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Models of Representation in Computational Intelligence [Guest Editorial] (2023)
Journal Article
Nobile, M. S., Manzoni, L., Ashlock, D. A., & Qu, R. (2023). Models of Representation in Computational Intelligence [Guest Editorial]. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 18(1), 20-21. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCI.2022.3223482

Computational Intelligence (CI) provides a set of powerful tools to effectively tackle complex computational tasks: global optimization methods (e.g., evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence), machine learning (e.g., neural networks), fuzzy reas... Read More about Models of Representation in Computational Intelligence [Guest Editorial].

A generality analysis of multiobjective hyper-heuristics (2023)
Journal Article
Li, W., Özcan, E., Drake, J. H., & Maashi, M. (2023). A generality analysis of multiobjective hyper-heuristics. Information Sciences, 627, 34-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2023.01.047

Selection hyper-heuristics have emerged as high level general-purpose search methodologies that mix and control a set of low-level (meta) heuristics. Previous empirical studies over a range of single objective optimisation problems have shown that th... Read More about A generality analysis of multiobjective hyper-heuristics.

Innate immune cell instruction using micron-scale 3D objects of varied architecture and polymer chemistry: The ChemoArchiChip (2023)
Journal Article
Vassey, M., Ma, L., Kämmerling, L., Mbadugha, C., Trindade, G. F., Figueredo, G. P., …Alexander, M. R. (2023). Innate immune cell instruction using micron-scale 3D objects of varied architecture and polymer chemistry: The ChemoArchiChip. Matter, 6(3), 887-906. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2023.01.002

To design effective immunomodulatory implants, innate immune cell interactions at the surface of biomaterials need to be controlled and understood. The architectural design freedom of two-photon polymerization is used to produce arrays of surface-mou... Read More about Innate immune cell instruction using micron-scale 3D objects of varied architecture and polymer chemistry: The ChemoArchiChip.

"More Than a cliché": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild (2023)
Journal Article
Spence, J., Koleva, B., Benford, S., Darzentas, D., Flintham, M., Glover, K., …Thorn, E. C. (2023). "More Than a cliché": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 30(4), Article 55. https://doi.org/10.1145/3577015

Gifting is socially and economically important. Studies of gifting physical objects have revealed motivations, values, and the tensions between them, while HCI research has revealed weaknesses of digital gifting and explored possibilities of hybrid g... Read More about "More Than a cliché": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild.

Stacking sequence optimisation of an aircraft wing skin (2023)
Journal Article
Ntourmas, G., Glock, F., Deinert, S., Daoud, F., Schuhmacher, G., Chronopoulos, D., …Ninić, J. (2023). Stacking sequence optimisation of an aircraft wing skin. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 66(2), Article 31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-022-03483-8

This paper demonstrates a stacking sequence optimisation process of a composite aircraft wing skin. A two-stage approach is employed to satisfy all sizing requirements of this industrial sized, medium altitude, long endurance drone. In the first stag... Read More about Stacking sequence optimisation of an aircraft wing skin.

Deep Learning with Attention Mechanisms for Road Weather Detection (2023)
Journal Article
Samo, M., Mafeni Mase, J. M., & Figueredo, G. (2023). Deep Learning with Attention Mechanisms for Road Weather Detection. Sensors, 23(2), Article 798. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23020798

There is great interest in automatically detecting road weather and understanding its impacts on the overall safety of the transport network. This can, for example, support road condition-based maintenance or even serve as detection systems that assi... Read More about Deep Learning with Attention Mechanisms for Road Weather Detection.

Young People’s Trust in Cocreated Web-Based Resources to Promote Mental Health Literacy: Focus Group Study (2023)
Journal Article
Ito-Jaeger, S., Perez Vallejos, E., Logathasan, S., Curran, T., & Crawford, P. (2023). Young People’s Trust in Cocreated Web-Based Resources to Promote Mental Health Literacy: Focus Group Study. JMIR Mental Health, 10, Article e38346. https://doi.org/10.2196/38346

Background:
There is a pressing need to create resources to promote mental health literacy among young people. Digital media is one of the methods that can be used to successfully promote mental health literacy. Although digital mental health resour... Read More about Young People’s Trust in Cocreated Web-Based Resources to Promote Mental Health Literacy: Focus Group Study.

Towards Handling Uncertainty-at-Source in AI – A Review and Next Steps for Interval Regression (2023)
Journal Article
Kabir, S., Wagner, C., & Ellerby, Z. (2023). Towards Handling Uncertainty-at-Source in AI – A Review and Next Steps for Interval Regression. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 5(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAI.2023.3234930

Most of statistics and AI draw insights through modelling discord or variance between sources (i.e., inter-source) of information. Increasingly however, research is focusing on uncertainty arising at the level of individual measurements (i.e., within... Read More about Towards Handling Uncertainty-at-Source in AI – A Review and Next Steps for Interval Regression.

Innovation vs Practicality vs Entertainment (2023)
Journal Article
Mevel, P.-A., Robinson, J., & Tennent, P. (2023). Innovation vs Practicality vs Entertainment. inTRAlinea: Online Translation Journal, Special issue: Inclusive theatre-making: translation, accessibility and beyond, Article 2595

This article examines the use of inclusive technological solutions to promote accessibility on stage. Specifically, it concentrates on the way technological solutions are developed and integrated into a show’s design both in terms of the immersion an... Read More about Innovation vs Practicality vs Entertainment.

Towards Shaping the Future of Responsible AI in Africa (2023)
Book Chapter
Eke, D. O., Chintu, S. S., & Wakunuma, K. (2023). Towards Shaping the Future of Responsible AI in Africa. In D. O. Eke, K. Wakunuma, & S. Akintoye (Eds.), Responsible AI in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities (169-193). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08215-3_8

Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents unprecedented opportunities for Africa. Increasingly, AI and other emerging technologies are being deployed in African contexts—healthcare, agriculture, sociopolitical processes, businesses and education—in ways... Read More about Towards Shaping the Future of Responsible AI in Africa.

AI Policy as a Response to AI Ethics? Addressing Ethical Issues in the Development of AI Policies in North Africa (2023)
Book Chapter
Stahl, B. C., Leach, T., Oyeniji, O., & Ogoh, G. (2023). AI Policy as a Response to AI Ethics? Addressing Ethical Issues in the Development of AI Policies in North Africa. In D. Okaibedi Eke, K. Wakunuma, & S. Akintoye (Eds.), . Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08215-3_7

The recent exponential rate of AI development has led to a proliferation of AI national policies and strategies as global power blocs have sought to consolidate positions of strategic dominance. These policies have sought to promote the benefits and... Read More about AI Policy as a Response to AI Ethics? Addressing Ethical Issues in the Development of AI Policies in North Africa.

The ethical and legal landscape of brain data governance (2022)
Journal Article
Ochang, P., Stahl, B. C., & Eke, D. (2022). The ethical and legal landscape of brain data governance. PLoS ONE, 17(12), Article e0273473. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273473

Neuroscience research is producing big brain data which informs both advancements in neuroscience research and drives the development of advanced datasets to provide advanced medical solutions. These brain data are produced under different jurisdicti... Read More about The ethical and legal landscape of brain data governance.

Automated algorithm design using proximal policy optimisation with identified features (2022)
Journal Article
Yi, W., Qu, R., & Jiao, L. (2023). Automated algorithm design using proximal policy optimisation with identified features. Expert Systems with Applications, 216, Article 119461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.119461

Automated algorithm design is attracting considerable recent research attention in solving complex combinatorial optimisation problems, due to that most metaheuristics may be particularly effective at certain problems or certain instances of the same... Read More about Automated algorithm design using proximal policy optimisation with identified features.

Interactions of fast-moving consumer goods in cooking: Insights from a quantitative ethnographic study (2022)
Journal Article
Berumen, G., Fischer, J., & Baumers, M. (2023). Interactions of fast-moving consumer goods in cooking: Insights from a quantitative ethnographic study. Packaging Technology and Science, 36(4), 265-279. https://doi.org/10.1002/pts.2710

Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) are increasingly equipped with enhanced packaging that incorporates novel functionalities. Providing FMCGs with this technology is challenging due to their unique characteristics, such as their low cost and short li... Read More about Interactions of fast-moving consumer goods in cooking: Insights from a quantitative ethnographic study.

Immersive, Creative, Inclusive: Areas of cross-fertilization between accessible captions for D/deaf audiences for the stage and for the screen (2022)
Journal Article
Mevel, P.-A., Robinson, J., & Tennent, P. (2022). Immersive, Creative, Inclusive: Areas of cross-fertilization between accessible captions for D/deaf audiences for the stage and for the screen. Journal of Audiovisual Translation, 5(2), 176-193. https://doi.org/10.47476/jat.v5i2.2022.227

In a deliberate and valiant effort to adapt to the conditions created by the recent pandemic, many theatre companies across the globe shifted their activities from the stage to online video platforms. But in releasing large portions of their back-cat... Read More about Immersive, Creative, Inclusive: Areas of cross-fertilization between accessible captions for D/deaf audiences for the stage and for the screen.

Towards a master narrative for trust in autonomous systems: Trust as a distributed concern (2022)
Journal Article
Lindley, J., Green, D. P., McGarry, G., Pilling, F., Coulton, P., & Crabtree, A. (2023). Towards a master narrative for trust in autonomous systems: Trust as a distributed concern. Journal of Responsible Technology, 13, 100057. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2022.100057


In this paper we present findings of research into Trust, specifically within the context of Autonomous Systems. The research is based upon an exploratory workshop attended by domain experts from academia and industry. The aim of t... Read More about Towards a master narrative for trust in autonomous systems: Trust as a distributed concern.

Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal-Centric Robotic & AI Systems (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Benford, S., Fischer, J., Barnard, P., Greenhalgh, C., Row Farr, J., …Adams, M. (2022). Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal-Centric Robotic & AI Systems. In ACI '22: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3565995.3566046

From cat feeders and cat flaps to robot toys, humans are deploying increasingly autonomous systems to look after their pets. In parallel, industry is developing the next generation of autonomous systems to look after humans in the home – most notably... Read More about Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal-Centric Robotic & AI Systems.

Conversational AI: Respecifying participation as regulation (2022)
Book Chapter
Reeves, S., & Porcheron, M. (2022). Conversational AI: Respecifying participation as regulation. In W. Housley, A. Edwards, R. Beneito-Montagut, & R. Fitzgerald (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society. SAGE Publications

When we talk about AI-driven systems there is a tendency by researchers to treat people encountering them as ‘participants’ in human-machine interactions. This seems particularly true for so-called conversational AI, such as voice interfaces or chatb... Read More about Conversational AI: Respecifying participation as regulation.

The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
McClaughlin, E., Vilar-Lluch, S., Parnell, T., Knight, D., Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., …Schiazza, G. (2023). The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 3(1), Article 100037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100037

Understanding the reception of public health messages in public-facing communications is of key importance to health agencies in managing crises, pandemics, and other health threats. Established public health communications strategi... Read More about The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic.

An investigation of F-Race training strategies for cross domain optimisation with memetic algorithms (2022)
Journal Article
Gümüş, D. B., Özcan, E., Atkin, J., & Drake, J. H. (2023). An investigation of F-Race training strategies for cross domain optimisation with memetic algorithms. Information Sciences, 619, 153-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2022.11.008

Parameter tuning is a challenging and time-consuming task, crucial to obtaining improved metaheuristic performance. There is growing interest in cross-domain search methods, which consider a range of optimisation problems rather than being specialise... Read More about An investigation of F-Race training strategies for cross domain optimisation with memetic algorithms.