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Cord pilot trial, comparing alternative policies for timing of cord clamping before 32 weeks gestation: follow-up for women up to one year (2019)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, L., Sawyer, A., Armstrong-Buisseret, L., Mitchell, E., Ayers, S., & Duley, L. (2019). Cord pilot trial, comparing alternative policies for timing of cord clamping before 32 weeks gestation: follow-up for women up to one year. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 19, Article 78. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-019-2223-9

Background The Cord Pilot Trial compared two alternative policies for cord clamping at very preterm birth at eight UK maternity units: clamping after at least 2 min and immediate neonatal care (if needed) with cord intact, or clamping within 20 s an... Read More about Cord pilot trial, comparing alternative policies for timing of cord clamping before 32 weeks gestation: follow-up for women up to one year.

On the phase space structure of IP3 induced Ca2+ signalling and concepts for predictive modeling (2018)
Journal Article
Falcke, M., Moein, M., Tilunaite, A., Thul, R., & Skupin, A. (2018). On the phase space structure of IP3 induced Ca2+ signalling and concepts for predictive modeling. Chaos, 28(4), Article 045115. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5021073

The correspondence between mathematical structures and experimental systems is the basis of the generalizability of results found with specific systems, and is the basis of the predictive power of theoretical physics. While physicists have confidence... Read More about On the phase space structure of IP3 induced Ca2+ signalling and concepts for predictive modeling.

Bread stories: understanding the drivers of bread consumption for digital food customisation (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Pantidi, N., Selinas, P., Flintham, M., Baurley, S., & Rodden, T. (2017). Bread stories: understanding the drivers of bread consumption for digital food customisation.

Consumer demand for food that satisfies specific needs rather than generic mass produced food is growing. In response, the food industry is actively investigating techniques for efficient and comprehensive food customisation. Digital approaches to fo... Read More about Bread stories: understanding the drivers of bread consumption for digital food customisation.

Playing with social and emotional game companions (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Chowanda, A., Flintham, M., Blanchfield, P., & Valstar, M. (2016). Playing with social and emotional game companions. In Intelligent Virtual Agents

This paper presents the findings of an empirical study that explores player game experience by implementing the ERiSA Framework in games. A study with Action Role-Playing Game (RPG) was designed to evaluate player interactions with game companions, w... Read More about Playing with social and emotional game companions.

The portormin (dunbeath) runestone (2016)
Journal Article
Findell, M. (2016). The portormin (dunbeath) runestone. Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies, 6, 153-170

A stone with a short runic inscription was discovered on the beach at Portormin Harbour in Dunbeath, Caithness, in 1996. The find attracted some press attention at the time, but has been largely ignored by the runological com­mu­nity amid doubts over... Read More about The portormin (dunbeath) runestone.

Play SMILE Game with ERiSA: a user study on game companions (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Chowanda, A., Blanchfield, P., Flintham, M. D., & Valstar, M. F. (2015). Play SMILE Game with ERiSA: a user study on game companions. . https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.1211.3766

This paper describes the evaluation of our fully integrated virtual game companions framework (ERiSA) [4]. We conducted three user studies with different scenarios using two versions of The Smile Game[4] in semi-public and public spaces. In our study... Read More about Play SMILE Game with ERiSA: a user study on game companions.

Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Flintham, M. D., Velt, R., Wilson, M. L., Anstead, E. J., Benford, S., Brown, A., …Sprinks, J. (2015). Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators. In CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (747-756). https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702463

There has been a massive growth in the number of people who film and upload amateur footage of events to services such as Facebook and Youtube, or even stream live to services such as LiveStream. We present an exploratory study that investigates the... Read More about Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators.

Linguistic variation in early Anglo-Saxon England (2015)
Book Chapter
Findell, M. (2015). Linguistic variation in early Anglo-Saxon England. In R. Cohen, J. Story, & N. Moon (Eds.), The impact of diasporas. Oxford Diasporas Programme & The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain: Evidence, Memories, Inventions

ERiSA: building emotionally realistic social game-agents companions (2014)
Journal Article
Chowanda, A., Blanchfield, P., Flintham, M. D., & Valstar, M. (in press). ERiSA: building emotionally realistic social game-agents companions. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8637, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_16

We propose an integrated framework for social and emotional game-agents to enhance their believability and quality of interaction, in particular by allowing an agent to forge social relations and make appropriate use of social signals. The framework... Read More about ERiSA: building emotionally realistic social game-agents companions.

The Malthusian Paradox: performance in an alternate reality game (2014)
Journal Article
Evans, E., Flintham, M., & Martindale, S. (2014). The Malthusian Paradox: performance in an alternate reality game. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 18(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-014-0762-7

The Malthusian Paradox is a transmedia alternate reality game (ARG) created by artists Dominic Shaw and Adam Sporne played by 300 participants over three months. We explore the design of the game, which cast players as agents of a radical organisatio... Read More about The Malthusian Paradox: performance in an alternate reality game.

Understanding mass participatory pervasive computing systems for environmental campaigns (2013)
Journal Article
Chamberlain, A., Paxton, M., Glover, K., Flintham, M., Price, D., Benford, S., …Greenhalgh, C. (2014). Understanding mass participatory pervasive computing systems for environmental campaigns. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 18(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-013-0756-x

Participate was a 3-year collaboration between industry and academia to explore how mobile, Web and broadcast technologies could combine to deliver environ- mental campaigns. In a series of pilot projects, schools used mobile sensors to enhance scien... Read More about Understanding mass participatory pervasive computing systems for environmental campaigns.

Fundamental properties of Ca²⁺ signals (2011)
Journal Article
Thurley, K., Skupin, A., Thul, R., & Falcke, M. (2011). Fundamental properties of Ca²⁺ signals. BBA - General Subjects, 1820(8), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbagen.2011.10.007

Background Ca²⁺ is a ubiquitous and versatile second messenger that transmits information through changes of the cytosolic Ca²⁺ concentration. Recent investigations changed basic ideas on the dynamic character of Ca²⁺ signals and challenge tradition... Read More about Fundamental properties of Ca²⁺ signals.

Cardiac cell modelling: observations from the heart of the cardiac physiome project (2011)
Journal Article
Fink, M., Niederer, S. A., Cherry, E. M., Fenton, F. H., Koivumäki, J. T., Seemann, G., …Smith, N. P. (2011). Cardiac cell modelling: observations from the heart of the cardiac physiome project. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 104(1-3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2010.03.002

In this manuscript we review the state of cardiac cell modelling in the context of international initiatives such as the IUPS Physiome and Virtual Physiological Human Projects, which aim to integrate computational models across scales and physics. In... Read More about Cardiac cell modelling: observations from the heart of the cardiac physiome project.

Towards a predictive model of Ca²⁺ puffs (2009)
Journal Article
Thul, R., Thurley, K., & Falcke, M. (2009). Towards a predictive model of Ca²⁺ puffs. Chaos, 19, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3183809

We investigate key characteristics of Ca²⁺ puffs in deterministic and stochastic frameworks that all incorporate the cellular morphology of IP[subscript]3 receptor channel clusters. In a first step, we numerically study Ca²⁺ liberation in a three dim... Read More about Towards a predictive model of Ca²⁺ puffs.

Waiting time distributions for clusters of complex molecules (2007)
Journal Article
Thul, R., & Falcke, M. (2007). Waiting time distributions for clusters of complex molecules. EPL, 79(3), https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/79/38003

Waiting time distributions are in the core of theories for a large variety of subjects ranging from the analysis of patch clamp records to stochastic excitable systems. Here, we present a novel exact method for the calculation of waiting time distrib... Read More about Waiting time distributions for clusters of complex molecules.

Building oscillations bottom up: Elemental time scales of intracellular calcium dynamics (2007)
Book Chapter
Thul, R., & Falcke, M. (2007). Building oscillations bottom up: Elemental time scales of intracellular calcium dynamics. In L. Schimansky-Geier, B. Fiedler, J. Kurths, & E. Schöll (Eds.), Analysis and control of complex nonlinear processes in physics, chemistry and biology (293-324). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706911_0011

We analyze the elemental time scale of intracellular calcium dynamics. It is determined by the time course of Ca2+ puffs, which represent the fundamental quantum of Ca2+ release from intracellular storage compartments. Since Ca2+ puffs are truly rand... Read More about Building oscillations bottom up: Elemental time scales of intracellular calcium dynamics.

Frequency of elemental events of intracellular Ca²⁺ dynamics (2006)
Journal Article
Thul, R., & Falcke, M. (2006). Frequency of elemental events of intracellular Ca²⁺ dynamics. Physical Review E, 73, Article 061923. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.73.061923

The dynamics of intracellular Ca²⁺ is driven by random events called Ca²⁺ puffs, in which Ca²⁺ is liberated from intracellular stores. We show that the emergence of Ca²⁺ puffs can be mapped to an escape process. The mean first passage times that corresp... Read More about Frequency of elemental events of intracellular Ca²⁺ dynamics.

The multimedia challenges raised by pervasive games (2005)
Conference Proceeding
Capra, M., Radenkovic, M., Benford, S., Oppermann, L., Drozd, A., & Flintham, M. (2005). The multimedia challenges raised by pervasive games. In Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia - MULTIMEDIA '05. https://doi.org/10.1145/1101149.1101163

Pervasive gaming is a new form of multimedia entertainment that extends the traditional computer gaming experience out into the real world. Through a combination of personal devices, positioning systems and other multimedia sensors, combined with wir... Read More about The multimedia challenges raised by pervasive games.