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A step change in education: Generative AI, Ethics and Transformation for Higher Education (2025)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N., Dixon, J., & Mian, Z. (2025). A step change in education: Generative AI, Ethics and Transformation for Higher Education. In M. A. Doolan, & L. Ritchie (Eds.), Transforming Teaching Excellence: Future Proofing Education for All. International Federation of National Teaching Fellows

Generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Llama, are transforming higher education by introducing opportunities for enhanced learning and personalised education. These systems are disrupting traditional pedagogical approaches while presenting... Read More about A step change in education: Generative AI, Ethics and Transformation for Higher Education.

Scaling up and automating formative assessment in computer science (2025)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N. (2025). Scaling up and automating formative assessment in computer science. In S. Elkington, & A. Irons (Eds.), Formative Assessment and Feedback in Post-Digital Learning Environments: Disciplinary Case Studies in Higher Education (172-178). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003360254-22

The rise in student numbers in computer science creates a challenge for delivery. Computer science has some of the worst attainment and retention profiles across subjects. Given its technology focus, it is a subject where digital technologies have lo... Read More about Scaling up and automating formative assessment in computer science.

EMG Controlled Modular Prosthetic Hand–Design and Prototyping (2023)
Book Chapter
Suddaby, A., & Iqbal, J. (2023). EMG Controlled Modular Prosthetic Hand–Design and Prototyping. In X.-S. Yang, R. S. Sherratt, N. Dey, & A. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of Eighth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology : ICICT 2023 (97-107). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3043-2_8

Prosthetic hands can be essential for those without a biological hand(s) to accomplish everyday tasks but the cost, of up to tens of thousands, keeps them out of reach for many people. This paper reports on the development of a low-cost affordable an... Read More about EMG Controlled Modular Prosthetic Hand–Design and Prototyping.

Increasing Engagement Through Explicit and Implicit Gamification in Higher Education (2022)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N., & Grey, S. (2022). Increasing Engagement Through Explicit and Implicit Gamification in Higher Education. In O. Bernardes, V. Amorim, & A. Carrizo Moreira (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Influence and Effectiveness of Gamification in Education (662-681). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4287-6

Engagement is essential in higher education but can be problematic to achieve. Successful games are, at their core, designed to be engaging experiences. In attempts to increase engagement in learning, there has been an increase in playful learning, g... Read More about Increasing Engagement Through Explicit and Implicit Gamification in Higher Education.

Dependability Analysis Using Temporal Fault Trees and Monte Carlo Simulation (2021)
Book Chapter
Edifor, E., Gordon, N., & Walker, M. (2021). Dependability Analysis Using Temporal Fault Trees and Monte Carlo Simulation. In W. Zamojski, J. Mazurkiewicz, J. Sugier, T. Walkowiak, & J. Kacprzyk (Eds.), Theory and Engineering of Dependable Computer Systems and Networks (86-96). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76773-0_9

The safety and reliability of high-consequence systems is an issue of utmost importance to engineers because such systems can have catastrophic effects if they fail. Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is a well-known probabilistic technique for assessing the... Read More about Dependability Analysis Using Temporal Fault Trees and Monte Carlo Simulation.

Learning technologies for learning in health and well-being (2020)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N. (2020). Learning technologies for learning in health and well-being. In P. Gökcin Özuyar, W. Leal Filho, T. Wall, A. Marisa Azul, & L. Brandli (Eds.), Good Health and Well-Being. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95681-7

The United Nations (U.N.) Sustainable Goal 3, for healthy lives and promoting well-being, notes that 45% of all countries have less than one physician per 1000 people, that figure rising to 90% for less developed countries (United Nations, 2018). Giv... Read More about Learning technologies for learning in health and well-being.

Technologies for analysing and improving healthcare processes (2020)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N. (2020). Technologies for analysing and improving healthcare processes. In W. Leal Filho, T. Wall, A. Azul, L. Brandli, & P. Özuyar (Eds.), Good Health and Well-Being. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95681-7

The right to a healthy life is a natural expectation and recognised as a human right (WHO, 2017) – and is further recognised as such in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, where Goal 3 focusses on “good health and well-being” (United Na... Read More about Technologies for analysing and improving healthcare processes.

Emerging challenges for HCI : enabling effective use of VR in education and training (2020)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N., & Brayshaw, M. (2020). Emerging challenges for HCI : enabling effective use of VR in education and training. In L. Bozgeyikli, & R. Bozgeyikli (Eds.), Virtual reality : recent advancements, applications and challenges. River Publishers

This chapter considers some of the challenges in providing effective virtual reality (VR) environments for teaching and training, where users are encouraged and enabled to be truly engaged in their learning. One approach is to use inquiry-based learn... Read More about Emerging challenges for HCI : enabling effective use of VR in education and training.

A conceptual framework to incorporate complex basic events in HiP-HOPS (2019)
Book Chapter
Kabir, S., Aslansefat, K., Sorokos, I., Papadopoulos, Y., & Gheraibia, Y. (2019). A conceptual framework to incorporate complex basic events in HiP-HOPS. In Y. Papadopoulos, K. Aslansefat, P. Katsaros, & M. Bozzano (Eds.), Model-Based Safety and Assessment. IMBSA 2019 (109-124). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32872-6_8

Reliability evaluation for ensuring the uninterrupted system operation is an integral part of dependable system development. Model-based safety analysis (MBSA) techniques such as Hierarchically Performed Hazard Origin and Propagation Studies (HiP-HOP... Read More about A conceptual framework to incorporate complex basic events in HiP-HOPS.

Cases of energy system in a green building in UK (2018)
Book Chapter
Zhao, X., Ma, X., Xu, P., Thierno, D., Zhu, Z., & Zhou, J. (2018). Cases of energy system in a green building in UK. In R. Wang, & X. Zhai (Eds.), Handbook of Energy Systems in Green Buildings (1741-1794). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49120-1_15

© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018. This chapter gives an overview of the current development of the indirect evaporative cooling technologies, PV and PV/T solar energy systems, natural ventilation systems, heat recovery systems, and low-energ... Read More about Cases of energy system in a green building in UK.

Resilience Supported System for Innovative Water Monitoring Technology (2018)
Book Chapter
Aslansefat, K., Ghodsirad, M. H., Barata, J., & Jassbi, J. (2018). Resilience Supported System for Innovative Water Monitoring Technology. In L. M. Camarinha-Matos, K. O. Adu-Kankam, & M. Julashokri (Eds.), Technological Innovation for Resilient Systems (73-80). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78574-5_7

The level of intelligence in monitoring & controlling systems are increasing dramatically. The critical issue for an autonomous resilient system is detecting the anomalous behavior through standard patterns to react properly and on time. In cyber-phy... Read More about Resilience Supported System for Innovative Water Monitoring Technology.

Capturing the dynamics of cellular automata, for the generation of synthetic persian music, using conditional restricted Boltzmann machines (2017)
Book Chapter
Davis, D. N., & Arshi, S. (2017). Capturing the dynamics of cellular automata, for the generation of synthetic persian music, using conditional restricted Boltzmann machines. In Artificial Intelligence XXXIV; Lecture Notes in Computer Science (72-86). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71078-5_6

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. In this paper the generative and feature extracting powers of the family of Boltzmann Machines are employed in an algorithmic music composition system. Liquid Persian Music (LPM) system is an audio generat... Read More about Capturing the dynamics of cellular automata, for the generation of synthetic persian music, using conditional restricted Boltzmann machines.

DEIS: Dependability Engineering Innovation for Industrial CPS (2017)
Book Chapter
Armengaud, E., Macher, G., Massoner, A., Frager, S., Adler, R., Schneider, D., Longo, S., Melis, M., Groppo, R., Villa, F., O’Leary, P., Bambury, K., Finnegan, A., Zeller, M., Höfig, K., Papadopoulos, Y., Hawkins, R., & Kelly, T. (2018). DEIS: Dependability Engineering Innovation for Industrial CPS. In C. Zachäus, B. Müller, & G. Meyer (Eds.), Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2017 : Smart Systems Transforming the Automobile (151-163). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66972-4_13

The open and cooperative nature of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) poses new challenges in assuring dependability. The DEIS project (Dependability Engineering Innovation for automotive CPS. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Hor... Read More about DEIS: Dependability Engineering Innovation for Industrial CPS.

A hybrid evaluation approach and guidance for mHealth education applications (2017)
Book Chapter
Aljaber, T., & Gordon, N. (2018). A hybrid evaluation approach and guidance for mHealth education applications. In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Advances in Usability and User Experience (282-290). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60492-3_27

© Springer International Publishing AG 2018. Mobile health education applications (MHEAs) are used to support different users. However, although these applications are increasing in number, there is no effective evaluation framework to measure their... Read More about A hybrid evaluation approach and guidance for mHealth education applications.

A guidance and evaluation approach for mHealth education applications (2017)
Book Chapter
Aljaber, T., & Gordon, N. (2017). A guidance and evaluation approach for mHealth education applications. In Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Technology in Education; Lecture Notes in Computer Science (330-340). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58515-4_26

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. A growing number of mobile applications for health education are being utilized to support different stakeholders, from health professionals to software developers to patients and more general users. There... Read More about A guidance and evaluation approach for mHealth education applications.

Auto-parameterized shape grammar for constructing Islamic geometric motif-based structures (2016)
Book Chapter
Sayed, Z., Ugail, H., Palmer, I., Purdy, J., & Reeve, C. (2016). Auto-parameterized shape grammar for constructing Islamic geometric motif-based structures. In A. Sourin, M. Gavrilova, & C. Tan (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Transactions on Computational Science XXVIII (146-162). (Special Issue on Cyberworlds and Cybersecurity). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53090-0_8

The complex formation of Islamic Geometric Patterns (IGP) is one of the distinctive features in Islamic art and architecture. Many have attempted to reproduce these patterns in digital form, using various pattern generation techniques, in 2D. Shape g... Read More about Auto-parameterized shape grammar for constructing Islamic geometric motif-based structures.

On combinatorial optimisation in analysis of protein-protein interaction and protein folding networks (2016)
Book Chapter
Chalupa, D. (2016). On combinatorial optimisation in analysis of protein-protein interaction and protein folding networks. In G. Squillero, & P. Burelli (Eds.), Applications of Evolutionary Computation; Lecture Notes in Computer Science (91-105). Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31204-0_7

Abstract: Protein-protein interaction networks and protein folding networks represent prominent research topics at the intersection of bioinformatics and network science. In this paper, we present a study of these networks from combinatorial optimisa... Read More about On combinatorial optimisation in analysis of protein-protein interaction and protein folding networks.

Quality measurements of an UWB reduced-size CPW-fed aperture antenna (2016)
Book Chapter
Zolfaghari, M., Riley, N. G., Mehdawi, M., Fanan, A., Ammar, M., & Meng, F. (2016). Quality measurements of an UWB reduced-size CPW-fed aperture antenna. In Telecommunications forum Telfor (TELFOR), 2015 23rd (543-546). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/TELFOR.2015.7377526

The paper presents a characterization of a compact co-planar waveguide (CPW)-fed slot loaded low return loss planar printed antenna designed for wireless communication and ultra-wideband (UWB) applications. Following a review of the antenna design, w... Read More about Quality measurements of an UWB reduced-size CPW-fed aperture antenna.

Requirements capture analysis for MOOCS in higher education (2015)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N. A., & Brayshaw, M. (2015). Requirements capture analysis for MOOCS in higher education. In A. Mesquita, & P. Peres (Eds.), Furthering Higher Education Possibilities through Massive Open Online Courses (107-125). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8279-5.ch005

One of the attention grabbing headlines in the last two years has been of hundreds of thousands of students enrolling on MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) that are being offered by some of the world's top Universities. Large numbers of students are... Read More about Requirements capture analysis for MOOCS in higher education.