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Evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective flexible job shop cell scheduling (2021)
Journal Article
Deliktaş, D., Özcan, E., Ustun, O., & Torkul, O. (2021). Evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective flexible job shop cell scheduling. Applied Soft Computing, 113(Part A), Article 107890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2021.107890

The multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling in a cellular manufacturing environment is a challenging real-world problem. This recently introduced scheduling problem variant considers exceptional parts, intercellular moves, intercellular transpor... Read More about Evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective flexible job shop cell scheduling.

Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study (2021)
Journal Article
Dowthwaite, L., Fischer, J., Perez Vallejos, E., Portillo, V., Nichele, E., Goulden, M., & McAuley, D. (2021). Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(9), Article e29085. https://doi.org/10.2196/29085

Background: Digital contact tracing is employed to monitor and manage the spread of Covid-19. However, to be effective the system must be adopted by a substantial proportion of the population. Studies of (mostly hypothetical) contact tracing apps sho... Read More about Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study.

Pseudonymisation of neuroimages and data protection: Increasing access to data while retaining scientific utility (2021)
Journal Article
Eke, D., Aasebø, I. E., Akintoye, S., Knight, W., Karakasidis, A., Mikulan, E., Ochang, P., Ogoh, G., Oostenveld, R., Pigorini, A., Stahl, B. C., White, T., & Zehl, L. (2021). Pseudonymisation of neuroimages and data protection: Increasing access to data while retaining scientific utility. NeuroImage: Reports, 1(4), Article 100053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynirp.2021.100053

For a number of years, facial features removal techniques such as ‘defacing’, ‘skull stripping’ and ‘face masking/blurring’, were considered adequate privacy preserving tools to openly share brain images. Scientifically, these measures were already a... Read More about Pseudonymisation of neuroimages and data protection: Increasing access to data while retaining scientific utility.

Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Egede, J., Galvez Trigo, M. J., Hazzard, A., Porcheron, M., Bodiaj, E., Fischer, J. E., Greenhalgh, C., & Valstar, M. (2021, September). Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study. Presented at 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’21), Virtual Event, Kyoto, Japan

Access to healthcare advice is crucial to promote healthy societies. Many factors shape how access might be constrained, such as economic status, education or, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, remote consultations with health practitioners. Our wo... Read More about Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study.

Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Egede, J. O., Jaiswal, S., Galvez Trigo, M. J., Price, D., Elliot, N., Nixon, N., Krishnan, D. B., Morriss, R., Liddle, P., Greenhalgh, C., & Valstar, M. (2021, September). Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety. Presented at 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’21), Virtual Event, Kyoto, Japan

Virtual human technologies are now being widely explored as therapy tools for mental health disorders including depression and anxiety. These technologies leverage the ability of the virtual agents to engage in naturalistic social interactions with a... Read More about Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety.

Capturing richer information: On establishing the validity of an interval-valued survey response mode (2021)
Journal Article
Ellerby, Z., Wagner, C., & Broomell, S. B. (2022). Capturing richer information: On establishing the validity of an interval-valued survey response mode. Behavior Research Methods, 54, 1240-1262. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01635-0

Obtaining quantitative survey responses that are both accurate and informative is crucial to a wide range of fields. Traditional and ubiquitous response formats such as Likert and visual analogue scales require condensation of responses into discrete... Read More about Capturing richer information: On establishing the validity of an interval-valued survey response mode.

ENIGMA—A Centralised Supervisory Controller for Enhanced Onboard Electrical Energy Management with Model in the Loop Demonstration (2021)
Journal Article
Sumsurooah, S., He, Y., Torchio, M., Kouramas, K., Guida, B., Cuomo, F., Atkin, J., Bozhko, S., Renzetti, A., Russo, A., Riverso, S., & Cavallo, A. (2021). ENIGMA—A Centralised Supervisory Controller for Enhanced Onboard Electrical Energy Management with Model in the Loop Demonstration. Energies, 14(17), Article 5518. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14175518

A centralised smart supervisor (CSS) controller with enhanced electrical energy management (E2-EM) capability has been developed for an Iron Bird Electrical Power Generation and Distribution System (EPGDS) within the Clean Sky 2 ENhanced electrical e... Read More about ENIGMA—A Centralised Supervisory Controller for Enhanced Onboard Electrical Energy Management with Model in the Loop Demonstration.

Meta-evaluation of Conversational Search Evaluation Metrics (2021)
Journal Article
Liu, Z., Zhou, K., & Wilson, M. L. (2021). Meta-evaluation of Conversational Search Evaluation Metrics. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 39(4), 1-42. https://doi.org/10.1145/3445029

Conversational search systems, such as Google assistant and Microsoft Cortana, enable users to interact with search systems in multiple rounds through natural language dialogues. Evaluating such systems is very challenging, given that any natural lan... Read More about Meta-evaluation of Conversational Search Evaluation Metrics.

Hyper-heuristic approach: automatically designing adaptive mutation operators for evolutionary programming (2021)
Journal Article
Hong, L., Woodward, J. R., Özcan, E., & Liu, F. (2021). Hyper-heuristic approach: automatically designing adaptive mutation operators for evolutionary programming. Complex and Intelligent Systems, 7(6), 3135-3163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-021-00507-6

Genetic programming (GP) automatically designs programs. Evolutionary programming (EP) is a real-valued global optimisation method. EP uses a probability distribution as a mutation operator, such as Gaussian, Cauchy, or Lévy distribution. This study... Read More about Hyper-heuristic approach: automatically designing adaptive mutation operators for evolutionary programming.

What happens when patients say “no” to offers of referral for weight loss? - Results and recommendations from a conversation analysis of primary care interactions (2021)
Journal Article
Albury, C., Webb, H., Ziebland, S., Aveyard, P., & Stokoe, E. (2022). What happens when patients say “no” to offers of referral for weight loss? - Results and recommendations from a conversation analysis of primary care interactions. Patient Education and Counseling, 105(3), 524-533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2021.08.017

Objective: Guidelines recommend that clinicians should offer patients with obesity referrals to weight management services. However, clinicians and patients worry that such conversations will generate friction, and the risk of this is greatest when p... Read More about What happens when patients say “no” to offers of referral for weight loss? - Results and recommendations from a conversation analysis of primary care interactions.