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The role of the user within the medical device design and development process: medical device manufacturers' perspectives (2011)
Journal Article

Background Academic literature and international standards bodies suggest that user involvement, via the incorporation of human factors engineering methods within the medical device design and development (MDDD) process, offer many benefits that e... Read More about The role of the user within the medical device design and development process: medical device manufacturers' perspectives.

Deploying a spreadsheet tool for early economic value assessment of medical device innovations with healthcare decision makers (2009)
Journal Article

Early stage evaluation of medical device innovations is important for healthcare decision-makers as much as for manufacturers, meaning that a wider application of a basic cost-effectiveness analysis is becoming necessary outside the usual expert base... Read More about Deploying a spreadsheet tool for early economic value assessment of medical device innovations with healthcare decision makers.

Cricket batting technique analyser/trainer using fuzzy logic (2009)
Conference Proceeding

Within this paper a system is proposed to capture the motion of a cricket batter whilst playing a stroke. The system is based on the classification of cricket batting strokes using fuzzy logic. The system was then used to analyze the motion of novice... Read More about Cricket batting technique analyser/trainer using fuzzy logic.

A high fidelity tissue-based cardiac surgical simulator (2005)
Journal Article

Issues concerning the training and certification of surgical specialists have taken on great significance in the last decade. A realistic computer-assisted, tissue-based simulator developed for use in the training of cardiac surgical residents in the... Read More about A high fidelity tissue-based cardiac surgical simulator.

MATCH: a new industry-focused approach to medical device development (2005)
Book Chapter

MATCH (Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare) is a new collaboration in the UK that aims to support the healthcare sector by creating methods to assess the value of medical devices from concept through to mature product. A... Read More about MATCH: a new industry-focused approach to medical device development.

MATCH: a multidisciplinary approach to the advancement of Health Technology Assessment (2004)
Book Chapter

GesRec3D: a real-time coded gesture-to-speech system with automatic segmentation and recognition thresholding using dissimilarity measures (2004)
Book Chapter

A complete microcomputer system is described, GesRec3D, which facilitates the data acquisition, segmentation, learning, and recognition of 3-Dimensional arm gestures, with application as a Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) aid for peop... Read More about GesRec3D: a real-time coded gesture-to-speech system with automatic segmentation and recognition thresholding using dissimilarity measures.

Cardiac training simulator using pump with electronic pressure sensor to trigger ventricular fibrillation (2003)
Conference Proceeding

Cardiac surgery training in a realistic surgical environment is assisted by a simulator based on an electromechanical pneumatic pump with associated control and display software. In this paper we describe a feedback mechanism for controlling the beat... Read More about Cardiac training simulator using pump with electronic pressure sensor to trigger ventricular fibrillation.

Using Action Research to Enhance Teaching and Learning at the University of Technology, Jamaica (2003)
Journal Article

As part of its quality assurance systems, the University of Technology, Jamaica initiated a project aimed at exploring how action research could be used as a vehicle for enhancing the quality of the teaching/learning process. Following a series of or... Read More about Using Action Research to Enhance Teaching and Learning at the University of Technology, Jamaica.

Fuzzy Recognition of Cricket Batting Strokes Based on Sequences of Body and Bat Postures (2003)
Conference Proceeding

A mathematical classification of two cricket batting strokes, using fuzzy set theory, is presented. A system is proposed within this paper, to capture the motion of a batsman/batswoman whilst playing a stroke. This is then compared to known strokes,... Read More about Fuzzy Recognition of Cricket Batting Strokes Based on Sequences of Body and Bat Postures.

Design of an electromechanical pump system for training in beating heart cardiac surgery (2002)
Conference Proceeding

Heart surgeons and trainees benefit greatly from continuous practice of bypass surgery and other cardiac operations. This is true of beating heart surgery where, unlike traditional methods, the heart is not arrested during the operation. At the Dept.... Read More about Design of an electromechanical pump system for training in beating heart cardiac surgery.

Applications of temporal links: recording and replaying virtual environments (2002)
Conference Proceeding

Temporal links allow recordings of multi-user sessions to be dynamically inserted into current virtual worlds in a flexible and principled way. We explore key applications of temporal links, showing how they can add new content to virtual worlds, sup... Read More about Applications of temporal links: recording and replaying virtual environments.

Exploiting Interactivity, Influence, Space and Time to Explore Non-linear Drama in Virtual Worlds (2001)
Conference Proceeding

Patterns of Network and User Activity in an Inhabited Television Event (2001)
Journal Article

Inhabited television takes traditional broadcast television and combines it with multiuser virtual reality to give new possibilities for interaction and participation in and around shows or channels. Out of This World was an experimental inhabited TV... Read More about Patterns of Network and User Activity in an Inhabited Television Event.

Temporal links: recording and replaying virtual environments (2000)
Conference Proceeding

Inhabited television: broadcasting interaction from within collaborative virtual environments (2000)
Journal Article

Inhabited television combines collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) with broadcast television so that on-line audiences can participate in television shows within shared virtual worlds. We describe a series of experiments with inhabited televisio... Read More about Inhabited television: broadcasting interaction from within collaborative virtual environments.

Broadcasting On-Line Social Interaction as Inhabited Television (1999)
Conference Proceeding

Inhabited TV combines collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) with broadcast TV so that on-line audiences can participate in TV shows within shared virtual worlds. Three early experiments with inhabited TV raised fundamental questions concerning th... Read More about Broadcasting On-Line Social Interaction as Inhabited Television.

Patterns of network and user activity in an inhabited television event (1999)
Conference Proceeding

Inhabited Television takes traditional broadcast television and combines it with multiuser virtual reality, to give new possibilities for interaction and participation in and around shows or channels. 'Out Of This World' was an experimental inhabited... Read More about Patterns of network and user activity in an inhabited television event.

Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web (1999)
Journal Article

Although large-scale public hypermedia structures such as the World Wide Web are popularly referred to as "cyberspace", the extent to which they constitute a space in the everyday sense of the word is questionable. This paper reviews recent work in t... Read More about Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web.

A faster learning neural network classifier using selective backpropagation (1997)
Conference Proceeding

The problem of saturation in neural network classification problems is discussed. The listprop algorithm is presented which reduces saturation and dramatically increases the rate of convergence. The technique uses selective application of the bac... Read More about A faster learning neural network classifier using selective backpropagation.