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Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pelikan, H. R. M., Mutlu, B., & Reeves, S. (2025, March). Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design. Presented at HRI 2025, Melbourne, Australia

If robots are to be deployed in public places, we need to understand what factors their design should consider. Informed by sociological studies of urban settings, particularly the work of William H. Whyte and the Street Life Project, we describe fou... Read More about Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design.

Use of the Earth-Moon Lagrange Points for Improving Lunar Navigation Performance (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cormier, L., Pushparaj, N., Blunt, P., & Cappelletti, C. (2025, January). Use of the Earth-Moon Lagrange Points for Improving Lunar Navigation Performance. Presented at 7ᵗʰ Winter Satellite Workshop with Remote Sensing Days and Space Science Workshop, Espoo Dipoli, Finland

Developing Preliminary Heuristics for In-Vehicle Ambient Intelligence Systems (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pande, S., Harvey, C., & Large, D. (2025, April). Developing Preliminary Heuristics for In-Vehicle Ambient Intelligence Systems. Presented at Ergonomics & Human Factors 2025, Burton upon Trent, UK

This study aimed to develop heuristics for designing and evaluating in-vehicle Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems. Utilising an expert focus group (n=3) and a user study (n=8), 15 preliminary heuristics were derived. These aim to ensure that in-vehic... Read More about Developing Preliminary Heuristics for In-Vehicle Ambient Intelligence Systems.

Human-AI Decision-Making in Higher Education (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Houghton, R., Zhai, X., Li, Z., & Large, D. (2025, April). Human-AI Decision-Making in Higher Education. Presented at Ergonomics & Human Factors 2025, Burton upon Trent, UK

Findings from an online study and focus groups show that students and staff were receptive to AI decision-making in higher education, highlighting transparency and equitability. Even so, students expressed a desire for creative work to be seen by a ‘... Read More about Human-AI Decision-Making in Higher Education.

A Transition to Sustainable Built Environment: A Framework for Modular Building Construction Designed for Disassembly (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali-Gombe, B., Tokbolat, S., & Mckechnie, J. (2024, June). A Transition to Sustainable Built Environment: A Framework for Modular Building Construction Designed for Disassembly. Presented at 1st International Conference on Net-Zero Built Environment: Innovations in Materials, Structures, and Management Practices (Net-Zero Future 2024), Oslo, Norway

In the quest to achieve a sustainable built environment, circular construction emerged as an innovative approach to aid towards a quick transition for the resource-intensive construction industry. The successful implementation of circular approaches... Read More about A Transition to Sustainable Built Environment: A Framework for Modular Building Construction Designed for Disassembly.

Leading Integration of AI within Occupational Psychology (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roe, V., Pawson, S., Rivlin, E., & Thomson, L. (2025, March). Leading Integration of AI within Occupational Psychology. Presented at Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference 2025, London, UK

Development of C. albican Anti-attachment Inkjet 3D Printing Ink, via High Throughput Screening (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yong, L. X., Zhou, Z., Vallières, C., He, Y., Cuzzucoli Crucitti, V., Alexander, M. R., Avery, S., Wildman, R., & Irvine, D. (2024, August). Development of C. albican Anti-attachment Inkjet 3D Printing Ink, via High Throughput Screening. Presented at International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Singapore, Singapore

The fungal pathogen Candida albicans (C. albicans) is particularly problematic for immunocompromised patients and those with medical implants. Introducing Candida-resistant medical devices could potentially reduce mortality rates from such infections... Read More about Development of C. albican Anti-attachment Inkjet 3D Printing Ink, via High Throughput Screening.

Improving the frequency stability of capacitive ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscopes (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Arifin, D., & Mcwilliam, S. (2024, July). Improving the frequency stability of capacitive ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscopes. Presented at 14th International Conference on Recent Advances on Structural Dynamics, Southampton, UK

MEMS capacitively operated ring-based Coriolis vibratory gyroscopes are used to measure angular rate. Under standard operating conditions the ring is driven into resonance and Coriolis coupling generates a response that is proportional to the applied... Read More about Improving the frequency stability of capacitive ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscopes.

Nonlinear performance enhancement of imperfect ring-based Coriolis Vibratory Gyroscopes (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Arifin, D., & Mcwilliam, S. (2024, July). Nonlinear performance enhancement of imperfect ring-based Coriolis Vibratory Gyroscopes. Presented at XIVth International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics, Southampton, UK

The rate sensing performance of ring-based capacitive Coriolis Vibratory Gyroscopes (CVGs) is susceptible to the effects of imperfections and electrostatic nonlinearities. This research investigates the use of the nonlinear electrostatic forces to nu... Read More about Nonlinear performance enhancement of imperfect ring-based Coriolis Vibratory Gyroscopes.

A Revolutionary Deep Generative Modelling for Linear and Nonlinear Analysis of Masonry (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adaileh, A., Ghiassi, B., & Briganti, R. (2024, July). A Revolutionary Deep Generative Modelling for Linear and Nonlinear Analysis of Masonry. Presented at 18th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference, Birmingham, UK

The primary challenge in designing and analysing masonry structures is predicting their mechanical response. In particular, fast and direct prediction of masonry mechanical response field is desirable. This motivates the present study to introduce an... Read More about A Revolutionary Deep Generative Modelling for Linear and Nonlinear Analysis of Masonry.

Probabilistic size-and-shape functional mixed models (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, F., Bharath, K., Chkrebtii, O., & Kurtek, S. (2024, December). Probabilistic size-and-shape functional mixed models. Presented at Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada

The reliable recovery and uncertainty quantification of a fixed effect function µ in a functional mixed model, for modelling population-and object-level variability in noisily observed functional data, is a notoriously challenging task: variations al... Read More about Probabilistic size-and-shape functional mixed models.

Semantic Knowledge Representation in Asset Administration Shells: Empowering Manufacturing Utilization (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elshafei, B., Martínez-Arellano, G., Chaplin, J. C., Sanderson, D., & Ratchev, S. (2024, June). Semantic Knowledge Representation in Asset Administration Shells: Empowering Manufacturing Utilization. Presented at 33rd International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM 2024), Taiwan, Taichung

Within the context of Industry 4.0 and the Reference Architecture Model Industrie 4.0, the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) framework has emerged as a critical component for implementing Digital Twins that facilitate a seamless data exchange within a... Read More about Semantic Knowledge Representation in Asset Administration Shells: Empowering Manufacturing Utilization.

A fast switching fast bridge using GaN transistors (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marchant, S., & Empringham, L. (2024, December). A fast switching fast bridge using GaN transistors. Paper presented at 9th IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference, Brisbane, Australia

This paper presents the design and evaluation of a half bridge based around off-the-shelf gallium nitride power devices and a bespoke printed circuit board. The necessary parasitic evaluation at the design stage was not straightforward due to the in... Read More about A fast switching fast bridge using GaN transistors.

Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Ngo, V., McGarry, G., Kucukyilmaz, A., Benford, S., & Higgins, A. (2025, February). Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations. Presented at Designing for Bodies: Practices, Imaginaries and Discourses, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding

In this piece we start to explore the ways in which we somatise our interaction with robots as a symbiotic system - both as human and robot, and as human-robot. We also consider the ways that we might want to take our physical nature (existence), for... Read More about Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations.

Test File 14 (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
pugh, D. (2024, November). Test File 14. Presented at test, test

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.