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Identityscapes of a hair salon: Work identities and the value of visual methods (2012)
Journal Article

This article considers how one group of workers, hairdressers, use aspects of their material landscape of work as important resources in the production and re-production of their work identities. It shows how the participants of the study use the spa... Read More about Identityscapes of a hair salon: Work identities and the value of visual methods.

MatchPad: Interactive glyph-based visualization for real-time sports performance analysis (2012)
Journal Article

Today real-time sports performance analysis is a crucial aspect of matches in many major sports. For example, in soccer and rugby, team analysts may annotate videos during the matches by tagging specific actions and events, which typically result in... Read More about MatchPad: Interactive glyph-based visualization for real-time sports performance analysis.

What is commitment? women's accounts of intimate attachment (2012)
Journal Article

© The Policy Press 2012. Commitment is a widely acknowledged concern among the general public as well as among academics and scholars. What commitment actually constitutes, however, is not easily defined. This article explores existing theories of co... Read More about What is commitment? women's accounts of intimate attachment.

Interactive documentary: Setting the field (2012)
Journal Article

This article articulates the authors’ combined vision behind convening i-Docs, the first international symposia to focus exclusively on the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary. In so doing, it provides a case study of practice-driven re... Read More about Interactive documentary: Setting the field.

Alterations in peripheral muscle contractile characteristics following high and low intensity bouts of exercise (2012)
Journal Article

The aim of this study was to monitor muscle contractile performance in vivo, using an electrical stimulation protocol, immediately following an acute high and low intensity exercise session conducted at the same average intensity performed on a cycle... Read More about Alterations in peripheral muscle contractile characteristics following high and low intensity bouts of exercise.

Context caches in the Clouds (2012)
Journal Article

In context-aware systems, the contextual information about human and computing situations has a strong temporal aspect i. e. it remains valid for a period of time. This temporal property can be exploited in caching mechanisms that aim to exploit such... Read More about Context caches in the Clouds.

We’re happy and we know it: Documentary, data, montage (2012)
Journal Article

This article is concerned with the social praxis of documentary in the sea of ‘ubiquitous data’ that is both consequence and driver of online social mediation. The topic is given importance by the morphing of the character of video in the context of... Read More about We’re happy and we know it: Documentary, data, montage.

Investigating the multi-causal and complex nature of the accident causal influence of construction project features (2012)
Journal Article

Construction project features (CPFs) are organisational, physical and operational attributes that characterise construction projects. Although previous studies have examined the accident causal influence of CPFs, the multi-causal attribute of this ca... Read More about Investigating the multi-causal and complex nature of the accident causal influence of construction project features.

Face recognition in 2D and 2.5D using ridgelets and photometric stereo (2012)
Journal Article

A new technique for face recognition - Ridgefaces - is presented. The method combines the well-known Fisherface method with the ridgelet transform and high-speed Photometric Stereo (PS). The paper first derives ridgelet projections for 2D/2.5D face i... Read More about Face recognition in 2D and 2.5D using ridgelets and photometric stereo.

A Bayesian Optimal Foraging Model of Human Visual Search (2012)
Journal Article

Real-world visual searches often contain a variable and unknown number of targets. Such searches present difficult metacognitive challenges, as searchers must decide when to stop looking for additional targets, which results in high miss rates in mul... Read More about A Bayesian Optimal Foraging Model of Human Visual Search.

User-driven modelling: Visualisation and systematic interaction for end-user programmin (2012)
Journal Article

This research enables computer literate engineers to model problems in software by minimising code they need to write. Software development is difficult for many engineers as they may have no time, experience, or access to software development tools... Read More about User-driven modelling: Visualisation and systematic interaction for end-user programmin.

Mental health nurses' attitudes towards the physical health care of people with severe and enduring mental illness: The development of a measurement tool (2012)
Journal Article

Background: It is well established that people with schizophrenia and related serious mental illnesses die prematurely and have significantly higher medical co-morbidity compared with the general population. Mental health nurses have a key role in im... Read More about Mental health nurses' attitudes towards the physical health care of people with severe and enduring mental illness: The development of a measurement tool.

Interactive multimedia ethnography: Archiving workflow, interface aesthetics and metadata (2012)
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Digital heritage archives often lack engaging user interfaces that strike a balance between providing narrative context and affording user interaction and exploration. It seems nevertheless feasible for metadata tagging and a "joined up" workflow to... Read More about Interactive multimedia ethnography: Archiving workflow, interface aesthetics and metadata.

An enquiry of 'Every3Days' a drama-based workshop developing professional collaboration for women experiencing domestic violence during pregnancy in the South East of England (2012)
Journal Article

© 2011 Elsevier Ltd. Objective: this exploratory work examined and assessed the experiences of participants (n = 90) using an interactive drama workshop to facilitate the planning and understanding of multiagency working around domestic violence duri... Read More about An enquiry of 'Every3Days' a drama-based workshop developing professional collaboration for women experiencing domestic violence during pregnancy in the South East of England.

Mobile phone technology and sexual abuse (2012)
Journal Article

Whilst it is acknowledged that grooming and sexual abuse takes place both in the offline and online environment, the continued convergence of technologies means that the offline and online boundaries are increasingly blurred. This paper will discuss... Read More about Mobile phone technology and sexual abuse.

Maintaining functional major histocompatibility complex diversity under inbreeding: The case of a selfing vertebrate (2012)
Journal Article

Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes encode proteins that present pathogen-derived antigens to T-cells, initiating the adaptive immune response in vertebrates. Although populations with low MHC diversity tend to be more susceptible to pathoge... Read More about Maintaining functional major histocompatibility complex diversity under inbreeding: The case of a selfing vertebrate.

Conceptual model to explain turning points in travel behavior: Application to bicycle use (2012)
Journal Article

Existing knowledge on cycling behavior, as with travel behavior in general, is based mainly on cross-sectional studies. It is questionable how much can be learned about the reasons for behavioral change from such studies. A major investment program t... Read More about Conceptual model to explain turning points in travel behavior: Application to bicycle use.