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Bio-inspired physical layered device architectures for diffusion-based molecular communication: Design issues and suggestions (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Chude-Okonkwo, U. A., Malekian, R., Mharaj, B. T., & Olisah, C. (2015). Bio-inspired physical layered device architectures for diffusion-based molecular communication: Design issues and suggestions. In 2015 IEEE 13th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (1472-1479). https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2015.7281950

The aim of molecular communication (MC) is to develop communication systems for biochemical information interchange among nano devices. While there have been research efforts to model, design and analyze various MC network and devices, a lot still ha... Read More about Bio-inspired physical layered device architectures for diffusion-based molecular communication: Design issues and suggestions.

Talk about sex: Designing games to acilitate healthy discussions around sex (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Wood, M., Wood, G., & Balaam, M. (2015). Talk about sex: Designing games to acilitate healthy discussions around sex. In CHI PLAY '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (795-798). https://doi.org/10.1145/2793107.2810270

We report on the design of Talk About Sex, a multiplayer mobile phone game designed for young people to facilitate and enable discussions around the subjects of sex, intimacy and relationships. We discuss how we used 'sex as a framing for design', co... Read More about Talk about sex: Designing games to acilitate healthy discussions around sex.

Advances in bidirectional modeling and structural control (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Paul, S., & Yu, W. (2015). Advances in bidirectional modeling and structural control. https://doi.org/10.1109/RWEEK.2015.7287413

© 2015 IEEE. This paper provides an overview of building structure modeling and control under bidirectional seismic waves. It focuses on different types of bidirectional control devices, control strategies, and bidirectional sensors used in structura... Read More about Advances in bidirectional modeling and structural control.

Development of an EMG controlled hand exoskeleton for post-stroke rehabilitation (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Ferreira, H. A., Moital, A., & Dogramadzi, S. (2015). Development of an EMG controlled hand exoskeleton for post-stroke rehabilitation. In Proceedings of the 3rd 2015 Workshop on ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques - REHAB '15. , (66-72). https://doi.org/10.1145/2838944.2838961

© 2015 ACM. Rehabilitation after stroke is of crucial importance since patients often have severe motor impairments that affect their daily activities. In the past decades, a number of robotic systems have been proposed for stroke rehabilitation but... Read More about Development of an EMG controlled hand exoskeleton for post-stroke rehabilitation.

Query execution for rdf data using structure indexed vertical partitioning (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Shah, B., Padiya, T., & Bhise, M. (2015). Query execution for rdf data using structure indexed vertical partitioning. In 2015 IEEE international parallel and distributed processing symposium workshop (575-584). https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPSW.2015.143

The paper explores use of various partitioning methods to store RDF data effectively, to meet the needs of extensively growing highly interactive semantic web applications. It proposes a combinational approach of structure index partitioning and vert... Read More about Query execution for rdf data using structure indexed vertical partitioning.

Stable bilateral teleoperation with input-to-state stable approach (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Jafari, A., Nabeel, M., & Ryu, J. (2015). Stable bilateral teleoperation with input-to-state stable approach

Passivity has been the most often used constraint for the controller design of bilateral teleoperation systems. However passivity has been suffering from its own design conservatism since this is a sufficient condition for stability and representing... Read More about Stable bilateral teleoperation with input-to-state stable approach.

Using BIM to automate construction site activities (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Omar, H. S., & Dulaimi, M. F. (2015). Using BIM to automate construction site activities. In H. Omar (Ed.), Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction and Operations (45 - 58). https://doi.org/10.2495/bim150051

Controlling construction site operations is one of the crucial overriding concerns for the clients and contractors, as the majority of the construction delays tend to occur in the construction phase. It is not surprising to see interest in deploying... Read More about Using BIM to automate construction site activities.

Energy harvesting aware relay node addition for power-efficient coverage in wireless sensor networks (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Djenouri, D., & Bagaa, M. (2015). Energy harvesting aware relay node addition for power-efficient coverage in wireless sensor networks. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2015.7248303

© 2015 IEEE. This paper deals with power-efficient coverage in wireless sensor networks (WSN) by taking advantage of energy-harvesting capabilities. A general scenario is considered for deployed networks with two types of sensor nodes, harvesting ena... Read More about Energy harvesting aware relay node addition for power-efficient coverage in wireless sensor networks.

Hierarchical rank-based veiling light estimation for underwater dehazing (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Emberton, S., Chittka, L., & Cavallaro, A. (2015). Hierarchical rank-based veiling light estimation for underwater dehazing. In X. Xie, M. W. Jones, & G. K. Tam (Eds.), Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2015 (125.1-125.12). https://doi.org/10.5244/C.29.125

Current dehazing approaches are often hindered when scenes contain bright objects which can cause veiling light and transmission estimation methods to fail. This paper introduces a single image dehazing approach for underwater images with novel veili... Read More about Hierarchical rank-based veiling light estimation for underwater dehazing.

Network formulation and stability improvement of a bilateral teleoperation system with admittance-type master interfaces (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Nabeel, M., Jafari, A., & Ryu, J. H. (2015). Network formulation and stability improvement of a bilateral teleoperation system with admittance-type master interfaces. https://doi.org/10.1109/AIM.2015.7222796

© 2015 IEEE. This paper introduces a network formulation of bilateral teleoperation systems with admittance-type master interfaces to improve their stability range with Time Domain Passivity Approach (TDPA). Since traditional network representation o... Read More about Network formulation and stability improvement of a bilateral teleoperation system with admittance-type master interfaces.

Inductive power transfer for on-body sensors. Defining a design space for safe, wirelessly powered on-body health sensors (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Worgan, P., Clare, L., Proynov, P., Stark, B., & Coyle, D. (2015). Inductive power transfer for on-body sensors. Defining a design space for safe, wirelessly powered on-body health sensors. In 2015 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) (177-184). https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.259139

Designers of on-body health sensing devices face a difficult choice. They must either minimise the power consumption of devices, which in reality means reducing the sensing capabilities, or build devices that require regular battery changes or rechar... Read More about Inductive power transfer for on-body sensors. Defining a design space for safe, wirelessly powered on-body health sensors.

Data management for Internet of Things (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Padiya, T., Bhise, M., & Rajkotiya, P. (2015). Data management for Internet of Things. In 2015 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (62-65). https://doi.org/10.1109/TENSYMP.2015.26

Internet of Things is projected to connect uniquely identifiable devices over the network to build an interactive system with high velocity and volume of data placing forth a challenge of interoperability between such devices. RDF provides a common s... Read More about Data management for Internet of Things.

Corporate social responsibility of tobacco companies: A consumer perspective (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Md Harizan, S. H., & Sahul Hamid, F. (2015). Corporate social responsibility of tobacco companies: A consumer perspective. In First Asia Pacific Conference on Contemporary Research (APCCR-2015) (9-17)

Investment in corporate social responsibility (CSR) by companies that have a bad reputation, namely those which produce tobacco has invited controversies from various quarters. Given the lack of studies that highlight the acceptance among consumers r... Read More about Corporate social responsibility of tobacco companies: A consumer perspective.

Capturing the Realities through Digital Preservation and Scanning Techniques: The case of ZouMaTang Ancient Village, China (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Cheshmehzangi, A., Adkins, D., & Ch’ng, E. (2015). Capturing the Realities through Digital Preservation and Scanning Techniques: The case of ZouMaTang Ancient Village, China.

In China, many villages are facing severe decline and deprivation and some are even replaced or reallocated over time. In recent years, the effects from rapid pace of urbanisation on rural areas has been so significant and at such large scale that ru... Read More about Capturing the Realities through Digital Preservation and Scanning Techniques: The case of ZouMaTang Ancient Village, China.

Influence of exposure guidelines on the design of on-body inductive power transfer (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Clare, L., Worgan, P., Stark, B. H., Adami, S. E., & Coyle, D. (2015). Influence of exposure guidelines on the design of on-body inductive power transfer. In 2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC). https://doi.org/10.1109/wpt.2015.7140171

Designers of on-body health sensing devices with inductive power transfer (IPT) face a number of trade-offs. Safe exposure limits should be maintained, and protective housing and padding are generally needed; however, these impose compromises on the... Read More about Influence of exposure guidelines on the design of on-body inductive power transfer.

Towards model-based robot behaviour adaptation: Successful human-robot collaboration in tense and stressful situations (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Dogramadzi, S., Pipe, A. G., Sobhani, M. M., Sobhani, M., Pipe, A. G., Dogramadzi, S., & Fennell, J. G. (2015). Towards model-based robot behaviour adaptation: Successful human-robot collaboration in tense and stressful situations. In 2015 23rd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering. , (922-927). https://doi.org/10.1109/IranianCEE.2015.7146343

© 2015 IEEE. In a demanding environment such as search and rescue, where human-robot collaboration provides potential benefits, understanding complex human behaviour will promote greater success. We propose that robots need to be equipped with embodi... Read More about Towards model-based robot behaviour adaptation: Successful human-robot collaboration in tense and stressful situations.

Decreasing the effect of verbal noise in analyzing cognitive activity of a design process (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Tahsiri, M., Hale, J., & Niblock, C. (2015). Decreasing the effect of verbal noise in analyzing cognitive activity of a design process. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2757226.2764545

In studying cognitive activity in design it is common practice to use designers' verbalizations during a design process to elicit the reasoning behind design actions. These verbalizations are segmented in order to enable a quantifiable analysis of th... Read More about Decreasing the effect of verbal noise in analyzing cognitive activity of a design process.

Architecture by tools: The syntax of drawing and the creativity of thought (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Tahsiri, M. (2015). Architecture by tools: The syntax of drawing and the creativity of thought. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2757226.2764762

This short paper summarizes a PhD research in progress as titled in the heading. The research investigates the effect that design tools have on the method of drawing and creativity in early stages of architectural design with an intention of contribu... Read More about Architecture by tools: The syntax of drawing and the creativity of thought.