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LAUGH: Designing to enhance positive emotion for people living with dementia (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Treadaway, C., Kenning, G., Prytherch, D., & Fennell, J. (2016). LAUGH: Designing to enhance positive emotion for people living with dementia

Dementia comprises a number of degenerative neurological diseases. It is a complex condition and each person’s experience and symptoms are different. There is a growing awareness of the need for well-designed products and services to assist with deme... Read More about LAUGH: Designing to enhance positive emotion for people living with dementia.

In the moment: Designing for late stage dementia (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Treadaway, C., Prytherch, D., Kenning, G., & Fennell, J. (2016). In the moment: Designing for late stage dementia.

This paper presents international multidisciplinary design research to support the wellbeing of people living with dementia. The LAUGH project aims to develop playful artefacts that will contribute to non-pharmacological personalised approaches to ca... Read More about In the moment: Designing for late stage dementia.

Designing for wellbeing in late stage dementia (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Treadaway, C., Fennell, J., Kenning, G., Prytherch, D., & Walters, A. (2016). Designing for wellbeing in late stage dementia. In Co-creating Pathways to Well-being (book of proceedings). , (126-129)

This paper presents research that is developing new ways of supporting the wellbeing of people with late stage dementia through the development of playful objects. The LAUGH project is an international AHRC funded design research project that is usin... Read More about Designing for wellbeing in late stage dementia.

Satellite formation-keeping about libration points in the presence of system uncertainties (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Bando, M., Nemati, H., & Hokamoto, S. (2016). Satellite formation-keeping about libration points in the presence of system uncertainties

This paper studies a control law to stabilize the orbital motion in the vicinity of an unstable equilibrium points and periodic orbits in the circular-restricted three-body problem. Utilizing the eigenstructure of the system, the fuel efficient forma... Read More about Satellite formation-keeping about libration points in the presence of system uncertainties.

An integrated eco-design decision making tool (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Romli, A., Prickett, P., Setchi, R., & Soe, S. (2016). An integrated eco-design decision making tool. In Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2016 (537--548). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32098-4

The application of an integrated eco-design decision making tool is presented as a case study considering the design of an office chair base. This study brings together the analysis of factors relating to manufacturing processes, product usage and en... Read More about An integrated eco-design decision making tool.

Towards a smart learning environment for smart city governance (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Hammad, R., & Ludlow, D. (2016). Towards a smart learning environment for smart city governance. In UCC '16 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (185-190). https://doi.org/10.1145/2996890.3007859

Copyright © 2016 ACM. Educational services provided to various stakeholders need to be actively developed to accommodate the diversity of learning models and to get the advantages of available resources (e.g. data) in smart cities governance. Despite... Read More about Towards a smart learning environment for smart city governance.

Transforming strategic outlook on sustainability: The case of higher education institutions in the gulf cooperation council (GCC) countries (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Khalid, F. (2016). Transforming strategic outlook on sustainability: The case of higher education institutions in the gulf cooperation council (GCC) countries. In Seventh Annual GCES Syposium: Inovation and transformation: Values, challenges and prospects for education and the GCC (46-54)

The role of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) has always been linked to developing human capital and maintaining the sustainability of societies (Wasiluk, 2013). However, globalization has fundamentally changed what is expected of HEIs. In the con... Read More about Transforming strategic outlook on sustainability: The case of higher education institutions in the gulf cooperation council (GCC) countries.

The techno-economic feasibility of providing solar photovoltaic backup power (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Pillai, G., Hodgson, J., Insaurralde, C. C., Pinitjitsamut, M., & Deepa, S. (2016). The techno-economic feasibility of providing solar photovoltaic backup power. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS.2016.7764051

© 2016 IEEE. The availability of energy is a key factor affecting sustainable development. Consumers losing electricity supply due to constraints on electrical power utilities is very common in developing countries. In this paper, the technical and e... Read More about The techno-economic feasibility of providing solar photovoltaic backup power.

The effects of over-education on returns in the graduate labour market (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Mohamad Yunus, N., & Sahul Hamid, F. (2016). The effects of over-education on returns in the graduate labour market. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Business & Economics (BE-ci 2016), 21-23 September, 2016, Universiti Teknologi MARA Selangor Malaysia. https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2016.11.02.35

Using a Household Income Survey (HIS), this study examines the private returns to education in Malaysian financial sector. First, we estimate the private returns to education using the highest certificate qualification or “sheepskin effects". Sec... Read More about The effects of over-education on returns in the graduate labour market.

What do people expect from a financial awareness platform? Insights from an online survey (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Panos, G. A., Gkrimmotsis, K., Bouzanis, C., Katmada, A., Satsiou, A., Gasparini, G. L., …Karapistoli, E. (2016). What do people expect from a financial awareness platform? Insights from an online survey. In Collective Online Platforms for Financial and Environmental Awareness (First International Workshop on the Internet for Financial Collective Awareness and Intelligence, IFIN 2016 and First International Workshop on Internet and Social Media for Environmental Monitoring (9-56). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50237-3_1

The aim of this study is to present the analysis of an online survey that was conducted in order to investigate individual attitudes and requirements from an online financial awareness platform. The survey aimed to elicit users’ self-assessed financi... Read More about What do people expect from a financial awareness platform? Insights from an online survey.

Humanoid robot avatars: An 'in the wild' usability study (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Bremner, P., Koschate, M., & Levine, M. (2016). Humanoid robot avatars: An 'in the wild' usability study. In 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (624-629). https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745183

In this paper, we report a breaching study to explore the use of a tele-operated humanoid avatar from both the perspective of the robot operator and the perspective of interlocutors. Humanoid robot avatars provide capabilities that video conferencing... Read More about Humanoid robot avatars: An 'in the wild' usability study.

Robot humor: How self-irony and Schadenfreude influence people's rating of robot likability (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Mirnig, N., Stadler, S., Stollnberger, G., Giuliani, M., & Tscheligi, M. (2016). Robot humor: How self-irony and Schadenfreude influence people's rating of robot likability. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745106

© 2016 IEEE. Humor in robotics is a promising, though not yet significantly researched topic. We performed a user study exploring two different kinds of laughter. In our study, participants observed a robot-robot interaction where an iCat and a NAO r... Read More about Robot humor: How self-irony and Schadenfreude influence people's rating of robot likability.

Designing user interfaces for different user groups: A three-way teleconference system for doctors, patients and assistants using a Remote Medical robot (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Zarczuk, R., Kreczmer, B., Wysokinski, A., Stollnberger, G., Giuliani, M., Mirnig, N., …Andrzej, W. (2016). Designing user interfaces for different user groups: A three-way teleconference system for doctors, patients and assistants using a Remote Medical robot. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745181

© 2016 IEEE. We present the design for a three-way medical teleconference system for communication between a doctor, a patient, and an assistant. The system includes individual doctor-patient and doctor-assistant communication channels, as well as th... Read More about Designing user interfaces for different user groups: A three-way teleconference system for doctors, patients and assistants using a Remote Medical robot.

User requirements for a medical robotic system: Enabling doctors to remotely conduct ultrasonography and physical examination (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Moser, C., Stollnberger, G., Christiane, M., Giuliani, M., Stadler, S., Tscheligi, M., …Stanczyk, B. (2016). User requirements for a medical robotic system: Enabling doctors to remotely conduct ultrasonography and physical examination. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745254

© 2016 IEEE. We report the results of a user requirements analysis for a medical robotic system that enables doctors to remotely conduct ultrasonography and physical examination on patients. As there are three different user groups in this scenario -... Read More about User requirements for a medical robotic system: Enabling doctors to remotely conduct ultrasonography and physical examination.

Augmented reality for industrial robot programmers: Workload analysis for task-based, augmented reality-supported robot control (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Stadler, S., Kain, K., Giuliani, M., Mirnig, N., Stollnberger, G., & Tscheligi, M. (2016). Augmented reality for industrial robot programmers: Workload analysis for task-based, augmented reality-supported robot control. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745108

© 2016 IEEE. Augmented reality (AR) can serve as a tool to provide helpful information in a direct way to industrial robot programmers throughout the teaching process. It seems obvious that AR support eases the programming process and increases the p... Read More about Augmented reality for industrial robot programmers: Workload analysis for task-based, augmented reality-supported robot control.

Workload aware hybrid partitioning (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Padiya, T., Kanwar, J. J., & Bhise, M. (2016). Workload aware hybrid partitioning. In COMPUTE '16: Proceedings of the 9th Annual ACM India Conference (51-58)

Real life databases exhibit highly skewed access patterns. These skewed access patterns can be exploited to partition the data considering the query workload. The presented work proposes Workload Aware Hybrid Partitioning (WAHP). WAHP identifies clus... Read More about Workload aware hybrid partitioning.

Spatial analysis and simulation of extreme coastal flooding scenarios for national-scale emergency planning (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Wyncoll, D., Haigh, I., Gouldby, B., Hames, D., Laeger, S., Wall, A., …Hammond, A. (2016). Spatial analysis and simulation of extreme coastal flooding scenarios for national-scale emergency planning. In 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160701001

The UK has a long history of coastal flooding, driven by large-scale low-pressure weather systems which can result in flooding over large spatial areas. Traditional coastal flood risk analysis is, however, often undertaken at local scales and hence d... Read More about Spatial analysis and simulation of extreme coastal flooding scenarios for national-scale emergency planning.