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Beyond energy services: A multidimensional and cross-disciplinary agenda for home energy management research (2021)
Journal Article
Oliveira, S., Badarnah, L., Barakat, M., Chatzimichali, A., & Atkins, E. (2022). Beyond energy services: A multidimensional and cross-disciplinary agenda for home energy management research. Energy Research and Social Science, 85, 102347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102347

Home Energy Management (HEM) has a significantly growing impact on strategic energy policy, digital equity, as well as housing development and transport issues. With the proliferation of home working, reliance on electricity for heating and cooling a... Read More about Beyond energy services: A multidimensional and cross-disciplinary agenda for home energy management research.

Toward privacy-sensitive human-robot interaction: Privacy terms and human-data interaction in the personal robot era (2020)
Journal Article
Chatzimichali, A., Harrison, R., & Chrysostomou, D. (2021). Toward privacy-sensitive human-robot interaction: Privacy terms and human-data interaction in the personal robot era. Paladyn, 12(1), 160-174. https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2021-0013

Can we have personal robots without giving away personal data? Besides, what is the role of a robots Privacy Policy in that question? This work explores for the first time privacy in the context of consumer robotics through the lens of information co... Read More about Toward privacy-sensitive human-robot interaction: Privacy terms and human-data interaction in the personal robot era.

The Dibber: Designing a standardised handheld tool for lay-up tasks (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, H., Potter, K., Roudaut, A., Ward, C., & Chatzimichali, A. (2017). The Dibber: Designing a standardised handheld tool for lay-up tasks. Applied Ergonomics, 65, 240-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2017.05.014

© 2017 We present an application of engineering and ergonomics principles in the design of a standardised tool, The Dibber, which is a tool with multiple geometric features to fit the diversity of lay-up tasks used in the composites industry. The Dib... Read More about The Dibber: Designing a standardised handheld tool for lay-up tasks.

Exploring the discrete tools used by laminators in composites manufacturing: application of novel concept (2015)
Journal Article
Jones, H. V., Chatzimichali, A. P., Middleton, R., Potter, K. D., & Ward, C. (2015). Exploring the discrete tools used by laminators in composites manufacturing: application of novel concept. Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer and Composites Science, 1(4), 185-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/20550340.2015.1105613

© 2016, © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This research investigates the handheld and often personally owned tools used by laminators to form advanced composites into components for aerospace, defense, and autosport; and reports... Read More about Exploring the discrete tools used by laminators in composites manufacturing: application of novel concept.

From composite material technologies to composite products: A cross-sectorial reflection on technology transitions and production capability (2015)
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Chatzimichali, A., & Potter, K. (2015). From composite material technologies to composite products: A cross-sectorial reflection on technology transitions and production capability. Translational Materials Research, 2(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1613/2/2/026001

Materials, since the dawn of time, have played a crucial role in the development of civilization. Pre-history ages are fundamentally characterized by the material humans mastered, while the transitions to new materials have always marked a different... Read More about From composite material technologies to composite products: A cross-sectorial reflection on technology transitions and production capability.

Hand layup: understanding the manual process (2015)
Journal Article
Potter, K., Elkington, M., Bloom, D., Ward, C., & Chatzimichali, A. (2015). Hand layup: understanding the manual process. Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer and Composites Science, 1(3), 138-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/20550340.2015.1114801

© 2015, © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. The hand layup of pre-impregnated woven materials is still a large part of the composite manufacturing industry, requiring the skills and experience of a human workforce to form flat plie... Read More about Hand layup: understanding the manual process.

Studying effects of preshearing on hand layup (2015)
Journal Article
Ward, C., Elkington, M., Carwyn, W., Chatzimichali, A., & Potter, K. (2015). Studying effects of preshearing on hand layup. Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer and Composites Science, 1(2), 80-93. https://doi.org/10.1179/2055035914Y.0000000007

© 2015, © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. Advanced composites are used extensively in many high performance applications. As they are taken up in a wider range of applications, the volume of demand is pushing manufacturing method... Read More about Studying effects of preshearing on hand layup.

Building material capabilities: A socio-technical analysis of composite product development and manufacturing strategy (2015)
Journal Article
Chatzimichali, A., & Potter, K. (2015). Building material capabilities: A socio-technical analysis of composite product development and manufacturing strategy. International Journal of Markets and Business Systems, 1(3), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMABS.2015.073527

The development of advanced material requires much more than purely technical knowledge. This paper presents a socio-technical analysis of industrial capability issues for composites material product. The central idea behind this work is to provide a... Read More about Building material capabilities: A socio-technical analysis of composite product development and manufacturing strategy.

Bridging the multiple reality gap: Application of augmented reality in new product development (2011)
Journal Article
Verlinden, J. C., Jonker, P. P., Smulders, F. E., Segers, M. S., Gijselaers, W. H., Chatzimichali, A., …Van Emmerik, H. (2011). Bridging the multiple reality gap: Application of augmented reality in new product development. IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, 1914-1919. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6083952

Increased product complexity and internal team dynamics pose serious challenges to the quality of collaboration, usually reflected upon long delays, cost overruns and poor design quality during product development. Our focus is to study the factors t... Read More about Bridging the multiple reality gap: Application of augmented reality in new product development.

Hierarchies of adaptable learning during product development (2011)
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Tourassis, V. D., & Chatzimichali, A. (2011). Hierarchies of adaptable learning during product development. IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, 458-464. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6083708

Shorter product lifecycles, shrinking time-to-market and increasing global competition, drive companies to premature transitions from the development laboratory to full-scale commercial production. This ramp-up period is usually considered as a trans... Read More about Hierarchies of adaptable learning during product development.

System dynamics and learning: Learning during the product realization chain (2010)
Journal Article
Tourassis, V. D., & Chatzimichali, A. (2010). System dynamics and learning: Learning during the product realization chain. IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, 2506-2511. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641930

Global market competition and consumer attitudes, demand a constant flow of new products in the market. Product lifecycles shrink and consequently the pressure for novel products that rapidly pass from the R&D lab to the consumer hands is increased,... Read More about System dynamics and learning: Learning during the product realization chain.