Computer Science (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Web-mediated education and training environments: A review of personalised interactive e-learning resources
(Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global), 2013)This chapter reviews the concept of personalised eLearning resources in relation to integrating interactivity into asynchronous learning. Personalised eLearning resources are learning resources which are selected to suit ... -
MDDSVsim: An Integrated Traffic Simulation Platform for Autonomous Vehicle Research
(2012)Research and development in the field of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) can be costly in terms of both time and money. A significant initial and ongoing investment is often required in order to obtain a physical ... -
Unstable Path Routing in Urban-Scale WSN
(2012)Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) may suffer from congestion at the nodes near the sink, and partition due to the failure of crucial nodes. In urban environments, mobile devices, such as vehicles and smart phones, present ... -
Digital Game-based Learning for Early Childhood
(Learnovate Centre, 2013)This report presents a comprehensive review of the research evidence for the effectiveness of digital game-based learning for early childhood learning. The report also identifies the types of learning content suited to a ... -
Academics' views on Personalised e-Learning in Higher Education
(ICEP12, 2012-12-06)The challenges for academics in meeting the learning requirements of students are many and varied. This research focuses on the concept of personalised learning, where activities are specifically selected to suit the ... -
Assimilating Information and Offering a Medical Opinion in Remote and Co-located Meetings
(IEEE, 2009)Discussion on patient data, among hospital staff, plays an increasingly important role in inter-specialist communication. Effectiveness of a discussion depends, among other factors, on how well its participants perceive, ... -
Multidisciplinary team meetings and their impact on work-flow in Radiology and Pathology Departments
(2007)Background The development of multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) for radiology and pathology is a burgeoning area that increasingly impacts on work processes in both of these departments. The aim of this study was ... -
Information sharing at multidisciplinary medical team meetings
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Investigating fine temporal dynamics of prosodic and lexical accommodation
(INTERSPEECH, 2013)Conversational interaction is a dynamic activity in which participants engage in the construction of meaning and in establishing and maintaining social relationships. Lexical and prosodic accommodation have been observed ... -
Federation Lifecycle Management Incorporating Coordination of Bio-inspired Self-management Processes
(2013)As it has evolved, the Internet has had to support a broadening range of networking technologies, business models and user interaction modes. Researchers and industry practitioners have realised that this trend necessitates ... -
Publishing Social Sciences Datasets as Linked Data: a Political Violence Case Study
(2013)This paper discusses the design, application and generalisation of a Linked Data vocabulary to describe historical events of political violence. The vocabulary was designed to capture the United States political violence ... -
Finite State Temporality and Context-Free Languages
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013)In the finite-state temporality approach, events in natural language semantics have been characterized in regular languages, with strings representing sequences of temporal observations. We extend this approach to natural ... -
Laughter and Topic Transition in Multiparty Conversation
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013)This study explores laughter distribution around topic changes in multiparty conversations. The distribution of shared and solo laughter around topic changes was examined in corpora containing two types of spoken interaction; ... -
IMHO: An Exploratory Study of Hedging in Web Forums
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013)We explore hedging in web forum conversations, which is interestingly different to hedging in academic articles, the main focus of recent automatic approaches to hedge detection. One of our main results is that forum posts ... -
Multilingual User Modeling for Personalized Re-ranking of Multilingual Web Search Results
(2012-07-16)This paper proposes a novel method to represent user models in a multilingual manner which caters for multilingual Web search users. Furthermore, an evaluation is presented which examines a result re-ranking algorithm that ...