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Teaching Sustainable Computing Remotely (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gordon, N. (2022, June). Teaching Sustainable Computing Remotely. Presented at INSPIRE XXVII - e-Learning for Sustainability and Education Beyond Pandemic, Online

This paper explores experiences of teaching sustainable computing remotely during the Coronavirus pandemic. The unanticipated rapid pivot to online learning meant that courses with traditional teaching, or blended approaches had to be adapted to be d... Read More about Teaching Sustainable Computing Remotely.

Teaching students using Design-First Test-Driven Development (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dixon, J., Brayshaw, M., Gordon, N., Grey, S., Parker, D., & Tompsett, B. (2022, June). Teaching students using Design-First Test-Driven Development. Presented at INSPIRE XXVII: E-Learning for Sustainabilty and Education Beyond Pandemic, Online

This paper explores a test-driven approach to teaching within Higher Education. Test-driven here is derived from the Software Engineering approach, where the test cases for software are defined prior to the software being fully developed. The emphasi... Read More about Teaching students using Design-First Test-Driven Development.

Artificial Intelligence-Powered Decisions Support System for Circular Economy Business Models (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mboli, J. S., Thakker, D., & Mishra, J. (2023, April). Artificial Intelligence-Powered Decisions Support System for Circular Economy Business Models. Presented at International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS - Proceedings, Prague, Czech Republic

The circular economy (CE) is preferred to linear economy (LE) as it aims to keep resources in use for as long as possible, extracting maximum value before recovering and regenerating them. This reduces the need to extract new raw materials and reduce... Read More about Artificial Intelligence-Powered Decisions Support System for Circular Economy Business Models.

Design and Adaptive Compliance Control of a Wearable Walk Assist Device (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shah, S. H., Alam, M. S., Arsalan, M., Ul Haq, I., Khan, S. G., & Iqbal, J. (2023, March). Design and Adaptive Compliance Control of a Wearable Walk Assist Device. Presented at 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI), Peshawar, Pakistan

The ability to walk independently is a predominant feature that human beings are bestowed with by nature. People with moving disabilities face many challenges in day-to-day activities and they have to rely on others to perform their day-to-day activi... Read More about Design and Adaptive Compliance Control of a Wearable Walk Assist Device.

A Multi-Threading Algorithm for Constrained Path Optimization Problem on Road Networks (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dutta, K. K., Dewan, A., & Gunturi, V. M. (2022, November). A Multi-Threading Algorithm for Constrained Path Optimization Problem on Road Networks. Presented at Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2022, Biarritz, France

The constrained path optimization (CPO) problem takes the following input: (a) a road network represented as a directed graph, where each edge is associated with a “cost” and a “score” value; (b) a source-destination pair and; (c) a budget value, whi... Read More about A Multi-Threading Algorithm for Constrained Path Optimization Problem on Road Networks.

Keep Your Distance: Determining Sampling and Distance Thresholds in Machine Learning Monitoring (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farhad, A. H., Sorokos, I., Schmidt, A., Akram, M. N., Aslansefat, K., & Schneider, D. (2022, September). Keep Your Distance: Determining Sampling and Distance Thresholds in Machine Learning Monitoring. Presented at Model-Based Safety and Assessment, 8th International Symposium, IMBSA 2022, Munich, Germany

Machine Learning (ML) has provided promising results in recent years across different applications and domains. However, in many cases, qualities such as reliability or even safety need to be ensured. To this end, one important aspect is to determine... Read More about Keep Your Distance: Determining Sampling and Distance Thresholds in Machine Learning Monitoring.

A Reinforcement Learning-based Assignment Scheme for EVs to Charging Stations (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aljaidi, M., Aslam, N., Chen, X., Kaiwartya, O., Al-Gumaei, A., & Khalid, M. (2022, June). A Reinforcement Learning-based Assignment Scheme for EVs to Charging Stations. Presented at 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2022-Spring, Helsinki, Finland

Due to recent developments in electric mobility, public charging infrastructure will be essential for modern transportation systems. As the number of electric vehicles (EVs) increases, the public charging infrastructure needs to adopt efficient charg... Read More about A Reinforcement Learning-based Assignment Scheme for EVs to Charging Stations.

Synchronous Multi-User Cross-Platform Virtual Reality for School Teachers (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kambili-Mzembe, F., & Gordon, N. A. (2022, May). Synchronous Multi-User Cross-Platform Virtual Reality for School Teachers. Presented at 8th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), Vienna, Austria

Motivated by a desire to apply Computer Science and Virtual Reality (VR) technology due to the need for improving secondary school education in Malawi, this paper presents a prototype of a synchronous multi-user cross-platform real-time 3D VR applica... Read More about Synchronous Multi-User Cross-Platform Virtual Reality for School Teachers.

Flexible Ontology-Driven Educational Apps and Social Media for Learners with a Disability (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nganji, J. T., Brayshaw, M., & Gordon, N. (2022, June). Flexible Ontology-Driven Educational Apps and Social Media for Learners with a Disability. Presented at HCII 2022: Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing the Learner and Teacher Experience

This paper explores how to build ontology-driven learning systems from a flexible disability-aware mentality and augment them into a learning blend that embraces social media. The approach emphasizes the use of user centered flexible software in a bl... Read More about Flexible Ontology-Driven Educational Apps and Social Media for Learners with a Disability.

The Role of Gamification in a Software Development Lifecycle (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gordon, N., Brayshaw, M., Dixon, J., Grey, S., & Parker, D. (2021, June). The Role of Gamification in a Software Development Lifecycle. Presented at INSPIRE XXVI International e-conference, Online

Teaching Software Engineering students raises a number of challenges; in particular that student developers typically demonstrate behaviours that run counter to good software development. These include failing to plan properly, failing to develop the... Read More about The Role of Gamification in a Software Development Lifecycle.

Terminal sliding mode control of an anthropomorphic manipulator with friction based observer (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali, K., Mehmood, A., & Iqbal, J. (2021, October). Terminal sliding mode control of an anthropomorphic manipulator with friction based observer. Presented at 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI), Rawalpindi, Pakistan

The role of modern control techniques has been instrumental in today’s robotic applications because of their increasing requirements for reliability, accuracy, productivity and repeatability. Robotic manipulators are highly non-linear systems with co... Read More about Terminal sliding mode control of an anthropomorphic manipulator with friction based observer.

NEAT Activity Detection using Smartwatch at Low Sampling Frequency (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dewan, A., Gunturi, V. M., Naik, V., & Dutta, K. K. (2021, October). NEAT Activity Detection using Smartwatch at Low Sampling Frequency. Presented at 2021 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Internet of People, and Smart City Innovations, SmartWorld/ScalCom/UIC/ATC/IoP/SCI 2021, Atlanta, GA, USA

Our paper aims to build a classification model to discern the typical NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis) activities done in a home setting. The concept of NEAT is broadly defined as the energy spent in everything which is not sleeping, eating... Read More about NEAT Activity Detection using Smartwatch at Low Sampling Frequency.

Use Case of Building an Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kureshi, R. R., Thakker, D., Mishra, B. K., & Ahmed, B. (2021, June). Use Case of Building an Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System. Presented at 7th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, WF-IoT 2021, New Orleans, USA

On average, we spend around 90% of the time in indoor environments. Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) has been receiving increased attention from the environmental bodies, local authorities and citizens as it is becoming clearer that poor IAQ has public healt... Read More about Use Case of Building an Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System.

Finite-Time Attitude Control of Uncertain Quadrotor Aircraft via Continuous Terminal Sliding-Mode-Based Active Anti-Disturbance Approach (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mechali, O., Iqbal, J., Mechali, A., Xie, X., & Xu, L. (2021, August). Finite-Time Attitude Control of Uncertain Quadrotor Aircraft via Continuous Terminal Sliding-Mode-Based Active Anti-Disturbance Approach. Presented at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2021, Takamatsu, Japan

This research addresses the problem of robust attitude control for a quadrotor operating in an environment polluted with lumped disturbances. A new continuous terminal sliding mode-based active anti-disturbance control (CTSMBAADC) is proposed by inno... Read More about Finite-Time Attitude Control of Uncertain Quadrotor Aircraft via Continuous Terminal Sliding-Mode-Based Active Anti-Disturbance Approach.

Distributed Leader-Follower Formation Control of Quadrotors Swarm Subjected to Disturbances (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mechali, O., Iqbal, J., Wang, J., Xie, X., & Xu, L. (2021, August). Distributed Leader-Follower Formation Control of Quadrotors Swarm Subjected to Disturbances. Presented at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2021, Takamatsu, Japan

This paper proposes a novel control scheme for a group of quadrotors aircrafts that form a leader-follower configuration and are subjected to nonlinear behavior with lumped disturbances. For each aircraft, a distributed formation control law is desig... Read More about Distributed Leader-Follower Formation Control of Quadrotors Swarm Subjected to Disturbances.

Research on College Computer-Computing and Information Literacy online course based on MOOC: Taking the North Minzu University as an example (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mian, Z., Bai, Y., & Ur, R. K. (2022, June). Research on College Computer-Computing and Information Literacy online course based on MOOC: Taking the North Minzu University as an example. Presented at 2021 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Computer Science and Educational Informatization (CSEI), Xinxiang, China

In 2015, North Minzu University (NMU) introduced MOOC teaching method into the teaching practice of computer major. It is the first experiment of this teaching method in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. In the three years of teaching practice, NMU has... Read More about Research on College Computer-Computing and Information Literacy online course based on MOOC: Taking the North Minzu University as an example.

A Navigation System for Safe Routing (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kaur, R., Goyal, V., Gunturi, V. M., Saini, A., Sanadhya, K., Gupta, R., & Ratra, S. (2021, June). A Navigation System for Safe Routing. Presented at International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Toronto, ON, Canada

Globally, women are cautious when planning their routine travel routes. In a recent survey on street harassment, 82% of international respondents reported taking a different route to their destination than the conventional route due to fear of harass... Read More about A Navigation System for Safe Routing.

A TRIANGULATED COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR CONTEMPORARY COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMMES (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Whelan, J. (2021, July). A TRIANGULATED COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR CONTEMPORARY COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMMES. Presented at 13th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Online Conference

Aligning student learning to demonstrable, practical competencies is at the heart of the Transforming Programmes process at the University of Hull (UK). This paper reports on the approach created by the Department of Computer Science and Technology (... Read More about A TRIANGULATED COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR CONTEMPORARY COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMMES.

Intelligent Predictive Maintenance Model for Rolling Components of a Machine based on Speed and Vibration (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ahmad, B., Mishra, B. K., Ghufran, M., Pervez, Z., & Ramzan, N. (2021, April). Intelligent Predictive Maintenance Model for Rolling Components of a Machine based on Speed and Vibration. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication, ICAIIC 2021, Jeju Island, Korea (South)

Machines have come a long way, from the industrial revolution to a modern-day industry 4.0. In this massive transition, one thing that has never changed within a machine is the moving part. Most industries use rotating machine with different load cap... Read More about Intelligent Predictive Maintenance Model for Rolling Components of a Machine based on Speed and Vibration.

Refining the Teaching of Programming (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gordon, N., Cargill, M., Grey, S., & Brayshaw, M. (2020, July). Refining the Teaching of Programming. Presented at INSPIRE XXV: e-Learning as a Solution during Unprecedented Times in the 21st Century, Online

This paper considers issues around the teaching of programming, a critical yet challenging part of the computing education at all levels. This paper begins by outlining some of the key concerns around computing education-from secondary school, throug... Read More about Refining the Teaching of Programming.