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Adapting OptCouple to identify strategies with increased product yields in community cohorts of E. coli (2025)
Journal Article
Twycross, J., & Pearcy, N. (2025). Adapting OptCouple to identify strategies with increased product yields in community cohorts of E. coli. Metabolites, 15(5: Comprehensive Insights into Metabolic Pathways: Genome-Scale Modeling Techniques), Article 309. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo15050309

Microbes as chemical factories provide an alternative sustainable approach for producing platform chemicals. Until recently, most efforts have involved engineering heterologous pathways into a single microbial chassis to maximise its production of a... Read More about Adapting OptCouple to identify strategies with increased product yields in community cohorts of E. coli.

In the middle of the music: A qualitative study of headset and loudspeaker distributed interactive spatial audio within a musical mixed-reality environment (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cliffe, L., Khan, M., & Benford, S. (2025, June). In the middle of the music: A qualitative study of headset and loudspeaker distributed interactive spatial audio within a musical mixed-reality environment. Presented at Audio Mostly 2025, Coimbra, Portugal

In this paper the authors introduce, describe and present their findings from a qualitative study of users’ perceptions and experiences of virtual musical content delivered over a loudspeaker array and virtual musical content delivered through a VR h... Read More about In the middle of the music: A qualitative study of headset and loudspeaker distributed interactive spatial audio within a musical mixed-reality environment.

Distributive Laws of Monadic Containers (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Purdy, C., & Damato, S. (2025, June). Distributive Laws of Monadic Containers. Presented at 11th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science, University of Strathclyde, UK

Containers are used to carve out a class of strictly positive data types in terms of shapes and positions. They can be interpreted via a fully-faithful functor into endofunctors on Set. Monadic containers are those containers whose interpretation as... Read More about Distributive Laws of Monadic Containers.

Objection Overruled! Lay People can Distinguish Large Language Models from Lawyers, but still Favour Advice from an LLM (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schneiders, E., Seabrooke, T., Krook, J., Hyde, R., Leesakul, N., Clos, J., & E Fischer, J. (2025, April). Objection Overruled! Lay People can Distinguish Large Language Models from Lawyers, but still Favour Advice from an LLM. Presented at CHI 2025: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

Large Language Models (LLMs) are seemingly infiltrating every domain, and the legal context is no exception. In this paper, we present the results of three experiments (total N = 288) that investigated lay people’s willingness to act upon, and their... Read More about Objection Overruled! Lay People can Distinguish Large Language Models from Lawyers, but still Favour Advice from an LLM.

Acceptability, Acceptance and Adoption of Telepresence Robots in Museums: The Museum Professionals' Perspectives (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, H. R., Reyes-Cruz, G., Piskopani, A.-M., Barnard, P., Boudouraki, A., Caleb-Solly, P., Castle-Green, S. D., Fischer, J. E., Hyde, R., Kucukyilmaz, A., & Maior, H. A. (2025, April). Acceptability, Acceptance and Adoption of Telepresence Robots in Museums: The Museum Professionals' Perspectives. Presented at CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

Telepresence robots have the potential to change our experiences in galleries and museums, allowing for a range of hybrid interactions for visitors and museum professionals, improving accessibility, offering activities or information, and providing a... Read More about Acceptability, Acceptance and Adoption of Telepresence Robots in Museums: The Museum Professionals' Perspectives.

Work Hard, Play Harder: Intense Games Enable Recovery from High Mental Workload Tasks (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, L., Knierim, M. T., Wilson, M. L., Dickinson, P., & Maior, H. A. (2025, April). Work Hard, Play Harder: Intense Games Enable Recovery from High Mental Workload Tasks. Presented at CHI '25: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

Playing games has been shown to be an effective method of post- work recovery. Previous research has shown that gameplay with high cognitive involvement is effective for recovery. This finding conflicts with models of mental workload (MWL), which sug... Read More about Work Hard, Play Harder: Intense Games Enable Recovery from High Mental Workload Tasks.

Please Follow Me to the Next Stop: A Case Study of Planning, Deploying and Researching a Robot-Guided Tour in a Museum in the UK (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Boudouraki, A., Price, D., Piskopani, A.-M., Barnard, P., Cameron, H., Maior, H., Trigo, M. G., Reeves, S., Fischer, J., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2026, April). Please Follow Me to the Next Stop: A Case Study of Planning, Deploying and Researching a Robot-Guided Tour in a Museum in the UK. Presented at ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025, Yokohama, Japan

Robots are increasingly being used in public spaces in the UK. Museums and galleries are a noteworthy setting for exploring robot adoption, such as for providing guided tours or enabling remote visits. Although robots have been deployed in museums in... Read More about Please Follow Me to the Next Stop: A Case Study of Planning, Deploying and Researching a Robot-Guided Tour in a Museum in the UK.

Resisting AI Solutionism: Where Do We Go From Here? (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Spors, V., Muller, M., Ciolfi Felice, M., Bardzell, S., Williams, R. M., Hansson, K., & Feldfeber, I. (2025, April). Resisting AI Solutionism: Where Do We Go From Here?. Presented at CHI '25: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama Japan

The latest advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as Large Language Models (LLMs), have provoked a massive expansion and adoption of AI applications across the board, with seemingly no sector left untouched by recent developments. Anywhere we... Read More about Resisting AI Solutionism: Where Do We Go From Here?.

Savouring Slow Gifts: Reflection from the Field Study of Hybrid Gifting (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kwon, H., David Benford, S., & Koleva, B. (2025, April). Savouring Slow Gifts: Reflection from the Field Study of Hybrid Gifting. Presented at CHI 2025: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

Despite the prevalence of digital gifting, designing meaningful and emotionally engaging digital gifts remains a challenge. One promising approach is Hybrid gifting, which combines digital and physical elements to improve the perceived value of gifts... Read More about Savouring Slow Gifts: Reflection from the Field Study of Hybrid Gifting.

Contesting Control with Automation in Technology-Mediated Interactions (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Boudouraki, A., Cameron, H. R., Reyes-Cruz, G., Martinez Avila, J. P., Orduna, M., Varela Castro, S., & Kohonen-Aho, L. (2025, April). Contesting Control with Automation in Technology-Mediated Interactions. Presented at CHI EA '25: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

With the growing use of autonomous systems in computer-supported communication(CSC) such as recommended text in emails, speaker tracking in videoconferencing or automated facial expressions in VR avatars, machine agency is increasingly becoming entwi... Read More about Contesting Control with Automation in Technology-Mediated Interactions.

Friction in Processual Ethics: Reconfiguring Ethical Relations in Interdisciplinary Research (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Garrett, R., Brundell, P., Castle-Green, S., Hawkins, K., Tennent, P., Zhou, F., Lampinen, A., Höök, K., & Benford, S. (2025, April). Friction in Processual Ethics: Reconfiguring Ethical Relations in Interdisciplinary Research. Presented at CHI 2025: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

Friction – disagreement and breakdown – is an omnipresent aspect of conducting interdisciplinary research yet is rarely presented in formal research reporting. We analyse a performance-led research process where professional dancers with different di... Read More about Friction in Processual Ethics: Reconfiguring Ethical Relations in Interdisciplinary Research.

In the Moment of Glitch: Engaging with Misalignments in Ethical Practice (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Garrett, R., Hawkins, K., Brundell, P., Castle-Green, S., Tennent, P., Zhou, F., Lampinen, A., Höök, K., & Benford, S. (2025, April). In the Moment of Glitch: Engaging with Misalignments in Ethical Practice. Presented at CHI 2025: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

Glitches – moments when technologies do not work as desired – will become increasingly common as industrially-designed robots move into complex contexts. Taking glitches to be potential sites of critical ethical reflection, we examine a glitch that o... Read More about In the Moment of Glitch: Engaging with Misalignments in Ethical Practice.

Leveraging reputation for enhanced decision accuracy in vehicle-to-vehicle communications under limited infrastructure (2025)
Journal Article
Almani, D., Muller, T., & Furnell, S. (2025). Leveraging reputation for enhanced decision accuracy in vehicle-to-vehicle communications under limited infrastructure. Vehicular Communications, 54, Article 100927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vehcom.2025.100927

Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) networking enhances transportation safety and efficiency by enabling vehicles to share alerts. However, malicious vehicles may inject false messages, leading to disputes. While certificates help ensure security, Certificate R... Read More about Leveraging reputation for enhanced decision accuracy in vehicle-to-vehicle communications under limited infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design: 14th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2025, Held as Part of EvoStar 2025, Trieste, Italy, April 23–25, 2025, Proceedings (2025)
Book
Machado, P., Johnson, C., & Santos, I. (Eds.). (2025). Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design: 14th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2025, Held as Part of EvoStar 2025, Trieste, Italy, April 23–25, 2025, Proceedings. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-90167-6

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2025, held as part of EvoStar 2025, in Trieste, Itlay, during April 23–25, 2024. The 28 full pap... Read More about Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design: 14th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2025, Held as Part of EvoStar 2025, Trieste, Italy, April 23–25, 2025, Proceedings.

Machine learning-based algorithm selection for irregular three-dimensional packing in additive manufacturing (2025)
Journal Article
de Araújo, L. J. P., Özcan, E., Atkin, J. A., Baumers, M., & Drake, J. H. (2025). Machine learning-based algorithm selection for irregular three-dimensional packing in additive manufacturing. Expert Systems with Applications, 287, Article 127661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.127661

In additive manufacturing (AM), a common problem is the efficient arrangement of arbitrary three-dimensional objects, subject to geometric constraints. This can be mapped to three-dimensional irregular packing (3DIP) problems, which have been systema... Read More about Machine learning-based algorithm selection for irregular three-dimensional packing in additive manufacturing.

Central H-spaces and banded types (2025)
Journal Article
Buchholtz, U. T., Christensen, J. D., Flaten, J. G. T., & Rijke, E. (2025). Central H-spaces and banded types. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 229(6), Article 107963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpaa.2025.107963

We introduce and study central types, which are generalizations of Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces. A type is central when it is equivalent to the component of the identity among its own self-equivalences. From centrality alone we construct an infinite del... Read More about Central H-spaces and banded types.

Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration (2025)
Journal Article
Reeves, S., Pelikan, H. R. M., & Cantarutti, M. N. (in press). Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction,

As we see robots being deployed into new places in everyday life, questions arise about what 'human-robot collaboration' (HRC) might look like there. At the same time, HRC researchers are looking to CSCW for better conceptualisations of 'collaboratio... Read More about Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration.

ERL-MPP: Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning with Multi-head Puzzle Perception for Solving Large-scale Jigsaw Puzzles of Eroded Gaps (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Song, X., Yang, X., Yao, C., Ren, J., Bai, R., Chen, X., & Jiang, X. (2025, February). ERL-MPP: Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning with Multi-head Puzzle Perception for Solving Large-scale Jigsaw Puzzles of Eroded Gaps. Presented at The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Solving jigsaw puzzles has been extensively studied. While most existing models focus on solving either small-scale puzzles or puzzles with no gap between fragments, solving large-scale puzzles with gaps presents distinctive challenges in both image... Read More about ERL-MPP: Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning with Multi-head Puzzle Perception for Solving Large-scale Jigsaw Puzzles of Eroded Gaps.

Exploring the Potential of Conversational AI Support for Agent-Based Social Simulation Model Design (2025)
Journal Article
Siebers, P.-O. (in press). Exploring the Potential of Conversational AI Support for Agent-Based Social Simulation Model Design. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation,

ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot with a massive user base of hundreds of millions, has become a global phenomenon. However, the use of Conversational AI Systems (CAISs) like ChatGPT for research in the field of Social Simulation is still limited. Spec... Read More about Exploring the Potential of Conversational AI Support for Agent-Based Social Simulation Model Design.

The graphical theory of monads (2025)
Journal Article
Hinze, R., & Marsden, D. (2025). The graphical theory of monads. Journal of Functional Programming, 35, Article e11. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095679682500005X

The formal theory of monads shows that much of the theory of monads can be developed in the abstract at the level of 2-categories. This means that results about monads can established once and for all, and simply instantiated in settings such as enri... Read More about The graphical theory of monads.