On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music (2020)
Journal Article
Williams, D., Fazenda, B., Williamson, V., & Fazekas, G. (2020). On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music. Sensors, 20(16), e4528. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20164528

Music has been shown to be capable of improving runners’ performance in treadmill and laboratory-based experiments. This paper evaluates a generative music system, namely HEARTBEATS, designed to create biosignal synchronous music in real-time accordi... Read More about On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music.

Concrete electrical resistivity at varied water, chloride contents and porosity – experiment, modelling & application (2020)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Oleiwi, H., & Nan, X. (2020). Concrete electrical resistivity at varied water, chloride contents and porosity – experiment, modelling & application. Advanced materials letters (Online), 11(7), 20071536. https://doi.org/10.5185/amlett.2020.071536

Understanding and characterizing the relationship between the electrical resistivity and the major influencing factors of the concrete have been all the time a topical research in relation to structural durability. This paper reports an experimental... Read More about Concrete electrical resistivity at varied water, chloride contents and porosity – experiment, modelling & application.

A survey of IoT security based on a layered architecture of sensing and data analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Mrabet, H., Belguith, S., Alhomoud, A., & Jemai, A. (2020). A survey of IoT security based on a layered architecture of sensing and data analysis. Sensors, 20(13), 3625

The Internet of Things (IoT) is leading today’s digital transformation. Relying on a combination of technologies, protocols, and devices such as wireless sensors and newly developed wearable and implanted sensors, IoT is changing every aspect of dail... Read More about A survey of IoT security based on a layered architecture of sensing and data analysis.

Movies emotional analysis using textual contents (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Kayhani, A., Meziane, F., & Chiky, R. (2020, June). Movies emotional analysis using textual contents. Presented at 25th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2020, Saarbrücken, Germany

In this paper, we use movies and series subtitles and applied text mining and Natural Language Processing methods to evaluate emotions in videos. Three different word lexicons were used and one of the outcomes of this research is the generation of a... Read More about Movies emotional analysis using textual contents.

Analytical modelling of bond-slip failure between epoxy bonded FRP and concrete substrate (2020)
Journal Article
Augusthus Nelson, L., Al-Allaf, M., & Weekes, L. (2020). Analytical modelling of bond-slip failure between epoxy bonded FRP and concrete substrate. Composite Structures, 251, 112956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2020.112596

In this paper, a set of explicit theoretical derivations from a generalised
bond-slip model for an epoxy bonded fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) sheet
to concrete are presented. The derivations address the maximum bond resistance, load-slip response,... Read More about Analytical modelling of bond-slip failure between epoxy bonded FRP and concrete substrate.

Effect of thermal comfort on occupant productivity in office buildings : response surface analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Kaushik, A., Mohemmed, A., Tumula, D., & Ebohon, J. (2020). Effect of thermal comfort on occupant productivity in office buildings : response surface analysis. Building and Environment, 180, 107021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107021

Thermal environment is one of the main factors that influence occupants' comfort and their productivity in office buildings. There is ample research that outlines this relationship between thermal comfort and occupant productivity. However, there is... Read More about Effect of thermal comfort on occupant productivity in office buildings : response surface analysis.

Design of supercritical low-Reynolds number airfoils for fixed-wing flight on Mars (2020)
Journal Article
Sugar-Gabor, O., & Koreanschi, A. (2020). Design of supercritical low-Reynolds number airfoils for fixed-wing flight on Mars. Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 33(5), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29AS.1943-5525.0001166

Aerodynamic shape optimization for the high-subsonic low-Reynolds number flow regime represents an area of on-going research. The interaction between supercritical compressible flow and laminar boundary layer separation is not well understood due to... Read More about Design of supercritical low-Reynolds number airfoils for fixed-wing flight on Mars.

Natural language processing and information systems : 25th international conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2020, Saarbrücken, Germany, June 24–26, 2020, proceedings (2020)
Book

This volume contains the papers presented at NLDB 2020, the 25th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems held June 24–26, 2020, as a video conference at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligenc... Read More about Natural language processing and information systems : 25th international conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2020, Saarbrücken, Germany, June 24–26, 2020, proceedings.

A service-oriented approach for sensing in the Internet of Things : intelligent transportation systems and privacy use cases (2020)
Journal Article

This paper presents a Sensing-as-a-Service run-time Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), called 3SOA, for the development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. 3SOA aims to allow interoperability among various IoT platforms and support service-or... Read More about A service-oriented approach for sensing in the Internet of Things : intelligent transportation systems and privacy use cases.

“Hello Computer, how am I feeling?”, case studies of neural technology to measure emotions (2020)
Book Chapter
Daly, I., & Williams, D. (2020). “Hello Computer, how am I feeling?”, case studies of neural technology to measure emotions. In C. Nam (Ed.), Neuroergonomics (193-219). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34784-0_11

Emotion is a core part of the human experience. Many artistic and creative applications attempt to produce particular emotional experiences, for example, films, games, music, dance, and other visual arts. However, while emotional states are ubiquitou... Read More about “Hello Computer, how am I feeling?”, case studies of neural technology to measure emotions.

On the Nth roots of -1 and complex basin boundaries : fractals from Newton-Raphson (2020)
Journal Article
Christian, J., & Middleton-Spencer, H. (2020). On the Nth roots of -1 and complex basin boundaries : fractals from Newton-Raphson. College Mathematics Journal, 51(2), 95-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/07468342.2020.1703452

We consider a systematic generalization of the well-known cube roots of -1 problem to include the Nth roots. The associated fractal basin boundaries are computed, and we also explore how sensitive this class of systems is to fluctuations at its input... Read More about On the Nth roots of -1 and complex basin boundaries : fractals from Newton-Raphson.

Flame assisted chemical vapour deposition of NiO hole transport layers for planar perovskite cells (2020)
Journal Article
Yates, H., Hodgkinson, J., Meroni, S., Richards, D., & Watson, T. (2020). Flame assisted chemical vapour deposition of NiO hole transport layers for planar perovskite cells. Surface and Coatings Technology, 385, 125423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2020.125423

Thin films of polycrystalline NiO were deposited by Flame Assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition, which is an ideal process for in-line, atmospheric pressure deposition of wide area coatings. This, along with the ability to use aqueous salts rather than... Read More about Flame assisted chemical vapour deposition of NiO hole transport layers for planar perovskite cells.

Perspective distortion modeling for image measurements (2020)
Journal Article
Bousaid, A., Theodoridis, T., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2020). Perspective distortion modeling for image measurements. IEEE Access, 8, 15322-15331. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2966716

A perspective distortion modelling for monocular view that is based on the fundamentals of perspective projection is presented in this work. Perspective projection is considered to be the most ideal and realistic model among others, which depicts ima... Read More about Perspective distortion modeling for image measurements.

Numerical investigation into the stability of earth dam slopes considering the effects of cavities (2020)
Journal Article
Al-ateya, H., & Ahangar Asr, A. (2020). Numerical investigation into the stability of earth dam slopes considering the effects of cavities. Engineering Computations, 37(4), 1397-1421. https://doi.org/10.1108/EC-03-2019-0101

This research is an attempt to estimate the influence of the presence of cavities on the stability of slopes in earth
dams under rapid drawdown conditions. The aim of the investigation is to study the influence of different
factors, such as the dia... Read More about Numerical investigation into the stability of earth dam slopes considering the effects of cavities.

Fast speech intelligibility estimation using a neural network trained via distillation (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Cox, T., Bailey, W., & Tang, Y. (2020, January). Fast speech intelligibility estimation using a neural network trained via distillation. Poster presented at 12th Speech in Noise Workshop, Toulouse, France

Objective measures of speech intelligibility have many uses, including the evaluation of degradation during transmission and the development of processing algorithms. One intrusive approach is to use a method based on the audibility of speech glimpse... Read More about Fast speech intelligibility estimation using a neural network trained via distillation.

Preferred levels for background ducking to produce esthetically pleasing audio for TV with clear speech (2019)
Journal Article
Torcoli, M., Freke-Morin, A., Paulus, J., Simon, C., & Shirley, B. (2019). Preferred levels for background ducking to produce esthetically pleasing audio for TV with clear speech. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 67(12), 1003-1011. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2019.0052

In audio production, background ducking facilitates speech intelligibility while allowing the background to fulfill its purpose, e.g., to create ambience, set the mood, or convey semantic cues. Technical details for recommended ducking practices are... Read More about Preferred levels for background ducking to produce esthetically pleasing audio for TV with clear speech.

Nonlinear dynamics of coupled transverse-rotational waves in granular chains (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, Q., Umnova, O., & Venegas, R. (2019). Nonlinear dynamics of coupled transverse-rotational waves in granular chains. Physical Review E, 100(6), 062206. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.062206

The nonlinear dynamics of coupled waves in one-dimensional granular chains with and without a substrate
is theoretically studied accounting for quadratic nonlinearity. The multiple time scale method is used to derive
the nonlinear dispersion relati... Read More about Nonlinear dynamics of coupled transverse-rotational waves in granular chains.

EBNO: Evolution of cost‐sensitive Bayesian networks (2019)
Journal Article
Nashnush, E., & VADERA, S. (2020). EBNO: Evolution of cost‐sensitive Bayesian networks. Expert Systems, 37(3), e12495. https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12495

The last decade has seen an increase in the attention paid to the development of cost sensitive learning algorithms that
aim to minimize misclassification costs while still maintaining accuracy. Most of this attention has been on cost sensitive
dec... Read More about EBNO: Evolution of cost‐sensitive Bayesian networks.

A covariance based framework for the propagation of correlated uncertainty in frequency based dynamic sub-structuring (2019)
Journal Article
Meggitt, J., & Moorhouse, A. (2020). A covariance based framework for the propagation of correlated uncertainty in frequency based dynamic sub-structuring. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 136, 106505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2019.106505

Dynamic sub-structuring (DS) is the procedure by which the passive properties (i.e. frequency response functions)
of an assembled structure are predicted from those of its constituent sub-structures. In this paper we are concerned
with the propagat... Read More about A covariance based framework for the propagation of correlated uncertainty in frequency based dynamic sub-structuring.

Autistic listening (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Davies, W. (2019, November). Autistic listening. Presented at Aural Diversity, Leicester, UK

Autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition diagnosed by differences in social interaction and communication. Most autistic people also experience atypical sensory processing (e.g., a heightened sensitivity to sound or texture). Nearly all auti... Read More about Autistic listening.