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Generating easy and hard problems using the proximate optimality principle. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
MCCALL, J.A.W., CHRISTIE, L.A. and BROWNLEE, A.E.I. 2015. Generating easy and hard problems using the proximate optimality principle. In Silva, S. (ed.) Proceedings of the companion publication of the 2015 annual conference on genetic and evolutionary computation (GECCO Companion '15), 11-15 July 2015, Madrid, Spain. New York: ACM [online], pages 767-768. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2739482.2764890

We present an approach to generating problems of variable difficulty based on the well-known Proximate Optimality Principle (POP), often paraphrased as similar solutions have similar fitness. We explore definitions of this concept in terms of metrics... Read More about Generating easy and hard problems using the proximate optimality principle..

Challenges and recommendations for the design and conduct of global software engineering courses: a systematic review. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
CLEAR, T., BEECHAM, S., BARR, J., DANIELS, M., MCDERMOTT, R., OUDSHOORN, M., SAVICKAITE, A. and NOLL, J. 2015. Challenges and recommendations for the design and conduct of global software engineering courses: a systematic review. In Proceedings of the 2015 Innovation and technology in computer science education on working group reports (ITiCSE-WGR '15), 4-8 July 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania. New York: ACM [online], pages 1-39. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2858796.2858797

Context: Global Software Engineering (GSE) has become the predominant form of software development for global companies and has given rise to a demand for students trained in GSE. In response, universities are developing courses and curricula around... Read More about Challenges and recommendations for the design and conduct of global software engineering courses: a systematic review..

A case study into the accessibility of text-parser based interaction. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
HERON, M.J. 2015. A case study into the accessibility of text-parser based interaction. In Proceedings of the 7th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) symposium on engineering interactive computing systems (EICS'15), 23-26 June 2015, Duisburg, Germany. New York: ACM [online], pages 74-83. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2774225.2774833

The academic issues surrounding the accessibility of video games are reasonably well understood although compensations and inclusive design have not yet been comprehensively adopted by professional game developers. Several sets of guidelines have bee... Read More about A case study into the accessibility of text-parser based interaction..

Perserverance measures and attainment in first year computing science students. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
MCDERMOTT, R., DANIELS, M. and CAJANDER, A. 2015. Perserverance measures and attainment in first year computing science students. In Proceedings of the 2015 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Innovation and technology in computer science education conference (ITiCSE '15), 4-8 July 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania. New York: ACM [online], pages 302-307. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2729094.2742625

We investigate the link between concepts of perseverance such as conscientiousness and grit, and the academic attainment of first year computing students. We review the role that perseverance plays in learning models, as well as describing the trait... Read More about Perserverance measures and attainment in first year computing science students..

Dynamic subtitles: the user experience. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
BROWN, A., JONES, R., CRABB, M., SANDFORD, J., BROOKS, M., ARMSTRONG, M. and JAY, C. 2015. Dynamic subtitles: the user experience. In Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International conference on interactive experiences for TV and online video (TVX 2015), 03-05 June 2015, Brussels, Belgium. New York: ACM [online], pages 103-112. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2745197.2745204

Subtitles (closed captions) on television are typically placed at the bottom-centre of the screen. However, placing subtitles in varying positions, according to the underlying video content ('dynamic subtitles'), has the potential to make the overall... Read More about Dynamic subtitles: the user experience..

Responsive design for personalised subtitles. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
HUGHES, C.J., ARMSTRONG, M., JONES, R. and CRABB, M. 2015. Responsive design for personalised subtitles. In Proceedings of the 12th Web for all conference (W4A'15), 18-20 May 2015, Florence, Italy. New York: ACM [online], article No. 8. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2745555.2746650

The Internet has continued to evolve, becoming increasingly media rich. It is now a major platform for video content, which is available to a variety of users across a range of devices. Subtitles enhance this experience for many users. However, subti... Read More about Responsive design for personalised subtitles..

Use of 3D visualisation tools for representing urban greenspace spatial planning. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
WANG, C., MILLER, D., JIANG, Y. and DONALDSON-SELBY, G. 2015. Use of 3D visualisation tools for representing urban greenspace spatial planning. In Proceedings of the 2nd International information science and control engineering conference 2015 (ICISCE 2015), 24-26 April 2015, Shanghai, China. Piscataway: IEEEE [online], pages 525-532. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICISCE.2015.123

The objective of this paper is to report on the development of prototype models for use in raising public awareness of changes in urban areas, focusing on green spaces, and testing responses to scenarios of change. Specifically, the focus is on the d... Read More about Use of 3D visualisation tools for representing urban greenspace spatial planning..

Structural coherence of problem and algorithm: an analysis for EDAs on all 2-bit and 3-bit problems. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
BROWNLEE, A.E.I., MCCALL, J.A.W. and CHRISTIE, L.A. 2015. Structural coherence of problem and algorithm: an analysis for EDAs on all 2-bit and 3-bit problems. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE congress on evolutionary computation (CEC 2015), 25-28 May 2015, Sendai, Japan. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE [online], pages 2066-2073. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2015.7257139

Metaheuristics assume some kind of coherence between decision and objective spaces. Estimation of Distribution algorithms approach this by constructing an explicit probabilistic model of high fitness solutions, the structure of which is intended to r... Read More about Structural coherence of problem and algorithm: an analysis for EDAs on all 2-bit and 3-bit problems..

The social psychology of cybersecurity. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
MCALANEY, J., TAYLOR, J. and FAILY, S. 2015. The social psychology of cybersecurity. In Proceedings of the 1st International conference on cyber security for sustainable society, 26-27 February 2015, Coventry, UK. Working papers of the SSN+, 3. London: Sustainable Society Network+, pages 686-689.

As the fields of HCI, cybersecurity and psychology continue to grow and diversify, there is greater overlap between these areas and new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. This paper argues for a focus specifically on the role of socia... Read More about The social psychology of cybersecurity..

Further evaluations of industry-inspired pair programming communication guidelines with undergraduate students. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
ZARB, M., HUGHES, J. and RICHARDS, J. 2015. Further evaluations of industry-inspired pair programming communication guidelines with undergraduate students. In Proceedings of the 46th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) technical symposium on computer science education (SIGCSE 2015): keep connected, keep committed, keep computing, 4-7 March 2015, Kansas City, USA. New York: ACM [online], pages 314-319. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2676723.2677241

Pair programming has several benefits when it is successfully used by students and experts alike. However, research shows that novice pairs find the necessary pair communication to be one of the main challenges in adopting this process. A set of indu... Read More about Further evaluations of industry-inspired pair programming communication guidelines with undergraduate students..

An analysis of user engagement in relation to computing workshop activities. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
MENZIES, R., CRABB, M., HERRON, D., PETRIE, K., STEWART, C. and ZARB, M. 2015. An analysis of user engagement in relation to computing workshop activities. In Proceedings of the 46th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Technical symposium on computer science education (SIGCSE'15), 4-7 March 2015, Kansas City, USA. New York: ACM [online], pages 469-474. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2676723.2677272

Computing is now one of the fastest growing fields of employment, with a large bias placed on developing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education in schools. However, due to the fast pace of technology development, it is inc... Read More about An analysis of user engagement in relation to computing workshop activities..

Survey state model (SSM): XML authoring of electronic questionnaires. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
LLORET, J. and WIRATUNGA, N. 2015. Survey state model (SSM): XML authoring of electronic questionnaires. In Kosek, J. (ed.) XML Prague 2015 conference proceedings. Hájích, Czech Republic: Ing. Jiří Kosek [online], pages 159-178. Available from: https://archive.xmlprague.cz/2015/files/xmlprague-2015-proceedings.pdf

Computer Assisted Interviewing (CAI) systems use questionnaires as the instruments to conduct survey research. XML constitutes a formal way to represent the features of questionnaires which include content coverage, personalisation aspects and import... Read More about Survey state model (SSM): XML authoring of electronic questionnaires..

Quality assurance using international curricula and employer feedback. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
LARUSDOTTIR, M., DANIELS, M. and MCDERMOTT, R. 2015. Quality assurance using international curricula and employer feedback. In D'Souza, D. and Falkner, K. (eds.) Proceedings of the 17th Australian computing education conference (ACE 2015), 27-30 January 2015, Sydney, Australia. Sydney: Conferences in Reserach and Practice in Information Technology (CRIPT) [online], 160, pages 19-27. Available from: http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV160Larusdottir.pdf

The focus of this paper is the quality assurance process for the bachelor program in the School of Computer Science at Reykjavik University, which is a combination of outcome- and process-oriented quality assurance. Faculty members and employers of g... Read More about Quality assurance using international curricula and employer feedback..

An interactive model for structural pattern recognition based on the Bayes classifier. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
CORTÉS, X., SERRATOSA, F. and MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. 2015. An interactive model for structural pattern recognition based on the Bayes classifier. In De Marsico, M., Figueiredo, M. and Fred, A. (eds.) Proceedings of 4th International conference on pattern recognition applications and methods (ICPRAM 2015), 10-12 January 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, vol 1. Setubal: SCITEPRSS [online], pages 240-247. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5220/0005201602400247

This paper presents an interactive model for structural pattern recognition based on a naïve Bayes classifier. In some applications, the automatically computed correlation between local parts of two images is not good enough. Moreover, humans are ver... Read More about An interactive model for structural pattern recognition based on the Bayes classifier..