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Creating personalised energy plans: from groups to individuals using Fuzzy C Means Clustering
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dent, I., Wagner, C., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. Creating personalised energy plans: from groups to individuals using Fuzzy C Means Clustering.

Changes in the UK electricity market mean that domestic users will be required to modify their usage behaviour in accordance with energy eciency targets. Clustering allows usage data, collected at the household level, to be clustered into groups... Read More about Creating personalised energy plans: from groups to individuals using Fuzzy C Means Clustering.

Modelling reactive and proactive behaviour in simulation
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Majid, M. A., Siebers, P.-O., & Aickelin, U. Modelling reactive and proactive behaviour in simulation.

This research investigated the simulation model behaviour of a traditional and combined discrete event as well as agent based simulation models when modelling human reactive and proactive behaviour in human centric complex systems. A departmental st... Read More about Modelling reactive and proactive behaviour in simulation.

2Zero project D5.1 Modelling And Simulation Report
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Atkin, J., Karapetyan, D., De Maere, G., He, Y., Jackson, W., El Krari, M., & Siggs, T. 2Zero project D5.1 Modelling And Simulation Report. Innovate UK

This report summarises the work in the Modelling and Simulation Work Package, WP 2, of the 2Zero project (funded by Innovate UK, grant agreement number 74829) under UKRI’s Future Flight Challenge Fund. It discusses the simulation that was built, how... Read More about 2Zero project D5.1 Modelling And Simulation Report.

Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Coughlan, T., Brown, M., Lawson, G., McAuley, D., Baurley, S., Tsai, A., …Martin, J. L. Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home.

Participation in forms of drama and narrative can provoke empathy and creativity in user-centred design processes. In this paper, we expand upon existing methods to explore the potential for responsive scripted experiences that are delivered through... Read More about Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home.

Application of a clustering framework to UK domestic electricity data
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dent, I., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. Application of a clustering framework to UK domestic electricity data.

Abstract—The UK electricity industry will shortly have available a massively increased amount of data from domestic households and this paper is a step towards deriving useful information from non intrusive household level monitoring of electrici... Read More about Application of a clustering framework to UK domestic electricity data.

A three-dimensional model of residential energy consumer archetypes for local energy policy design in the UK
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, T., Siebers, P., & Aickelin, U. A three-dimensional model of residential energy consumer archetypes for local energy policy design in the UK.

This paper reviews major studies in three traditional lines of research in residential energy consumption in the UK, i.e. economic/infrastructure, behaviour, and load profiling. Based on the review the paper proposes a three-dimensional model for arc... Read More about A three-dimensional model of residential energy consumer archetypes for local energy policy design in the UK.

The role of management practices in closing the productivity gap
Book
Siebers, P., Aickelin, U., Battisti, G., Helen, C., Clegg, C., Fu, X., …Peixoto, A. The role of management practices in closing the productivity gap. Advanced Institute of Management Research

There is no doubt that management practices are linked to the productivity and performance of a company. However, research findings are mixed. This paper provides a multi-disciplinary review of the current evidence of such a relationship and offers s... Read More about The role of management practices in closing the productivity gap.

Progressivity for voice interface design
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fischer, J. E., Reeves, S., Porcheron, M., & Sikveland, R. O. (2019). Progressivity for voice interface design. In CUI '19: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (1–8). https://doi.org/10.1145/3342775.3342788

Drawing from Conversation Analysis (CA), we examine how the orientation towards progressivity in talk--keeping things moving--might help us better understand and design for voice interactions. We introduce progressivity by surveying its explication i... Read More about Progressivity for voice interface design.

Approaches to movement therapy and their relevance to the design of interactive systems to support rehabilitation
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rennick-Egglestone, S. (2012). Approaches to movement therapy and their relevance to the design of interactive systems to support rehabilitation.

Stroke is a major cause of physical disability for those that survive it. Traditionally, treatment of disability involves interaction with professional trained in the movement therapies. However, there is a growing body of research into interactive s... Read More about Approaches to movement therapy and their relevance to the design of interactive systems to support rehabilitation.

Making it “pay a bit better”: design challenges for micro rural enterprise
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., & Chamberlain, A. (in press). Making it “pay a bit better”: design challenges for micro rural enterprise.

This paper reports on a field study of small market in Wales undertaken as part of broader research project aimed at developing IT solutions to support rural enterprise. The project is predicated on the assumption that the primary challenge facing ru... Read More about Making it “pay a bit better”: design challenges for micro rural enterprise.

Gesture bike: examining projection surfaces and turn signal systems for urban cycling
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dancu, A., Vechev, V., Unluer, A. A., Nilson, S., Nygren, O., Eliasson, S., …Fjeld, M. (2015). Gesture bike: examining projection surfaces and turn signal systems for urban cycling.

Interactive surfaces could be employed in urban environments to make people more aware of moving vehicles, showing drivers’ intention and the subsequent position of vehicles. To explore the usage of projections while cycling, we created a system that... Read More about Gesture bike: examining projection surfaces and turn signal systems for urban cycling.

Enabling the new economic actor: personal data regulation and the digital economy
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A. (in press). Enabling the new economic actor: personal data regulation and the digital economy.

This paper offers a sociological perspective on data protection regulation and its relevance to the design of digital technologies that exploit or ‘trade in’ personal data. From this perspective, proposed data protection regulations in Europe and the... Read More about Enabling the new economic actor: personal data regulation and the digital economy.

Improving security requirements adequacy: an interval type 2 fuzzy logic security assessment system
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hibshi, H., Breaux, T. D., & Wagner, C. (in press). Improving security requirements adequacy: an interval type 2 fuzzy logic security assessment system.

Organizations rely on security experts to improve the security of their systems. These professionals use background knowledge and experience to align known threats and vulnerabilities before selecting mitigation options. The substantial depth of expe... Read More about Improving security requirements adequacy: an interval type 2 fuzzy logic security assessment system.

Utilizing gravity in movement-based games and play
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hämäläinen, P., Marshall, J., Kajastila, R., Byrne, R., & Mueller, F. ‘. (2015). Utilizing gravity in movement-based games and play.

This paper seeks to expand the understanding of gravity as a powerful but underexplored design resource for movement-based games and play. We examine how gravity has been utilized and manipulated in digital, physical, and mixed reality games and spor... Read More about Utilizing gravity in movement-based games and play.

Grand Push Auto: a car based exertion game
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marshall, J., Loesche, F., Linehan, C., Johnson, D., & Martelli, B. (2015). Grand Push Auto: a car based exertion game.

Grand Push Auto is an exertion game in which players aim to push a full sized car to ever increasing speeds. The re-appropriation of a car as essentially a large weight allows us to create a highly portable and distributable exertion game in which th... Read More about Grand Push Auto: a car based exertion game.

Rural Enterprise as an Agent for Technology Development and Facilitation in the Digital Economy
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Valchovska, S., Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., Greenhalgh, C., Davies, M., Glover, K., & Rodden, T. Rural Enterprise as an Agent for Technology Development and Facilitation in the Digital Economy.

This paper outlines recent developments in the Scaling the Rural Enterprise (SRE) research project – an interdisciplinary project that combines the expertise of social scientists, computer scientists and software developers, in order to inform the de... Read More about Rural Enterprise as an Agent for Technology Development and Facilitation in the Digital Economy.

Exploration of the ordering for a sequential airport ground movement algorithm
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Ravizza, S., & Atkin, J. A. Exploration of the ordering for a sequential airport ground movement algorithm. School of Computer Science

Guiding aircraft around the airport's surface while ensuring conflict-free routings is an important problem at airports. Sequential routing and scheduling algorithms can be advantageous for providing fast online solutions for decision support systems... Read More about Exploration of the ordering for a sequential airport ground movement algorithm.

Clustering breast cancer data by consensus of different validity indices
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Soria, D., Garibaldi, J. M., Ambrogi, F., Lisboa, P. J., Boracchi, P., & Biganzoli, E. M. Clustering breast cancer data by consensus of different validity indices.

Clustering algorithms will, in general, either partition a given data set into a pre-specified number of clusters or will produce a hierarchy of clusters. In this paper we analyse several different clustering techniques and apply them to a particular... Read More about Clustering breast cancer data by consensus of different validity indices.

Modularity and implementation of mathematical operational semantics
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaskelioff, M. J., Ghani, N., & Hutton, G. Modularity and implementation of mathematical operational semantics.

Structural operational semantics is a popular technique for specifying the meaning of programs by means of inductive clauses. One seeks syntactic restrictions on those clauses so that the resulting operational semantics is well-behaved. This approa... Read More about Modularity and implementation of mathematical operational semantics.