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View article: Toward the Scalable, Rapid, Reproducible, and Cost-Effective Synthesis of Personalized Nanomedicines at the Point of Care
Toward the Scalable, Rapid, Reproducible, and Cost-Effective Synthesis of Personalized Nanomedicines at the Point of Care Open
Organic nanoparticles are used in nanomedicine, including for cancer treatment and some types of COVID-19 vaccines. Here, we demonstrate the scalable, rapid, reproducible, and cost-effective synthesis of three model organic nanoparticle fo…
View article: Exploring Diverse Sounds: Identifying Outliers in a Music Corpus
Exploring Diverse Sounds: Identifying Outliers in a Music Corpus Open
Existing research on music recommendation systems primarily focuses on recommending similar music, thereby often neglecting diverse and distinctive musical recordings. Musical outliers can provide valuable insights due to the inherent dive…
View article: Feature Selection Approaches for Optimising Music Emotion Recognition Methods
Feature Selection Approaches for Optimising Music Emotion Recognition Methods Open
The high feature dimensionality is a challenge in music emotion recognition. There is no common consensus on a relation between audio features and emotion. The MER system uses all available features to recognize emotion; however, this is n…
View article: Music emotion recognition based on segment-level two-stage learning
Music emotion recognition based on segment-level two-stage learning Open
In most Music Emotion Recognition (MER) tasks, researchers tend to use supervised learning models based on music features and corresponding annotation. However, few researchers have considered applying unsupervised learning approaches to l…
View article: Anti-Cancer Pectins and Their Role in Colorectal Cancer Treatment
Anti-Cancer Pectins and Their Role in Colorectal Cancer Treatment Open
A class of plant polysaccharides, pectin is known to display several medicinal properties including in cancer. There is some evidence that pectin from some fruits can reduce the severity of colorectal cancer (CRC) due to its antiproliferat…
View article: Autofiction and the Diary: The Radicalization of Autofiction in Works by Hervé Guibert and Christine Angot
Autofiction and the Diary: The Radicalization of Autofiction in Works by Hervé Guibert and Christine Angot Open
Autofiction has often been viewed as a hybrid of autobiography and the novel. This chapter argues that a new generation of writers who emerged from the 1990s onward drew heavily on the diary instead of autobiography to develop their own in…
View article: Supporting Creative Practice in Wireless Distributed Sound Installations Given Technical Constraints
Supporting Creative Practice in Wireless Distributed Sound Installations Given Technical Constraints Open
In this paper we present creative practice-led research into building large, scalable “multiplicitous media” artworks in which many networked devices control lights and speakers and are coordinated over Wi-Fi to create holistic artistic an…
View article: Transparent Communication Within Multiplicities
Transparent Communication Within Multiplicities Open
The Internet of Musical Things is an emerging field of research that intersects the Internet of Things, human-computer interaction, ubiquitous music, artificial intelligence, gaming, virtual reality and participatory art through device mul…
View article: 'The Ghosts of Roller Disco', a Choreographed, Interactive Performance for Robotic Roller Skates
'The Ghosts of Roller Disco', a Choreographed, Interactive Performance for Robotic Roller Skates Open
The project investigates how interactions with complex (biologically inspired swarming) behaviors of multiple robots are understood by human participants within a performative and dramaturgical system. Nonanthropomorphic robots in the form…
View article: Creative Coding and Interaction Design for Media Multiplicities
Creative Coding and Interaction Design for Media Multiplicities Open
Media multiplicities are media artworks that employ multiple networked digital devices to create holistic aesthetic effects. Examples include the networked light artworks of Squidsoup, the Spaxels drone-mounted light performances, DrawBots…
View article: Investigating Concurrent Information Communication in Voice-based Interaction
Investigating Concurrent Information Communication in Voice-based Interaction Open
In this experiment, a high-rate playback design and a concurrent playback design are investigated.
View article: Multiple Speech-based Information Communication
Multiple Speech-based Information Communication Open
This research dataset aims to assist users to seek information efficiently while interacting with speech-based information, and reports on an experiment that tested speech-based designs for communicating multiple speech-based information s…
View article: Facilitating Creative Exploratory Search with Multiple Networked Audio Devices Using HappyBrackets
Facilitating Creative Exploratory Search with Multiple Networked Audio Devices Using HappyBrackets Open
We present an audio-focused creative coding toolkit for deploying music programs to remote networked devices. It is designed to support efficient creative exploratory search in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), where one or more…
View article: Rapid Composition for Networked Devices: HappyBrackets
Rapid Composition for Networked Devices: HappyBrackets Open
This article introduces an open-source Java-based programming environment for creative coding of agglomerative systems using Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies. Our software originally focused on digital signal processing of audio—inclu…
View article: Homogenization, linearization and large-scale regularity for nonlinear elliptic equations
Homogenization, linearization and large-scale regularity for nonlinear elliptic equations Open
We consider nonlinear, uniformly elliptic equations with random, highly oscillating coefficients satisfying a finite range of dependence. We prove that homogenization and linearization commute in the sense that the linearized equation (lin…
View article: Homogenization, linearization and large-scale regularity for nonlinear\n elliptic equations
Homogenization, linearization and large-scale regularity for nonlinear\n elliptic equations Open
We consider nonlinear, uniformly elliptic equations with random, highly\noscillating coefficients satisfying a finite range of dependence. We prove that\nhomogenization and linearization commute in the sense that the linearized\nequation (…
View article: Creative Media + the Internet of Things = Media Multiplicities
Creative Media + the Internet of Things = Media Multiplicities Open
This paper proposes the term “media multiplicities” to describe contemporary media artworks that create multiples of “internet of things” devices. It discusses the properties that distinguish media multiplicities from other forms of media …
View article: Happy creativity: Listening to happy music facilitates divergent thinking
Happy creativity: Listening to happy music facilitates divergent thinking Open
Creativity can be considered one of the key competencies for the twenty-first century. It provides us with the capacity to deal with the opportunities and challenges that are part of our complex and fast-changing world. The question as to …
View article: Networked Pixels
Networked Pixels Open
© 2017 ACM. This paper describes the development of the hardware and software for Bloom, a light installation installed at Kew Gardens, London in December of 2016. The system is made up of a set of nearly 1000 distributed pixel devices eac…
View article: Creative Coding for the Raspberry Pi using the HappyBrackets Platform
Creative Coding for the Raspberry Pi using the HappyBrackets Platform Open
This workshop will introduce creative coding audio for the Raspberry Pi, using the beads platform for audio programming, and the HappyBrackets platform for inter-device communication and sensor data acquisition. We will demonstrate methods…
View article: Why Does Life Writing Talk about Science?: Foucault, Rousseau, and the Early Journal Intime
Why Does Life Writing Talk about Science?: Foucault, Rousseau, and the Early Journal Intime Open
This article examines the reasons why life writing makes use of discourses from the natural sciences. It focuses on the emergence of autobiography and the journal intime in France at the moment of a fundamental shift toward the modern epis…
View article: A Musical Game Of Bowls Using The Diads
A Musical Game Of Bowls Using The Diads Open
We describe a project in which a game of lawn bowls was recreated using Distributed Interactive Audio Devices (DIADs), to create an interactive musical experience in the form of a game. This paper details the design of the underlying digit…
View article: Using audio feature extraction for interactive feature-based sonification of sound
Using audio feature extraction for interactive feature-based sonification of sound Open
Presented at the 21st International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2015), July 6-10, 2015, Graz, Styria, Austria.
View article: Report on the In-vehicle Auditory Interactions Workshop: Taxonomy, Challenges, and Approaches
Report on the In-vehicle Auditory Interactions Workshop: Taxonomy, Challenges, and Approaches Open
As driving is mainly a visual task, auditory displays play a critical role for in-vehicle interactions.To improve in-vehicle auditory interactions to the advanced level, auditory display researchers and automotive user interface researcher…
View article: Online Personalised Academic Literacy Modules: The OPALMS Project at UTS
Online Personalised Academic Literacy Modules: The OPALMS Project at UTS Open
Developing students’ disciplinary literacy in first year subjects through online personalised modules.