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Ontology‐driven disability‐aware e‐learning personalisation with ONTODAPS (2012)
Journal Article
Nganji, J. T., Brayshaw, M., & Tompsett, B. (2012). Ontology‐driven disability‐aware e‐learning personalisation with ONTODAPS. Campus-Wide Information Systems, 30(1), 17-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/10650741311288797

Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to show how personalisation of learning resources and services can be achieved for students with and without disabilities, particularly responding to the needs of those with multiple disabilities in e-learning sy... Read More about Ontology‐driven disability‐aware e‐learning personalisation with ONTODAPS.

Control strategies for robotic manipulators (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, M. F., Ul Islam, R., & Iqbal, J. (2012). Control strategies for robotic manipulators. In 2012 International Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (ICRAI) (26-33). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRAI.2012.6413422

This survey is aimed at presenting the major robust control strategies for rigid robot manipulators. The techniques discussed are feedback linearization/Computed torque control, Variable structure compensator, Passivity based approach and Disturbance... Read More about Control strategies for robotic manipulators.

Diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease with an intelligent decision-making support system (2012)
Journal Article
Bohacik, J., & Davis, D. (2012). Diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease with an intelligent decision-making support system. ULAB journal of science and engineering, 3(1), Article 42888

Cardiovascular disease is the principal cause of death in most European countries and may have a major negativeimpact on the patients' functional status, productivity, and quality of life. It seems an automatic decision support system couldlower thes... Read More about Diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease with an intelligent decision-making support system.

Hand exoskeleton robotic systems - Role and deriving the design requirements (2012)
Book
Iqbal, J. (2012). Hand exoskeleton robotic systems - Role and deriving the design requirements. Lambert Academic Publishing

This book presents an expert’s view of the hand exoskeleton robotic systems. A systematic and thorough analysis of the subject matter helps to identify research lacks in this area. Design of such systems demands careful investigation of the associate... Read More about Hand exoskeleton robotic systems - Role and deriving the design requirements.

Designing personalised learning resources for disabled students using an ontology-driven community of agents (2012)
Book Chapter
Nganji, J. T., & Brayshaw, M. (2012). Designing personalised learning resources for disabled students using an ontology-driven community of agents. In P. Isaias, & M. Baptista Nunes (Eds.), Information systems research and exploring social artifacts: approaches and methodologies (81-102). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2491-7.ch005

The exploration of social artifacts for the disabled is an important and timely issue. The affordances of new technologies like the Semantic Web allow more intelligent handling of educational learning resources that open up the potential of personali... Read More about Designing personalised learning resources for disabled students using an ontology-driven community of agents.

Quantification of priority-OR gates in temporal fault trees (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Edifor, E., Walker, M., & Gordon, N. Quantification of priority-OR gates in temporal fault trees

Fault Tree Analysis has been used in reliability engineering for many decades and has seen various modifications to enable it to analyse fault trees with dynamic and temporal gates so it can incorporate sequential failure in its analysis. Pandora is... Read More about Quantification of priority-OR gates in temporal fault trees.

Adaptive probability scheme for behaviour monitoring of the elderly using a specialised ambient device (2012)
Journal Article
Winkley, J., & Jiang, P. (2014). Adaptive probability scheme for behaviour monitoring of the elderly using a specialised ambient device. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 5(2), 293-307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-012-0134-4

A Hidden Markov Model (HMM) modified to work in combination with a Fuzzy System is utilised to determine the current behavioural state of the user from information obtained with specialised hardware. Due to the high dimensionality and not-linearly-se... Read More about Adaptive probability scheme for behaviour monitoring of the elderly using a specialised ambient device.

Activating cognitive activities among students through the application of WebPA in teaching knowledge on mathematical operations in upper secondary schools of Vietnam (2012)
Journal Article
Nguyen, T., & Gordon, N. (2012). Activating cognitive activities among students through the application of WebPA in teaching knowledge on mathematical operations in upper secondary schools of Vietnam

In Vietnam, the inspection and evaluation in education is usually performed by traditional assessments, including regular testing and periodic examination. The biggest advantage of these assessments are that they are easy to deploy and fairly accurat... Read More about Activating cognitive activities among students through the application of WebPA in teaching knowledge on mathematical operations in upper secondary schools of Vietnam.

Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brayshaw, M., Nganji, J. T., Brayshaw, M., & Tompsett, B. Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT

People with visual impairments, particularly blind people face alot of difficulties browsing the web with assistive technologies such as screen readers, when websites do not conform to accessibility standards and are thus inaccessible. HTML is the ba... Read More about Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT.

Verity: An ambient assisted living platform (2012)
Journal Article
Winkley, J., Jiang, P., & Jiang, W. (2012). Verity: An ambient assisted living platform. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 58(2), 364-373. https://doi.org/10.1109/tce.2012.6227435

A new and innovative system intended for the monitoring of the elderly and those requiring passive care is developed, with a wrist-wearable wireless sensor node and a mobile platform to form a remotely accessible body area network. The system utilise... Read More about Verity: An ambient assisted living platform.

Risk estimation of cardiovascular patients using Weka (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bohacik, J., Davis, D., & Benedikovic, M. Risk estimation of cardiovascular patients using Weka. Presented at International Conference on Open Source Software in Education, Research and IT Solution, Zilina, Slovakia

Cardiovascular diseases remain the most prevalent cause of deaths worldwideand their prevention requires major life-style changes using limited health-care resources.Remote decision support for cardiovascular patients seems to allow them to lead a pr... Read More about Risk estimation of cardiovascular patients using Weka.

Personalized content provision for virtual learning environments via the semantic web (2012)
Journal Article
Wen, L., Brayshaw, M., & Gordon, N. (2012). Personalized content provision for virtual learning environments via the semantic web. Innovation in teaching and learning in information and computer sciences, 11(1), 14-26. https://doi.org/10.11120/ital.2012.11010014

In this paper we discuss how we may personalize e-learning along three distinct axes, namely: teaching and learning pedagogical philosophies, personalized educational processes to taste and the coordination of these processes during execution. In doi... Read More about Personalized content provision for virtual learning environments via the semantic web.

WE-G-BRA-06: calibrating an ionisation chamber: gaining experience using a dosimetry 'flight simulator' (2012)
Journal Article
Beavis, A., Saunderson, J., & Ward, J. (2012). WE-G-BRA-06: calibrating an ionisation chamber: gaining experience using a dosimetry 'flight simulator'. Medical physics, 39(6Part28), 3970-3970. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4736201

Purpose: Recently there has been great interest in the use of simulation training, with the view to enhance safety within radiotherapy practice. We have developed a Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training (VERT) which facilitates this, includin... Read More about WE-G-BRA-06: calibrating an ionisation chamber: gaining experience using a dosimetry 'flight simulator'.

WE-G-BRA-04: the development of a virtual reality dosimetry training platform for physics training (2012)
Journal Article
Beavis, A., & Ward, J. (2012). WE-G-BRA-04: the development of a virtual reality dosimetry training platform for physics training. Medical physics, 39(6Part28), 3969-3969. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4736199

Purpose: Recently there has been a great deal of interest in the application of Simulation methodologies for training. We have previously developed a Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training, VERT, which simulates a fully interactive and functio... Read More about WE-G-BRA-04: the development of a virtual reality dosimetry training platform for physics training.

Emotions in robots (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Azeem, M. M., Iqbal, J., Toivanen, P., & Samad, A. (2012). Emotions in robots. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 281, 144-153. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28962-0_15

This article gives a general overview of emotions in robotics. It sheds light on the composition of emotions in human beings and how this information can be used as blue print for creation of emotional robots. It discusses different factors involved... Read More about Emotions in robots.

A versatile optical model for hybrid rendering of volume data (2012)
Journal Article
Xiang, D., Yang, F., Tian, J., Cao, Y., & Li, Q. (2012). A versatile optical model for hybrid rendering of volume data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(6), 925 - 937. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2011.113

In volume rendering, most optical models currently in use are based on the assumptions that a volumetric object is acollection of particles and that the macro behavior of particles, when they interact with light rays, can be predicted based on thebeh... Read More about A versatile optical model for hybrid rendering of volume data.

System dependability modelling and analysis using AADL and HiP-HOPS (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mian, Z., Bottaci, L., Papadopoulos, Y., & Biehl, M. (2012). System dependability modelling and analysis using AADL and HiP-HOPS. IFAC Proceedings Volumes/ International Federation of Automatic Control, 45(6), 1647-1652. https://doi.org/10.3182/20120523-3-RO-2023.00334

The Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) is gaining widespread acceptance in aerospace, automobile and avionics industries for designing dependability-critical systems. The design process of dependable systems must address both cost and d... Read More about System dependability modelling and analysis using AADL and HiP-HOPS.

A comparative study of missing value imputation with multiclass classification for clinical heart failure data (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, Y., Kambhampati, C., Davis, D. N., Goode, K., & Cleland, J. G. F. A comparative study of missing value imputation with multiclass classification for clinical heart failure data. Presented at 2012 9th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery

Clinical data often contains missing values. Imputation is one of the best known schemes to overcome the drawbacks associated with missing values in data mining tasks. In this work, we compared several imputation methods and analyzed their performanc... Read More about A comparative study of missing value imputation with multiclass classification for clinical heart failure data.

Compositional synthesis of temporal fault trees from state machines (2012)
Journal Article
Papadopoulos, Y., Walker, M., & Mahmud, N. (2012). Compositional synthesis of temporal fault trees from state machines. Performance Evaluation Review, 39(4), 79-88. https://doi.org/10.1145/2185395.2185444

Dependability analysis of a dynamic system which is embedded with several complex interrelated components raises two main problems. First, it is difficult to represent in a single coherent and complete picture how the system and its constituent parts... Read More about Compositional synthesis of temporal fault trees from state machines.

Alert rules for remote monitoring of cardiovascular patients (2012)
Journal Article
Bohacik, J., & Davis, D. (2012). Alert rules for remote monitoring of cardiovascular patients. Journal of information technologies, 5(1), 16 - 23

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in most European countries and its prevention requires major life-style changes using limited health-care resources. Remote cardiovascular decision support seems to allow cardiovascular patients to... Read More about Alert rules for remote monitoring of cardiovascular patients.