Interaction strategies for an affective conversational agent
Journal Article
Smith, C., Crook, N., Dobnik, S., Charlton, D., Boye, J., Pulman, S., …Cavazza, M. (2011)
Interaction strategies for an affective conversational agent. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 20, 395-411. https://doi.org/10.1162/PRES_a_00063
The development of embodied conversational agents (ECA) as companions brings several challenges for both affective and conversational dialogue. These include challenges in gen...
Learning Disability Liaison Nursing Services in south-east Scotland: a mixed-methods impact and outcome study
Journal Article
Brown, M., MacArthur, J., McKechanie, A., Mack, S., Hayes, M., & Fletcher, J. (2011)
Learning Disability Liaison Nursing Services in south-east Scotland: a mixed-methods impact and outcome study. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 56, 1161-1174. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.2011.01511.x
Background There have been significant concerns about the care and treatment of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) when attending general hospitals, which have led to...
Music, text, gender and notions/influences of an Italian cultural perspective as the source for original music compositions
Thesis
Allori, S. Music, text, gender and notions/influences of an Italian cultural perspective as the source for original music compositions. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6691
The folio of musical works supported by this document, explores the relationship between text and music. Using a variety of textual sources, from a single line of text to an e...
Herbal medication in the management of non-ulcer dyspepsia
Journal Article
Smith, G. D. (2011)
Herbal medication in the management of non-ulcer dyspepsia. Gastrointestinal Nursing, 9(10), 15-16. https://doi.org/10.12968/gasn.2011.9.10.15
Although not considered part of mainstream medicine, it is estimated that over half of patients with gastrointestinal symptoms have used some form of complementary or alternat...
Novel processing of solid oxide fuel cell
Thesis
Baba, N. B. Novel processing of solid oxide fuel cell. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4271
ABSTRACT
Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are of major interest in fuel cell development due to their high energy conversion efficiency, wide range of fuels and environmental fr...
Detection of DNA base variation and cytosine methylation at a single nucleotide site using a highly sensitive fluorescent probe
Journal Article
Duprey, J. H. A., Zhao, Z., Bassani, D. M., Manchester, J., Vyle, J. S., & Tucker, J. H. R. (2011)
Detection of DNA base variation and cytosine methylation at a single nucleotide site using a highly sensitive fluorescent probe. Chemical Communications, 47, 6629. https://doi.org/10.1039/c1cc11205h
A fluorescent DNA probe containing an anthracene group attached via an anucleosidic linker can identify all four DNA bases at a single site as well as the epigenetic modificat...
Designing for engagement
Journal Article
Turner, P., Flint, T., & Turner, S. (2011)
Designing for engagement. Infrastructure journal,
Teaching the next generation of universal access designers: a case study
Conference Proceeding
Keates, S. (2011)
Teaching the next generation of universal access designers: a case study. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design for All and eInclusion: 6th International Conference, UAHCI 2011, Proceedings, Part I, 70-79. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21672-5_9
This paper describes the development of the ?Usability and Accessibility? course for M.Sc. students at the IT University of Copenhagen. The aim is to examine whether this cour...
Behavioural Antecedents of Inter-firm Linkages in the Irish Road Freight Industry
Conference Proceeding
Plant, E., & McGovern, J. (2011)
Behavioural Antecedents of Inter-firm Linkages in the Irish Road Freight Industry. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Universities’ Transport Studies Group
The Irish road haulage industry exhibits a structure dominated by single-vehicle owner-managed operators. This has implications for the Irish economy through reduced efficienc...
Sentic medoids: Organizing affective common sense knowledge in a multi-dimensional vector space
Conference Proceeding
Cambria, E., Mazzocco, T., Hussain, A., & Eckl, C. (2011)
Sentic medoids: Organizing affective common sense knowledge in a multi-dimensional vector space. In Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2011 8th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2011, Guilin, China, May 29–June 1, 2011, Proceedings, Part III. , (601-610). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21111-9_68
Existing approaches to opinion mining and sentiment analysis mainly rely on parts of text in which opinions and sentiments are explicitly expressed such as polarity terms and ...