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Understanding Entrainment in Human Groups: Optimising Human-Robot Collaboration from Lessons Learned during Human-Human Collaboration (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schneiders, E., Fourie, C., Celestin, S., Shah, J., & Jung, M. (2024). Understanding Entrainment in Human Groups: Optimising Human-Robot Collaboration from Lessons Learned during Human-Human Collaboration. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA (1-13). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642427

Successful entrainment during collaboration positively affects trust, willingness to collaborate, and likeability towards collaborators. In this paper, we present a mixed-method study to investigate characteristics of successful entrainment leading t... Read More about Understanding Entrainment in Human Groups: Optimising Human-Robot Collaboration from Lessons Learned during Human-Human Collaboration.

Communication, Collaboration, and Coordination in a Co-located Shared Augmented Reality Game: Perspectives From Deaf and Hard of Hearing People (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Luna, S. M., Xu, J., Papangelis, K., Tigwell, G. W., Lalone, N., Saker, M., …Wang, Y. (2024). Communication, Collaboration, and Coordination in a Co-located Shared Augmented Reality Game: Perspectives From Deaf and Hard of Hearing People. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA (1-14). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642953

Co-located collaborative shared augmented reality (CS-AR) environments have gained considerable research attention, mainly focusing on design, implementation, accuracy, and usability. Yet, a gap persists in our understanding regarding the accessibili... Read More about Communication, Collaboration, and Coordination in a Co-located Shared Augmented Reality Game: Perspectives From Deaf and Hard of Hearing People.

Insights Into Legacy: Issues of Handover from a Partner-Initiated Project (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thorn, E., Spence, J., Koleva, B., & Benford, S. D. (2024). Insights Into Legacy: Issues of Handover from a Partner-Initiated Project. In CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642620

We report on a six-year collaboration with a small community organisation to develop and deploy a permanent physical / digital locative media experience as part on an ongoing community regeneration project. We describe how this unfolded over four pha... Read More about Insights Into Legacy: Issues of Handover from a Partner-Initiated Project.

Jess+: AI and robotics with inclusive music-making (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vear, C., Hazzard, A., Moroz, S., & Benerradi, J. (2024). Jess+: AI and robotics with inclusive music-making. In CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-17). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642548

This paper discusses the findings from a cross-sector research project investigating how a digital score created using AI and robotics might stimulate new creative opportunities and relationships within the practices of an inclusive music ensemble. T... Read More about Jess+: AI and robotics with inclusive music-making.

Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schneiders, E., Benford, S., Chamberlain, A., Mancini, C., Castle-Green, S., Ngo, V., …Fischer, J. (2024). Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA (1-16). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642115

We reflect on the design of a multispecies world centred around a be-spoke enclosure in which three cats and a robot arm coexist for six hours a day during a twelve-day installation as part of an artist-led project. In this paper, we present the proj... Read More about Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans.

Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vear, C., Poltronieri, F., DiDonato, B., Zhang, Y., Benerradi, J., Hutchinson, S., Turowski, P., Shell, J., & Malekmohamadi, H. (2024, April). Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making. Presented at 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) 2024, Aberystwyth University, Wales

In this paper, we present our findings of the design, development and deployment of a proof-of-concept dataset that captures some of the physiological, musicological, and psychological aspects of embodied musicking. After outlining the conceptual ele... Read More about Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making.

Spindle speed effect on the ISF processing of materials with different thermal conductivities (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qin, Z., Gatea, S., & Ou, H. (2024). Spindle speed effect on the ISF processing of materials with different thermal conductivities. Materials Research Proceedings, 41, 1606-1614. https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903131-178

Incremental sheet forming (ISF) is an advanced forming technology with high flexibility and excellent adaptability. However, conventional ISF encounters challenges in processing of hard-to-deformed materials at room temperature. To address this probl... Read More about Spindle speed effect on the ISF processing of materials with different thermal conductivities.

How does explainability affect perceived transparency, trust, acceptance and usefulness? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ding, Y., & Hermawati, S. (2024). How does explainability affect perceived transparency, trust, acceptance and usefulness?.

The effects of explainability on perceived trust, transparency, acceptance and usefulness were explored in a within subjects study (n=15) using an online shopping recommender system as a context. The study investigated three levels of explainability... Read More about How does explainability affect perceived transparency, trust, acceptance and usefulness?.

Experimental testing and numerical modelling of ductile fracture of PEEK in incremental sheet forming process (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gatea, S., & Ou, H. (2024). Experimental testing and numerical modelling of ductile fracture of PEEK in incremental sheet forming process. Materials Research Proceedings, 41, 1596-1605. https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903131-177

This research investigates the use of Hooputra-based damage model to predict fracture of polyether-ether-ketone (PEEK) material and its application to single point incremental forming (SPIF) process under different conditions. Flat PEEK sheets are us... Read More about Experimental testing and numerical modelling of ductile fracture of PEEK in incremental sheet forming process.

The rat Osteoarthritis Bone Score: a new histological system for scoring subchondral pathology in rat knees analogous to histological correlates of human OA bone marrow lesions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McWilliams, D. F., Shahtaheri, M., Koushesh, S., Joseph, C., Gowler, P., Chapman, V., …Walsh, D. A. (2024). The rat Osteoarthritis Bone Score: a new histological system for scoring subchondral pathology in rat knees analogous to histological correlates of human OA bone marrow lesions. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 32(Supplement 1), S432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2024.02.633

Purpose (the aim of the study): Bone marrow lesions (BMLs) are detected by MRI in the in human osteoarthritis (OA) subchondral bone and associated with pain. We previously described 7 histological features associated with BMLs from which we developed... Read More about The rat Osteoarthritis Bone Score: a new histological system for scoring subchondral pathology in rat knees analogous to histological correlates of human OA bone marrow lesions.

Differentiating between harm to users and third parties in the UK’s Online Safety regulations: The phenomena of TikTok Frenzies (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Colegate, E. (2024, April). Differentiating between harm to users and third parties in the UK’s Online Safety regulations: The phenomena of TikTok Frenzies. Paper presented at Conference Name: 'Digital and Green: Twin Transitions?' British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association 39th Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland

When concentrated discussion centres on online harms and the harms experienced online as a consequence of interactions, research and regulatory initiatives focus on the individual user interacting with the content. Whilst it is well documented that t... Read More about Differentiating between harm to users and third parties in the UK’s Online Safety regulations: The phenomena of TikTok Frenzies.

An Unsupervised Domain Adaptation-Based Device-Free Sensing Approach for Cross-Weather Target Recognition in Foliage Environments (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhong, Y., Bi, T., Wang, J., You, M., & Jiang, T. (2024). An Unsupervised Domain Adaptation-Based Device-Free Sensing Approach for Cross-Weather Target Recognition in Foliage Environments. In Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems: Volume 2 (167-175). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7502-0_18

In recent years, the emerging technique of device-free sensing (DFS) has gained popularity for foliage penetration (FOPEN) target recognition. This popularity is primarily attributed to its inherent advantage of not requiring specialized sensing equi... Read More about An Unsupervised Domain Adaptation-Based Device-Free Sensing Approach for Cross-Weather Target Recognition in Foliage Environments.

Response of framed buildings on separate footings to tunnelling: a hybrid modelling study (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spaggiari, C., Tang, C., Boldini, D., & Marshall, A. M. (2024, October). Response of framed buildings on separate footings to tunnelling: a hybrid modelling study. Presented at 5th European Conference on Physical Modelling Geotechnics, Delft, The Netherlands

Within the framework of hybrid geotechnical modelling, the coupled centrifuge-numerical modelling (CCNM) technique, developed at the University of Nottingham Centre for Geomechanics (NCG), is becoming a well-established approach to study the interact... Read More about Response of framed buildings on separate footings to tunnelling: a hybrid modelling study.

A survey of past and future changes in global river flow (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gudmundsson, L., Brunner, M., Döll, P., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Gosling, S. N., Hirabayashi, Y., …Zhou, X. (2024, April). A survey of past and future changes in global river flow. Presented at EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria & Online

Let's talk about Green (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Montague-Hellen, B., & Fraser, K. (2024, April). Let's talk about Green. Presented at UKSG Annual Conference, Glasgow, Scotland

Open Access is a foundational topic in Scholarly Communications. However, when information professionals and publishers talk about its future, it is nearly always Gold open access we discuss. Green was seen as the big solution for providing access to... Read More about Let's talk about Green.

Evaluation of digital musicianship in higher education through playing and creating digital scores (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moroz, S., Vear, C., & Poltronieri, F. (2024). Evaluation of digital musicianship in higher education through playing and creating digital scores. In Tenor Zurich 2024 (18-28)

This paper presents an evaluation of digital musicianship with digital scores. Primary data was gathered during the DigiScore “Roadshow”of North American universities’ music departments in 2023 and an extended research workshop in Avellino, Italy, 20... Read More about Evaluation of digital musicianship in higher education through playing and creating digital scores.

Effect of elastic modulus on masonry buildings during tunnelling: a coupled centrifuge-numerical modelling study (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tang, C., & Marshall, A. M. (2024, October). Effect of elastic modulus on masonry buildings during tunnelling: a coupled centrifuge-numerical modelling study. Presented at 5th European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics ECPMG 2024, Delft, Netherlands

In this study, a novel coupled centrifuge-numerical modelling (CCNM) approach of shallow strip foundations developed at the University of Nottingham Centre for Geomechanics (NCG) is used to study the response of masonry building behaviour during tunn... Read More about Effect of elastic modulus on masonry buildings during tunnelling: a coupled centrifuge-numerical modelling study.

Generating emotional music based on improved C-RNN-GAN (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shi, X., & Vear, C. (2024, April). Generating emotional music based on improved C-RNN-GAN. Presented at 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) 2024, Aberystwyth University, Wales

This study introduces an emotion-based music generation model built upon the foundation of C-RNN-GAN, incorporating conditional GAN, and utilizing emotion labels to create diverse emotional music. Two evaluation methods were employed in this study to... Read More about Generating emotional music based on improved C-RNN-GAN.