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Practices of motherhood: Embodied experiences of everyday life (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Rigby, E., & Connor-Crabb, A. (2023). Practices of motherhood: Embodied experiences of everyday life.

Practices of garment use and care are pivotal to sustainability in fashion (Fletcher, 2016; Laitala & Klepp, 2020). This research focuses on working mothers with young children: how the dual pressures of parenting and work influence changes in clothi... Read More about Practices of motherhood: Embodied experiences of everyday life.

Towards the European Commission's road safety goal of 'Vision Zero': Intended routes of the SOTERIA journey (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Booth, C. A., Georgakis, P., Magoutas, B., Sudhakaran, G. M., Abbey, S. J., Prabhakaran, A., …Digkas, A. (in press). Towards the European Commission's road safety goal of 'Vision Zero': Intended routes of the SOTERIA journey.

The emergence of complex urban mobility environments, where unknown interactions between different types of vulnerable road users (VRUs) and between VRUs and motorised vehicles, poses the need for a clear understanding of user behaviours, fair and op... Read More about Towards the European Commission's road safety goal of 'Vision Zero': Intended routes of the SOTERIA journey.

The implementations of smart monitoring on construction sites – A literature review (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Umar, T., & Bozorgzadeh, A. (2023). The implementations of smart monitoring on construction sites – A literature review. In S. M. Ahmed, S. Azhar, A. Saul, K. Mahaffy, & R. Farooqui (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century (CITC 13) (738-748)

A critical concern with the UK’s construction project progress monitoring and control techniques is their dependency on data collection, which is time-consuming and unproductive and may lead to various circumstances in managing projects. However, col... Read More about The implementations of smart monitoring on construction sites – A literature review.

The implications of interim payment certificate in UK: A literature review (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Umar, T., & Tawfik, A. (2023). The implications of interim payment certificate in UK: A literature review. In S. M. Ahmed, S. Azhar, A. D. Saul, K. L. Mahaffy, & R. U. Farooqui (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century (CITC 13) (440-447)

The appropriate measurement and valuation of construction works is between the crucial aspects of successful project management. This takes place following traditional surveying methods and inspection techniques, however, both clients and contractors... Read More about The implications of interim payment certificate in UK: A literature review.

Feel the force, see the force: Exploring visual-tactile associations of deformable surfaces with colours and shapes (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Steer, C., Dinca, T., Jicol, C., Proulx, M. J., & Alexander, J. (2023). Feel the force, see the force: Exploring visual-tactile associations of deformable surfaces with colours and shapes. In CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-13). https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580830

Deformable interfaces provide unique interaction potential for force input, for example, when users physically push into a soft display surface. However, there remains limited understanding of which visual-tactile design elements signify the presence... Read More about Feel the force, see the force: Exploring visual-tactile associations of deformable surfaces with colours and shapes.

Handheld device design for robotic teleoperation based on multi-sensor fusion (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Xie, L., Huang, D., Lu, Z., Wang, N., & Yang, C. (2023). Handheld device design for robotic teleoperation based on multi-sensor fusion. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM54990.2023.10102054

Precise leader-follower control is critical for teleop- eration. This paper designs and implements a low-cost leader device for unilateral teleoperation scenario. Monocular vision based on fiducial markers and MEMS Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) are... Read More about Handheld device design for robotic teleoperation based on multi-sensor fusion.

Augmented reality as a thirdspace: Simultaneous experience of the physical and virtual (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Eagle, R. (2023). Augmented reality as a thirdspace: Simultaneous experience of the physical and virtual. In D. Villa, & F. Zuccoli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Images and Imagination (355-363). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25906-7_39

With the proliferation of devices that display augmented reality (AR), now is the time for scholars and practitioners to evaluate and engage critically with emerging applications of the medium. AR mediates the way users see their bodies, hear their e... Read More about Augmented reality as a thirdspace: Simultaneous experience of the physical and virtual.

Hear here: Sonification as a design strategy for robot teleoperation using virtual reality (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Simmons, J., Bown, A., Bremner, P., McIntosh, V., & Mitchell, T. J. (2023). Hear here: Sonification as a design strategy for robot teleoperation using virtual reality.

This paper introduces a novel methodology for the sonification of data, and shares the results of a usability study, putting the method- ology into practice within an industrial use case. Working with partners at Sellafield nuclear facility, we explo... Read More about Hear here: Sonification as a design strategy for robot teleoperation using virtual reality.

Assessing the conformity to ISO27001 security policy of information systems policies of universities in the SADC region (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Eyitayo, O. T., & Ishmael, O. (2023). Assessing the conformity to ISO27001 security policy of information systems policies of universities in the SADC region. In Proceedings of The 6th International Academic Conference on Management and Economics. https://doi.org/10.33422/6th.conferenceme.2023.03.100

It is very important for universities to devise strategies for realising their mandate and one of those strategies is to leverage on information systems for improved service efficiency and realising business goals. This is bearing in mind that organi... Read More about Assessing the conformity to ISO27001 security policy of information systems policies of universities in the SADC region.

Participatory conceptual design of accessible digital musical instruments using generative AI (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Aynsley, H., Mitchell, T. J., & Meckin, D. (in press). Participatory conceptual design of accessible digital musical instruments using generative AI.

This paper explores the potential of AI text-to-image diffusion models (e.g. DALLE-2 and Midjourney) to support the early phase design of new digital musical instruments in collaboration with Disabled musicians. The paper presents initial findings fr... Read More about Participatory conceptual design of accessible digital musical instruments using generative AI.

A multimodal teleoperation interface for human-robot collaboration (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Si, W., Zhong, T., Wang, N., & Yang, C. (2023). A multimodal teleoperation interface for human-robot collaboration. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM54990.2023.10102060

Human-robot collaboration provides an effective approach to combine human intelligence and the autonomy of robots, which can improve the safety and efficiency of the robot. However, developing an intuitive and immersive human-robot interface with mul... Read More about A multimodal teleoperation interface for human-robot collaboration.

Improving health and safety promotion with a robotic tool: A case study for face mask detection (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Sierra, S. D., Insuasty, M., Garcia, D., Munera, M., & Cifuentes, C. (2023). Improving health and safety promotion with a robotic tool: A case study for face mask detection. In 18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) (716-719). https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580180

Social robots have been shown to effectively promote healthy behaviour in humans. In the context of the pandemic, these robots have been used to encourage the use of face masks and other biosafety measures. However, human perception in these scenario... Read More about Improving health and safety promotion with a robotic tool: A case study for face mask detection.

Transformers and human-robot interaction for delirium detection (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Jeffcock, J., Hansen, M., & Ruiz Garate, V. (2023). Transformers and human-robot interaction for delirium detection. In 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (466-474). https://doi.org/10.1145/3568162.3576971

An estimated 20% of patients admitted to hospital wards are affected by delirium. Early detection is recommended to treat underlying causes of delirium, however workforce strain in general wards often causes it to remain undetected. This work propose... Read More about Transformers and human-robot interaction for delirium detection.

Integrity auditing for secure cloud storage on sensitive data protection (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Sivakumar, J., Malik, M., & Rajasekaran, A. S. (2023). Integrity auditing for secure cloud storage on sensitive data protection. In 2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Mobile Networks and Wireless Communications (ICMNWC). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMNWC56175.2022.10031918

Users can interchange data with others and remotely store their data on the cloud using cloud storage services. The integrity of data saved in the cloud should be ensured through remote data integrity audits. An electronic health record system is one... Read More about Integrity auditing for secure cloud storage on sensitive data protection.

Theory of agency in supply chain finance: Taking a hermeneutic approach (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Gelsomino, L. M., Dekkers, R., de Boer, R., de Goeij, C., & Zhou, Q. (2023). Theory of agency in supply chain finance: Taking a hermeneutic approach. In C. Huang, R. Dekkers, S. Fung Chiu, D. Popescu, & L. Quezada (Eds.), Intelligent and Transformative Production in Pandemic Times: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Production Research (317-324). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18641-7_30

This article investigates theory of agency as a theoretical underpinning in the field of supply chain finance. Specifically, through a hermeneutic approach, the authors examine the development of the theory, its postulations and assumptions, and its... Read More about Theory of agency in supply chain finance: Taking a hermeneutic approach.

Using an actual design method for the design of research methodologies: Case of the dichotomy exploration and exploitation in context of innovation management (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Dekkers, R., & Zhou, Q. (2023). Using an actual design method for the design of research methodologies: Case of the dichotomy exploration and exploitation in context of innovation management. In C. Huang, R. Dekkers, S. Fung Chiu, D. Popescu, & L. Quezada (Eds.), Intelligent and Transformative Production in Pandemic Times. Lecture Notes in Production Engineering (767-777). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18641-7_71

Whereas scholarly studies often elaborate on the design of the method for empirical data collection and analysis, surprisingly, the actual use of design principles taken from the domain of design and engineering of products has not come into the pict... Read More about Using an actual design method for the design of research methodologies: Case of the dichotomy exploration and exploitation in context of innovation management.

Robotics technology for pain treatment and management: A review (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Higgins, A., Llewellyn, A., Dures, E., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2023). Robotics technology for pain treatment and management: A review. In F. Cavallo, O. Cabibihan, L. Fiorini, A. Sorrentino, H. He, X. Liu, …. S. S. Ge (Eds.), Social Robotics: 14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Florence, Italy, December 13–16, 2022, Proceedings, Part I (534-545). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_47

The use of robots for pain management is a new and active research field. The aim of this scoping review is to identify current research, which groups or conditions are being targeted for treatment, which devices are being used, and how effective the... Read More about Robotics technology for pain treatment and management: A review.

Usability study of a novel triple-arm mixed-reality robot teleoperation system (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Sobhani, M., Smith, A., Giuliani, M., & Pipe, T. (2023). Usability study of a novel triple-arm mixed-reality robot teleoperation system. In IEEE 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) (217-223). https://doi.org/10.1109/ssrr56537.2022.10018630

The usability of a novel triple-arm mixed-reality robot teleoperation system is investigated. The system is developed to provide a sense of remote presence for the operator. Different types of interfaces and camera setups have been proposed previousl... Read More about Usability study of a novel triple-arm mixed-reality robot teleoperation system.