Horizon CDT Research Highlights

Research Highlights

All students

Below is a list of students affiliated with the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training.

Horizon CDT 2023

Ashley Graham-Brown
Ashley Graham-Brown

Accessibility and Mixed Reality in Museums

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Bogna Liziniewicz
Bogna Liziniewicz

"Somewhere I belong" - Loneliness, Gossip and the Embeddedness of Digital and Offline Social Networks in Relation to Wellbeing

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Iris Jestin
Iris Jestin

Adaptive Driving Interfaces for the Ageing Population in Future Vehicles

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Kirsty Woodward
Kirsty Woodward

Predicting cognitive decline using a recognition memory task

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Lucy Hitcham
Lucy Hitcham

Exploring the role of responsible innovation within digital mental health intervention design and implementation

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Nick Tandavanitj
Nick Tandavanitj

Dialogue, data and place

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Nimisha Parashar
Nimisha Parashar

Gamification for Environmental Behaviour Change

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Ramneek Kaur Rai
Ramneek Kaur Rai

How digital technologies impact the gender and race investment gap in funding start-ups

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Saria Digregorio
Saria Digregorio

Visible Food Systems: Exploring Community-led Narratives through Participatory and Speculative Visualisation

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Stephen Parkinson (Parky)
Stephen Parkinson (Parky)

Using data to engage households as “citizens of the circular economy”

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Szymon Zbigniew Olejarnik
Szymon Zbigniew Olejarnik

Look beyond the screen: the impact of video games on online and offline social functioning and wellbeing

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Horizon CDT 2022

Angela Higgins
Angela Higgins

Co-Design of Assistive Robotic Systems for Monitoring and Management of Chronic Pain

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Anjela Mikhaylova
Anjela Mikhaylova

Smart Doorbell Technology: Ethical and Social Implications

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Favour Borokini
Favour Borokini

Afrofeminist Ethics Concerns in the Design and Use of Avatars

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Gift Odoh
Gift Odoh

Improving Robotic Teleoperation through Human-Robot Interaction and Robotic Autonomy

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Hannah Mary Heilbuth
Hannah Mary Heilbuth

Exploring experiences of consumer harm in video games and the extent to which existing UK consumer law protects gamers from this harm

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Jonathan Chaloner
Jonathan Chaloner

Integrating digital technology and co-creation approaches to improve healthcare research and access for marginalised communities

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Kuzivakwashe Makokoro
Kuzivakwashe Makokoro

Understanding consumption during the transition into parenthood using neo-demographic approaches

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Pavlos Panagiotidis
Pavlos Panagiotidis

Exploring mixed-reality immersive performance making by combining theatre devising and human-computer interaction methods.

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Phuong Anh Nguyễn
Phuong Anh Nguyễn

DATA-DRIVEN INTEGRATED TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS – USING PERSONAS IN POLICY-MAKING

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Victor Zhi Heung Ngo
Victor Zhi Heung Ngo

The use of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Live Creative Installations

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Horizon CDT 2021

Callum Berger
Callum Berger

Personalising Virtual Reality Horror Experiences Using Biodata

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Carina Yu Zhao
Carina Yu Zhao

Towards using Interval-Valued responses in Service Quality Measurement: A Study in Rail

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Daniel Swann
Daniel Swann

Interactive environments for children

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Ellie Colegate
Ellie Colegate

Reducing Online Harms via Content Regulation: Balancing the Policy and User Interests to Improve the Cybersafety of Young People

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Emma Gentry
Emma Gentry

Workplace Well-Being Platforms: Championing the Employee Voice

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Gabrielle Hornshaw
Gabrielle Hornshaw

Biometric Recognition of the Hand in Uncontrolled Images

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Gregor Milligan
Gregor Milligan

Exploring Loneliness and Social Isolation Elicitation Through Proxy Data Streams

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Jenn Layton Annable
Jenn Layton Annable

Autistographic Being, Becoming, Owning Autistic Female Perceived Bodymind experience|ident|ities|self|hood realised through digital personal data and infrastructure.

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Matthew Levesley
Matthew Levesley

Social media usage over gender transition

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Melissa Clover
Melissa Clover

Connecting producers and consumers to enable more sustainable consumption: communicating the environmental impact of food through packaging

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Nasser Alkhulaifi
Nasser Alkhulaifi

Improving Energy Forecasting with Predictive Machine Learning, Automated Feature Engineering, and Decision-Focused Learning

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Sam Smith
Sam Smith

Quantitatively Measuring Customer Experience (CX) in the Rail Industry

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Torran Semple
Torran Semple

Energy Security Versus Fuel Poverty: Protecting Vulnerable Households During an Energy Crisis

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Yang Bong
Yang Bong

Study of the use, limitations, and possibilities of peer-to-peer digital marketplaces for rural micro-enterprises in developing countries.

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Horizon CDT 2020

Charlotte Lenton
Charlotte Lenton

Exploring late adopters of digital technology in the rail sector: Enhancing accessibility in the digital and built travel environments.

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Dan Heaton
Dan Heaton

Agency, trust and blame in decision-making algorithms: an analysis of Twitter discourses

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Farid Vayani
Farid Vayani

Cybersecurity & Trust in Internet of Things (IoT): Agency and negotiability over personal data in smart devices in the home.

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Giovanni Schiazza
Giovanni Schiazza

Meta-Meme: a responsible researcher's tool for the analysis of Internet Memes

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Guido Salimbeni
Guido Salimbeni

Analytics and examination of the audience experience within Blast Theory work. Artificial Intelligence (AI) integration into future Blast Theory artworks.

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James Williams
James Williams

A Framework for Curating Engaging Leisure Walking Experiences

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Jo Parkes
Jo Parkes

The Psychology of excessive ‘Viewing on Demand’: How might platforms be designed to optimise user autonomy of VOD consumption?

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Joshua Duvnjak
Joshua Duvnjak

The Use of Personalisation in Automated Digital Manufacturing Environments

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Kathryn Baguley
Kathryn Baguley

Innovation and Regulation: Attaining and Maintaining Transparency and Accountability in Automated Decision-Making.

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Muhammad Suhaib Shahid
Muhammad Suhaib Shahid

Predicting and modelling internalised oral gestures from external signals

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Rachel Saunders
Rachel Saunders

Impact of legal digital literacy on rights and citizenship

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Ruairi Blake
Ruairi Blake

The Effects of the Internet on Moral Decision Making

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Horizon CDT 2019

Ana Rita Pena
Ana Rita Pena

A Sociotechnical Evaluation of Differentially Private Risk Assessment Models in the Consumer Credit

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Angela Thornton
Angela Thornton

Our Futures in Mind Uploading: Public Perceptions and Narratives

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Cecily Pepper
Cecily Pepper

Exploring the Impact of Social Media on Care Experienced Young People's Self-View and Mental Wellbeing: Implications for Social Media Design and Policy

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Christine (Li) Cain
Christine (Li) Cain

Exploring the potential of personalized VR bodily learning systems

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Edwina Borteley Abam
Edwina Borteley Abam

Exploring responsible applications of deep learning for consumer credit risk assessment

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Eliot Jones
Eliot Jones

Digitalisation of Extension; sustainable agri-food systems in the era of digital platforms

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Elizabeth Dolan
Elizabeth Dolan

Diagnosing Disease with Shopping Data

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Ephraim Luwemba
Ephraim Luwemba

Testing for Transparency: designing privacy-informing systems for young people.

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Henry Cope
Henry Cope

Accelerating Space Life Sciences via Astronaut Omics Collection and Integrated Analyses

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Mike Harmson-Silvestri
Mike Harmson-Silvestri

Policing Adult Initiated Online Child Sex Offenders: An Exploration and Analysis of Police Officers Knowledge and Training Regarding the Digital Platforms Used to Facilitate Online Sexual Crimes Against Children.

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Rebecca Gibson
Rebecca Gibson

Using Digital Layers to Evoke Nostalgia in Hybrid Gifting.

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Vincent Bryce
Vincent Bryce

Exploring the business case for Responsible Research and Innovation

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Horizon CDT 2018

Harriet R Cameron
Harriet R Cameron

Curating the Audience: enhancing visitor/venue relationships through ethical personal data donation

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Jimiama Mafeni Mase
Jimiama Mafeni Mase

Expert Moderation of HGV Driving Data: Fair, Trustworthy and Explainable Assessment

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Kadja Manninen
Kadja Manninen

Sustainable business models for performing arts in the digital economy

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Luke Skarth-Hayley
Luke Skarth-Hayley

Attention-Driven Scenography

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Matthew Yates
Matthew Yates

Detection of AI synthesised Aerial Imagery

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Mel Wilson
Mel Wilson

When the world went online. New ACEs potential from the pandemic and digitally disadvantaged Children & Young People

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Natalie Leesakul
Natalie Leesakul

Robotics and the Law: Towards responsible and sustainable adoption of industrial collaborative embodied autonomous systems in the case of digital manufacturing

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Neeshé Khan
Neeshé Khan

A novel approach to Cybersecurity: Insider Threat identification, intervention and mitigation

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Oliver Miles
Oliver Miles

Harnessing the Valuescape: Mutual utilities of personalization in digital coffee

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Peter Boyes
Peter Boyes

Negotiating the truth: exploring the influence of metadata in group decision making

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Shazmin Majid
Shazmin Majid

Integrating the use of sensing technology to detect early warning signs of relapse in bipolar disorder

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Stanislaw Piasecki
Stanislaw Piasecki

Complying with the GDPR when vulnerable people use smart devices

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Horizon CDT 2017

Clifford Richardson
Clifford Richardson

Enabling Environmental Citizenship with the British Geological Survey

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Dominic Reedman-Flint
Dominic Reedman-Flint

Exploring Working Age Social Isolation, Digitally and Spatially and enabling Social Inclusion.

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Feng Zhou
Feng Zhou

Customize extended artificial lower limbs for dancers by personal data with six-axis 3D printing technology.

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Gustavo Berumen
Gustavo Berumen

Smart Fast Moving Consumer Goods to Support Everyday Activities

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Joe Strickland
Joe Strickland

What opportunities for storytelling might Augmented Reality offer creators, and how might audience personal data affect this?

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Keerthy Kusumam
Keerthy Kusumam

Mood Analysis Across Different Domains using Deep Learning

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Laurence Cliffe
Laurence Cliffe

Audio augmented objects and the audio augmented reality experience

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Marie Dilworth
Marie Dilworth

Embedding Digital Interventions into Everyday Life: Measuring Mood with Wearable Technology

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Serena Midha
Serena Midha

Fitbit for the Brain

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Symeon Dionysis
Symeon Dionysis

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies For Supply Chain Traceability: Industry Considerations and Consumer Preferences

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Vanja Ljevar
Vanja Ljevar

How to influence patients behavioural change using context data

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Velvet Spors
Velvet Spors

Caring systems: making relational, gameful self-care technologies for mental health

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Horizon CDT 2016

Abi Fowler
Abi Fowler

The Impact of New Data and Technology on Human Performance in Rail

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Ahmed Al-Talabany
Ahmed Al-Talabany

Using Personal Data to Configure Navigation Support for Blind and Partially Sighted People

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Chloe Jackson
Chloe Jackson

Human-Machine Interface design for navigation systems in future highly automated vehicles

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Christian Tamakloe
Christian Tamakloe

The Quantified Traveller: Applying Self-tracking Towards More Worthwhile Rail Journeys

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Fraz Chaudhry
Fraz Chaudhry

Analytics for Enhanced Personal Medical Identities

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Joe Doherty-Bailey
Joe Doherty-Bailey

Reimagining Digital Advertising: an ethnographic study of user responses to current and future digital advertising practices

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Kate Green
Kate Green

Exploring Institutional Privacy Concerns of Patients using Online Health Communities

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Maddy Ellis
Maddy Ellis

Evolution of interaction networks in developing countries for social intervention.

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Michelle Coleman
Michelle Coleman

The Rituals and Performance of Digital Gifting in Museums and Galleries.

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Roza Vasileva
Roza Vasileva

Using data to support citizen-centric sustainable urban development

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Siyang Song
Siyang Song

Reflections on Personality and Identity through Analysis of Facial Expression Dynamics

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Horizon CDT 2015

Andrew Moffat
Andrew Moffat

Using English as a Second Language Online: An investigation of current practices and their implications for language learning and teaching

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Bo Wang
Bo Wang

Research and Application in Facial Expression Recognition

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Judit Varga
Judit Varga

Exploring Digital Place Making Journeys

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Neelima Sailaja
Neelima Sailaja

Exploration of mechanisms that influence data legibility, negotiability and agency to build better trust, privacy and symmetry in a personal data ecosystem

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Qing Li
Qing Li

Relative Geometry-Aware Siamese Neural Network for 6DOF Camera Relocalization

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Richard Ramchurn
Richard Ramchurn

Brain Controlled Film

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Rosa Lavelle-Hill
Rosa Lavelle-Hill

Psychology, Big Data, and Consumer Behaviour

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Shalaka Kurup
Shalaka Kurup

What can expert rail travelers tell us about passenger decision making?

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Wendy Olphert
Wendy Olphert

Exploring the relationship between communication, identity and digital technology in people affected by brain tumour

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Ziyad Yehia
Ziyad Yehia

The Blind Nav Cards: A Novel and Holistic Approach to Supporting Visually Impaired Navigation Aid Design

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IDIC 2015

Dan Wang
Dan Wang

Ecological Applications on Maximising the Efficiency of Urban Metabolism

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Fei Yang
Fei Yang

Automatic Semantic Image Understanding Based on Deep Learning and Random Forest

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Jianwei Hu
Jianwei Hu

Capital Docking Dynamics on Crowdfunding Platforms for Entrepreneurs and Investors

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Jingjing Yan
Jingjing Yan

3D Urban Model (CityGML) Establishment & Related Analysis: Case Study in Shanghai

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Lucen Li
Lucen Li

On the modelling of future urban climate for sustainability assessment

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Shuhui Gong
Shuhui Gong

Spatial choice and spatial behavior of Mega-city Public Transportation System Driven by Multi-source Data

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Shuojiang Xu
Shuojiang Xu

Use big data to build data based supply chain strategy and decisions

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Tianlun Fei
Tianlun Fei

Application of Model Selection in Quantitative Finance on Chinese Market

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Weiqiang Lin
Weiqiang Lin

SNS Data Mining and Feature Design for E-commerce Platform Optimisation

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Zhengzhi Guan
Zhengzhi Guan

Dynamic interaction between opinion leadership and conversation development in the context of knowledge collaboration in online community

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Horizon CDT 2014

Alex Young
Alex Young

An ethnographic approach to understanding the significance of an online presence post diagnosis in people diagnosed with working age dementia and their families.

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Gregor Engelmann
Gregor Engelmann

Understanding urban behaviour from mobile phone event series

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Iona Fitzpatrick
Iona Fitzpatrick

Understanding Place: This project considers the value of social media data for the enrichment of geographic information systems

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Kate Arnold
Kate Arnold

An ethnography of trans people’s distributed decision-making practices in relation to healthcare in a digitally enabled context

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Matt Voigts
Matt Voigts

Privacy and agency in refugees’ digital communications

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Obrien Sim
Obrien Sim

Studying the potential effects of smart packaging on customer brand engagement within the fast-moving consumer goods industry.

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Pepita Barnard Stringer
Pepita Barnard Stringer

An exploration of factors that influence desire to share genomic information.

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Sam Doehren
Sam Doehren

The Application of Social Data in Assessing Creditworthiness

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Shadab Mashuk
Shadab Mashuk

Indoor Positioning as a contribution to Building Occupancy Modelling

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Tatiana Styliari
Tatiana Styliari

Digital Identity at the movies: Personalising the cinema-going experience

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Yitong Huang
Yitong Huang

Enchanted Objects for Health Behaviour Change

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IDIC 2014

Chenyan Zhang
Chenyan Zhang

Modelling Urban Resilience and Sustainability as a Complex Socio-technical System

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Chuang Gao
Chuang Gao

Automated Breast Cancer Prognosis Using Fourier Transform infrared Imaging

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Hongliang Sun
Hongliang Sun

Visualization of Multimodal Longitudinal Complex Networks

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Jorge Mendez Astudillo
Jorge Mendez Astudillo

Urban Heat Island Effect Modelling with GNSS Sensor Network

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Ke Sun
Ke Sun

The Study of Semantic Image Retrieval and Automatic Image Annotation

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Long Wen
Long Wen

Modelling the Relationship between Environmental Degradation and Economic Development

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Sicen Liu
Sicen Liu

Revisiting the Recommender System from Consumer Perspectives

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Xianxu Hou
Xianxu Hou

Transfer Learning from Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

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Xiaoping Jiang
Xiaoping Jiang

Scenario Tree Compression for Stochastic Freight Service Network Design

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Horizon CDT 2013

Andreas Reiter
Andreas Reiter

Designing for Collaboration in Hacker/Maker Spaces

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Anna Clarke
Anna Clarke

Supporting the evolution of external representations in music composition software

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Annie Quandt
Annie Quandt

Analysing multimodal feedback loops in agent based language learning environments

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Christopher Ellis
Christopher Ellis

Dynamic Music Recommendation: A User-centric Approach to the Personalisation Problem

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George Filip
George Filip

Calibration of Trust in Automated Vehicles

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Georgiana Avram
Georgiana Avram

Narratives in data: introducing contextualisation, illumination and illustration in big data practices

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Hanne Wagner
Hanne Wagner

Engagement through play: Investigating the relationship between video games and political engagement

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Kyle Arch
Kyle Arch

Encouraging Collaboration Between Strangers in Online Games

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Louise Schofield
Louise Schofield

Designing Multimodal Educational Resources to Affect Learner’s Reactions

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Martin Porcheron
Martin Porcheron

Understanding Conversation around Technology Use in Casual-Social Settings

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Panagiotis Koutsouras
Panagiotis Koutsouras

Crafting Context: Understanding the Social Organisation of User-Generated Content in Digital Gameplay

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Roma Patel
Roma Patel

CRAFTING TOUCH: The integration of wearable technology and smart material into theatre for young audiences

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William Darler
William Darler

Using Transaction Data To Understand Consumer Behaviour During Life Events

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IDIC 2013

Bolei Xu
Bolei Xu

Crowd Event Detection and Analysis through Video Surveillance

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Boying Li
Boying Li

Understanding online rumour dissemination in social media

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Cong Mu
Cong Mu

Capturing QSer’s mind – investigating human values in quantified self movement using cognitive linguistics approach

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Jingxin Liu
Jingxin Liu

Histopathology Image Analysis

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Joy Egede
Joy Egede

Automatic pain assessment in neonates

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Joyce Hoese Addae
Joyce Hoese Addae

Leveraging Web Data Towards Usable Cybersecurity

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Lanyun Zhang
Lanyun Zhang

How Can Technology Help a Group of People Effectively Make Personalised Vacation Plans?

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Liming Xu
Liming Xu

Aestheticodes Design and Recognition

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Mengdi Li
Mengdi Li

Public Health Surveillance using Social Media and Internet Data

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Shuli Liu
Shuli Liu

Integrated Solution Approach for Seaside Operations in Container Terminals

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Xinyu Fu
Xinyu Fu

An improved document distance metric based on topic models

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Zhuo Lei
Zhuo Lei

Video Summarization

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Horizon CDT 2012

Dimitrios Darzentas
Dimitrios Darzentas

The Digital Footprints of Everyday Things

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Horia Maior
Horia Maior

Real-time Mental Workload Measure and Feedback using fNIRS

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James Burnett
James Burnett

Constructing a feedback loop between social behaviours and content delivery at large public displays

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Lachlan Urquhart
Lachlan Urquhart

Law and HCI: Designing for effective regulation of human agency in ambient domestic computing

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Liz Dowthwaite
Liz Dowthwaite

The roles of community, altruism, and reciprocity in crowdfunding in the creative industries.

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Peter Craigon
Peter Craigon

“It is not down on any map. True places never are”. How are accurate social maps constructed and how do they construct knowledge about places that they represent?

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Richard Brown
Richard Brown

The performative application of interactive projective technologies through "Practise As Research" (PaR).

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Richard James
Richard James

Does mobile gambling attract or create problem gamblers?

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Sam Howard
Sam Howard

Investigating the attitudes of adolescents and healthcare professionals towards electronic monitoring devices for asthma

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William Knight
William Knight

Can Hacktivism be Understood as the Performance of a Collective Identity?

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Horizon CDT 2011

Chrisminder Hare
Chrisminder Hare

Designing Complex Data Systems in Naturalistic Decision Making Contexts

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Claire Murphy
Claire Murphy

Interpersonal privacy in social media

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Daniel Ratzinger
Daniel Ratzinger

What influence do Universities have on Internet startups?

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David Hand
David Hand

The trajectory of online dating: Identity construction & interaction

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Jacob Chapman
Jacob Chapman

Coupling Multi-Agent Stochastic Sumulation of Occupants with Building Simulation

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James Sprinks
James Sprinks

DESIGNING USER TASK WORKFLOWS TO ENSURE THE BEST SCIENTIFIC OUTCOMES IN CITIZEN SCIENCE

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Lesley Fosh
Lesley Fosh

Designing Personalised Visiting Experiences for Groups in Museums

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Martin Kruusimägi
Martin Kruusimägi

An Investigation into the Role of Interface Design for Smart Homes

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Matthew Terrell
Matthew Terrell

An investigation into methods of online Lead-user identification

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Michaela Hoare
Michaela Hoare

Doing it for themselves: the practices of amateur musicians and DIY music networks in a digital age

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Paul Brindley
Paul Brindley

Neighbourhoods: Identifying the Places that People Talk About on the Web

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