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Safety Assessment Review of a Dressing Assistance Robot (2021)
Journal Article
Delgado Bellamy, D., Chance, G., Caleb-Solly, P., & Dogramadzi, S. (2021). Safety Assessment Review of a Dressing Assistance Robot. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, Article 667316. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.667316

Hazard analysis methods such as HAZOP and STPA have proven to be effective methods for assurance of system safety for years. However, the dimensionality and human factors uncertainty of many assistive robotic applications challenges the capability of... Read More about Safety Assessment Review of a Dressing Assistance Robot.

Metaheuristics “In the Large” (2021)
Journal Article
Swan, J., Adriaensen, S., Johnson, C. G., Kheiri, A., Krawiec, F., Merelo, J. J., …White, D. R. (2022). Metaheuristics “In the Large”. European Journal of Operational Research, 297(2), 393-406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.05.042

Following decades of sustained improvement, metaheuristics are one of the great success stories of optimization research. However, in order for research in metaheuristics to avoid fragmentation and a lack of reproducibility, there is a pressing need... Read More about Metaheuristics “In the Large”.

Improving Uncertainty Estimation With Semi-supervised Deep Learning for COVID-19 Detection Using Chest X-ray Images (2021)
Journal Article
Calderon-Ramirez, S., Yang, S., Moemeni, A., Colreavy-Donnelly, S., Elizondo, D. A., Oala, L., …Molina-Cabello, M. A. (2021). Improving Uncertainty Estimation With Semi-supervised Deep Learning for COVID-19 Detection Using Chest X-ray Images. IEEE Access, 9, 85442 - 85454. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3085418

In this work we implement a COVID-19 infection detection system based on chest Xray images with uncertainty estimation. Uncertainty estimation is vital for safe usage of computer aided diagnosis tools in medical applications. Model estimations with h... Read More about Improving Uncertainty Estimation With Semi-supervised Deep Learning for COVID-19 Detection Using Chest X-ray Images.

Offshore wind farm site selection using interval rough numbers based Best-Worst Method and MARCOS (2021)
Journal Article
Deveci, M., Özcan, E., John, R., Pamucar, D., & Karaman, H. (2021). Offshore wind farm site selection using interval rough numbers based Best-Worst Method and MARCOS. Applied Soft Computing, 109, Article 107532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2021.107532

Over the past 20 years, the development of offshore wind farms has become increasingly important across the world. One of the most crucial reasons for that is offshore wind turbines have higher average speeds than those onshore, producing more electr... Read More about Offshore wind farm site selection using interval rough numbers based Best-Worst Method and MARCOS.

Playing Games with Tito: Designing Hybrid Museum Experiences for Critical Play (2021)
Journal Article
Løvlie, A. S., Ryding, K., Spence, J., Rajkowska, P., Waern, A., Wray, T., …Clare-Thorn, E. (2021). Playing Games with Tito: Designing Hybrid Museum Experiences for Critical Play. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 14(2), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3446620

This article brings together two distinct, but related perspectives on playful museum experiences: Critical play and hybrid design. The article explores the challenges involved in combining these two perspectives, through the design of two hybrid mus... Read More about Playing Games with Tito: Designing Hybrid Museum Experiences for Critical Play.

Designing to Support and Extend the Competencies of People with Visual Impairments (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes Cruz, G. (2021). Designing to Support and Extend the Competencies of People with Visual Impairments. In CHI EA '21: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3443425

This work sits in the fields of Human Computer Interaction and accessibility research dedicated to the study and development of technology used by people who are blind or visually impaired. Increasingly, researchers have stated the need to get away f... Read More about Designing to Support and Extend the Competencies of People with Visual Impairments.

An Examination of the Work Practices of Crowdfarms (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Y., Papangelis, K., Saker, M., Lykourentzou, I., Khan, V.-J., Chamberlain, A., & Grudin, J. (2021). An Examination of the Work Practices of Crowdfarms. In CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445603

Crowdsourcing is a new value creation business model. Annual revenue of the Chinese market alone is hundreds of millions of dollars, yet few studies have focused on the practices of the Chinese crowdsourcing workforce, and those that do mainly focus... Read More about An Examination of the Work Practices of Crowdfarms.

From Responsible Research and Innovation to responsibility by design (2021)
Journal Article
Stahl, B. C., Akintoye, S., Bitsch, L., Bringedal, B., Eke, D., Farisco, M., …Ulnicane, I. (2021). From Responsible Research and Innovation to responsibility by design. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 8(2), 175-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2021.1955613

Drawing on more than eight years working to implement Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the Human Brain Project, a large EU-funded research project that brings together neuroscience, computing, social sciences, and the humanities, and one... Read More about From Responsible Research and Innovation to responsibility by design.

Multi-Objective Feature Selection With Missing Data in Classification (2021)
Journal Article
Xue, Y., Tang, Y., Xu, X., Liang, J., & Neri, F. (2022). Multi-Objective Feature Selection With Missing Data in Classification. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 6(2), 355-364. https://doi.org/10.1109/TETCI.2021.3074147

Feature selection (FS) is an important research topic in machine learning. Usually, FS is modelled as a bi-objective optimization problem whose objectives are: 1) classification accuracy; 2) number of features. One of the main issues in real-world ap... Read More about Multi-Objective Feature Selection With Missing Data in Classification.

Hypoalbuminemia in patients following their recovery from severe coronavirus disease 2019 (2021)
Journal Article
Ali, K. M., Ali, A. M., Tawfeeq, H. M., Figueredo, G. P., & Rostam, H. M. (2021). Hypoalbuminemia in patients following their recovery from severe coronavirus disease 2019. Journal of Medical Virology, 93(7), 4532-4536. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.27002

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by a contagious virus that has spread to more than 200 countries, territories, and regions. Thousands of studies to date have examined all aspects of this disease, yet little is known about the postrecove... Read More about Hypoalbuminemia in patients following their recovery from severe coronavirus disease 2019.

First Steps Towards RAT: A Protocol for Documenting Data Use in the Agent-Based Modeling Process (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Siebers, P.-O., Achter, S., Palaretti Bernardo, C., Borit, M., & Chattoe-Brown, E. (2021). First Steps Towards RAT: A Protocol for Documenting Data Use in the Agent-Based Modeling Process. In P. Ahrweiler, & M. Neumann (Eds.), Advances in Social Simulation: Proceedings of the 15th Social Simulation Conference: 23-27 September 2019 (257-261). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61503-1_24

While there is a number of frameworks and protocols in Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) that support the documentation of different aspects of a simulation study, it is surprising to find only a small number dealing with the handling of data. Here we prese... Read More about First Steps Towards RAT: A Protocol for Documenting Data Use in the Agent-Based Modeling Process.

Recovery agenda for sustainable development post COVID-19 at the country level: developing a fuzzy action priority surface (2021)
Journal Article
Ranjbari, M., Shams Esfandabadi, Z., Scagnelli, S. D., Siebers, P.-O., & Quatraro, F. (2021). Recovery agenda for sustainable development post COVID-19 at the country level: developing a fuzzy action priority surface. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 23, 16646-16673. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01372-6

As a response to the urgent call for recovery actions against the COVID-19 crisis, this research aims to identify action priority areas post COVID-19 toward achieving the targets of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) within the 2030 Agenda for... Read More about Recovery agenda for sustainable development post COVID-19 at the country level: developing a fuzzy action priority surface.

Realising a Push Button Modality for Video-Based Forensics (2021)
Journal Article
Zawali, B., Ikuesan, R. A., Kebande, V. R., Furnell, S., & A-Dhaqm, A. (2021). Realising a Push Button Modality for Video-Based Forensics. Infrastructures, 6(4), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures6040054

Complexity and sophistication among multimedia-based tools have made it easy for perpetrators to conduct digital crimes such as counterfeiting, modification, and alteration without being detected. It may not be easy to verify the integrity of video c... Read More about Realising a Push Button Modality for Video-Based Forensics.

Simulating the Impact of Personality on Fake News (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Coates, A., Muller, T., & Sirur, S. (2021). Simulating the Impact of Personality on Fake News. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3022,

Fake news is a key issue for social networks. We use an agent-based network simulation to model the spread of (fake) news. The agents' behaviour captures the OCEAN ("big five") personality trait model. The network is homophilic for political preferen... Read More about Simulating the Impact of Personality on Fake News.

Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Dowthwaite, L., Fischer, J., Perez Vallejos, E., Portillo, V., Nichele, E., Goulden, M., & McAuley, D. Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study

Background:
Digital contact tracing is employed to monitor and manage the spread of COVID-19. However, to be effective the system must be adopted by a substantial proportion of the population. Studies of mostly hypothetical contact tracing apps show... Read More about Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study.

Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future: An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies (2021)
Book
Stahl, B. C. (2021). Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future: An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies. Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69978-9

Offers a novel conceptualisation of the AI ethics debate by applying the discourse of innovation ecosystems to AI

Practice-oriented with an aim to give stakeholders and decisions makers conceptually sound and empirically rich ways of dealing with... Read More about Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future: An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies.

Measuring Online Wellbeing: A Scoping Review of Subjective Wellbeing Measures (2021)
Journal Article
Ong, Z. X., Dowthwaite, L., Vallejos, E. P., & Long, Y. (2021). Measuring Online Wellbeing: A Scoping Review of Subjective Wellbeing Measures. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 616637. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.616637

With the increasing importance of the internet to our everyday lives, questions are rightly being asked about how its’ use affects our wellbeing. It is important to be able to effectively measure the effects of the online context as it allows us to a... Read More about Measuring Online Wellbeing: A Scoping Review of Subjective Wellbeing Measures.

Three pillars of sustainability in the wake of COVID-19: A systematic review and future research agenda for sustainable development (2021)
Journal Article
Ranjbari, M., Esfandabadi, Z. S., Zanetti, M. C., Scagnelli, S. D., Siebers, P.-O., Aghbashlo, M., …Tabatabaei, M. (2021). Three pillars of sustainability in the wake of COVID-19: A systematic review and future research agenda for sustainable development. Journal of Cleaner Production, 297, Article 126660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126660

The COVID-19 pandemic has immensely impacted the economic, social, and environmental pillars of sustainability in human lives. Due to the scholars’ increasing interest in responding to the urgent call for action against the pandemic, the literature o... Read More about Three pillars of sustainability in the wake of COVID-19: A systematic review and future research agenda for sustainable development.

Good governance as a response to discontents? Déjà vu, or lessons for AI from other emerging technologies (2021)
Journal Article
Ulnicane, I., Eke, D. O., Knight, W., Ogoh, G., & Stahl, B. C. (2021). Good governance as a response to discontents? Déjà vu, or lessons for AI from other emerging technologies. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 46(1-2), 71-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2020.1840220

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have led to intense debates about benefits and concerns associated with this powerful technology. These concerns and debates have similarities with developments in other emerging technologies characteri... Read More about Good governance as a response to discontents? Déjà vu, or lessons for AI from other emerging technologies.