Hypatia Network Hub Meeting, Bristol, UK

Vicarious experience is influential for girls and women o “You can’t be what you can’t see” - role models can influence societal perceptions o But role models have a tricky path to walk – not too dominant, not too geeky, competent at their jobs b... Read More about People like me do that – and it’s okay!.

Industrial human-robot interaction: Creating personas for augmented reality supported robot control and teaching (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Stadler, S., Mirnig, N., Giuliani, M., Tscheligi, M., Materna, Z., & Kapinus, M. (2017, March). Industrial human-robot interaction: Creating personas for augmented reality supported robot control and teaching. Paper presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2017, Vienna, Austria

In strong cooperation with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), we research the simplification of industrial robot online-programming. For that, we extend existing programming interfaces with augmented reality (AR) technology. We proactively us... Read More about Industrial human-robot interaction: Creating personas for augmented reality supported robot control and teaching.

Elements of humor: How humans perceive verbal and non-verbal aspects of humorous robot behavior (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Mirnig, N., Stollnberger, G., Giuliani, M., & Tscheligi, M. (2017, March). Elements of humor: How humans perceive verbal and non-verbal aspects of humorous robot behavior. Paper presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2017, Vienna, Austria

We performed a preliminary online survey to explore if verbal and non-verbal robot humor elements influence how humans rate a robot's funniness. The video-based survey comprised four conditions, each showing a short clip of a NAO robot in a receptio... Read More about Elements of humor: How humans perceive verbal and non-verbal aspects of humorous robot behavior.

Using persona, scenario, and use case to develop a human-robot augmented reality collaborative workspace (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Materna, Z., Kapinus, M., Beran, V., Smrž, P., Giuliani, M., Mirnig, N., …Tscheligi, M. (2017, March). Using persona, scenario, and use case to develop a human-robot augmented reality collaborative workspace. Paper presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2017, Vienna, Austria

Up to date, methods from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) have not been widely adopted in the development of Human-Robot Interaction systems (HRI). In this paper, we describe a system prototype and a use case. The prototype is an augmented reality-ba... Read More about Using persona, scenario, and use case to develop a human-robot augmented reality collaborative workspace.

Tablet-based augmented reality in the factory: Influence of knowledge in computer programming on robot teaching tasks (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Kain, K. S., Stadler, S., Giuliani, M., Mirnig, N., Stollnberger, G., & Tscheligi, M. (2017, March). Tablet-based augmented reality in the factory: Influence of knowledge in computer programming on robot teaching tasks. Paper presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2017, Vienna, Austria

We investigate whether a user’s background in computer programming has an influence on user’s mental workload, when using a tablet-based augmented reality robot control interface that visualizes task-based information. For this purpose we conducted a... Read More about Tablet-based augmented reality in the factory: Influence of knowledge in computer programming on robot teaching tasks.

Cellulo: Versatile Handheld Robots for Education (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Ozgür, A., Lemaignan, S., Johal, W., Beltran, M., Briod, M., Pereyre, L., …Dillenbourg, P. (2017). Cellulo: Versatile Handheld Robots for Education. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference, (119-127). https://doi.org/10.1145/2909824.3020247

© 2017 ACM. In this article, we present Cellulo, a novel robotic platform that investigates the intersection of three ideas for robotics in education: designing the robots to be versatile and generic tools; blending robots into the classroom by desig... Read More about Cellulo: Versatile Handheld Robots for Education.

The 51% minority (2017)
Digital Artefact
Tout, C. (2017). The 51% minority

This is "The 51% Minority" by Caroline Tout on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. https://vimeo.com/214396528

Numerical analysis of HyShot Scramjet Model with different throat heights (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Xing, F., Cai, J., Huang, Y., & Yao, Y. (2017). Numerical analysis of HyShot Scramjet Model with different throat heights. In 21st AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonics Technologies Conference. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2017-2121

This paper presents a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study of non-reacting and reacting flows in a scramjet model with three different throat heights. This scramjet model includes two compression ramps at the inlet, followed by a combustion chamb... Read More about Numerical analysis of HyShot Scramjet Model with different throat heights.

Maternal dietary patterns during pregnancy and intelligence quotients in the offspring at 8years of age: Findings from the ALSPAC cohort (2017)
Journal Article
Freitas Vilela, A. A., Pearson, R. M., Emmett, P., Heron, J., Smith, A. D. A. C., Emond, A., …Kac, G. (2018). Maternal dietary patterns during pregnancy and intelligence quotients in the offspring at 8years of age: Findings from the ALSPAC cohort. Maternal and Child Nutrition, 14(1), e12431. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12431

© 2017 The Authors. Maternal & Child Nutrition Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Dietary intake during pregnancy may influence child neurodevelopment and cognitive function. This study aims to investigate the associations between dietary pattern... Read More about Maternal dietary patterns during pregnancy and intelligence quotients in the offspring at 8years of age: Findings from the ALSPAC cohort.

RAPID analysis of variable stiffness beams and plates: Legendre polynomial triple-product formulation (2017)
Journal Article
O'Donnell, M. P., & Weaver, P. M. (2017). RAPID analysis of variable stiffness beams and plates: Legendre polynomial triple-product formulation. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 112(1), 86-100. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.5528

Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Numerical integration techniques are commonly employed to formulate the system matrices encountered in the analysis of variable stiffness beams and plates using a Ritz based approach. Computing these integra... Read More about RAPID analysis of variable stiffness beams and plates: Legendre polynomial triple-product formulation.