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Delivering and evaluating the multiple flood risk benefits in Blue-Green Cities: an interdisciplinary approach (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Lawson, E., Thorne, C., Ahilan, S., Allen, D., Arthur, S., Everett, G., …Wright, N. (2014). Delivering and evaluating the multiple flood risk benefits in Blue-Green Cities: an interdisciplinary approach. . https://doi.org/10.2495/friar140101

A Blue-Green City aims to recreate a naturally-oriented water cycle while contributing to the amenity of the city by bringing water management and green infrastructure together. The Blue-Green approach is more than a stormwater management strategy ai... Read More about Delivering and evaluating the multiple flood risk benefits in Blue-Green Cities: an interdisciplinary approach.

You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Hazzard, A., Benford, S., & Burnett, G. (2014). You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack.

Musical soundtracks have great potential to enhance mobile walking experiences such as tours and guides, much as they already do for films and games. They also raise new challenges for composers as the music must fit a given landscape and respond to... Read More about You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack.

The impact of moisture on the milling behavior of different biomasses (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Williams, O., Eastwick, C., Lester, E., Giddings, D., & Byrne, N. (2014). The impact of moisture on the milling behavior of different biomasses.

The aim of this study was to examine the impact of moisture content on the milling behaviour of four different biomasses commonly used in the power sector and characterise their milling behaviour in a laboratory scale planetary ball mill. As received... Read More about The impact of moisture on the milling behavior of different biomasses.

Testing of a lightweight SiC power module for avionic applications (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Gurpinar, E., Lopez Arevalo, S., Li, J., De, D., Castellazzi, A., & Mills, L. (in press). Testing of a lightweight SiC power module for avionic applications.

Functional and performance tests of a three-phase, two-level power module based on CREE 1.2kV SiC MOSFETs for avionic applications is presented in this paper. SiC devices have superior properties over conventional Si devices at high voltage operation... Read More about Testing of a lightweight SiC power module for avionic applications.

Building Information Modelling (BIM)—versioning for collaborative design (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Zada, A. J., Tizani, W., & Oti, A. (in press). Building Information Modelling (BIM)—versioning for collaborative design. In Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (2014). https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784413616.064

The engineering design process is a complicated activity. It is often characterized by multi-disciplinary teams in multiple places working together on a single project, using different models and software tools. In addition, such activities generate... Read More about Building Information Modelling (BIM)—versioning for collaborative design.

Computational investigation of flows and pressure fields associated with spur gear meshing (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Baydu, C. A., Simmons, K., & Morvan, H. (2014). Computational investigation of flows and pressure fields associated with spur gear meshing. In Volume 5C: Heat Transfer. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2014-26145

The efficiency of power transmission systems is increasingly targeted with a view to reducing parasitic losses and improving specific fuel consumption (SFC). One of the effects associated with such parasitic losses is the successive compression and e... Read More about Computational investigation of flows and pressure fields associated with spur gear meshing.

A janus-paper PDMS platform for lab-on-a-chip applications (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Rahimi, R., Ochoa, M., Parupudi, T., Donaldson, A., Dokmeci, M. R., Khademhosseini, A., …Ziaie, B. (2014). A janus-paper PDMS platform for lab-on-a-chip applications. In Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop (119-122). https://doi.org/10.31438/trf.hh2014.34

© 2014TRF. A commercially available Janus paper with one hydrophobic (polyethylene-coated) face and a hygroscopic/hydrophilic one is irreversibly bonded to a PDMS substrate incorporating microfluidic channels via corona discharge surface treatment. T... Read More about A janus-paper PDMS platform for lab-on-a-chip applications.

Computer and website-based interventions to improve common mental health problems in university students: a meta-analysis (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Davies, E. B., Morriss, R. K., & Glazebrook, C. (2014). Computer and website-based interventions to improve common mental health problems in university students: a meta-analysis.

Website-based and computer-delivered interventions could improve common mental health problems experienced by university students, as their help-seeking is limited. This review analysed RCT trials of these interventions to improve depression, anxiety... Read More about Computer and website-based interventions to improve common mental health problems in university students: a meta-analysis.

Displaying locality: connecting with customers and visitors in-situ via their mobile devices (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Greenhalgh, C., Chamberlain, A., Davies, M., Glover, K., Valchovska, S., & Crabtree, A. (2014). Displaying locality: connecting with customers and visitors in-situ via their mobile devices. In PerDis '14 Proceedings of The International Symposium on Pervasive Displaysdoi:10.1145/2611009.2611021

A large and growing proportion of the general population in the UK and similar nations routinely carry smart phones and access the Internet while on the go. However, especially in rural areas, mobile Internet access can be intermittent and slow, and... Read More about Displaying locality: connecting with customers and visitors in-situ via their mobile devices.

Supporting team coordination on the ground: requirements from a mixed reality game (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Fischer, J. E., Jiang, W., Kerne, A., Greenhalgh, C., Ramchurn, S. D., Reece, S., …Rodden, T. (2014). Supporting team coordination on the ground: requirements from a mixed reality game.

We generate requirements for time-critical distributed team support relevant for domains such as disaster response. We present the Radiation Response Game to investigate socio-technical issues regarding team coordination. Field responders in this mix... Read More about Supporting team coordination on the ground: requirements from a mixed reality game.

Alternative methodologies to evaluate storage stability of rubberised bitumens (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Lo Presti, D., Memon, N., Grenfell, J., & Airey, G. (2014). Alternative methodologies to evaluate storage stability of rubberised bitumens. In Asphalt Pavements: Proceedings of the International Conference on Asphalt Pavements, ISAP 2014, 1481-1489. doi:10.1201/b17219-180

Tyre Rubber Modified Binders (TR-MBs), produced through the McDonald wet process and used worldwide (e.g. asphalt rubber), have demonstrated various benefits to pavements and, moreover, they represent a good opportunity for recycling tyre rubber. How... Read More about Alternative methodologies to evaluate storage stability of rubberised bitumens.

Overview of positioning technologies from fitness-to-purpose point of view (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Basiri, A., Lohan, E. S., Figueiredo e Silva, P., Peltola, P., Hill, C., & Moore, T. (2014). Overview of positioning technologies from fitness-to-purpose point of view. In International Conference on Localization and GNSS 2014 (ICL-GNSS 2014). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS.2014.6934176

Even though Location Based Services (LBSs) are being more and more widely-used and this shows a promising future, there are still many challenges to deal with, such as privacy, reliability, accuracy, cost of service, power consumption and availabilit... Read More about Overview of positioning technologies from fitness-to-purpose point of view.

Snappy App: a mobile continuous performance test with physical activity measurement for assessing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Young, Z., Craven, M. P., Groom, M. J., & Crowe, J. A. (2014). Snappy App: a mobile continuous performance test with physical activity measurement for assessing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. In M. Kurosu (Ed.), Human-computer interaction: applications and services: 16th international conference, HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, proceedings. Part III (363–373). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07227-2_35

A Continuous Performance Test (CPT) was incorporated into a smartphone application (App) to measure three symptom domains associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); attention, impulsivity and hyperactivity. The App was pilot tes... Read More about Snappy App: a mobile continuous performance test with physical activity measurement for assessing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Social implications of agent-based planning support for human teams (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Jiang, W., Fischer, J. E., Greenhalgh, C., Ramchurn, S. D., Wu, F., Jennings, N. R., & Rodden, T. (2014). Social implications of agent-based planning support for human teams.

We present a field trial of how instructions from an intelligent planning agent are dealt with by distributed human teams, in a time-critical task setting created through a mixed-reality game. We conduct interaction analysis to examine video recorded... Read More about Social implications of agent-based planning support for human teams.

More than Liking and Bookmarking? Towards Understanding Twitter Favouriting Behaviour (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Meier, F., Elsweiler, D., & Wilson, M. L. (2014). More than Liking and Bookmarking? Towards Understanding Twitter Favouriting Behaviour. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Webligs and Social media, 346-355

Microblogging services, such as Twitter, offer a variety of interactive features that allow users to engage with contacts in their social network and the content they produce. One such feature is the favourite button on Twitter, an icon in the form o... Read More about More than Liking and Bookmarking? Towards Understanding Twitter Favouriting Behaviour.

Using adaptive architecture to support yoga practices: social considerations for design (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Jäger, N., Moran, S., & Schnädelbach, H. (in press). Using adaptive architecture to support yoga practices: social considerations for design. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops (PERCOM WORKSHOPS). https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2014.6815144

The field of Adaptive Architecture aims to design built environments, which truly adapt to their occupants. ExoBuilding is an in-house prototypical example of Adaptive Architecture, which actuates in response to breathing and heart- rate of its occup... Read More about Using adaptive architecture to support yoga practices: social considerations for design.

Verifying heterogeneous multi-agent programs (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Doan, T. T., Yuan, Y., Alechina, N., & Logan, B. (2014). Verifying heterogeneous multi-agent programs. In AAMAS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (149-156). https://doi.org/10.5555/2615731.2615758

We present a new approach to verifying heterogeneous multi-agent programs — multi-agent systems in which the agents are implemented in different (BDI-based) agent programming languages. Our approach is based on meta-APL, a BDI-based agent programming... Read More about Verifying heterogeneous multi-agent programs.

Practical limitation on operation of nonlinear parity-time Bragg gratings (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Phang, S., Vukovic, A., Susanto, H., Benson, T. M., & Sewell, P. (2014). Practical limitation on operation of nonlinear parity-time Bragg gratings.

The paper analyses the operation of PT Bragg gratings when the dielectric material is considered to be both dispersive and nonlinear and gain and loss are saturable. The paper demonstrates the application of the nonlinear PT Bragg Grating as an optic... Read More about Practical limitation on operation of nonlinear parity-time Bragg gratings.