Using Machinima to Promote Computer Science Study (2009)
The project develops a Machinima animation promotional film for the Department of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, and evaluates whether the promotional material is more engaging and...
An Emotion Network: Enabling Emotion Sharing Through Social Networking (2009)
This paper describes the development of an emotional social network. This network enables people to share their emotional state with their social group, and provides a facility for them to respond to...
Being Safety Smart is a free to use online educational game providing safety strategies for children aged from 6 to 8. The program is designed to increase the awareness of children to situations...
Advances in the culture of lobsters. (2009)
Commercial aquaculture of marine lobsters is an attractive proposition, as most species are high value with established market demand, and fishery production is static or diminishing. Nevertheless,...
Building a Risk Measurement Framework for Hedge Funds and Funds-of- Funds * (2008)
In the first of two papers, we present a factor-decomposition based framework that facilitates non-parametric risk analysis for complex hedge fund portfolios in the absence of portfolio level...
Penfold, R., Grutter, A.S., Kuris, A.M., McCormick, M.I., Jones, C.M.
Theory suggests that micropredators can be virulent and that they will impact smaller hosts more than larger ones. We examined the interactions between micropredatory gnathiid isopods and juvenile...
Reef-based micropredators reduce the growth of post-settlement damselfish in captivity (2008)
Despite the ubiquity of micropredators and parasites on coral reefs, their effects on the survival and growth of juvenile fishes are virtually unstudied. Caging and laboratory experiments were used...
Penfold, R., Grutter, A.S., Kuris, A.M., McCormick, M.I., Jones, C.M.
Theory suggests that micropredators can be virulent and that they will impact smaller hosts more than larger ones. We examined the interactions between micropredatory gnathiid isopods and juvenile...
Reef-based micropredators reduce the growth of post-settlement damselfish in captivity (2008)
Despite the ubiquity of micropredators and parasites on coral reefs, their effects on the survival and growth of juvenile fishes are virtually unstudied. Caging and laboratory experiments were used...
Jones, C.M., Miller, T.L., Grutter, A.S., Cribb, T.H.
Cymothoid isopods are parasites that have a biphasic life cycle comprised of free-swimming micropredatory stages that eventually attach permanently to fishes, on which they change sex and morphology....
Johnston, M.D., Johnston, D.J., Jones, C.M.
We have evaluated the potential of a formulated diet as a replacement for live and fresh feeds for 7-day post-hatch Panulirus ornatus phyllosomata and also investigated the effect of conditioning...
Johnston, M.D., Johnston, D.J., Jones, C.M.
We have evaluated the potential of a formulated diet as a replacement for live and fresh feeds for 7-day post-hatch Panulirus ornatus phyllosomata and also investigated the effect of conditioning...
Johnston, M.D., Johnston, D.J., Jones, C.M.
We have evaluated the potential of a formulated diet as a replacement for live and fresh feeds for 7-day post-hatch Panulirus ornatus phyllosomata and also investigated the effect of conditioning...
Online Games-Based Child Safety Environment (2008)
The Child Safety Awareness Project develops an online games-based educational resource to provide anti-abduction and sexual abuse prevention strategies for children aged 6 to 8. The key messages and...
Speech Interaction with an Emotional Robotic Dog (2008)
The consumer electronics of the future will be aware of the emotion of their users in order to provide more natural, engaging, entertaining and productive experiences. The paper reports on the...
Acoustic emotion recognition for affective computer gaming (2008)
Computer games are becoming visually realistic, and coupled with more violent storylines and characters there is concern among parents and parts of the media that violent games could encourage...
Affective human-robotic interaction (2008)
Entertainment robots are becoming commonplace in the home. Users are less fearful of interacting with robotic systems however these interactions are often limited to performing pre-recording...
Using paralinguistic cues in speech to recognise emotions in older car drivers (2008)
Interactive speech based systems are moving into the car since speech interactions are considered less detrimental to the driver than interactions with a display. The introduction of in-car...
Host specificity of two species of Gnathia (Isopoda) determined by DNA sequencing blood meals (2007)
Jones, C. M., Nagel, L., Hughes, G. L., Cribb, T. H., Grutter, A. S.
Host specificity data for gnathiid isopods are scarce because the parasitic stages are difficult to identify and host-parasite contact is often brief. We examined two common nocturnal species,...
Gnathiid isopods are one of the most abundant groups of ectoparasites on coral reef fishes. They, and other isopods, have been shown to significantly affect the health and behaviour of many reef...
Host specificity of two species of Gnathia (Isopoda) determined by DNA sequencing blood meals (2007)
Jones, C. M., Nagel, L., Hughes, G. L., Cribb, T. H., Grutter, A. S.
Host specificity data for gnathiid isopods are scarce because the parasitic stages are difficult to identify and host-parasite contact is often brief. We examined two common nocturnal species,...
Gnathiid isopods are one of the most abundant groups of ectoparasites on coral reef fishes. They, and other isopods, have been shown to significantly affect the health and behaviour of many reef...
Performance Analysis of Acoustic Emotion Recognition for In-Car Conversational Interfaces (2007)
No abstract available.
Biometric valence and arousal recognition (2007)
A real-time user-independent emotion detection system using physiological signals has been developed. The system has the ability to classify affective states into 2-dimensions using valence and...
Investigating emotional interaction with a robotic dog (2007)
Next generation of consumer-level entertainment robots should offer more natural engaging interaction. This paper reports on the development and evaluation of a consumer-level robotic dog with...
Performance Analysis of Acoustic Emotion Recognition for In-Car Conversational Interfaces (2007)
The automotive industry are integrating more technologies into the standard new car kit. New cars often provide speech enabled communications such as voice-dial, as well as control over the car...
Transcriptional regulation by Barhl1 and Brn-3c in organ of corti derived cell lines (2005)
Sud, R., Jones, C.M., Banfi, S., Dawson, S.J.
Barhl1 and Brn-3c have been identified as transcription factors that are essential for survival and maintenance of hair cells of the inner ear. Little is known about the mechanism of how Brn-3c or...
Harvey, S., Harrison, D.A., Singer, M., Ashcroft, J., Jones, C.M., Elbourne, D., ...
Background: Over the past 30 years the pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) has become a widely used haemodynamic monitoring device in the management of critically ill patients, though doubts exist about...
Trade-through prohibitions and market quality (2005)
On September 4, 2002, the SEC implemented a de minimis exemption to the trade-through rule for three active ETFs, allowing markets to execute trades at prices up to three cents worse than those...
Captive Hemigymnus melapterus exposed to large numbers of cultured juvenile parasitic isopods (Gnathia sp.) had significantly lower haematocrit (median 27-62% +/- 5-83% inter-quartile range) than...
A cyclopropabenzenylidenethenone (Propadienone) via a new route to alkylidenecycloproparenes (2005)
Halton, B., Dixon, G., Jones, C. M., Parkin, C. T., Naduvile Veedu, R., Bornemann, H., ...
Reaction of 1,1-dichloro-2,5-diphenylcyclopropabenzene 6 with Meldrum's acid 8 in the presence of pyridine leads to coupling of the cycloproparenyl cation 7 with the stabilized diketo anion 9....
Captive Hemigymnus melapterus exposed to large numbers of cultured juvenile parasitic isopods (Gnathia sp.) had significantly lower haematocrit (median 27-62% +/- 5-83% inter-quartile range) than...
A cyclopropabenzenylidenethenone (Propadienone) via a new route to alkylidenecycloproparenes (2005)
Halton, B., Dixon, G., Jones, C. M., Parkin, C. T., Naduvile Veedu, R., Bornemann, H., ...
Reaction of 1,1-dichloro-2,5-diphenylcyclopropabenzene 6 with Meldrum's acid 8 in the presence of pyridine leads to coupling of the cycloproparenyl cation 7 with the stabilized diketo anion 9....
Reproductive cues in Panulirus ornatus (2005)
Sachlikidis, N.G., Jones, C.M., Seymour, J.E.
Two experiments were performed to assess the effect of photoperiod and temperature on spawning of Panulirus ornatus. In experiment 1, sexually mature lobsters taken from the wild during summer were...
Jones, C M, Lim, M Y, Aylett, R
Computational models of emotion are useful in a variety of domains such as for development of believable agents, video games, virtual environments, etc. Most of the existing models are inspired by...
Empathic virtual tour guide (2005)
Jones, C M, Lim, M Y, Aylett, R
Can a computer have a personality? The Empathic Tour Guide system is a research into an “intelligent empathic guide with attitude” that tries to answer this question. This research moves away...
Empathic interaction with a virtual guide (2005)
Jones, C M, Lim, M Y, Aylett, R
The Empathic Tour Guide System is a context-aware mobile system, including an ‘intelligent empathic guide with attitude’, offering the user a seamless, temporally and spatially dependent,...
Speech patterns for older adults while driving (2005)
No abstract available.
Creating an emotionally reactive computer game responding to affective cues in speech (2005)
Developing a computer game which analyses and recognises the emotional state of the game player and, in response, modifies the physical and behavioural attributes of the game character.
Emotive tour guide system (2005)
Jones, C M, Lim, M Y, Aylett, R
The Emotive Tour Guide System is a mobile context-aware and spatial-aware system, including an `intelligent emotional guide with personality’, offering the user an affective multimodal interaction...
Emergent Affective and Personality Model (2005)
Jones, C M, Lim, M Y, Aylett, R
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2005, held in Kos Island, Greece in September 2005. The 26 revised full papers and...
Detecting Emotions in Conversations Between Driver and In-Car Information Systems (2005)
Speech interaction with in-car controls is becoming more commonplace as the interaction is considered to be less distracting to the driver. Cars of today are equipped with speech recognition system...
Affective guide with attitude (2005)
Jones, C M, Lim, M Y, Aylett, R
The Affective Guide System is a mobile context-aware and spatial-aware system, offering the user with an affective multimodal interaction interface. The system takes advantage of the current mobile...
Automatically recognising and responding to affective cues in the speech of car drivers (2005)
Speech interaction with in-car controls is becoming more commonplace as the interaction is considered to be less distracting to the driver. Cars of today are equipped with speech recognition system...
Emergent Affective and Personality Model (2005)
Lim, M Y, Aylett, R, Jones, C M
The Emergent Affective and Personality model is a body-mind model of emotions for a mobile tour guide agent. This research is inspired by work in Psychology, Brain Research, Personality, Narrative,...
Detecting Emotions in Conversations Between Driver and In-Car Information Systems (2005)
Speech interaction with in-car controls is becoming more commonplace as the interaction is considered to be less distracting to the driver. Cars of today are equipped with speech recognition system...
Affective Guide with Attitude (2005)
Lim, M Y, Jones, C M, Aylett, R
The Affective Guide System is a mobile context-aware and spatial-aware system, offering the user with an affective multimodal interaction interface. The system takes advantage of the current mobile...
Approximating negative and harmonic mean moments for the Poisson distribution (2003)
Asymptotic expansions and the related approximations are constructed for the negative moments of the Poisson distribution and the moments of the harmonic mean of independent and identically...
Characterization and Inheritance of the Anthocyanin fruit (Aft) Tomato (2003)
Jones, C. M., Mes, P., Myers, J. R.
Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) accession LA1996 with the Anthocyanin fruit (Aft) gene has dark green foliage, elevated anthocyanin expression in the hypocotyls of seedlings, and anthocyanin in the...
Recognising emotive cues in speech for interaction with mobile devices (2002)
No abstract available.
Not just a dusty box: Computer based activities in Primary school education (2000)
No abstract available.
The Face of the Future: an animated virutal agent with life-like articulation (2000)
No abstract available.
How to put user-based design in place (2000)
What. Many websites are visually stunning, but are total disasters in terms of user-friendliness and accessibility. Why. Web design is being led by 'creatives' who lack a grounding in usability,...
Automated technical foreign exchange trading with high frequency data. (1999)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cambridge, 1999.
Jones, C.M., McPhee, C.P., Ruscoe, I.M.
This paper provides a review and summary of strain comparison and selective breeding work carried out on redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens) at the Queensland Department of Primary...
Dempster Jones Centre, C. M. Jones
this paper, we aim to analyse a little known technical trading pattern known as the channel. Like Osler and Chang, we search for occurrences of the pattern in question using an algorithm based on...
Jones, C.M., McPhee, C.P., Ruscoe, I.M.
This paper provides a review and summary of strain comparison and selective breeding work carried out on redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens) at the Queensland Department of Primary...
Jones, C.M., McPhee, C.P., Ruscoe, I.M.
This paper provides a review and summary of strain comparison and selective breeding work carried out on redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens) at the Queensland Department of Primary...
The face as an interface: the new paradigm for HCI (1999)
Usability should be paramount in the development of any multimodal interface. Unfortunately, the software industry market their product upgrades based on the number of additional features rather than...
No abstract available.
Crystal structure of tert-butyldimethylsilylethyhylferrocene, C18H24FeSi (1997)
Jones, C. M., Mocellin, E., Russell, Richard Alan, Tiekink, Edward Richard Tom
Human-Computer Interaction and Special Effect Animation Toolbox (1997)
No abstract available.
Presents MARTI (Man-machine Animation Real-Time Interface) for simple interfacing to virtual environments. The system is designed for automated special-effect animation and human-computer...
Automated lip synchronisation for human-computer interaction and special effect animation (1997)
The research presents MARTI (Man-machine animation real-time interface) for the realisation of automated special effect animation and human computer interaction. The future developments of the...
MARTI: man-machine animation real-time interface: The Illusion of Life (1997)
No abstract avaialble.
Automated lip synchronisation for human-computer interaction and special effect animation (1997)
The research presents MARTI (Man-machine Animation Real-Time Interface) for the realisation of automated special effect animation and human computer interaction. MARTI introduces novel research in a...
MARTI: man-machine animation real-time interface (1997)
The research introduces MARTI (man-machine animation real-time interface) for the realization of natural human-machine interfacing. The system uses simple vocal sound-tracks of human speakers to...
Berger check prediction for concurrent error detection in the Braun array multiplier (1996)
Jones, C M, Dlay, S S, Naguib, R G N
We develop the Berger Check Symbol Prediction and report the performance benefit for the realisation of practical concurrent error detection systems. Furthermore, we show that the Berger coded Braun...
Berger check prediction for concurrent error detection in the Braun array multiplier (1996)
Jones, C M, Dlay, S S, Naguib, R N G
The design and development of concurrent error detection arithmetic and logic units has initiated significant research concerning information coding schemes. Published research has used the...
Growth and characterization of ZnTe films grown on GaAs, InAs, GaSb, and ZnTe (1989)
Rajakarunanayake, Y., Cole, B. H., McCaldin, J. O., Chow, D. H., Söderström, J. R., McGill, T. C., ...
We report the successful growth of ZnTe on nearly lattice-matched III-V buffer layers of InAs (0.75%), GaSb (0.15%), and on GaAs and ZnTe by molecular beam epitaxy. In situ reflection high-energy...
Palaeoatmospheric argon in cherts and the degassing of the earth. (1982)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sheffield, 1982.
The holifield heavy-ion research facility at Oak Ridge (1977)
A new heavy-ion accelerator facility is now under construction at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This paper presents a brief description of the scope and schedule of this project, a more complete...
Citron, A., Fricke, J.L., Klein, H., Kuntze, M., Piosczyk, B., Schulze, D., ...
Blewett, M.H. [Hrsg.]: Proceedings of the 8. Internat. Conference on High-Energy Accelerators. CERN 1971. Geneva, 20-24 September, 1971. Geneva: European Org. for Nuclear Research 1971. S.278-81
Can channel pattern trading be profitably automated?
Financial markets, such as the global foreign exchange (FX) market, often exhibit trending behaviour. Within such trends, the market level oscillates with changes in market consensus. Continued...
Factor-based, Non-parametric Risk Measurement Framework for Hedge Funds and Fund-of-Funds
A factor-decomposition based framework is presented that facilitates non-parametric risk analysis for complex hedge fund portfolios in the absence of portfolio level transparency. This approach has...
Execution Costs of Institutional Equity Orders.
We compare institutional execution costs across the major U.S. exchanges using a sample of institutional equity orders in firms that switch exchanges. Execution costs including commissions are...
Sixteenths: Direct Evidence on Institutional Execution Costs.
In June 1997, the Nasdaq stock market and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) each lowered its minimum price increment on most stocks from eighths to sixteenths. Like other researchers investigating...
Price Impacts and Quote Adjustment on the Nasdaq and NYSE/AMEX.
We compare the price impact of trades across market structures by examining firms that switch exchanges. When firms are listed on Nasdaq, quoted prices adjust quite slowly to the information...
Meigs Haynes Jones, D. L. Haynes, C. M. Jones, C. T. Lecroy
A new beam intensity monitoring system with a wide dynamic range has been designed, fabricated and tested for use at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF). Radioactive ion beams...