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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.

Experiencing the Future Mundane: Configuring Design Fiction as Breaching Experiment (2025)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Sailaja, N., Chamberlain, A., Coulton, P., Pilling, M., & Forrester, I. (in press). Experiencing the Future Mundane: Configuring Design Fiction as Breaching Experiment. Human-Computer Interaction, https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2025.2454555

This paper introduces a novel methodological approach for surfacing the acceptability and adoption challenges that confront future and emerging technologies from the perspective of mundane action, in which they will ultimately be embedded and used. T... Read More about Experiencing the Future Mundane: Configuring Design Fiction as Breaching Experiment.

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.

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.

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.