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Towards effective e-voting system for refugees: Lessons from the case of Palestine (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Shat, F. J., Abbott, P., & Pimenidis, E. (2016, December). Towards effective e-voting system for refugees: Lessons from the case of Palestine. Paper presented at Annual Workshop of the AIS Special Interest Group for ICT in Global Development, Dublin, Ireland

Significant global challenges related to persistent economic crises, local conflicts and continuous waves of refugees being displaced from their countries of origin are affecting secure access to and completion of people’s voting rights. The relevant... Read More about Towards effective e-voting system for refugees: Lessons from the case of Palestine.

eLearner experience model (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Hammad, R., Odeh, M., & Khan, Z. (2016, December). eLearner experience model. Paper presented at ACIT, Morocco

In literature, there have been many e-learning artefacts developed and promoted based on their ability to enhance learning and e-learner experience. However, there is lack of a precise definition of e-learner experience in literature. This paper disc... Read More about eLearner experience model.

Towards provisioning of real-time smart city services using clouds (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Soomro, K., Khan, Z., & Hasham, K. (2016, December). Towards provisioning of real-time smart city services using clouds. Paper presented at 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016), Shanghai, China

ICT is becoming an enabler for smart city applications by making effective use of various data resources generated daily in an urban environment. Mostly this data is utilised by city authorities for city planning purposes and often citi- zens become... Read More about Towards provisioning of real-time smart city services using clouds.

Green software engineering for airbus avionics (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Brooks, I. (2016, October). Green software engineering for airbus avionics. Presented at EU Ashley Project Public Forum 2016, Bristol, UK

Presentation at EU Ashley Project Public Forum 25 October 2016. Presentation examines the risks from Software Engineering without sustainability requirements and looks at the use of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to de-risk avionics software en... Read More about Green software engineering for airbus avionics.

Aligning systems of systems engineering with goal-oriented approaches using the i star framework (2016)
Presentation / Conference
AlHajHassan, S., Odeh, M., & Green, S. (2016, October). Aligning systems of systems engineering with goal-oriented approaches using the i star framework. Paper presented at 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE), Edinburgh, Scotland

Systems of Systems (SoS) are complex systems that result from the integration of a set of independent constituent systems - which are complex systems themselves - in order to achieve new functionalities and goals. The emerging interdisciplinary area... Read More about Aligning systems of systems engineering with goal-oriented approaches using the i star framework.

Perfect days: A benevolent calendar to take back your time (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Hassenzahl, M., Buzzo, D., & Neuhaus, R. (2016, September). Perfect days: A benevolent calendar to take back your time. Paper presented at Tenth International Conference on Design and Emotion – Celebration & Contemplation, Amsterdam, Netherlands

“Time poverty” touches upon a tension between the ever increasing time demands of work and the time needed for people to engage in further, intrinsically meaningful, wellbeing-enhancing activities. At the heart of this drama is the digital calendar.... Read More about Perfect days: A benevolent calendar to take back your time.

Exploiting diverse distance metrics for surrogate-based optimisation of ordering problems (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Smith, J., Stone, C., & Serpell, M. (2016, July). Exploiting diverse distance metrics for surrogate-based optimisation of ordering problems. Paper presented at ACM-SIGEVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO ’16, Denver, CO, USA

Surrogate-assisted optimisation has proven success in the continuous domain, but only recently begun to be explored for other representations, in particular permutations. The use of Gaussian kernel-based models has been proposed, but only tested on s... Read More about Exploiting diverse distance metrics for surrogate-based optimisation of ordering problems.

Exploiting antipheromone in ant colony optimisation for interactive search-based software design and refactoring (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Simons, C., & Smith, J. (2016, July). Exploiting antipheromone in ant colony optimisation for interactive search-based software design and refactoring. Poster presented at ACM-SIGEVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO ’16, Denver, CO, USA

Preventing user-fatigue in interactive meta-heuristic search places as great an emphasis on efficiency as it does on ef- fectiveness. Engagement may also be boosted if the system provides a sense of “responsiveness” - for example, avoiding unpopular... Read More about Exploiting antipheromone in ant colony optimisation for interactive search-based software design and refactoring.

Leimu: Gloveless music interaction using a wrist mounted leap motion (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Brown, D., Renney, N., Stark, A., Nash, C., & Mitchell, T. (2016, July). Leimu: Gloveless music interaction using a wrist mounted leap motion. Paper presented at The International Conference On New Interfaces for Musical Expression NIME2016, Brisbane, Australia

Camera-based motion tracking has become a popular enabling technology for gestural human-computer interaction. However, the approach suffers from several limitations, which have been shown to be particularly problematic when employed within musical c... Read More about Leimu: Gloveless music interaction using a wrist mounted leap motion.

Single motor actuated peristaltic wave generator for a soft bodied worm robot (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Winstone, B., Pipe, A. G., Melhuish, C., Callaway, M., Etoundi, A., & Dogramadzi, S. (2016, June). Single motor actuated peristaltic wave generator for a soft bodied worm robot. Paper presented at BioRob 2016 - IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Singapore

This paper presents the design and development of a single motor actuated peristaltic worm robot with three segments using a bio-inspired method of locomotion with one actuator that achieves optimised worm like peristaltic motion. Each segment consis... Read More about Single motor actuated peristaltic wave generator for a soft bodied worm robot.

Enhancing cyber situation awareness for non-expert users using visual analytics (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Legg, P. (2016, June). Enhancing cyber situation awareness for non-expert users using visual analytics. Paper presented at International Conference On Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics And Assessment (CyberSA 2016), London, UK

Situation awareness is often described as the perception and comprehension of the current situation, and the projection of future status. Whilst this may be understood in an organisational cybersecurity context, there is a strong case to be made for... Read More about Enhancing cyber situation awareness for non-expert users using visual analytics.

The trinity test: Workshop on unified notations for practices and pedagogies in music and programming (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Nash, C. (2016, May). The trinity test: Workshop on unified notations for practices and pedagogies in music and programming. Presented at International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR) 2016, Cambridge, UK

This paper outlines a workshop to explore intersections of programming and music in digital notation. With the aid of the Manhattan music programming and sequencing environment (Nash, 2014), methods for representing both high-level processes and low-... Read More about The trinity test: Workshop on unified notations for practices and pedagogies in music and programming.

Data sonification and rhythms in processes (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Palmer (nee Reiser), M. (2016, May). Data sonification and rhythms in processes. Presented at Dee Estuary Workshop, Manchester, England

Invited talk for Dee Estuary Workshop, University of Manchester, 23rd May 2016

Tracking the imperceptible: Designs to visualise time dilation (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Buzzo, D., & Jonas, D. (2016, May). Tracking the imperceptible: Designs to visualise time dilation. Paper presented at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), San Jose, CA, USA

In our project we developed TimeTravel, a design for visualising personal time dilation. Time dilation is the effect on time that movement in space produces. Predicted by Einstein’s Special theory of relativity (1905) and verified by practical experi... Read More about Tracking the imperceptible: Designs to visualise time dilation.

Tangible interfaces for interactive evolutionary computation (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Mitchell, T., Bennett, P., Tew, P., Davies, E., & Madgwick, S. (2016, May). Tangible interfaces for interactive evolutionary computation. Paper presented at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems SIGCHI2016, San Jose, CA, USA

Interactive evolutionary computation (IEC) is a powerful human-machine optimisation procedure for evolving solutions to complex design problems. In this paper we introduce the novel concept of Tangible Interactive Evolutionary Computation (TIEC), lev... Read More about Tangible interfaces for interactive evolutionary computation.

Refactoring: 25 years on (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Simons, C. (2016, April). Refactoring: 25 years on. Presented at 2016 Annual Conference of the Association of C and C++ Users (ACCU), Bristol, UK

It’s been some 25 years since ‘refactoring’ was suggested and is now central to programming practice. But how is refactoring conducted today compared to its original notions? After a quick recap on the original ideas of refactoring, this workshop exp... Read More about Refactoring: 25 years on.

Going meta: Norm formation and enactment on the stack exchange network (2016)
Presentation / Conference
stack exchange network. Paper presented at World Wide Web Conference 2016, Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Social Machines, Montreal, Canada

This paper presents research into the way norms are developed, expressed and enforced on sites that are part of the Stack Exchange (SE) social question-answering network. This network has a number of topical knowledge exchange communities using simil... Read More about Going meta: Norm formation and enactment on the stack exchange network.

Manhattan: Serious games for serious music (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Nash, C. (2016, March). Manhattan: Serious games for serious music. Paper presented at Conference on Music, Education, and Technology (MET) 2016, London, UK

This paper details a digital platform designed for digital creativity, learning, and engagement with new concepts and aesthetics in both music and coding. An open online ecosystem is outlined, connecting users for the purposes of collating, sharing,... Read More about Manhattan: Serious games for serious music.