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Performance metrics outperform physiological indicators in robotic teleoperation workload assessment (2024)
Journal Article
Odoh, G., Landowska, A., Crowe, E. M., Benali, K., Cobb, S., Wilson, M. L., Maior, H. A., & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2024). Performance metrics outperform physiological indicators in robotic teleoperation workload assessment. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 30984. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82112-4

Robotics holds the potential to streamline the execution of repetitive and dangerous tasks, which are difficult or impossible for a human operator. However, in complex scenarios, such as nuclear waste management or disaster response, full automation... Read More about Performance metrics outperform physiological indicators in robotic teleoperation workload assessment.

Safe Robot Reflexes: A Taxonomy-based Decision and Modulation Framework (2024)
Journal Article
Vorndamme, J., Melone, A., Kirschner, R., Figueredo, L., & Haddadin, S. (2024). Safe Robot Reflexes: A Taxonomy-based Decision and Modulation Framework. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2024.3519421

Recent advances in control and planning allow for seamless physical human-robot interaction (pHRI). At the same time, novel challenges appear in orchestrating intelligent decision-making and ensuring safe control of robots. Particularly in scenarios... Read More about Safe Robot Reflexes: A Taxonomy-based Decision and Modulation Framework.

An example of goal-directed, calculational proof (2024)
Journal Article
Backhouse, R. C., Guttmann, W., & Winter, M. (2024). An example of goal-directed, calculational proof. Journal of Functional Programming, 34, Article e13. https://doi.org/10.1017/s095679682400011x

An equivalence relation can be constructed from a given (homogeneous, binary) relation in two steps: first, construct the smallest reflexive and transitive relation containing the given relation (the “star” of the relation) and, second, construct the... Read More about An example of goal-directed, calculational proof.

Interfacing with history: curating with audio augmented objects (2024)
Journal Article
Cliffe, L. (2024). Interfacing with history: curating with audio augmented objects. Museum Management and Curatorship, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2024.2431899

This article presents and discusses the results from visitors’ interactions with two audio augmented reality experiences containing audio augmented objects; physical, real-world objects to which virtual audio sources have been attached. It then proce... Read More about Interfacing with history: curating with audio augmented objects.

Assessing Cyber Security Support for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (2024)
Book Chapter
Khan, N., Furnell, S., Bada, M., Nurse, J. R., & Rand, M. (2025). Assessing Cyber Security Support for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. In N. Clarke, & S. Furnell (Eds.), Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance: 18th IFIP WG 11.12 International Symposium, HAISA 2024, Skövde, Sweden, July 9–11, 2024, Proceedings, Part I (148-162). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72559-3_11

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) share many of the same cyber security needs and challenges as larger organisations, but often have significantly less knowledge and capability to deal with them. One of the fundamental issues can be where to... Read More about Assessing Cyber Security Support for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises.

Regional changes in cerebral perfusion with age when accounting for changes in gray-matter volume (2024)
Journal Article
Hu, J., Craig, M. S., Knight, S. P., De Looze, C., Meaney, J. F., Kenney, R. A., Chen, X., & Chappell, M. A. (2024). Regional changes in cerebral perfusion with age when accounting for changes in gray-matter volume. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.30376

Purpose
One possible contributing factor for cerebral blood flow (CBF) decline in normal aging is the increase in partial volume effects due to brain atrophy, as cortical thinning can exacerbate the contamination of gray-matter (GM) voxels by other... Read More about Regional changes in cerebral perfusion with age when accounting for changes in gray-matter volume.

SoftED: Metrics for soft evaluation of time series event detection (2024)
Journal Article
Salles, R., Lima, J., Reis, M., Coutinho, R., Pacitti, E., Masseglia, F., Akbarinia, R., Chen, C., Garibaldi, J., Porto, F., & Ogasawara, E. (2024). SoftED: Metrics for soft evaluation of time series event detection. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 198, Article 110728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2024.110728

Time series event detectors are evaluated mainly by standard classification metrics, focusing solely on detection accuracy. However, inaccuracy in detecting an event can often result from its preceding or delayed effects reflected in neighboring dete... Read More about SoftED: Metrics for soft evaluation of time series event detection.

Navigating the Utopia and Dystopia Perspectives of Artificial Intelligence (2024)
Journal Article
Carroll, N., Holmström, J., Stahl, B. C., & Fabian, N. E. (in press). Navigating the Utopia and Dystopia Perspectives of Artificial Intelligence. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 55(1), Article 33. https://doi.org/10.17705/1cais.05533

This article examines the complex implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in societal and commercial contexts and challenges both utopian and dystopian perspectives. It highlights two key areas: AI’s impact on the meaning of labor and on human-m... Read More about Navigating the Utopia and Dystopia Perspectives of Artificial Intelligence.

Classifying Human Movement Using Discrete Fréchet and DTW Distances (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akitaya, H. A., Carlos, J., De Almeida, C., Fonseca, L., & Shahrouzi, G. (2024, November). Classifying Human Movement Using Discrete Fréchet and DTW Distances. Presented at 31st Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA

Individuals with motor disabilities often rely on assistive devices for support. However, conditions that affect upper limbs, particularly hand function, pose a challenge in the user interface design. In this context, inertial sensor-based movement c... Read More about Classifying Human Movement Using Discrete Fréchet and DTW Distances.

Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities (2024)
Journal Article
Benford, S., McGarry, G., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., Gibson, R., & Avila, J. P. M. (2024). Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities. Journal of New Music Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2024.2423613

We explore how augmenting musical instruments with digital identities can enhance their provenance, utility during creative practice, and personal meaning. A literature review reveals the importance of object identities in general and instrument iden... Read More about Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities.

Root metaxylem area influences drought tolerance and transpiration in pearl millet in a soil texture dependent manner (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Affortit, P., Faye, A., Jones, D. H., Benson, E., Sine, B., Burridge, J., Ndoye, M. S., Barry, L., Moukouanga, D., Barnard, S., Bhosale, R., Pridmore, T., Gantet, P., Vadez, V., Cubry, P., Kane, N., Bennett, M., Atkinson, J. A., Laplaze, L., Wells, D. M., & Grondin, A. (2024). Root metaxylem area influences drought tolerance and transpiration in pearl millet in a soil texture dependent manner

Pearl millet is a key cereal for food security in drylands but its yield is strongly impacted by drought. We investigated how root anatomical traits contribute to mitigating the effects of vegetative drought stress in pearl millet.

We examined ass... Read More about Root metaxylem area influences drought tolerance and transpiration in pearl millet in a soil texture dependent manner.

Addressing E-Waste: Repair Café Processes as Barriers to Repair of Smart Devices (2024)
Journal Article
Castle-Green, T., & Sailaja, N. (2024). Addressing E-Waste: Repair Café Processes as Barriers to Repair of Smart Devices. BASE - Revista de Administração e Contabilidade da Unisinos, 9(10), 150-161. https://doi.org/10.52611/bdi.num10.2024.999

Electronic waste, commonly referred to as e-waste, is a health and environmental hazard that affects many people and ecosystems around the world. As the volume of e-waste continues to surge, it is imperative this issue is addressed. Contributing to t... Read More about Addressing E-Waste: Repair Café Processes as Barriers to Repair of Smart Devices.

Learning-guided cross-sampling for large-scale evolutionary multi-objective optimization (2024)
Journal Article
Wang, H., Chen, L., Hao, X., Qu, R., Zhou, W., Wang, D., & Liu, W. (2024). Learning-guided cross-sampling for large-scale evolutionary multi-objective optimization. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 91, Article 101763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2024.101763

When tackling large-scale multi-objective problems (LSMOPs), the computational budget could be wasted by traditional offspring generators that explore the search space in a nearly directionless manner, impairing the efficiency of many existing algori... Read More about Learning-guided cross-sampling for large-scale evolutionary multi-objective optimization.

Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly? (2024)
Report
Ochang, P., Eke, D., Stahl, B., Buckley, . M., Poder, I., & Hughes, J. (2024). Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly?. ESPRC and RAI UK

Generative AI is changing the way our economies and businesses operate, and SMEs could be receiving more benefits from this transition. Over the past 12 months in the Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) project we have been wo... Read More about Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly?.

Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) : First Virtual Human Centric Design Workshop Report (2024)
Report
Ochang, P., Stahl, B., Eke, D., & Cameron, H. Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) : First Virtual Human Centric Design Workshop Report. ESPRC and RAI UK

On the 1st of July 2024, the Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in the UK and Africa (RAISE) project hosted its inaugural workshop, bringing together small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the United Kingdom and Africa. The workshop focused o... Read More about Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) : First Virtual Human Centric Design Workshop Report.

Epimorphisms and acyclic types in univalent foundations (2024)
Journal Article
Buchholtz, U., De Jong, T., & Rijke, E. (in press). Epimorphisms and acyclic types in univalent foundations. Journal of Symbolic Logic,

We characterize the epimorphisms in homotopy type theory (HoTT) as the fiberwise acyclic maps and develop a type-theoretic treatment of acyclic maps and types in the context of synthetic homotopy theory as developed in univalent foundations. We prese... Read More about Epimorphisms and acyclic types in univalent foundations.

How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Garrett, R., Schneiders, E., Tennent, P., Chamberlain, A., Avila, J., Brundell, P., & Castle-Green, S. (2024, October). How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics. Poster presented at 16th International Conference on Social Robotics + AI (ICSR + AI) 2024, Odense, Denmark

We explore transdisciplinary collaborations between artists and roboticists across a portfolio of artworks. Brendan Walker's Bronco-matic was a breath controlled mechanical rodeo bull ride. Blast Theory's Cat Royale deployed a robot arm to play with... Read More about How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics.

Impact over metrics: Turing and the ultimate contribution of cryptology (2024)
Journal Article
Furnell, S. (2024). Impact over metrics: Turing and the ultimate contribution of cryptology. Computer Journal, Article bxae103. https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxae103

Amongst his many lasting contributions, Alan Turing’s name is strongly linked to the domain of cryptology, particularly due to his pioneering wartime work in cryptanalysis. However, the fact that his work remained classified until many years later ha... Read More about Impact over metrics: Turing and the ultimate contribution of cryptology.

Machine Learning Pipeline for Energy and Environmental Prediction in Cold Storage Facilities (2024)
Journal Article
Alkhulaifi, N., Bowler, A. L., Pekaslan, D., Serdaroglu, G., Closs, S., Watson, N. J., & Triguero, I. (2024). Machine Learning Pipeline for Energy and Environmental Prediction in Cold Storage Facilities. IEEE Access, 12, 153935-153951. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3482572

As energy demands and costs rise, enhancing energy efficiency in Food and Drink Cold Storage (FDCS) rooms is important for reducing expenses and achieving environmental sustainability ambitions. Forecasting electricity use in FDCSs can help optimise... Read More about Machine Learning Pipeline for Energy and Environmental Prediction in Cold Storage Facilities.

Towards trustworthy medical AI ecosystems – a proposal for supporting responsible innovation practices in AI-based medical innovation (2024)
Journal Article
Herzog, C., Blank, S., & Stahl, B. C. (2024). Towards trustworthy medical AI ecosystems – a proposal for supporting responsible innovation practices in AI-based medical innovation. AI & Society, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-02082-z

In this article, we explore questions about the culture of trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) through the lens of ecosystems. We draw on the European Commission’s Guidelines for Trustworthy AI and its philosophical underpinnings. Based on the l... Read More about Towards trustworthy medical AI ecosystems – a proposal for supporting responsible innovation practices in AI-based medical innovation.