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SENSE-braille: Children’s multisensory experiences with auditory-haptic activities Open

Julia Föcker, Polly Atkins, Jonathan Waddington, Kieran Hicks, Emma Hawes , et al. · 2025

This research investigated sensory preferences and experiences of individuals with visual impairment and blindness, when interacting with a novel multisensory device for braille learning. The device comprised an enlarged braille cell, in w…

Work Hard, Play Harder: Intense Games Enable Recovery from High Mental Workload Tasks Open

Linqi Zhao, Michael Thomas Knierim, Max L. Wilson, Patrick Dickinson, Horia A. Maior · 2025

Examining Burglary Scripts in Community-Based Samples Open

Matthew King-Parker, Ross M. Bartels, Tochukwu Onwuegbusi, Patrick Dickinson · 2024

Burglary is a high-volume and frequently repeated offense. However, little is known about the cognitive scripts that may facilitate first-time burglaries. Thus, this paper reports three studies that examined burglary scripts within communi…

Classification of flying bats using computer vision techniques Open

John Atanbori, Patrick Dickinson · 2024

We are developing computer vision techniques to automatically monitor bat populations, and extract biometric features which willbe used to gather important population data. The biometric features will include shape, speed, trajectory featu…

A Rare Case of Community-Acquired Pneumonia Only Presenting With Diarrhea, Abdominal Pain, and Fever: A Case Report Open

Austin B. Miller, Punuru J Reddy, Derrick Randolph, P. Breton, Patrick Dickinson , et al. · 2023

Legionnaires' disease is an atypical pneumonia caused by Legionella pneumophila (L. pneumophila) pneumonia that features slow onset, nonproductive cough, fatigue, headache, sore throat, myalgias, and malaise. It can be difficult to …

I think I don’t feel sick: Exploring the Relationship Between Cognitive Demand and Cybersickness in Virtual Reality using fNIRS Open

Katharina Margareta Theresa Pöhlmann, Horia A. Maior, Julia Föcker, Louise O’Hare, Adrian Parke , et al. · 2023

Virtual Reality (VR) applications commonly use the illusion of self-motion (vection) to simulate experiences such as running, driving, or flying. However, this can lead to cybersickness, which diminishes the experience of users, and can ev…

Including the Experiences of Physically Disabled Players in Mainstream Guidelines for Movement-Based Games Open

Liam Mason, Kathrin Gerling, Patrick Dickinson, Jussi Holopainen, Lisa Jacobs , et al. · 2022

Movement-based video games can provide engaging play experiences, and also have the potential to encourage physical activity. However, existing design guidelines for such games overwhelmingly focus on non-disabled players. Here, we explore…

The relationship between vection, cybersickness and head movements elicited by illusory motion in virtual reality Open

Katharina Margareta Theresa Pöhlmann, Julia Föcker, Patrick Dickinson, Adrian Parke, Louise O’Hare · 2021

Experiencing Simulated Confrontations in Virtual Reality Open

Patrick Dickinson, Arthur L. Jones, Wayne M. Christian, Andrew Westerside, Francis Mulloy , et al. · 2021

The use of virtual reality (VR) to simulate confrontational human behaviour has significant potential for use in training, where the recreation of uncomfortable feelings may help users to prepare for challenging real-life situations. In th…

The Effect of Motion Direction and Eccentricity on Vection, VR Sickness and Head Movements in Virtual Reality Open

Katharina Margareta Theresa Pöhlmann, Julia Föcker, Patrick Dickinson, Adrian Parke, Louise O’Hare · 2021

Virtual Reality (VR) experienced through head-mounted displays often leads to vection, discomfort and sway in the user. This study investigated the effect of motion direction and eccentricity on these three phenomena using optic flow patte…

Action Video Game Players Do Not Differ in the Perception of Contrast-Based Motion Illusions but Experience More Vection and Less Discomfort in a Virtual Environment Compared to Non-Action Video Game Players Open

Katharina Margareta Theresa Pöhlmann, Louise O’Hare, Patrick Dickinson, Adrian Parke, Julia Föcker · 2021

Diegetic Tool Management in a Virtual Reality Training Simulation Open

Patrick Dickinson, Andrew Cardwell, Adrian Parke, Kathrin Gerling, John Murray · 2021

Researchers have suggested that diegetic interfaces can enhance users’ sense of presence and immersion in virtual reality. We present a study (N = 58) in which we compare participants’ experiences of diegetic and non-diegetic interfaces, i…

Is Virtual Reality Sickness Elicited by Illusory Motion Affected by Gender and Prior Video Gaming Experience? Open

Katharina Margareta Theresa Pöhlmann, Louise O’Hare, Julia Föcker, Adrian Parke, Patrick Dickinson · 2021

Gaming using VR headsets is becoming increasingly popular; however, these displays can cause VR sickness. To investigate the effects of gender and gamer type on VR sickness motion illusions are used as stimuli, being a novel method of indu…

DCNNs: A Transfer Learning comparison of Full Weapon Family threat detection for Dual-Energy X-Ray Baggage Imagery Open

Anna Williamson, Patrick Dickinson, Tryphon Lambrou, John C. Murray · 2020

Recent advancements in Convolutional Neural Networks have yielded super-human levels of performance in image recognition tasks [13, 25]; however, with increasing volumes of parcels crossing UK borders each year, classification of threats b…

Virtual Reality Games for People Using Wheelchairs Open

Kathrin Gerling, Patrick Dickinson, Kieran Hicks, Liam Mason, Adalberto L. Simeone , et al. · 2020

Virtual Reality (VR) holds the promise of providing engaging embodied experiences, but little is known about how people with disabilities engage with it. We explore challenges and opportunities of VR gaming for wheelchair users. First, we …

Effect of within-session breaks in play on responsible gambling behaviour during sustained monetary losses Open

Adrian Parke, Patrick Dickinson, Louise O’Hare, Liam Wilson, Greg Westerman-Hughes , et al. · 2019

Rapid, continuous gambling formats are associated with higher risks for gambling-related harm in terms of excessive monetary and time expenditure. The current study investigated the effect on gambling response latency and persistence, of a…

Towards game theoretic AV controllers: measuring pedestrian behaviour in Virtual Reality Open

Fanta Camara, Patrick Dickinson, Natasha Merat, Charles Fox · 2019

Understanding pedestrian interaction is of great importance for autonomous vehicles (AVs). The present study investigates pedestrian behaviour during crossing scenarios with an autonomous vehicle using Virtual Reality. The self-driving car…

Understanding the Effects of Gamification and Juiciness on Players Open

Kieran Hicks, Kathrin Gerling, Graham Richardson, Thomas Pike, Oliver H. P. Burman , et al. · 2019

Gamification is widely applied to increase user engagement and motivation, but empirical studies on effectivenessare inconclusive, and often limited to the integration of tangible elements such as leaderboards or badges. In this paper, we …

PO-1001 Combined image-based and biomechanical deformable image registration of extreme anatomical changes. Open

Michael G. Nix, Simon Gregory, Michael J. Aldred, L. Aspin, Bashar Al‐Qaisieh , et al. · 2019

Virtual reality crowd simulation: effects of agent density on user experience and behaviour Open

Patrick Dickinson, Kathrin Gerling, Kieran Hicks, John Murray, John Shearer , et al. · 2018

Unpredictable movement as an anti-predator strategy Open

Graham Richardson, Patrick Dickinson, Oliver H. P. Burman, Thomas W. Pike · 2018

Prey animals have evolved a wide variety of behaviours to combat the threat of predation, and these have been generally well studied. However, one of the most common and taxonomically widespread antipredator behaviours of all has, remarkab…

A bipartite transcription factor module controlling expression in the bundle sheath of<i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> Open

Patrick Dickinson, Jana Kneřová, Marek Szecówka, Sean S. Stevenson, Steven Burgess , et al. · 2018

C 4 photosynthesis evolved repeatedly from the ancestral C 3 state, improving photosynthetic efficiency by ∼50%. In most C 4 lineages photosynthesis is compartmented between mesophyll and bundle sheath cells but how gene expression is rest…

Classification of bird species from video using appearance and motion features Open

John Atanbori, Wenting Duan, Edward Shaw, Kofi Appiah, Patrick Dickinson · 2018

Leveraging Icebreaking Tasks to Facilitate Uptake of Voice Communication in Multiplayer Games Open

Kieran Hicks, Kathrin Gerling, Patrick Dickinson, Conor Linehan, Carl Gowen · 2018

Pair-Activity Analysis From Video Using Qualitative Trajectory Calculus Open

Alaa AlZoubi, Bashir Al-Diri, Tom Pike, Tanja K. Kleinhappel, Patrick Dickinson · 2017

The automated analysis of interacting objects or people from video has many uses, including the recognition of activities, and identification of prototypical or unusual behaviors. Existing techniques generally use temporal sequences of qua…

Indoor positioning of shoppers using a network of Bluetooth Low Energy beacons Open

Patrick Dickinson, Grzegorz Cielniak, Olivier Szymanezyk, Mike Mannion · 2016

In this paper we present our work on the indoor positioning of users (shoppers), using a network of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons deployed in a large wholesale shopping store. Our objective is to accurately determine which product sec…

Analysing Fish Behaviours Using Three-Dimensional Qualitative Trajectory Calculus 2016 Open

Alaa AlZoubi, Patrick Dickinson, Thomas W. Pike, Bashir Al-Diri · 2016

Fish swim freely in water and their 3D spatial interactions \nmay carry important information for biological study. The two-dimensional Qualitative Trajectory Calculus (QTC2D), a spatiotemporal calculus, is a method for representing and re…

Exploring Twitter as a Game Platform; Strategies and Opportunities for Microblogging-based Games Open

Kieran Hicks, Kathrin Gerling, Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Patrick Dickinson · 2015

Recent years have seen the massive daily engagement of players with games that are integrated with online social networking sites, such as Facebook. However, few games have successfully created engaging experiences through integration with…

Automatic classification of flying bird species using computer vision techniques Open

John Atanbori, Wenting Duan, John F. Murray, Kofi Appiah, Patrick Dickinson · 2015

Solving Orientation Duality for 3D Circular Features using Monocular Vision Open

Ala’a Alzou’bi, Tanja K. Kleinhappel, Thomas W. Pike, Bashir Al-Diri, Patrick Dickinson · 2015

Methods for estimating the 3D of circular features from a single image result in at least two solutions, of which only one corresponds to the actual of the object. In this paper we propose two new methods for solving this orientation pr…

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