Cardiff School of Technologies: Recent submissions
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Robotic Chinese language tutor: personalising progress assessment and feedback or taking over your job?
(Emerald, 2020-07-06)Purpose: The shortage of Chinese language teachers have been identified as a pressing issue globally. This paper aims to respond to the needs by investigating and designing the learning innovation with autonomous programmable ... -
Personal response systems through the prism of students' experiences
(Wiley, 2020-07-13)Personal response systems (PRSs) today offer an opportunity to the field of education in terms of improving teaching and learning outcomes through active engagement in classrooms. The present paper investigates students' ... -
Multimedia Quality of Experience (QoE): Current Status and Future Direction
(MDPI, 2020-07-20)Quality of Experience (QoE) is becoming an important factor of User-Centred Design (UCD). The deployment of pure technical measures such as Quality of Service (QoS) parameters to assess the quality of multimedia applications ... -
Investigating aesthetics to afford more ‘felt’ knowledge and ‘meaningful’ navigation interface design
(Information Visualisation Society, 2020-09-17)Aesthetically manipulating the visual variables of a navigation interface design has the potential for substantial improvements in the interpretation of, and subsequent navigational choices made resulting from that design. ... -
iCUS: Intelligent CU Size Selection for HEVC Inter Prediction
(IEEE, 2020-08-03)The hierarchical quadtree partitioning of Coding Tree Units (CTU) is one of the striking features in HEVC that contributes towards its superior coding performance over its predecessors. However, the brute force evaluation ... -
COVID-19: #Working From Home. Quite Enjoyed It. Surprised Myself.
(IADIS, 2020-07-21)As more than a third of the world's population is now in lock-down, we are seeing COVID-19 not only having serious implications on people's health but also having a significant knock-on effect on their livelihoods. A recent ... -
Virtual Frames as Long-Term Reference Frames for HEVC Inter-Prediction
(IEEE, 2020-03-23)High Efficiency Video Coding(HEVC) employs both past or future frames when encoding the current frame in a video sequence. This paper proposes a framework for using virtual reference frames, to achieve increased coding ... -
A Decoding-Complexity and Rate-Controlled Video-Coding Algorithm for HEVC
(MDPI, 2020-07-16)Video playback on mobile consumer electronic (CE) devices is plagued by fluctuations in the network bandwidth and by limitations in processing and energy availability at the individual devices. Seen as a potential solution, ... -
Towards understanding speciation by automated extraction and description of 3D foraminifera stacks
(IEEE, 2020-05-18)The sheer volume of 3D data restricts understanding of genetic spe- ciation when analyzing specimens of planktonic foraminifera and so we develop an end-to-end computer vision system to solve and ex- tend this. The observed ... -
Recent Advances in Pipeline Monitoring and Oil Leakage Detection Technologies: Principles and Approaches
(MDPI, 2019-06-04)Pipelines are widely used for the transportation of hydrocarbon fluids over millions of miles all over the world. The structures of the pipelines are designed to withstand several environmental loading conditions to ensure ... -
A Parametric Technique for Traps Characterization in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
(IEEE, 2020-04-08)A new parametric and cost-effective tech- nique is developed to decouple the mechanisms behind current degradation in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs under a nor- mal device operation: self-heating and charge trapping. A unique approach ... -
Antisemitism on Twitter: Collective efficacy and the role of community organisations in challenging online hate speech
(Sage, 2020-03-14)In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive study of online antagonistic content related to Jewish identity posted on Twitter between October 2015 and October 2016 by UK-based users. We trained a scalable supervised machine ... -
The Visual Design of Network Data to Enhance Cyber Security Awareness of the Everyday Internet User
(IEEE, 2020-06-17)Technology and the use of online services are very prevalent across much of our everyday lives. As our digital interactions continue to grow, there is a need to improve public awareness of the risks to our personal online ... -
Can School Performance be Improved through the Strategic Optimisation of Subject Options Columns?
(Society for Learning Analytics Research, 2020-04-01)This paper explores a system that attempts to maximize high school students’ sense of choice when selecting elective subjects. We propose that individual schools can tailor the combinations of subjects they offer in order ... -
RoboDoc: Critical ethical issues to consider for the design and development of a robotic doctor experience
(IOS Press, 2020-02-27)To make sense of the robotic revolution quietly occurring in the health sector – particularly, the potential of the robot as a doctor – we need the mechanisms in place to enable us to reflect on the ethical values, beliefs, ... -
Improving Local Trajectory Optimisation using Probabilistic Movement Primitives
(IEEE/RSJ, 2019-11-06)Local trajectory optimisation techniques are a powerful tool for motion planning. However, they often get stuck in local optima depending on the quality of the initial solution and consequently, ... -
Adaptive neural network tracking control for underactuated systems with matched and mismatched disturbances
(Springer, 2019-10-08)This paper studies neural network-based tracking control of underactuated systems with unknown parameters and with matched and mismatched disturbances. Novel adaptive control schemes are proposed with the utilization of ... -
Developing computational thinking through pattern recognition in early years education
(ACM Digital Library, 2015-07-13)Alongside recent UK initiatives on computing education, coupled with demands for the development of broader societal digital competencies, we propose that computational thinking skills can be taught to early year students ... -
Fast CU Size Decisions for HEVC Inter-Prediction Using Support Vector Machines
(EURASIP, 2019-09-06)The brute force rate-distortion optimisation based approach used in the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) encoders to determine the best block partitioning structure fora given content demands ... -
Written evidence submitted by EUREKA Robotics Lab, Cardiff School of Technologies
(UK Parliament Education Committee, 2019-01-08)I. About EUREKA Robotics Lab: As one of the flagship research clusters at the Cardiff School of Technologies, EUREKA Robotics Lab (Ethical-Ubiquitous Robotics driving Economy and Knowledge Accelerator for Wales) ...
