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Identification of typical ecohydrological behaviours using InSAR allows landscape-scale mapping of peatland condition (2022)
Journal Article
Better tools for rapid and reliable assessment of global peatland extent and condition are urgently needed to support action to prevent further decline of peatlands. Peatland surface motion is a response to changes in the water and gas content of a p... Read More about Identification of typical ecohydrological behaviours using InSAR allows landscape-scale mapping of peatland condition.
Towards a Monitoring Approach for Understanding Permafrost Degradation and Linked Subsidence in Arctic Peatlands (2022)
Journal Article
Permafrost thaw resulting from climate warming is threatening to release carbon from high latitude peatlands. The aim of this research was to determine subsidence rates linked to permafrost thaw in sub-Arctic peatlands in Sweden using historical orth... Read More about Towards a Monitoring Approach for Understanding Permafrost Degradation and Linked Subsidence in Arctic Peatlands.
Multiscale Variability and the Comparison of Ground and Satellite Radar Based Measures of Peatland Surface Motion for Peatland Monitoring (2022)
Journal Article
Peatland surface motion is highly diagnostic of peatland condition. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) can measure this at the landscape scale but requires ground validation. This necessitates upscaling from point to areal measures (80... Read More about Multiscale Variability and the Comparison of Ground and Satellite Radar Based Measures of Peatland Surface Motion for Peatland Monitoring.
Deriving Personas to Inform HMI Design for Future Autonomous Taxis: A Case Study on User- Requirement Elicitation (2021)
Journal Article
Automated, Mobility-as-a-Service Vehicles (AV-MaaSs) – Autonomous Taxis - are expected to offer an inexpensive, mobility-on-demand service supporting greater sustainable transportation systems, including ‘last mile’ solutions. However, to date little... Read More about Deriving Personas to Inform HMI Design for Future Autonomous Taxis: A Case Study on User- Requirement Elicitation.
U can’t touch this! Face touching behaviour whilst driving: implications for health, hygiene and human factors (2021)
Journal Article
Analysis of thirty-one hours of video-data documenting 36 experienced drivers highlighted the prevalence of face-touching, with 819 contacts identified (mean frequency: 26.4 face touches/hour (FT/h); mean duration: 3.9-seconds). Fewer face-touches oc... Read More about U can’t touch this! Face touching behaviour whilst driving: implications for health, hygiene and human factors.
What Just Happened? Exploring Drivers’ Behaviour in Response to Minimal Risk Condition – A Qualitative Driving Simulator Study (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Automated vehicles (AVs) are expected to improve road safety by reducing the number of collisions and safety critical events [1,2]. In the event of a failure of the automated driving system (ADS), or if it reaches the limit of its capability, action... Read More about What Just Happened? Exploring Drivers’ Behaviour in Response to Minimal Risk Condition – A Qualitative Driving Simulator Study.
Assessing the Validity of Low and Medium-Fidelity Driving Simulators for HMI Distraction Testing – A Subjective Approach (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Simulators are commonly employed for conducting driving-related research due to their increased flexibility, safety and control compared to on-the-road studies [1]. However, concerns have been raised regarding the validity of the approach, that is, t... Read More about Assessing the Validity of Low and Medium-Fidelity Driving Simulators for HMI Distraction Testing – A Subjective Approach.
MPeat—A fully coupled mechanical-ecohydrological model of peatland development (2021)
Journal Article
Mathematical models of long-term peatland development have been produced to analyse peatland behaviour. However, existing models ignore the mechanical processes that have the potential to provide important feedback. Here, we propose a one-dimensional... Read More about MPeat—A fully coupled mechanical-ecohydrological model of peatland development.
Potential impacts of oxygen impurities in carbon capture and storage on microbial community composition and activity (2021)
Journal Article
Gaseous impurities, such as O2, are expected to be present within CO2 captured for storage. This could stimulate microbial activity in a geological CO2 storage site which has the potential to lead to operational issues such as injection well blockage... Read More about Potential impacts of oxygen impurities in carbon capture and storage on microbial community composition and activity.
Multi-scale pore structural change across a paleodepositional transition in Utica shale probed by gas sorption overcondensation and scanning (2021)
Journal Article
Pore structure and network configuration in shales greatly impacts physical processes important for hydrocarbon migration, methane extraction, gas storage, or carbon sequestration. The multi-scale nature of the porosity in shales presents significant... Read More about Multi-scale pore structural change across a paleodepositional transition in Utica shale probed by gas sorption overcondensation and scanning.
NatureScot Research Report 1269 - Using peatland surface motion (bog breathing) to monitor Peatland Action sites (2021)
Report
Interferometric satellite radar (InSAR) provides a means of measuring peatland surface motion continuously and is not limited by scale or cloud cover. Previous InSAR investigations demonstrate the potential for InSAR to quantify surface motion and he... Read More about NatureScot Research Report 1269 - Using peatland surface motion (bog breathing) to monitor Peatland Action sites.
Isolating the Effect of Off-Road Glance Duration on Driving Performance: An Exemplar Study Comparing HDD and HUD in Different Driving Scenarios (2021)
Journal Article
Objective: We controlled participants’ glance behavior while using head-down displays (HDDs) and head-up displays (HUDs) to isolate driving behavioral changes due to use of different display types across different driving environments. Background: Re... Read More about Isolating the Effect of Off-Road Glance Duration on Driving Performance: An Exemplar Study Comparing HDD and HUD in Different Driving Scenarios.
Exploring the benefits of conversing with a digital voice assistant during automated driving: A parametric duration model of takeover time (2021)
Journal Article
Vehicle automation allows drivers to disengage from driving causing a potential decline in their alertness. One of the major challenges of highly automated vehicles is to ensure a timely (with respect to safety and situation awareness) takeover in su... Read More about Exploring the benefits of conversing with a digital voice assistant during automated driving: A parametric duration model of takeover time.
Exploring the effectiveness of a digital voice assistant to maintain driver alertness in partially automated vehicles (2021)
Journal Article
Objective: Vehicle automation shifts the driver's role from active operator to passive observer at the potential cost of degrading their alertness. This study investigated the role of an in-vehicle voice-based assistant (VA; conversing about traffic/... Read More about Exploring the effectiveness of a digital voice assistant to maintain driver alertness in partially automated vehicles.
Driver Perception Using A Camera-Based Digital Side Mirror: An On-Road Study (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Camera-based digital mirrors purport to offer a range of benefits yet may influence drivers’ ability to quickly and accurately extract salient information pertaining to driving. In an on-road study, fifteen experienced drivers (seated in the front, l... Read More about Driver Perception Using A Camera-Based Digital Side Mirror: An On-Road Study.
Introducing CHAT to Improve Driver Performance during Level 3 Automated Driving (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Intermediate levels of automation will place new demands on drivers. At this level, system capability allows drivers to turn their attention to non-driving tasks, but system boundaries will require the driver to takeover control when requested and re... Read More about Introducing CHAT to Improve Driver Performance during Level 3 Automated Driving.
Time, hydrologic landscape and the long?term storage of peatland carbon in sedimentary basins (2021)
Journal Article
Peatland carbon may enter long‐term storage in sedimentary basins preserved as either coal or lignite. The time required to account for the carbon in 1 – 10 m thick coal seams must represent 105 to 106 years, an order of magnitude more than previousl... Read More about Time, hydrologic landscape and the long?term storage of peatland carbon in sedimentary basins.
Exploring the Benefits of Conversing with a Digital Voice Assistant during Automated Driving: A Parametric Duration Model of Takeover Time (2021)
Conference Proceeding
The current study investigated the role of an in-vehicle digital voice-assistant (VA) in conditionally automated vehicles, offering discourse relating specifically to contextual factors, such as the traffic situation and road environment. The study i... Read More about Exploring the Benefits of Conversing with a Digital Voice Assistant during Automated Driving: A Parametric Duration Model of Takeover Time.
A Perceptual Color-Matching Method for Examining Color Blending in Augmented Reality Head-Up Display Graphics (2020)
Journal Article
Augmented reality (AR) offers new ways to visualize information on-the-go. As noted in related work, AR graphics presented via optical see-through AR displays are particularly prone to color blending, whereby intended graphic colors may be perceptual... Read More about A Perceptual Color-Matching Method for Examining Color Blending in Augmented Reality Head-Up Display Graphics.