Engaging the social sciences: Results, research and resources
(2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Outputs (21)
New frontiers in science communication: Researchers’ experiences of coming out of the lab (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Researchers are increasingly playing a key role in the public communication of science. This makes understanding researchers’ motivations, and the benefits and barriers they perceive, an important step to ensuring successful direct interactions betwe... Read More about New frontiers in science communication: Researchers’ experiences of coming out of the lab.
Muddying the waters or clearing the stream? Open Science as a communication medium (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Open Science is an approach to the conduct of science in which the whole of an ongoing scientific investigation – data, ideas, questions, plans, results and more – is made available online. Open Science began as a way to facilitate the workings of mu... Read More about Muddying the waters or clearing the stream? Open Science as a communication medium.
Requirements for phylogenetic tree visualisation: A user driven approach (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BBSRC/AHRC Workshop on "The Challenges of Visualising Biological Data"
Date: 16-17 November 2010
Venue: The Thistle Grand Hotel, Bristol
BBSRC - http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/events/1011-visualising-biological-data.aspx
AHRC -http://www.ahrc.... Read More about Requirements for phylogenetic tree visualisation: A user driven approach.
Autonomous morphogenesis in self-assembling robots using IR-based sensing and local communications (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper presents a simple decentralised morphology control mechanism for a swarm of self-assembling robots. Each robot in the system is fully autonomous and controlled using a behaviour-based approach with only infrared-based local sensing and com... Read More about Autonomous morphogenesis in self-assembling robots using IR-based sensing and local communications.
CeleBRation choir: Establishing community music therapy for people with brain disease (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Podologues: Conversations created by science podcasts (2010)
Journal Article
Podcasts are media files that can be automatically aggregated and downloaded via the internet, and transferred to portable media players. Combined with online discussion facilities, podcasts represent flexible and potentially valuable tools for commu... Read More about Podologues: Conversations created by science podcasts.
On open science and public engagement with engineering (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Open Science is an emerging approach to the conduct of science, technology and engineering projects, in which information about the whole of an ongoing investigation is made available on and through the Internet. Adopting an Open Science approach mea... Read More about On open science and public engagement with engineering.
¡Astronomía, se rueda! (Astronomy and... action!) (2010)
Book
Various contributors write about Astronomy in film following their participation at the 2nd course on Science in the Movies of the Science Museum "Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos" in Tenerife, Spain.
Modeling and optimization of adaptive foraging in swarm robotic systems (2010)
Journal Article
Understanding the effect of individual parameters on the collective performance of swarm robotic systems in order to design and optimize individual robot behaviors is a significant challenge. In this paper we present a macroscopic probabilistic model... Read More about Modeling and optimization of adaptive foraging in swarm robotic systems.
Enhancing consultation practices on Air Quality Management in local authorities (2010)
Journal Article
Schedule 11 of the Environment Act 1995 underpins the requirement for consultation on air quality issues. The ongoing air quality review and assessment process represents one of the largest locally based science policy and communication initiatives e... Read More about Enhancing consultation practices on Air Quality Management in local authorities.
Using historical databases for the identification and analysis of future volcanic risk: VOGRIPA (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
VOGRIPA (Volcano Global Risk Identification and Analysis Project) originated as part of the Global Risk Identification Programme (GRIP under the auspices of the United Nations and World Bank. GRIP is a 5-year programme aiming at improving global know... Read More about Using historical databases for the identification and analysis of future volcanic risk: VOGRIPA.
Analysis of the LaMEVE database on global quaternary large magnitude explosive volcanism (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
A database of Quaternary large magnitude explosive eruptions (M ≥ 4) is under development as part of the VOGRIPA project on global volcanic hazards and risk.
The database currently consists of 1929 entries from 481 Quaternary volcanoes. The database... Read More about Analysis of the LaMEVE database on global quaternary large magnitude explosive volcanism.
Nanotechnology and news (2010)
Journal Article
Exploring the context of consultation: The case of local air quality management (2010)
Journal Article
The Environment Act of 1995 (Part IV) requires local authorities to review and assess air quality in their area of jurisdiction and to determine locations where concentrations of defined pollutants exceed. The ongoing review and assessment process is... Read More about Exploring the context of consultation: The case of local air quality management.
Presenting science (2010)
Book Chapter
The use of scientific or technical jargon has been considered an issue in science communication. Using works by Michael Crichton I argue that this concern has often overshadowed other aspects such as the format of science communication: if the format... Read More about El lenguaje científico-técnico en el contenido de la novela y el cine entendidos como medio de divulgación: Análisis en la obra de Michael Crichton (Scientific and technical language in novels and movies considered as a format for science communication: Analysis in the works of Michael Crichton).
Review: A Private Universe online resources (2010)
Journal Article
A Private Universe depicts a very familiar situation for teachers worldwide, namely that students do not let go of their misconceptions as easily as might be expected after a detailed and thorough learning process.
You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you (2010)
Book Chapter
The projected ubiquity of personal companion robots raises a range of interesting but also challenging questions. There can be little doubt that an effective artificial companion, whether embodied or not, will need to be both sensitive to the emotion... Read More about You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you.