• A gamification–motivation design framework for educational software developers 

  Buckley, Jim; De Willie, Tabea; Exton, Chris; Exton, Geraldine; Murray, Liam (SAGE Publications, 2018)

  Gamification is the use of game design elements in nongame contexts and has been shown to be effective in motivating behavior change. By seeing game elements as “motivational affordances,” and formalizing the relationship ...
• Architecture consistency: state of the practice, challenges and requirements 

  Ali, Nour; Baker, Sean; O'Crowley, Ross; Herold, Sebastian; Buckley, Jim (Springer, 2017)

  Architecture Consistency (AC) aims to align implemented systems with their intended architectures. Several AC approaches and tools have been proposed and empirically evaluated, suggesting favourable results. In this ...
• Assessing citizen science participation skill for altruism or university course credit: a case study analysis 

  Phillips, Christopher; Walshe, Dylan; O’Regan, Karen; Strong, Ken; Hennon, Christopher; Knapp, Ken; Murphy, Conor; Thorne, Peter (2018)

  A common challenge in citizen science projects is gaining and retaining participants. At the same time, the tertiary education sector is constantly being challenged to provide more meaningful and practical work for students. ...
• A multi-scale analysis of bull sperm methylome revealed both species peculiarities and conserved tissue-specific 

  Perrier, Jean-Philippe; Sellem, Eli; Prézelin, Audrey; Gasselin, Maxime; Jouneau, Luc; Piumi, François; Adhami, Hala Al; Weber, Michaël; Fritz, Sébastien; Boichard, Didier; Le Danvic, Chrystelle; Schibler, Laurent; Jammes, Hélène; Kiefer, Hélène (BioMed Central, 2018)

  Background: Spermatozoa have a remarkable epigenome in line with their degree of specialization, their unique nature and different requirements for successful fertilization. Accordingly, perturbations in the establishment ...
• Expectations versus reality of artificial intelligence: using art to examine ontological issues 

  Torre, Giuseppe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2017)

  The author presents three of his artworks that engage with issues surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) research. The artworks provide a means for discussing issues that are predominantly ontological rather than technical; ...
• The Hands: the making of a digital musical instrument 

  Torre, Giuseppe; Andersen, Kristina; Baldé, Frank (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)

  Michel Waisvisz's The Hands is one of the most famous and long-lasting research projects in the literature of digital music instruments. Consisting of a pair of data gloves and exhibited for the first time in 1984, The ...
• A journey towards the development of a sound-led interdisciplinary performance: Agorá 

  Torre, Giuseppe (Taylor and Francis, 2015)

  Many live performance practitioners have explored the development of live gestural controllers in the hope of achieving natural and intimate interaction with their instrument. While the relevant literature offers a great ...
• The musical box garden 

  Ferris, Kieran; Bannon, Liam J. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2002)

  The Cardboard Box Garden (CBG) originated from a shared dissatisfaction with current computer technology as it is presented to children. This paper shall briefly review the process involved in the creation of this ...
• “... a load of ould Boxology !” 

  Ferris, Kieran; Bannon, Liam J. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2002)

  This paper documents the design process for an augmented children's play environment centred on that most ubiquitous and simple of objects, the cardboard box. The purpose of the exercise is to show how computer technology ...
• Designing interactive museum exhibits : enhancing visitor curiosity through augmented artefacts. (Awarded Best Paper) 

  Ciolfi, Luigina; Bannon, Liam J. (2002)

  In this paper, we describe the current work being conducted at the Interaction Design Centre on the design and development of a novel interactive museum exhibition. The particular context and cultural setting of the ...
• Learning from museum visits: shaping design sensitivities. 

  Ciolfi, Luigina; Bannon, Liam J. (2003)

  This paper describes an observational study of visitors interacting with artefacts in a museum, and attempts to draw from these studies a number of design considerations. Gaining a thorough understanding of the context, ...
• Re-tracing the past: mixing realities in museum settings 

  Fraser, Mike; Bowers, John; Brundell, Pat; O'Malley, Claire; Reeves, Stuart; Benford, Steve; Ciolfi, Luigina; Ferris, Kieran; Gallagher, Paul; Hall, Tony; Bannon, Liam J.; Taxén, Gustav; Hellstrom, Sten-Olov (Association for Computing Machinery, 2004)

  Interactive exhibits are now commonplace in museum settings, providing ‘edutainment’ for visitors. However, many technologies co-exist uneasily with more traditional methods of display. In this paper we describe a design ...
• Shaping experiences in the Hunt Museum: a design case study 

  Ferris, Kieran; Bannon, Liam J.; Ciolfi, Luigina; Gallagher, Paul; Hall, Tony; Lennon, Marilyn (Association for Computing Machinery, 2004)

  Re-Tracing the Past: exploring objects, stories, mysteries, was an exhibition held at the Hunt Museum, in Limerick, Ireland from 9th--19th June 2003. We attempted to create an exhibition that would be an engaging experience ...
• EISH – exercises in studying HCI 

  Baumann, Konrad; Kotzé, Paula; Oestreicher, Lars; Bannon, Liam J.; Varey, Alison; van Greunen, Darelle; van der Veer, Gerrit; Petrie, Helen; Jounila, Ilari; Mavrommati, Irene; Garay-Vitoria, Nestor; Özcan, Oguzhan; Purgathofer, Peter; Silva, Paula Alexandra (GPCG, 2007)

  This paper reports on the outcomes of the December 2006 CONVIVIO Faculty Forum and the proposed framework and guidelines for design exercises to stimulate creativity, developed at the Forum.
• Making sense of design & requirements perspectives - & their inter-relations 

  Bannon, Liam J. (2007)

  This NSF Design Requirements Workshop has a very ambitious and wide-ranging set of objectives. It invites contributions from a wide range of disciplines and encourages a variety of perspectives on requirements and design, ...
• Towards sustainable production of formic acid 

  Bulushev, Dmitri A.; Ross, Julian R.H. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2018)

  Formic acid is a widely used commodity chemical. It can be applied as a safe, easily handled and transported source of hydrogen or CO for different reactions including those producing fuels. The review includes historical ...
• Flow cytometry as a potential method of measuring bacterial viability in probiotic products: a review 

  Wilkinson, Martin G. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Highlights • A review of flow cytometry for monitoring probiotic culture viability was undertaken. • Flow cytometry had good correlation with plate counts for concentrated fresh cultures. • Sample clean up ...
• Readily accessible shape-memory effect in a porous interpenetrated coordination network 

  Shivanna, Mohana; Yang, Qing‐Yuan; Bajpai, Alankriti; Sen, Susan; Hosono, Nobuhiko; Kusaka, Shinpei; Pham, Tony; Forrest, Katherine A.; Space, Brian; Kitagawa, Susumu; Zaworotko, Michael J. (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2018)

  Shape-memory effects are quite well-studied in general, but there is only one reported example in the context of porous materials. We report the second example of a porous coordination network that exhibits a sorbate-induced ...
• Dairy fats and cardiovascular disease: do we really need to be concerned? 

  Lordan, Ronan; Tsoupras, Alexandros; Mitra, Bhaskar; Zabetakis, Ioannis (MDPI, 2018)

  Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remain a major cause of death and morbidity globally and diet plays a crucial role in the disease prevention and pathology. The negative perception of dairy fats stems from the effort to ...
• Indian and Chinese aviation industry: the EASA framework option 

  Kourousis, Kyriakos I.; Comer, Anthony (Emerald Publishing Group Limited, 2018)

  Purpose This viewpoint aims to increase the awareness on the demand faced by the technical sector of the Indian and Chinese aviation industry and how this can be met by the adoption of the European Aviation Safety Agency ...

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