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Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Wilson, M. L., Sharon, N., Maior, H. A., Midha, S., Craven, M. P., & Sharples, S. (2018). Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker. In CHI EA '18 Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3170665

Research continues to correlate physical signals with mental activity, as opposed to physical activity, with physiological sensors. Further, with the proliferation of wearable technology, it seems imminent that our smart watches can soon keep track o... Read More about Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker.

Designing the Audience Journey through Repeated Experiences (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., Kallionpää, M., Weigl, D. M., …Lin, M. (2018). Designing the Audience Journey through Repeated Experiences. In CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-12). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174142

We report on the design, premiere and public evaluation of a multifaceted audience interface for a complex non-linear musical performance called Climb! which is particularly suited to being experienced more than once. This interface is designed to en... Read More about Designing the Audience Journey through Repeated Experiences.

Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Verame, J. K. M., Costanza, E., Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Ramchurn, S. D., Rodden, T., & Jennings, N. R. (2018). Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation. In CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-13). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174021

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to enable applications that foster a more efficient, sustainable, and healthy way of life. If end-users are to take full advantage of these developments we foresee the need for future IoT systems and services to... Read More about Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation.

Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., Reeves, S., & Sharples, S. (2018). Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life. In CHI '18: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-12). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174214

© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are becoming ubiquitously available, being embedded both into everyday mobility via smartphones, and into the life of the home via 'assistant' devices. Yet, exactly how use... Read More about Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life.

#Scanners 2 – The MOMENT: a new brain-controlled movie (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Ramchurn, R., Wilson, M. L., Martindale, S., & Benford, S. (2018). #Scanners 2 – The MOMENT: a new brain-controlled movie. In CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1–4). https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3186481

While many still consider interactive movies an unrealistic idea, current delivery platforms like Netflix, commercial VR, and the proliferation of wearable sensors mean that adaptive and responsive entertainment experiences are an immediate reality.... Read More about #Scanners 2 – The MOMENT: a new brain-controlled movie.

Customizing hybrid products (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Benford, S., Koleva, B., Preston, W., Angus, A., Thorn, E., & Glover, K. (2018). Customizing hybrid products. In CHI '18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1–12). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173604

We explore how the convergence of the digital and physical into hybrid products leads to new possibilities for customization. We report on a technology probe, a hybrid advent calendar with both paper form and digital layers of content, both of which... Read More about Customizing hybrid products.

End-to-end audiovisual speech recognition (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Petridis, S., Stafylakis, T., Ma, P., Cai, F., Tzimiropoulos, G., & Pantic, M. (2018). End-to-end audiovisual speech recognition.

Several end-to-end deep learning approaches have been recently presented which extract either audio or visual features from the input images or audio signals and perform speech recognition. However, research on end-to-end audiovisual models is very l... Read More about End-to-end audiovisual speech recognition.

How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Alsuraykh, N. H., Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., Tennent, P., & Sharples, S. (2018). How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload. In CHI EA '18 Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188646

Recent work has demonstrated that functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy has the potential to measure changes in Mental Workload with increasing ecological validity. It is not clear, however, whether these measurements are affected by anxiety and stre... Read More about How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload.

Proposal of a design pattern for embedding the concept of social forces in human centric simulation models (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Siebers, P., Deng, Y., Thaler, J., Schnädelbach, H., & Özcan, E. (2018). Proposal of a design pattern for embedding the concept of social forces in human centric simulation models. In A. Anagnostou, M. Fakhimi, R. Meskarian, & D. Robertson (Eds.), Proceedings of the Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop 2018 (SW18) (88-97)

There exist many papers that explain the social force model and its application for modelling pedestrian dynamics. None of these papers, however, explains how to implement the social force model in order to use it for systems simulation studies. In t... Read More about Proposal of a design pattern for embedding the concept of social forces in human centric simulation models.

Come and play: interactive theatre for early years (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Patel, R., Schnadelbach, H., & Koleva, B. (2018). Come and play: interactive theatre for early years. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3173225.3173251

The convergence of theatre and digital technologies can play a valuable role in theatre for early years, but, how an audience of under-5’s experiences and engages with these spaces is largely unexplored. We present an interactive performance installa... Read More about Come and play: interactive theatre for early years.

Synthesis of orchestrations of transducers for manufacturing (2018)
Conference Proceeding
De Giacomo, G., Vardi, M. Y., Felli, P., Alechina, N., & Logan, B. (2018). Synthesis of orchestrations of transducers for manufacturing.

In this paper, we model manufacturing processes and facilities as transducers (automata with output). The problem of whether a given manufacturing process can be realized by a given set of manufacturing resources can then be stated as an orchestratio... Read More about Synthesis of orchestrations of transducers for manufacturing.

Fuzzy C-means-based scenario bundling for stochastic service network design (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Jiang, X., Bai, R., Landa-Silva, D., & Aickelin, U. (2018). Fuzzy C-means-based scenario bundling for stochastic service network design. In 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2017 - Proceedings (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI.2017.8280905

Stochastic service network designs with uncertain demand represented by a set of scenarios can be modelled as a large-scale two-stage stochastic mixed-integer program (SMIP). The progressive hedging algorithm (PHA) is a decomposition method for solvi... Read More about Fuzzy C-means-based scenario bundling for stochastic service network design.

Using goal programming on estimated Pareto fronts to solve multiobjective problems (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Pinheiro, R. L., Landa-Silva, D., Laesanklang, W., & Constantino, A. A. (2018). Using goal programming on estimated Pareto fronts to solve multiobjective problems.

Modern multiobjective algorithms can be computationally inefficient in producing good approximation sets for highly constrained many-objective problems. Such problems are common in real-world applications where decision-makers need to assess multiple... Read More about Using goal programming on estimated Pareto fronts to solve multiobjective problems.

The Coinductive Formulation of Common Knowledge (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Baston, C., & Capretta, V. (2018). The Coinductive Formulation of Common Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94821-8_8

© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature. We study the coinductive formulation of common knowledge in type theory. We formalise both the traditional relational semantics and an operator semantics, similar in form to the e... Read More about The Coinductive Formulation of Common Knowledge.