All Outputs (1974)

The future of manufacturing: Utopia or dystopia? (2022)
Journal Article
Marinescu, A., Argyle, E. M., Duvnjak, J., Wilson, M. L., Lawson, G., Sharples, S., …Justham, L. (2023). The future of manufacturing: Utopia or dystopia?. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing and Service Industries, 33(2), 184-200. https://doi.org/10.1002/hfm.20976

Digital manufacturing technologies (DMTs) have the potential to transform industry productivity, but their introduction into the workplace is often a complex process, requiring not only technical expertise but also an awareness of ethical and societa... Read More about The future of manufacturing: Utopia or dystopia?.

The relationship between trust and attitudes towards the COVID-19 digital contact-tracing app in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Dowthwaite, L., Wagner, H. G., Babbage, C. M., Fischer, J. E., Barnard, P., Nichele, E., …McAuley, D. (2022). The relationship between trust and attitudes towards the COVID-19 digital contact-tracing app in the UK. PLoS ONE, 17(10), Article e0276661. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276661

During the COVID-19 pandemic, digital contact-tracing has been employed in many countries to monitor and manage the spread of the disease. However, to be effective such a system must be adopted by a substantial proportion of the population; therefore... Read More about The relationship between trust and attitudes towards the COVID-19 digital contact-tracing app in the UK.

Recent progress, challenges and outlook for multidisciplinary structural optimization of aircraft and aerial vehicles (2022)
Journal Article
Corrado, G., Ntourmas, G., Sferza, M., Traiforos, N., Arteiro, A., Brown, L., …Turner, T. (2022). Recent progress, challenges and outlook for multidisciplinary structural optimization of aircraft and aerial vehicles. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 135, Article 100861. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paerosci.2022.100861

Designing an airframe is a complex process as it requires knowledge from multiple disciplines such as aerodynamics, structural mechanics, manufacturing, flight dynamics, which individually lead to very different optimal designs. Furthermore, the grow... Read More about Recent progress, challenges and outlook for multidisciplinary structural optimization of aircraft and aerial vehicles.

Understanding Trust and Changes in Use After a Year With the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study (2022)
Journal Article
Pepper, C., Reyes-Cruz, G., Pena, A. R., Dowthwaite, L., Babbage, C. M., Wagner, H., …Fischer, J. E. (2022). Understanding Trust and Changes in Use After a Year With the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(10), Article e40558. https://doi.org/10.2196/40558

Background: Digital contact tracing (DCT) apps have been implemented as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Research has focused on understanding acceptance and adoption of these apps, but more work is needed to understand the factors that may contr... Read More about Understanding Trust and Changes in Use After a Year With the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study.

Feasibility and Acceptability of an Internet of Things–Enabled Sedentary Behavior Intervention: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint) (2022)
Working Paper
Huang, Y., Benford, S., Li, B., Price, D., & Blake, H. Feasibility and Acceptability of an Internet of Things–Enabled Sedentary Behavior Intervention: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint)

Background: Encouraging office workers to break up prolonged sedentary behavior (SB) at work with regular micro-breaks can be beneficial yet challenging. Internet of Things (IoT) offers great promise for delivering more subtle and hence acceptable b... Read More about Feasibility and Acceptability of an Internet of Things–Enabled Sedentary Behavior Intervention: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint).

Ethics by design: Responsible research & innovation for AI in the food sector (2022)
Journal Article
Craigon, P. J., Sacks, J., Brewer, S., Frey, J., Gutierrez, A., Jacobs, N., …Pearson, S. (2023). Ethics by design: Responsible research & innovation for AI in the food sector. Journal of Responsible Technology, 13, Article 100051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2022.100051

Here we reflect on how a multidisciplinary working group explored the ethical complexities of the use of new technologies for data sharing in the food supply chain. We used a three-part process of varied design methods, which included collaborative i... Read More about Ethics by design: Responsible research & innovation for AI in the food sector.

Feature Importance Identification for Time Series Classifiers (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Meng, H., Wagner, C., & Triguero, I. (2022). Feature Importance Identification for Time Series Classifiers. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) (3293-3298). https://doi.org/10.1109/smc53654.2022.9945205

Time series classification is a challenging research area where machine learning techniques such as deep learning perform well, yet lack interpretability. Identifying the most important features for such classifiers provides a pathway to improving th... Read More about Feature Importance Identification for Time Series Classifiers.

Supporting Awareness of Visual Impairments and Accessibility Reflections through Video Demos and Design Cards (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Reyes-Cruz, G., Fischer, J., & Reeves, S. (2022). Supporting Awareness of Visual Impairments and Accessibility Reflections through Video Demos and Design Cards. In Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI’22) (1-15). https://doi.org/10.1145/3546155.3546697

Disabled people's experiences and knowledge are oftentimes not central in design processes. Further, the burden of outreach and sensitising others to these experiences and knowledge is frequently not recognised. This paper offers a workshop approach... Read More about Supporting Awareness of Visual Impairments and Accessibility Reflections through Video Demos and Design Cards.

Reflections on RRI in “TAS for Health at Home” (2022)
Journal Article
Jäger, N., Dowthwaite, L., Barnard, P., Hughes, A., das Nair, R., Crepaz-Keay, D., …Benford, S. (2022). Reflections on RRI in “TAS for Health at Home”. Journal of Responsible Technology, 12, Article 100049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2022.100049

We reflect on our experiences using Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the project “TAS for Health at Home”. Driven by a multi-disciplinary research team that consisted of experts in mental health, stroke rehabilitation, management of multi... Read More about Reflections on RRI in “TAS for Health at Home”.

Cooperative Double-Layer Genetic Programming Hyper-Heuristic for Online Container Terminal Truck Dispatching (2022)
Journal Article
Chen, X., Bai, R., Qu, R., & Dong, H. (2023). Cooperative Double-Layer Genetic Programming Hyper-Heuristic for Online Container Terminal Truck Dispatching. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 27(5), 1220-1234. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2022.3209985

In a marine container terminal, truck dispatching is a crucial problem that impacts on the operation efficiency of the whole port. Traditionally, this problem is formulated as an offline optimisation problem, whose solutions are, however, impractical... Read More about Cooperative Double-Layer Genetic Programming Hyper-Heuristic for Online Container Terminal Truck Dispatching.

ScoutWav: Two-Step Fine-Tuning on Self-Supervised Automatic Speech Recognition for Low-Resource Environments (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Fatehi, K., Torres, M. T., & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2022). ScoutWav: Two-Step Fine-Tuning on Self-Supervised Automatic Speech Recognition for Low-Resource Environments. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2022 (3523-3527). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10270

Recent improvements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems obtain extraordinary results. However, there are specific domains where training data can be either limited or not representative enough, which are known as Low-Resource Environments (... Read More about ScoutWav: Two-Step Fine-Tuning on Self-Supervised Automatic Speech Recognition for Low-Resource Environments.

Assessing the ethical and social concerns of artificial intelligence in neuroinformatics research: an empirical test of the European Union Assessment List for Trustworthy AI (ALTAI) (2022)
Journal Article
Stahl, B. C., & Leach, T. (2023). Assessing the ethical and social concerns of artificial intelligence in neuroinformatics research: an empirical test of the European Union Assessment List for Trustworthy AI (ALTAI). AI and Ethics, 3, 745-767. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00201-4

Ethical and social concerns are a key obstacle to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the life sciences and beyond. The discussion of these issues has intensified in recent years and led to a number of approaches, tools and initiatives. K... Read More about Assessing the ethical and social concerns of artificial intelligence in neuroinformatics research: an empirical test of the European Union Assessment List for Trustworthy AI (ALTAI).

Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation within a University-based digital research programme: reflections from the “hoRRIzon” project (2022)
Journal Article
Portillo, V., Craigon, P., Liz, D., Greenhalgh, C., & Pérez-Vallejos, E. (2022). Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation within a University-based digital research programme: reflections from the “hoRRIzon” project. Journal of Responsible Technology, 12, Article 100045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2022.100045

Integration of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) principles into a research project is key to ensure outputs are ethically acceptable and socially desirable. However, translating RRI principles into practice is challenging as there are no rec... Read More about Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation within a University-based digital research programme: reflections from the “hoRRIzon” project.

Alpha-cut based compositional representation of fuzzy sets and exploration of associated fuzzy set regression (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Pekaslan, D., & Wagner, C. (2022). Alpha-cut based compositional representation of fuzzy sets and exploration of associated fuzzy set regression. In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI2022). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE55066.2022.9882840

The compositional representation of data and associated statistical approaches is a powerful framework for modelling and reasoning about quantities which reflect proportions of a whole. Recently, an increasing body of work has started exploring the a... Read More about Alpha-cut based compositional representation of fuzzy sets and exploration of associated fuzzy set regression.

Feature importance in machine learning models: A fuzzy information fusion approach (2022)
Journal Article
Rengasamy, D., Mase, J. M., Kumar, A., Rothwell, B., Torres, M. T., Alexander, M. R., …Figueredo, G. P. (2022). Feature importance in machine learning models: A fuzzy information fusion approach. Neurocomputing, 511, 163-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2022.09.053

With the widespread use of machine learning to support decision-making, it is increasingly important to verify and understand the reasons why a particular output is produced. Although post-training feature importance approaches assist this interpreta... Read More about Feature importance in machine learning models: A fuzzy information fusion approach.

GROUPTHINK: Telepresence and Agency During Live Performance (2022)
Journal Article
Hossaini, A., Gingrich, O., Rahman, S., Grierson, M., Murr, J., Chamberlain, A., & Renaud, A. (2022). GROUPTHINK: Telepresence and Agency During Live Performance. Proceedings of the ACM on computer graphics and interactive techniques, 5(4), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3533610

Live performers often describe "playing to the audience"as shifts in emphasis, timing and even content according to perceived audience reactions. Traditional staging allows the transmission of physiological signals through the audience's eyes, skin,... Read More about GROUPTHINK: Telepresence and Agency During Live Performance.

CAESAR8: An agile enterprise architecture approach to managing information security risks (2022)
Journal Article
Loft, P., He, Y., Yevseyeva, I., & Wagner, I. (2022). CAESAR8: An agile enterprise architecture approach to managing information security risks. Computers and Security, 122, Article 102877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2022.102877

In theory, implementing an Enterprise Architecture (EA) should enable organizations to increase the accuracy of information security risk assessments. In reality, however, organizations struggle to fully implement EA frameworks because the requiremen... Read More about CAESAR8: An agile enterprise architecture approach to managing information security risks.

Back to the Control Room: Managing Artistic Work (2022)
Journal Article
Reeves, S., Greiffenhagen, C., & Perry, M. (2024). Back to the Control Room: Managing Artistic Work. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 33(1), 59-102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-022-09436-5

Control rooms have long been a key domain of investigation in HCI and CSCW as sites for understanding distributed work and fragmented settings, as well as the role and design of digital technologies in that work. Although research has tended to focus... Read More about Back to the Control Room: Managing Artistic Work.

Surrogate optimization of energy retrofits in domestic building stocks using household carbon valuations (2022)
Journal Article
Hey, J., Siebers, P. O., Nathanail, P., Ozcan, E., & Robinson, D. (2022). Surrogate optimization of energy retrofits in domestic building stocks using household carbon valuations. Journal of Building Performance Simulation, https://doi.org/10.1080/19401493.2022.2106309

Modelling energy retrofit adoption in domestic urban building stocks is vital for policymakers aiming to reduce emissions. The use of surrogate models to evaluate building performance combined with optimization procedures can optimize small building... Read More about Surrogate optimization of energy retrofits in domestic building stocks using household carbon valuations.

A rewriting coherence theorem with applications in homotopy type theory (2022)
Journal Article
Kraus, N., & von Raumer, J. (2022). A rewriting coherence theorem with applications in homotopy type theory. Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, 32(7), 982-1014. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960129523000026

Higher-dimensional rewriting systems are tools to analyse the structure of formally reducing terms to normal forms, as well as comparing the different reduction paths that lead to those normal forms. This higher structure can be captured by finding a... Read More about A rewriting coherence theorem with applications in homotopy type theory.