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Twist It, Touch It, Push It, Swipe It: Evaluating Secondary Input Devices for Use with an Automotive Touchscreen HMI (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Large, D. R., Burnett, G., Crundall, E., Lawson, G., & Skrypchuk, L. (2016). Twist It, Touch It, Push It, Swipe It: Evaluating Secondary Input Devices for Use with an Automotive Touchscreen HMI. In Automotive'UI 16: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (161-168). https://doi.org/10.1145/3003715.3005459

Touchscreen Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) inherently demand some visual attention. By employing a secondary device, to work in unison with a touchscreen, some of this demand may be alleviated. In a medium-fidelity driving simulator, twenty-four dri... Read More about Twist It, Touch It, Push It, Swipe It: Evaluating Secondary Input Devices for Use with an Automotive Touchscreen HMI.

Assessing Cognitive Demand during Natural Language Interactions with a Digital Driving Assistant (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Large, D. R., Burnett, G., Anyasodo, B., & Skrypchuk, L. (2016). Assessing Cognitive Demand during Natural Language Interactions with a Digital Driving Assistant. In Automotive'UI 16: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (67-74). https://doi.org/10.1145/3003715.3005408

Given the proliferation of digital assistants in everyday mobile technology, it appears inevitable that next generation vehicles will be embodied by similar agents, offering engaging, natural language interactions. However, speech can be cognitively... Read More about Assessing Cognitive Demand during Natural Language Interactions with a Digital Driving Assistant.

Cascaded model predictive speed control of a permanent magnet synchronous machine (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Garcia, C., Silva, C. A., Rodriguez, J., & Zanchetta, P. (2016). Cascaded model predictive speed control of a permanent magnet synchronous machine.

This paper proposes a model predictive speed control of a permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM). The control scheme has a cascade architecture, where the inner loop uses a finite set model predictive control scheme (FS-MPC) for the electrical s... Read More about Cascaded model predictive speed control of a permanent magnet synchronous machine.

Interaction between nearby strangers: Serendipity and playfulness (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Paasovaara, S., Lucero, A., Porcheron, M., Paavilainen, J., Aliakseyeu, D., & Olsson, T. (2016). Interaction between nearby strangers: Serendipity and playfulness. In NordiCHI '16: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (1-3). https://doi.org/10.1145/2971485.2987674

“Nearby strangers” provides an interestingly paradoxical space for interaction design. There are various social norms, cultural practices, and privacy concerns hindering interaction with nearby strangers, but by ignoring them, people constantly miss... Read More about Interaction between nearby strangers: Serendipity and playfulness.

Design of a repetitive controller as a feed-forward disturbance observer (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Tang, M., Formentini, A., Odhano, S., & Zanchetta, P. (2016). Design of a repetitive controller as a feed-forward disturbance observer.

From the structure point of view, a repetitive controller (RC) is considerably similar to a disturbance observer. By adding a correction term to the traditional RC and considering the disturbances as states, the repetitive controller can be designed... Read More about Design of a repetitive controller as a feed-forward disturbance observer.

GeoTracks: adaptive music for everyday journeys (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Greenhalgh, C., Hazzard, A., McGrath, S., & Benford, S. (2016). GeoTracks: adaptive music for everyday journeys. In MM '16 Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Multimedia Conference (42-46). https://doi.org/10.1145/2964284.2967181

Listening to music on the move is an everyday activity for many people. This paper proposes geotracks and geolists, music tracks and playlists of existing music that are aligned and adapted to specific journeys. We describe how everyday walking journ... Read More about GeoTracks: adaptive music for everyday journeys.

SiC/GaN power semiconductor devices theoretical comparison and experimental evaluation (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Li, K., Evans, P., & Johnson, C. M. (2016). SiC/GaN power semiconductor devices theoretical comparison and experimental evaluation.

SiC and GaN power transistors conduction loss and switching losses are compared in this paper. In order to compare performance of the same power rating device, a theoretical analysis is given to compare SiC device conduction loss and switching losses... Read More about SiC/GaN power semiconductor devices theoretical comparison and experimental evaluation.

A review of power converter topologies with medium/high frequency transformers for grid interconnection systems (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Nasir, U., Rivera, M., Toleda, S., Costabeber, A., & Wheeler, P. (2016). A review of power converter topologies with medium/high frequency transformers for grid interconnection systems.

In recent years, power electronics has evolved dra¬matically due to their importance in power extracted manage¬ment from renewable sources. In this paper an overview of grid interconnection systems with galvanic isolation is presented. The most commo... Read More about A review of power converter topologies with medium/high frequency transformers for grid interconnection systems.

Railway bridge asset management using a Petri-Net modelling approach (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Yianni, P. C., Rama, D., Neves, L. C., & Andrews, J. D. (2016). Railway bridge asset management using a Petri-Net modelling approach.

Infrastructure assets can be difficult to manage due to the array of defects, the variety of environmental situations and the different operational scenarios. A number of studies have tried to model bridge asset management. The main focus of these mo... Read More about Railway bridge asset management using a Petri-Net modelling approach.

Investigation of changes in the electrical properties of novel knitted conductive textiles during cyclic loading (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Isaia, C., McNally, D., McMaster, S. A., & Branson, D. T. (2016). Investigation of changes in the electrical properties of novel knitted conductive textiles during cyclic loading. In 2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC): 16-20 Aug. 2016 (6058-6061). https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2016.7592110

© 2016 IEEE. Combining stainless steel with polyester fibres adds an attractive conductive behaviour to the yarn. Once knitted in such a manner, fabrics develop sensing properties that make the textiles, also known as e-textiles, suitable for smart/w... Read More about Investigation of changes in the electrical properties of novel knitted conductive textiles during cyclic loading.

Developing power semiconductor device model for virtual prototyping of power electronics systems (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Li, K., Evans, P., & Johnson, C. M. (2016). Developing power semiconductor device model for virtual prototyping of power electronics systems.

Virtual prototyping (VP) is very important for power electronics systems design. A virtual prototyping design tool based on different modelling technology and model order reduction is proposed in the paper. In order to combine circuit electromagnetic... Read More about Developing power semiconductor device model for virtual prototyping of power electronics systems.

Balance ninja: towards the design of digital vertigo games via galvanic vestibular stimulation (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Byrne, R., Marshall, J., & Mueller, F. ‘. (2016). Balance ninja: towards the design of digital vertigo games via galvanic vestibular stimulation.

Vertigo – the momentary disruption of the stability of perception – is an intriguing game element that underlies many unique play experiences, such as spinning in circles as children to rock climbing as adults, yet vertigo is relatively unexplored wh... Read More about Balance ninja: towards the design of digital vertigo games via galvanic vestibular stimulation.

AVEC 2016: Depression, Mood, and Emotion Recognition Workshop and Challenge (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Valstar, M., Gratch, J., Schuller, B., Ringeval, F., Lalanne, D., Torres, M. T., …Pantic, M. (2016). AVEC 2016: Depression, Mood, and Emotion Recognition Workshop and Challenge. In AVEC '16 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (3-10). https://doi.org/10.1145/2988257.2988258

© 2016 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). The Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2016) \Depression, Mood and Emotion" will be the sixth competition event aimed at comparison of multimedia processing and machine learning methods for... Read More about AVEC 2016: Depression, Mood, and Emotion Recognition Workshop and Challenge.

How do principles for human-centred automation apply to Disruption Management Decision Support? (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Golightly, D., & Dadashi, N. (2016). How do principles for human-centred automation apply to Disruption Management Decision Support?. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIRT.2016.7588725

While automation of signal and route setting is routine, the use of automation or decision support in disruption management processes is far less common. Such support offers significant advantages in optimising re-planning of both timetable and resou... Read More about How do principles for human-centred automation apply to Disruption Management Decision Support?.

Cascaded continuous regression for real-time incremental face tracking (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Sánchez Lozano, E., Martinez, B., Tzimiropoulos, G., & Valstar, M. F. (2016). Cascaded continuous regression for real-time incremental face tracking.

This paper introduces a novel real-time algorithm for facial landmark tracking. Compared to detection, tracking has both additional challenges and opportunities. Arguably the most important aspect in this domain is updating a tracker's models as trac... Read More about Cascaded continuous regression for real-time incremental face tracking.

Interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic system for non-linear system prediction (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Eyoh, I., John, R., & de Maere, G. (2016). Interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic system for non-linear system prediction.

This paper presents an approach to prediction based on a new interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic system (IT2IFLS) of Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy inference. The gradient descent algorithm (GDA) is used to adapt the parame- ters of the IT2IFL... Read More about Interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic system for non-linear system prediction.

A CNN cascade for landmark guided semantic part segmentation (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Jackson, A. S., Valstar, M., & Tzimiropoulos, G. (2016). A CNN cascade for landmark guided semantic part segmentation.

This paper proposes a CNN cascade for semantic part segmentation guided by pose-specifc information encoded in terms of a set of landmarks (or keypoints). There is large amount of prior work on each of these tasks separately, yet, to the best of our... Read More about A CNN cascade for landmark guided semantic part segmentation.

Optimized design of high power density EMI filters for power electronic converters (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Ala, G., Giaconia, G., Giglia, G., Di Piazza, M., Luna, M., Vitale, G., & Zanchetta, P. (2016). Optimized design of high power density EMI filters for power electronic converters.

Nowadays, power density of power converters and related EMI filters is gaining more and more attention. This severely impacts on the design constraints in several application domains. A conventional design of the EMI filter does not guarantee the sel... Read More about Optimized design of high power density EMI filters for power electronic converters.

On understanding the applicability of Mohr-Coulomb failure hypothesis for composite materials using UnitCells© (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Balasubramani, N. K., Sitnikova, E., & Li, S. (2016). On understanding the applicability of Mohr-Coulomb failure hypothesis for composite materials using UnitCells©.

The applicability of Mohr-Coulomb (M-C) failure hypothesis for anisotropic composite materials is re-examined in this paper. Mohr-Coulomb failure theory has been widely referred to in the literature to study the failure of unidirectional (UD) fibre r... Read More about On understanding the applicability of Mohr-Coulomb failure hypothesis for composite materials using UnitCells©.

^muzicode$: composing and performing musical codes (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Greenhalgh, C., Benford, S., & Hazzard, A. (2016). ^muzicode$: composing and performing musical codes.

We present muzicodes, an approach to incorporating machine-readable ‘codes’ into music that allows the performer and/or composer to flexibly define what constitutes a code, and to perform around it. These codes can then act as triggers, for example t... Read More about ^muzicode$: composing and performing musical codes.