All Outputs (438)

Investigating Browne's method (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Obodo, S., Toher, D., & White, P. (2021, September). Investigating Browne's method. Poster presented at Statistics at Bristol: Future Reserach and You 2021, Bristol

Results supports Browne’s procedure of pilot sample size determination. However the data reveals that the procedure underestimates and overestimates sample size. Fig. 1 shows 𝛼 and 𝛽 have no practical effect on degree of excess which increases as... Read More about Investigating Browne's method.

Improving regional rainfall forecasts using convolutional-neural networks (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Barnes, A., McCullen, N., & Kjeldsen, T. R. (2021, April). Improving regional rainfall forecasts using convolutional-neural networks. Paper presented at EGU General Assembly 2021, Online

Traditional weather forecasting approaches utilize numerous numerical simulations and empirical models to produce a gridded estimate of rainfall, the cells of which often span multiple regions and struggle to capture extreme events. The approach pres... Read More about Improving regional rainfall forecasts using convolutional-neural networks.

Christian engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Brooks, I. (2020, November). Christian engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Presented at Christian Rural and Environmental Studies, Online

Conference report on research into the state of Christian engagement with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Focus on the UK). Reports on interviews with stakeholders and quantitative research using page counts on church web do... Read More about Christian engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Preserving linguistic heritage for generations to come! (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Ogunshile, E., & Ramachandran, R. (2020, September). Preserving linguistic heritage for generations to come!. Paper presented at DiPP 2020 : Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, Burgas, Bulgaria

Speech to Text is the ability to convert spoken word to text. There are many speech to text con-version applications available for different languages. Tamil is an ancient classical language which is vastly spoken in southern parts of India, Sri Lank... Read More about Preserving linguistic heritage for generations to come!.

There and Back Again: The Practicality of GPU Accelerated Digital Audio (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Renney, H., Gaster, B. R., & Mitchell, T. J. (2020, July). There and Back Again: The Practicality of GPU Accelerated Digital Audio. Paper presented at NIME’20: Proceedings of the 20th New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Online

General-Purpose GPU computing is becoming an increas-ingly viable option for acceleration, including in the audiodomain. Although it can improve performance, the intrin-sic nature of a device like the GPU involves data transfersand execution commands... Read More about There and Back Again: The Practicality of GPU Accelerated Digital Audio.

The visual design of network data to enhance cyber security awareness of the everyday internet user (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Carroll, F., Legg, P., & Bønkel, B. (2020, June). The visual design of network data to enhance cyber security awareness of the everyday internet user. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (Cyber Science 2020)

Technology and the use of online services are very prevalent across much of our everyday lives. As our digital interactions continue to grow, there is a need to improve public awareness of the risks to our personal online privacy and security. Design... Read More about The visual design of network data to enhance cyber security awareness of the everyday internet user.

Shouting through letterboxes: A study on attack susceptibility of voice assistants (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Mccarthy, A., Gaster, B., & Legg, P. (2020, June). Shouting through letterboxes: A study on attack susceptibility of voice assistants. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and the Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Science 2020)

Voice assistants such as Amazon Echo and Google Home have become increasingly popular for many home users, for home automation, entertainment, and convenience. These devices process speech commands from a user to execute some action, such as playing... Read More about Shouting through letterboxes: A study on attack susceptibility of voice assistants.

"What did you say?": Extracting unintentional secrets from predictive text learning systems (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Wilkinson, G., & Legg, P. (2020, June). "What did you say?": Extracting unintentional secrets from predictive text learning systems. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Science 2020)

As a primary form of communication, text is used widely in applications including e-mail conversations, mobile text messaging, chatrooms, and forum discussions. Modern systems include facilities such as predictive text, recently implemented using dee... Read More about "What did you say?": Extracting unintentional secrets from predictive text learning systems.

Towards establishing a 'cooperation' measure for coupled movement in close-proximity human-robot interaction (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Camilleri, A., Hong, J., Dogramadzi, S., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2020, May). Towards establishing a 'cooperation' measure for coupled movement in close-proximity human-robot interaction. Presented at ICRA 2020

To achieve safe close-proximity human-robot interaction , particularly for physically assitive tasks, robot motion planning needs to recognize and adapt to the behaviour of humans in the long-term. Generally, motion prediction with probabilistic conf... Read More about Towards establishing a 'cooperation' measure for coupled movement in close-proximity human-robot interaction.

The MusicBox - Drake Music (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Meckin, D. (2020, February). The MusicBox - Drake Music. Poster presented at Drake Music Conference 2020

The MusicBox is a prototype Accessible Digital Musical Instrument (ADMI) developed during a series of co-creative musical workshops with leaders and musicians of the Electric Storm Ensemble, facilitated by Drake Music. It comprises of two physical... Read More about The MusicBox - Drake Music.

Automating algorithmic representations of musical structure using IGME: The Interactive Generative Music Environment (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Hunt, S. J., Mitchell, T., & Nash, C. (2019, December). Automating algorithmic representations of musical structure using IGME: The Interactive Generative Music Environment. Paper presented at Innovation In Music 2019, University of West London

In this paper we explore the recreation of existing musical compositions by representing the music as a series of unique musical bars, and other bars that can be replicated through various algorithmic transformations, inside the Interactive Generativ... Read More about Automating algorithmic representations of musical structure using IGME: The Interactive Generative Music Environment.

WASOS: An Ontology for Modelling Traditional Knowledge of Sustainable Water Stewardship (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Vlachidis, A., & Everard, M. (2019, October). WASOS: An Ontology for Modelling Traditional Knowledge of Sustainable Water Stewardship. Paper presented at MTSR 2019 - Metadata and Semantics Research Conference, Marconi University, Rome

Recent work and publications concerning sustainable water stewardship in Raja-sthan (India) highlight how contemporary challenges are eroding traditional, communal approaches to water stewardship through mechanised extraction be-yond the renewable ca... Read More about WASOS: An Ontology for Modelling Traditional Knowledge of Sustainable Water Stewardship.

Tamil Talk: What you speak is what you get! (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Ogunshile, E., & Ramachandran, R. (2019, October). Tamil Talk: What you speak is what you get!. Paper presented at CONISOFT 2019 : IEEE 7th International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Innovation, Mexico City

Tamil is one of the longest surviving classical languages in the world. Speech to text in Tamil would benefit to a lot of native Tamil speakers throughout the world. There are many speech recognition and speech to text applications available for a... Read More about Tamil Talk: What you speak is what you get!.

Digital Expression and Representation of Rhythm (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Renney, N., & Gaster, B. R. (2019, September). Digital Expression and Representation of Rhythm. Paper presented at Audio Mostly, Nottingham

Music provides a means to explore time by sequencing musical events in a seemingly endless and expressive way. This potential often far exceeds the ability of digital systems to enable composers and performers to explore musical time, perhaps due to... Read More about Digital Expression and Representation of Rhythm.

Towards trusted security context exchange protocol for SDN based low latency networks (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Ghafoor, A., Abbasi, A. Q., & Khan, Z. (2019, September). Towards trusted security context exchange protocol for SDN based low latency networks. Paper presented at 38th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, Tuku, Finland

To overcome the latency issue in real-time communication, a number of research based solutions and architectures are being proposed. In all these, security is not considered an important factor since it causes extra delay in the communication and int... Read More about Towards trusted security context exchange protocol for SDN based low latency networks.

Fun with Interfaces (SVG Interfaces for Musical Expression) (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Gaster, B., Nathan, R., & Carinna, P. (2019, August). Fun with Interfaces (SVG Interfaces for Musical Expression). Paper presented at 7th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modeling, and Design, Berlin

In this paper we address the design and implementation of custom controller interfaces, bridging the issue of user mapping between action and sound in interactive music systems. A simple framework utilizing functional specifications for musical inter... Read More about Fun with Interfaces (SVG Interfaces for Musical Expression).

A probabilistic logic for resource-bounded multi-agent systems (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Nguyen, H. N., & Rakib, A. (2019, August). A probabilistic logic for resource-bounded multi-agent systems. Paper presented at 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Macao, China

Resource-bounded alternating-time temporal logic (RB-ATL), an extension of Coalition Logic (CL) and Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL), allows reasoning about resource requirements of coalitions in concurrent systems. However, many real-world syst... Read More about A probabilistic logic for resource-bounded multi-agent systems.

The alchemy of chaos: A sound art sonification of a year of Tourette’s episodes (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Mitchell, T. J., Thom, J., Pountney, M., & Hyde, J. (2019, June). The alchemy of chaos: A sound art sonification of a year of Tourette’s episodes. Paper presented at The 25th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2019), Northumbria University, Northumbria, England

Touretteshero is the name of a organisation that aims to raise awareness of Tourette's syndrome by sharing and celebrating the creativity and humor of the involuntary vocal and movement tics that characterise the condition. This paper documents the d... Read More about The alchemy of chaos: A sound art sonification of a year of Tourette’s episodes.

Design thinking as a pedagogic tool (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Agusita, E., Gillet, M., Palmer, M., & Newbutt, N. (2019, June). Design thinking as a pedagogic tool. Presented at UWE Festival of Learning 2019, UWE, Bristol

This presentation shares the findings of research study that explored ways in which the use of design thinking might contribute to innovations in teaching and learning approaches in a range of different subject areas. Funded by a UWE Pedagogic Projec... Read More about Design thinking as a pedagogic tool.

Probabilistic resource-bounded alternating-time temporal logic (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Nguyen, H. N., & Rakib, A. (2019, May). Probabilistic resource-bounded alternating-time temporal logic. Poster presented at International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Montreal, Canada

This paper extends resource-bounded ATL (RB-ATL) with probabilistic reasoning and provides the syntax and semantics of the resulting logic, probabilistic resource-bounded ATL (pRB-ATL).