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Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Evaluations and Recommendations (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Kennedy, J., Lemaignan, S., Montassier, C., Lavalade, P., Irfan, B., Papadopoulos, F., …Belpaeme, T. (2017). Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Evaluations and Recommendations. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference. , (82-90). https://doi.org/10.1145/2909824.3020229

© 2017 ACM. An increasing number of human-robot interaction (HRI) studies are now taking place in applied settings with children. These interactions often hinge on verbal interaction to effectively achieve their goals. Great advances have been made i... Read More about Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Evaluations and Recommendations.

From Real-time Attention Assessment to “With-me-ness” in Human-Robot Interaction (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Lemaignan, S., Garcia, F., Jacq, A., & Dillenbourg, P. (2016). From Real-time Attention Assessment to “With-me-ness” in Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference (157-164). https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2016.7451747

© 2016 IEEE. Measuring "how much the human is in the interaction" - the level of engagement - is instrumental in building effective interactive robots. Engagement, however, is a complex, multi-faceted cognitive mechanism that is only indirectly obser... Read More about From Real-time Attention Assessment to “With-me-ness” in Human-Robot Interaction.

From Characterising Three Years of HRI to Methodology and Reporting Recommendations (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Kennedy, J., Baxter, P., Senft, E., Lemaignan, S., & Belpaeme, T. (2016). From Characterising Three Years of HRI to Methodology and Reporting Recommendations. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference (alt.HRI) (391-398). https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2016.7451777

© 2016 IEEE. Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research requires the integration and cooperation of multiple disciplines, technical and social, in order to make progress. In many cases using different motivations, each of these disciplines bring with the... Read More about From Characterising Three Years of HRI to Methodology and Reporting Recommendations.

When Children Teach a Robot to Write: An Autonomous Teachable Humanoid Which Uses Simulated Handwriting (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Hood, D., Lemaignan, S., & Dillenbourg, P. (2015). When Children Teach a Robot to Write: An Autonomous Teachable Humanoid Which Uses Simulated Handwriting. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference. , (83-90). https://doi.org/10.1145/2696454.2696479

© 2015 ACM. This article presents a novel robotic partner which children can teach handwriting. The system relies on the learning by teaching paradigm to build an interaction, so as to stimulate meta-cognition, empathy and increased self-esteem in th... Read More about When Children Teach a Robot to Write: An Autonomous Teachable Humanoid Which Uses Simulated Handwriting.

Heterogeneous-race-free memory models (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Hower, D. R., Hechtman, B. A., Beckmann, B. M., Gaster, B. R., Hill, M. D., Reinhardt, S. K., & Wood, D. A. (2014). Heterogeneous-race-free memory models. In Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems - ASPLOS '14. , (427-440). https://doi.org/10.1145/2541940.2541981

Commodity heterogeneous systems (e.g., integrated CPUs and GPUs), now support a unified, shared memory address space for all components. Because the latency of global communication in a heterogeneous system can be prohibitively high, heterogeneous sy... Read More about Heterogeneous-race-free memory models.

Managing cyber security risks in industrial control systems with game theory and viable system modelling (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Spyridopoulos, T., Maraslis, K., Tryfonas, T., Oikonomou, G., & Li, S. (2014). Managing cyber security risks in industrial control systems with game theory and viable system modelling. In 2014 9th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SOSE) (266-271). https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2014.6892499

© 2014 IEEE. Cyber security risk management in Industrial Control Systems has been a challenging problem for both practitioners and the research community. Their proprietary nature along with the complexity of those systems renders traditional approa... Read More about Managing cyber security risks in industrial control systems with game theory and viable system modelling.

Text line aggregation (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Beck, C., Broun, A., Mirmehdi, M., Pipe, T., & Melhuish, C. (2014). Text line aggregation. In M. De Marsico, A. Tabbone, & A. Fred (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (393-401). https://doi.org/10.5220/0004817903930401

We present a new approach to text line aggregation that can work as both a line formation stage for a myriad of text segmentation methods (over all orientations) and as an extra level of filtering to remove false text candidates. The proposed method... Read More about Text line aggregation.

Clustering ensembles based on multi-classifier fusion (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Huang, Y., Monekosso, D., & Wang, H. (2010). Clustering ensembles based on multi-classifier fusion. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICICISYS.2010.5658608

Clustering ensembles can combine multiple partitions generated by different clustering methods into a final superior clustering result. Compared to single clustering algorithm, it can provide better solutions in terms of robustness, novelty and stabi... Read More about Clustering ensembles based on multi-classifier fusion.

Ontology-driven requirements engineering with reference to the aerospace industry (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Kossmann, M., Odeh, M., Gillies, A., & Watts, S. (2009). Ontology-driven requirements engineering with reference to the aerospace industry. In P. Pichappan, & E. El-Qawasmeh (Eds.), Second International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies, 2009. ICADIWT '09. , (95-103). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICADIWT.2009.5273953

This paper provides an overview regarding the application of an ontology-driven requirements engineering methodology, namely OntoREM, in the aerospace industry with the objective to assess the extent to which this approach has the potential to develo... Read More about Ontology-driven requirements engineering with reference to the aerospace industry.

A hierarchical model-based system for discovering atypical behavior (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Monekosso, D. N. (2008). A hierarchical model-based system for discovering atypical behavior. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDIM.2008.4746832

In this paper, we describe a model-based system for context discovery and behavior modeling for the purpose of monitoring well-being. In modeling behavior in a smart home, the system must detect atypical (anomalous) patterns of behavior resulting fro... Read More about A hierarchical model-based system for discovering atypical behavior.

Collaborative web-based 3D masterplanning (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Counsell, J., Smith, S., & Bates-Brkljac, N. (2006). Collaborative web-based 3D masterplanning. In Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2006. , (57-64). https://doi.org/10.1007/11863649_8

This paper describes an approach to empowering heterogeneous groups of people to share the tasks of digitising and updating buildings that may convey a credible sense of presence. We argue that more effective tools are required to clearly display alt... Read More about Collaborative web-based 3D masterplanning.

Visible display of automated observation of collaborative workspaces (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Counsell, J., & Puybaraud, M. C. (2006). Visible display of automated observation of collaborative workspaces. https://doi.org/10.1007/11863649_24

Through the Facilities Innovation Research Programme, (www. facilitiesinnovation.co.uk) staff at the University of the West of England, Bristol and at Johnson Controls have been investigating systems that have the potential to track collaborative act... Read More about Visible display of automated observation of collaborative workspaces.

'Under construction': The potential of a web based application in managing and maintaining large area urban modelling (2004)
Conference Proceeding
Counsell, J. (2004). 'Under construction': The potential of a web based application in managing and maintaining large area urban modelling. In Y. Lou (Ed.), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30103-5_17

Staff in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of the West of England (UWE) have been engaged in 3D modelling urban areas since 1984. In the UK it will be mandatory that all local planning authorities make much of their data availabl... Read More about 'Under construction': The potential of a web based application in managing and maintaining large area urban modelling.