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Datalogging the landscape
(Revolver Publishing, 2010)The natural world allows us to leave our mark through the footsteps we make in the sand, and through the wearing of the turf as we create short cuts to our destinations. It is these individual, unique distinctions that ... -
Player as parent, character as child : Understanding avatarial relationships in gamespace
(ACM Press, 2010)It has been theorised that avatars allow for an embodied interaction between the player and the character they are controlling onscreen. This has been discussed through the avatar being an extension of the player's actions, ... -
Unlocking the gameworld : The rewards of space and time in videogames
(2011-02)Videogames are a time-based medium. It is through the condition of time that many game reward systems are designed around the collection of points, achieving high-scores and beating the clock. In relation to time, videogames ... -
Location, location, location : Collecting space and place in mobile media
(2011)Finding our way between places, through spaces, has been documented using various techniques of mapping. Maps are often thought of as products that allow us to find our way between places. However, they have various other ... -
Personality and finance : The effects of personality on financial attitudes and behaviour
(2010)Personality has been found to be associated with attitudes and behaviours in general but limited research has focused on finances. Conscientiousness and extraversion have been shown to affect saving and borrowing behaviours ... -
The impact of mergers in the white dwarf mass distribution
(American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2010)The study of the white dwarf mass distribution gives a unique opportunity to obtain information about the amount of mass lost during stellar evolution. Spectroscopic observations of a large number of white dwarfs has allowed ... -
Developing play scenarios for tactile interaction with a humanoid robot : A case study exploration with children with autism
(2010)The work presented in this paper is part of our investigation in the ROBOSKIN project. The paper presents the completion of the first phase towards skin-based robot assisted play that included a literature review, exploratory ... -
Discovery of the first white dwarf + T dwarf binary system and the use of white dwarfs as age calibrators
(American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2010)We present the discovery of the first white dwarf + T dwarf binary system. Systems containing a white dwarf and a brown dwarf are rare but can be used to place constraints on the age of the binary, making them valuable ... -
Correlation between the corrosion resistance and the hardness scattering of structural metals treated with a pulsed electric current
(2010)The results of corrosion tests of two kinds of structural metals initially treated by a pulsed electric current of high density are presented. According to the data obtained, the treatment influences the corrosion of metals. ... -
Managing wound pain during application and removal of dressings
(2010)Wound pain is a common experience in patients with acute and chronic wounds, and also post healing in some cases, with scars (Stavrou et al, 2009). This pain can cause patients considerable suffering and distress, and ... -
Classification, location and legitimacy of web-based suppliers of Viagra to the UK
(2010-12-01)Objectives- To categorise online suppliers of Viagra based on their legal status, and to quantify the suppliers within each category. Methods- Google was used to search for websites offering to sell or supply either ... -
Personal identity, agency and the multiplicity thesis
(2011)I consider whether there is a plausible conception of personal identity that can accommodate the 'Multiplicity Thesis' (MT), the thesis that some ways of creating and deploying multiple distinct online personae can bring ... -
Robots that say 'no'
(2011-01-01)This paper reports on foundational considerations for experiments into the acquisition of human-like use and understanding of negation in linguistic utterances via a developmental robotics approach. For this purpose different ... -
'Poor girls': a comparative analysis of their educational experiences in England and India
(University Press of America, 2009)Gender discrimination is prevalent in many societies, but poverty adds greatly to the experience of disadvantage, not least in terms of equality of educational opportunity and outcomes. The term ‘poor girls’ refers to a ... -
'I wouldn't change having the children-not at all' : Young women's narratives of maternal timing: what the UK's teenage pregnancy strategy hasn't heard
(2011-09)Teenage pregnancy has been the subject of recent policy development within the British government. Viewed from an overwhelmingly negative standpoint, young parenthood is recognised as a feature of impoverished communities ... -
Paranormality
(2011-03-12)Professor Richard Wiseman is clear about one thing: paranormal phenomena don't exist. But in the same way that the science of space travel transforms our everyday lives, so research into telepathy, fortune-telling and ... -
Robotic etiquette: results from user studies involving a fetch and carry task
(ACM Press, 2007)This paper presents results, outcomes and conclusions from a series of Human Robot Interaction (HRI) trials which investigated how a robot should approach a human in a fetch and carry task. Two pilot trials were carried ... -
Evolved patterns of connectivity in associative memory models
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The Design Space of Life-Like Robots
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Teacher gender and career patterns
(Springer Nature, 2009)In general, across the world, the career trajectories of men and women are clearly differentiated. There has been much research that demonstrates men and women tend to occupy different positions in the workplace and there ...