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What Can I Say?: Effects of Discoverability in VUIs on Task Performance and User Experience (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kirschthaler, P., Porcheron, M., & Fischer, J. E. (2020, July). What Can I Say?: Effects of Discoverability in VUIs on Task Performance and User Experience. Presented at CUI '20: 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Bilbao Spain

Discoverability, the ability for users to find and execute features through a user interface, is a recurrent problem with Voice User Interface (VUI) design that makes it difficult for users to understand what commands are supported by a newly encount... Read More about What Can I Say?: Effects of Discoverability in VUIs on Task Performance and User Experience.

Exploring User Expectations of Brain-Training and Coaching Technologies for Cognitive Health (2020)
Book Chapter
Harrington, K., Craven, M. P., Wilson, M. L., & Landowska, A. (2020). Exploring User Expectations of Brain-Training and Coaching Technologies for Cognitive Health. . Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49065-2_4

User-centred evaluation of brain-training and coaching applications is discussed, with a focus on dementia. A brief outline of outcomes measures used for cognitive training is presented. The design of a set of four patient and public involvement work... Read More about Exploring User Expectations of Brain-Training and Coaching Technologies for Cognitive Health.

VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spence, J., Darzentas, D. P., Huang, Y., Cameron, H. R., Beestin, E., & Benford, S. (2020, July). VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects. Presented at DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020, Eindhoven Netherlands

We explore how a combination of manipulations and transitions can extend Substitutional Reality to create a highly personal Virtual Reality experience. Our design aimed to meet two challenges faced by museums: the limitations of object handling and t... Read More about VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects.

Exact and hyper‐heuristic solutions for the distribution‐installation problem from the VeRoLog 2019 challenge (2020)
Journal Article
Kheiri, A., Ahmed, L., Boyacı, B., Gromicho, J., Mumford, C., Özcan, E., & Dirikoç, A. S. (2020). Exact and hyper‐heuristic solutions for the distribution‐installation problem from the VeRoLog 2019 challenge. Networks, 76(2), 294-319. https://doi.org/10.1002/net.21962

This work tackles a rich vehicle routing problem (VRP) problem integrating a capacitated vehicle routing problem with time windows (CVRPTW), and a service technician routing and scheduling problem (STRSP) for delivering various equipment based on cus... Read More about Exact and hyper‐heuristic solutions for the distribution‐installation problem from the VeRoLog 2019 challenge.

Positioning the Root Elongation Zone Is Saltatory and Receives Input from the Shoot (2020)
Journal Article
Baskin, T. I., Preston, S., Zelinsky, E., Yang, X., Elmali, M., Bellos, D., Wells, D. M., & Bennett, M. J. (2020). Positioning the Root Elongation Zone Is Saltatory and Receives Input from the Shoot. iScience, 23(7), Article 101309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101309

In the root, meristem and elongation zone lengths remain stable, despite growth and division of cells. To gain insight into zone stability, we imaged individual Arabidopsis thaliana roots through a horizontal microscope, and used image analysis to ob... Read More about Positioning the Root Elongation Zone Is Saltatory and Receives Input from the Shoot.

Health Care Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions Under the Climate of COVID-19: Scoping Review (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
He, Y., Aliyu, A., Evans, M., & Luo, C. Health Care Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions Under the Climate of COVID-19: Scoping Review

Background:

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been an unprecedented challenge to the global health care system. It has further challenged the resilience of the healthcare information system (HIS), which has affected the ability to achieve the glo... Read More about Health Care Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions Under the Climate of COVID-19: Scoping Review.

Specification testing of agent-based simulation using property-based testing (2020)
Journal Article
Thaler, J., & Siebers, P.-O. (2020). Specification testing of agent-based simulation using property-based testing. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 34(2), Article 47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-020-09473-8

The importance of Agent-Based Simulation (ABS) as scientific method to generate data for scientific models in general and for informed policy decisions in particular has been widely recognised. However, the important technique of code testing of impl... Read More about Specification testing of agent-based simulation using property-based testing.

Performance and Interpretability in Fuzzy Logic Systems – can we have both? (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pekaslan, D., Chen, C., Wagner, C., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2020, June). Performance and Interpretability in Fuzzy Logic Systems – can we have both?. Presented at 18th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems IPMU2020, Lisbon, Portugal (held online)

Fuzzy Logic Systems can provide a good level of interpretability and may provide a key building block as part of a growing interest in explainable AI. In practice, the level of interpretability of a given fuzzy logic system is dependent on how well i... Read More about Performance and Interpretability in Fuzzy Logic Systems – can we have both?.

Discovery of (meth)acrylate polymers that resist colonization by fungi associated with pathogenesis and biodeterioration (2020)
Journal Article
Vallieres, C., Hook, A. L., He, Y., Crucitti, V. C., Figueredo, G., Davies, C. R., Burroughs, L., Winkler, D. A., Wildman, R. D., Irvine, D. J., Alexander, M. R., & Avery, S. V. (2020). Discovery of (meth)acrylate polymers that resist colonization by fungi associated with pathogenesis and biodeterioration. Science Advances, 6(23), Article eaba6574. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba6574

© 2020 The Authors. Fungi have major, negative socioeconomic impacts, but control with bioactive agents is increasingly restricted, while resistance is growing. Here, we describe an alternative fungal control strategy via materials operating passivel... Read More about Discovery of (meth)acrylate polymers that resist colonization by fungi associated with pathogenesis and biodeterioration.

Low-cost automated vectors and modular environmental sensors for plant phenotyping (2020)
Journal Article
Bagley, S. A., Atkinson, J. A., Hunt, H., Wilson, M. H., Pridmore, T. P., & Wells, D. M. (2020). Low-cost automated vectors and modular environmental sensors for plant phenotyping. Sensors, 20(11), Article 3319. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20113319

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. High-throughput plant phenotyping in controlled environments (growth chambers and glasshouses) is often delivered via large, expensive installations, leading to limited access and the increase... Read More about Low-cost automated vectors and modular environmental sensors for plant phenotyping.