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View article: Geometry-Aware Decentralized Sinkhorn for Wasserstein Barycenters
Geometry-Aware Decentralized Sinkhorn for Wasserstein Barycenters Open
Distributed systems require fusing heterogeneous local probability distributions into a global summary over sparse and unreliable communication networks. Traditional consensus algorithms, which average distributions in Euclidean space, ign…
View article: Split Conformal Prediction in the Function Space with Neural Operators
Split Conformal Prediction in the Function Space with Neural Operators Open
Uncertainty quantification for neural operators remains an open problem in the infinite-dimensional setting due to the lack of finite-sample coverage guarantees over functional outputs. While conformal prediction offers finite-sample guara…
View article: Beyond Authorial Burden
Beyond Authorial Burden Open
Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN), a primarily web-first hypertextual medium, creates an overhead of writing for authors. There are many methods and tools that have been proposed for writing IDNs with the goal of reducing this burden, bu…
View article: Natureculture Probes: Opening up dialogues in natural heritage(s) landscapes
Natureculture Probes: Opening up dialogues in natural heritage(s) landscapes Open
This pictorial introduces Natureculture Probes, an innovative tool designed to enhance visitor engagement at heritage sites through participatory methods. Rooted in feminist post-human approaches and post-humanist HCI, these probes aim to …
View article: PEARL: Preconditioner Enhancement through Actor-critic Reinforcement Learning
PEARL: Preconditioner Enhancement through Actor-critic Reinforcement Learning Open
We present PEARL (Preconditioner Enhancement through Actor-critic Reinforcement Learning), a novel approach to learning matrix preconditioners. Existing preconditioners such as Jacobi, Incomplete LU, and Algebraic Multigrid methods offer p…
View article: Deep Learning for Koopman Operator Estimation in Idealized Atmospheric Dynamics
Deep Learning for Koopman Operator Estimation in Idealized Atmospheric Dynamics Open
Deep learning is revolutionizing weather forecasting, with new data-driven models achieving accuracy on par with operational physical models for medium-term predictions. However, these models often lack interpretability, making their under…
View article: Experiencing The Authorial Burden
Experiencing The Authorial Burden Open
The Authoring Burden describes the overhead of writing an Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) as opposed to a linear story. There are many methods and tools that have been proposed for writing IDNs with the implicit goal of reducing this b…
View article: The Ethics of Mixed Reality Games
The Ethics of Mixed Reality Games Open
Mixed Reality (MR) Games integrate digital elements with real-world places. In doing so, they change those places, with important ethical implications. We present a synthesis of eight existing frameworks on MR Ethics to establish a set of …
View article: GranularGym: High Performance Simulation for Robotic Tasks with Granular Materials
GranularGym: High Performance Simulation for Robotic Tasks with Granular Materials Open
Granular materials are of critical interest to many robotic tasks in planetary science, construction, and manufacturing.However, the dynamics of granular materials are complex and often computationally very expensive to simulate.We propose…
View article: Granular Gym: High Performance Simulation for Robotic Tasks with Granular Materials
Granular Gym: High Performance Simulation for Robotic Tasks with Granular Materials Open
Granular materials are of critical interest to many robotic tasks in planetary science, construction, and manufacturing. However, the dynamics of granular materials are complex and often computationally very expensive to simulate. We propo…
View article: IDN-Sum
IDN-Sum Open
Summarizing Interactive Digital Narratives (IDN) presents some unique challenges to existing text summarization models especially around capturing interactive elements in addition to important plot points. In this paper we describe the fir…
View article: IDN-Sum
IDN-Sum Open
Summarizing Interactive Digital Narratives (IDN) presents some unique challenges to existing text summarization models especially around capturing interactive elements in addition to important plot points. In this paper we describe the fir…
View article: Fear of the dark: a cross-cultural study into how perceptions of antisocial behaviour impact the acceptance and use of Twitter
Fear of the dark: a cross-cultural study into how perceptions of antisocial behaviour impact the acceptance and use of Twitter Open
This study investigates the impact of the perceptions of antisocial behaviour on the use of the social media platform Twitter. We extend the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) with the Perception of Antisocial Behav…
View article: Domain Adversarial Neural Networks for Dysarthric Speech Recognition
Domain Adversarial Neural Networks for Dysarthric Speech Recognition Open
Speech recognition systems have improved dramatically over the last few years, however, their performance is significantly degraded for the cases of accented or impaired speech. This work explores domain adversarial neural networks (DANN) …
View article: Calculating Trust Using Multiple Heterogeneous Social Networks
Calculating Trust Using Multiple Heterogeneous Social Networks Open
In today’s Internet, a web user becomes members of multiple social networks due to different types of services provided by each of these networks. This creates an opportunity to make trust decisions that go beyond individual social network…
Structural patterns for transmedia storytelling Open
Transmedia storytelling involves telling a story using multiple distinct media. The remit of stories that fall under this broad definition is vast, consequently causing theorists to examine different phenomena using tools that are not suit…
View article: The Willingness of Crowds: Cohort Disclosure Preferences for Personally Identifying Information
The Willingness of Crowds: Cohort Disclosure Preferences for Personally Identifying Information Open
Exploiting personal identifying information (PII) is critical for secure access to digital and web-based systems, it is also a significant element of the online social media business model. However, how this exploitation relates to users’ …
View article: EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF THE COMPONENTS OF A MOBILE BEHAVIOR CHANGE INTERVENTION TO SUPPORT CRITICAL THINKING IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF THE COMPONENTS OF A MOBILE BEHAVIOR CHANGE INTERVENTION TO SUPPORT CRITICAL THINKING IN RESEARCH PROJECTS Open
This paper presents a study which aims to provide an understanding of the impact of using the components of a digitalmobile-based behavior change intervention (mBCI) to support critical thinking skills during university student researchpro…
View article: MePrints: Building User Centred Repositories
MePrints: Building User Centred Repositories Open
Over the last few years we have been working to reinvent Teaching and Learning Repositories learning from the best practices of Web 2.0. Over this time we have successfully deployed a number of innovative repositories, including Southampto…
View article: Uncommon patterns - Authoring with story specific structures
Uncommon patterns - Authoring with story specific structures Open
. In interactive narrative research there has been a lot of interest in common structural patterns, both as a way of critically analysing work and as a scaffolding mechanism for authoring systems. But stories can contain uncommon patterns …
View article: The thematic modelling of subtext
The thematic modelling of subtext Open
Narratives form a key component of multimedia knowledge representation on the Web. However, many existing multimedia narrative systems either ignore the narrative qualities of any media, or focus on the literal depicted content ignoring an…
View article: Beneath the Echo Chamber: A Cultural Criminological Analysis of Right Wing Radicalisation on the Web
Beneath the Echo Chamber: A Cultural Criminological Analysis of Right Wing Radicalisation on the Web Open
This dataset contains the image corpus and analysis of data collected for an MSc dissertation exploring right-wing radicalisation on the Web. Each of the 300 images have been categorised by their main theme, sub-themes and provenance. The …
View article: The StoryPlaces Authoring Tool: Pattern Centric Authoring
The StoryPlaces Authoring Tool: Pattern Centric Authoring Open
Building authoring environments for constraint-based inter- active narratives (sculptural hypertexts) is challenging, as dealing di- rectly with functions and variables is alien to many authors and requires them to think at a lower level t…
View article: Multiplayer games as a template for multiplayer narratives: a case study with Dark Souls
Multiplayer games as a template for multiplayer narratives: a case study with Dark Souls Open
Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) is an increasingly popular field, with a number of novel systems emerging in the last few years. However, these systems have typically focused on narratives involving only a single person. In contrast…