All Outputs (166)

Learning from the experts: enabling and studying DIY development of location-based visitor experiences (2015)
Conference Proceeding

In this paper we show how -- with the aid of enabling technology -- creative Location Based Experiences can be developed for visitors by non-technical professionals from the cultural heritage sector. We look at how these "Place Experts" approach and... Read More about Learning from the experts: enabling and studying DIY development of location-based visitor experiences.

Improving performance of a hyper-heuristic using a multilayer perceptron for vehicle routing (2015)
Conference Proceeding

A hyper-heuristic is a heuristic optimisation method which generates or selects heuristics (move operators) based on a set of components while solving a computationally difficult problem. Apprenticeship learning arises while observing the behavior of... Read More about Improving performance of a hyper-heuristic using a multilayer perceptron for vehicle routing.

(1+1)-Evolutionary gradient strategy to evolve global term weights in information retrieval (2015)
Conference Proceeding

In many contexts of Information Retrieval (IR), term weights play an important role in retrieving the relevant documents responding to users' queries. The term weight measures the importance or the information content of a keyword existing in the doc... Read More about (1+1)-Evolutionary gradient strategy to evolve global term weights in information retrieval.

Threshold manipulation in parity-time symmetric microresonator chain (2015)
Conference Proceeding

This paper analyses the eigenfrequencies of an infinitely long chain of microresonators with PT symmetry. The results show that the depth of modulation of the real part of the refractive index can be used to control the threshold point of the PT stru... Read More about Threshold manipulation in parity-time symmetric microresonator chain.

Bridging the GUI gap with reactive values and relations (2015)
Conference Proceeding

There are at present two ways to write GUIs for functional code. One is to use standard GUI toolkits, with all the benefits they bring in terms of feature completeness, choice of platform, conformance to platform-specific look-and-feel, long-term via... Read More about Bridging the GUI gap with reactive values and relations.

Green corrosion inhibitors: amino acids and plant extracts (2015)
Conference Proceeding

Corrosion inhibitors are chemicals that are used in many industries to control corro-sion. As they are injected into process streams they have to be continually replen-ished in order to maintain protection. Many chemicals used are environmentally un-... Read More about Green corrosion inhibitors: amino acids and plant extracts.

Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck (2015)
Conference Proceeding

The avionics industry is seeking to understand the challenges and benefits of touchscreens on flight decks. This paper presents an investigation of interactive displays on the flight deck focusing on the impact of target size, placement and vibration... Read More about Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck.

One-shot assistance estimation from expert demonstrations for a shared control wheelchair system (2015)
Conference Proceeding

An emerging research problem in the field of assistive robotics is the design of methodologies that allow robots to provide human-like assistance to the users. Especially within the rehabilitation domain, a grand challenge is to program a robot to mi... Read More about One-shot assistance estimation from expert demonstrations for a shared control wheelchair system.

Tests Campaign Analysis to Evaluate the Capability of Fragmentation Test to Characterize Recycled Asphalt Pavement (RAP) Material (2015)
Conference Proceeding

Cold and hot recycling of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) is increasingly gaining in popularity worldwide due to the need to increase the sustainability of asphalt pavement, both from environmental and economic perspectives. Despite the increasing o... Read More about Tests Campaign Analysis to Evaluate the Capability of Fragmentation Test to Characterize Recycled Asphalt Pavement (RAP) Material.

Increasing communication reliability in manufacturing environments (2015)
Conference Proceeding

This paper is concerned with low cost mechanisms that can increase reliability of machine to machine and machine to cloud communications in increasingly complex manufacturing environments that are prone to disconnections and faults. We propose a nove... Read More about Increasing communication reliability in manufacturing environments.

Social delay tolerant approach for safety services in vehicular networks (2015)
Conference Proceeding

Vehicular networks have attracted attention for recent years due to their various and emerging applications supporting secure and convenient driving. Regarding specific features of vehicular networks, we propose a new Social-aware Vehicular DTN proto... Read More about Social delay tolerant approach for safety services in vehicular networks.

Play SMILE Game with ERiSA: a user study on game companions (2015)
Conference Proceeding

This paper describes the evaluation of our fully integrated virtual game companions framework (ERiSA) [4]. We conducted three user studies with different scenarios using two versions of The Smile Game[4] in semi-public and public spaces. In our study... Read More about Play SMILE Game with ERiSA: a user study on game companions.

The ethical challenges of experience sampling using wearable cameras (2015)
Conference Proceeding

Self-report methods such as experience sampling provide an important means of understanding individual behaviors. The arrival of wearable camera technologies opens up research opportunities to provoke and explore in-depth contextual self-reflection... Read More about The ethical challenges of experience sampling using wearable cameras.

Reflecting on the study of mobile collocated interactions: the changing face of wearable devices (2015)
Conference Proceeding

Wearables, unlike smartphones, typically afford increasingly private or discrete interactions that are invisible to the casual observer. This shifting paradigm of device interaction combined with the increasing popularity of wearables presents an exc... Read More about Reflecting on the study of mobile collocated interactions: the changing face of wearable devices.

Single-board microcontrollers applied to biaxial tests for architectural membranes (2015)
Conference Proceeding

The last decade has been characterised by the progressive development of several biaxial testing equipment and procedures for the mechanical characterisation of coated fabrics. The few standards available in this field led to the development of sever... Read More about Single-board microcontrollers applied to biaxial tests for architectural membranes.

Characterisation of radiated fields from PCBs in the time domain (2015)
Conference Proceeding

In this paper, a method for representing electromagnetic emissions from a printed circuit board (PCB) using an equivalent dipole model deduced from time domain near-field scanning magnetic field measurements is proposed. The basic idea is to replace... Read More about Characterisation of radiated fields from PCBs in the time domain.

The effectiveness of IMB-model based diabetes self-management education with type 2 diabetes patients in Jordan: clinical trial protocol (2015)
Conference Proceeding

Abstract for AADE Annual Meeting conference: Background: According to the World Health Organization in 2014, 9% of adults over 18 years old are diagnosed with diabetes and more than 1.5 million deaths occur directly by diabetes in low and middle-inc... Read More about The effectiveness of IMB-model based diabetes self-management education with type 2 diabetes patients in Jordan: clinical trial protocol.

AMP: a new time-frequency feature extraction method for intermittent time-series data (2015)
Conference Proceeding

The characterisation of time-series data via their most salient features is extremely important in a range of machine learning task, not least of all with regards to classification and clustering. While there exist many feature extraction techniques... Read More about AMP: a new time-frequency feature extraction method for intermittent time-series data.

Toward better build volume packing in additive manufacturing: classification of existing problems and benchmarks (2015)
Conference Proceeding

In many cases, the efficient operation of Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology relies on build volumes being packed effectively. Packing algorithms have been developed in response to this requirement. The configuration of AM build volumes is partic... Read More about Toward better build volume packing in additive manufacturing: classification of existing problems and benchmarks.

Incorporating non-sequential behavior into click models (2015)
Conference Proceeding

© 2015 ACM. Click-through information is considered as a valuable source of users' implicit relevance feedback. As user behavior is usually inuenced by a number of factors such as position, presentation style and site reputation, researchers have pro... Read More about Incorporating non-sequential behavior into click models.