All Outputs (2814)

I, AV: A Ghost Driver Field Study Exploring the Application of Anthropomorphism in AV-Pedestrian Communication (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Large, D. R., Hallewell, M., Li, X., Harvey, C., & Burnett, G. (2023). I, AV: A Ghost Driver Field Study Exploring the Application of Anthropomorphism in AV-Pedestrian Communication. In AutomotiveUI '23 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (127-132). https://doi.org/10.1145/3581961.3609883

We employed the 'Ghost Driver' methodology to emulate an autonomous vehicle (AV) and explored pedestrians' (n=520) crossing behaviour in response to external human-machine interfaces (eHMIs). Three eHMI designs were created to replace absent pedestri... Read More about I, AV: A Ghost Driver Field Study Exploring the Application of Anthropomorphism in AV-Pedestrian Communication.

UAV Path Planning for Area Coverage and Energy Consumption in Oil and Gas Exploration Environment (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Maaji, S. S., & Landa-Silva, D. (2023). UAV Path Planning for Area Coverage and Energy Consumption in Oil and Gas Exploration Environment. In Computational Logistics. ICCL 2023 (467-481). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43612-3_29

This paper proposes a model for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) grid-based coverage path planning, considering coverage completeness and energy consumption in complex environments with multiple obstacles. The work is inspired by the need for more effi... Read More about UAV Path Planning for Area Coverage and Energy Consumption in Oil and Gas Exploration Environment.

Identifying Variation in the Newborn Life Support Procedure: An Automated Method (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Tan, A., Remenyte-Prescott, R., Egede, J., Valstar, M., & Sharkey, D. (2023). Identifying Variation in the Newborn Life Support Procedure: An Automated Method. In M. P. Brito, T. Aven, P. Baraldi, M. Čepin, & E. Zio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2023) (607-614)

This research is conducted for developing an automated method to recognize variations in the Newborn Life Support (NLS) procedure. Compliance with the NLS standard guideline is essential to prevent any adverse consequences for the newborn. Video reco... Read More about Identifying Variation in the Newborn Life Support Procedure: An Automated Method.

The Integration of Green Building Technologies into the Construction Sector of Developing Countries: The Case of Ghana (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Genfi, N., & Tokbolat, S. (2023). The Integration of Green Building Technologies into the Construction Sector of Developing Countries: The Case of Ghana. In A. Tutesigensi, & C. J. Neilson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual ARCOM Conference (810-819)

Emerging climate change crisis, resources scarcity and global sustainability agenda are putting pressures on developing nations and demanding actions. This study aimed to examine the significance of introducing green building technologies (GBTs) in... Read More about The Integration of Green Building Technologies into the Construction Sector of Developing Countries: The Case of Ghana.

Wind Turbine Installation Vessel Mission Reliability Modelling Using Petri Nets (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Yan, R., Dunnett, S., & Jackson, L. (2023). Wind Turbine Installation Vessel Mission Reliability Modelling Using Petri Nets. In Proceedings of the The 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2023) 3 – 8 September 2023, Southampton, UK. https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-18-8071-1_p034-cd

Offshore wind power is one of the main technologies helping to meet the global low carbon challenge. However, the significant expansion of the offshore wind industry and the rapid increase in the size and weight of turbine components will certainly a... Read More about Wind Turbine Installation Vessel Mission Reliability Modelling Using Petri Nets.

Human-AI Musicking: A Framework for Designing AI for Music Co-creativity (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Vear, C., Benford, S., Avila, J. M., & Moroz, S. (2023). Human-AI Musicking: A Framework for Designing AI for Music Co-creativity.

In this paper, we present a framework for understanding human-AI musicking. This framework prompts a series of questions for reflecting on various aspects of the creative interrelationships between musicians and AI and thus can be used as a tool for... Read More about Human-AI Musicking: A Framework for Designing AI for Music Co-creativity.

“They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Trigo, M. J. G., Reyes-Cruz, G., Maior, H. A., Pepper, C., Price, D., Leonard, P., …Fischer, J. E. (2023). “They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot. In 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309364

Increasingly, robots are adopted for routine tasks such as cleaning and disinfection of public spaces, raising questions about attitudes and trust of professional cleaners who might in future have robots as teammates, and whether the general public f... Read More about “They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot.

Modelling of Stress Evolution and Its Effect on Formability in Tension Under Cyclic Bending Plus Compression (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Peng, W., & Ou, H. (2024). Modelling of Stress Evolution and Its Effect on Formability in Tension Under Cyclic Bending Plus Compression. In K. Mocellin, P. Bouchard, R. Bigot, & T. Balan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Technology of Plasticity - Current Trends in the Technology o (713-721). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41023-9_71

Single point incremental forming (SPIF) and Double-sided incremental forming (DSIF) are two main variants of incremental sheet forming (ISF) processes. Tension under cyclic bending (TCB) have been developed as a means for experimental evaluation and... Read More about Modelling of Stress Evolution and Its Effect on Formability in Tension Under Cyclic Bending Plus Compression.

Weakly Supervised Segmentation with Point Annotations for Histopathology Images via Contrast-Based Variational Model (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Zhang, H., Burrows, L., Meng, Y., Sculthorpe, D., Mukherjee, A., Coupland, S. E., …Zheng, Y. (2023). Weakly Supervised Segmentation with Point Annotations for Histopathology Images via Contrast-Based Variational Model. In 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (15630-15640). https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52729.2023.01500

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in the field of imaging and vision. Supervised deep learning for segmentation has achieved unparalleled success when sufficient training data with annotated labels are available. However, annotation is known t... Read More about Weakly Supervised Segmentation with Point Annotations for Histopathology Images via Contrast-Based Variational Model.

Hyper-Stacked: Scalable and Distributed Approach to AutoML for Big Data (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Dave, R., Angarita-Zapata, J. S., & Triguero, I. (2023). Hyper-Stacked: Scalable and Distributed Approach to AutoML for Big Data. In Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (82-102). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40837-3_6

The emergence of Machine Learning (ML) has altered how researchers and business professionals value data. Applicable to almost every industry, considerable amounts of time are wasted creating bespoke applications and repetitively hand-tuning models t... Read More about Hyper-Stacked: Scalable and Distributed Approach to AutoML for Big Data.

Automatically Labeling Cyber Threat Intelligence reports using Natural Language Processing (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Abdi, H., Bagley, S. R., Furnell, S., & Twycross, J. (2023). Automatically Labeling Cyber Threat Intelligence reports using Natural Language Processing. In DocEng ’23 : Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1145/3573128.3609348

Attribution provides valuable intelligence in the face of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks. By accurately identifying the culprits and actors behind the attacks, we can gain more insights into their motivations, capabilities, and potential fu... Read More about Automatically Labeling Cyber Threat Intelligence reports using Natural Language Processing.

LABERT: A Combination of Local Aggregation and Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning for Detecting Informative Hidden Units in Low-Resource ASR Systems (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Fatehi, K., & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2023). LABERT: A Combination of Local Aggregation and Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning for Detecting Informative Hidden Units in Low-Resource ASR Systems. In Interspeech 2023

With advances in deep learning methodologies, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have seen impressive results. However, ASR in Low-Resource Environments (LREs) are challenged by a lack of training data for the specific target domain. We propo... Read More about LABERT: A Combination of Local Aggregation and Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning for Detecting Informative Hidden Units in Low-Resource ASR Systems.

A BIM-based framework for designing sustainable structures through the reuse of precast concrete components (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Jawhar, H., Thermou, G., Osorio-Sandoval, C., & Tokbolat, S. (2023). A BIM-based framework for designing sustainable structures through the reuse of precast concrete components. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (201-210)

The widespread use of concrete within the global construction sector is primarily attributed to its inherent qualities of resilience, versatility, longevity, and facilitation of economic growth. Nevertheless, it is noteworthy that this popular materi... Read More about A BIM-based framework for designing sustainable structures through the reuse of precast concrete components.

A BIM-based conceptual framework for embodied carbon assessment (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Hunt, J., & Osorio-Sandoval, C. A. (2023). A BIM-based conceptual framework for embodied carbon assessment. In SET2023 : 20th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies 15th to 17th August 2023, Nottingham, UK: Sustainable Energy Technologies 2023 Conference Proceedings. Volume 1 (387-394)

Understanding the integration of BIM as an enabling factor in embodied carbon (EC) assessment is becoming exponentially vital as the global climate crisis accelerates. This paper introduces a BIM-based conceptual framework to quantify the EC of a bui... Read More about A BIM-based conceptual framework for embodied carbon assessment.

An experimental investigation of the effect of surface roughness on sessile droplet evaporation (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Zhang, Z., Yan, Y., & Magnini, M. (2023). An experimental investigation of the effect of surface roughness on sessile droplet evaporation. . https://doi.org/10.1615/IHTC17.130-110

As one of the most common phenomena in nature, droplet evaporation has become a major heat transfer mode and is used widely in industries and scientific fields. For a sessile droplet, the wettability of the substrate surface could make a significant... Read More about An experimental investigation of the effect of surface roughness on sessile droplet evaporation.

BIM-based building circularity assessment: conceptual framework (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Qazzaz, I., Osorio-Sandoval, C., Tokbolat, S., & Thermou, G. (2023). BIM-based building circularity assessment: conceptual framework. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (130-137)

The construction sector contributes substantially to the consumption of raw materials and the production of waste. Traditional building design strategies are based on an unsustainable economic linear model. Transition to the circular economy (CE) par... Read More about BIM-based building circularity assessment: conceptual framework.

Electrical resistivity tomography to measure and monitor hydrodynamic heterogeneities in a Malawian agricultural alfisol (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Swift, R., Boyd, J., Chambers, J., Wilkinson, P., Sandram, I., Magwero, N., …Lark, M. (2023). Electrical resistivity tomography to measure and monitor hydrodynamic heterogeneities in a Malawian agricultural alfisol. In NSG2023 2nd Conference on Hydrogeophysics, Volume 2023. https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202320106

Conservation Agriculture (CA) is an agricultural method that has been shown to provide crop resilience to drought. In order to better understand the hydrodynamics in soils cultivated using CA, we installed geophysical monitoring equipment and co-loca... Read More about Electrical resistivity tomography to measure and monitor hydrodynamic heterogeneities in a Malawian agricultural alfisol.

Uncertainty analysis of an augmented industrial robot (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Khanesar, M. A., Piano, S., & Branson, D. (in press). Uncertainty analysis of an augmented industrial robot.

Industrial robots are often used in additive manufacturing (AM) environments to automate the process of creating complex parts and structures. One example of an industrial robot used in AM is for wire and arc additive manufacturing. This process invo... Read More about Uncertainty analysis of an augmented industrial robot.

Frequency Analysis of Monopiles with Masing-Type Hysteresis Damping Under Large-Strain Cyclic Loading (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Tott-Buswell, J., Hilton, J., Berberic, S., Jalbi, S., & Prendergast, L. J. (2023). Frequency Analysis of Monopiles with Masing-Type Hysteresis Damping Under Large-Strain Cyclic Loading. In Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures (232-241). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39109-5_24

Offshore wind turbines supported by monopiles have demonstrated their suitability to meet sustainable energy goals. However, there remains uncertainty about how long these foundations can stay operating within serviceable deflection limits after many... Read More about Frequency Analysis of Monopiles with Masing-Type Hysteresis Damping Under Large-Strain Cyclic Loading.

RoboClean: Contextual Language Grounding for Human-Robot Interactions in Specialised Low-Resource Environments (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Fuentes, C., Porcheron, M., & Fischer, J. E. (2023). RoboClean: Contextual Language Grounding for Human-Robot Interactions in Specialised Low-Resource Environments. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '23). https://doi.org/10.1145/3571884.3597137

Building effective voice interfaces for the instruction of service robots in specialised environments is difficult due to the local knowledge of workers, such as specific terminology for objects and space, leading to limited data to train language mo... Read More about RoboClean: Contextual Language Grounding for Human-Robot Interactions in Specialised Low-Resource Environments.