my.publications

2015.publications

Gallacher, S., Golsteijn, C., Wall, L., Koeman, L., Andberg, S., Capra, L., Rogers, Y.: 2015, "Getting Quizzical About Physical: Observing Experiences with a Tangible Questionnaire", to appear in the proceedings of UbiComp 2015, Osaka, Japan.
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Gallacher, S., Golsteijn, C., Kalnikaite, V., Houben, S., Johnson, R., Harrison, D., Marquardt, N.: 2015, "Visualizing the Hidden Pulse of a City", to appear in the extended proceedings of UbiComp 2015, Osaka, Japan.
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Gallacher, S., O'Connor, J., Bird, J., Rogers, Y., Capra, L., Harrison, D., Marshall, P.: 2015, "Mood Squeezer: Lightening up the Workplace through Playful and Lightweight Interactions", In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2015), pp. 891-902. ACM 2015.
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Golsteijn, C., Gallacher, S., Koeman, L., Wall, L., Andberg, S., Rogers, Y., Capra, L.: 2015, "VoxBox: a Tangible Machine that Gathers Opinions from the Public at Events", In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2015), pp. 201-208. ACM 2015.
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Lim, M.Y., Taylor, N.K., Gallacher, S.: 2015, "SUMMIT: Supporting Rural Tourism with Motivational Intelligent Technologies", In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2015), pp. 50-55. IARIA 2015.
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2014.publications

Golsteijn, C., Gallacher, S., Wall, L., Koeman, L., Capra, L., Rogers, Y.: 2014, "Incentivisation as a Design Feature: Lessons Learned from VoxBox", Proceedings of Exploring Incentivisation in Design (Workshop) at NordiCHI 2014, Helsinki, Finland.
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Smyth, M., Trigueiros, P., Helgason, I., Coelho, A., Gallacher, S., Burrows, A., Wunderlich, F., Penha, R.: 2014, "Making Places: Visualization, Interaction and Experience in Urban Space", Workshop cfp, NordiCHI 2014, Helsinki, Finland.
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Jetter, H. C., Gallacher, S., Kalnikaite, V., Rogers, Y.: 2014, "Suspicious boxes and friendly aliens: exploring the physical design of urban sensing technology", In Proceedings of the First International Conference on IoT in Urban Space, pp. 68-73. ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering).
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Gallacher, S., Jetter, H.C., Kalnikaite, V., McCann, J., Prendergast, D., Bird, J.: 2014, "Investigating the Applications and Privacy Issues of Crowd Sensing", Proceedings of the Critial Making Hackathon: Situated Hacking, Surveillance and Big Data (workshop) at CHI 2014.
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Gallacher, S., Jetter, H.C., Kalnikaite, V., McCann, J., Prendergast, D., Bird, J.: 2014, "Investigating the Challenges of Crowd Sensing: Lessons from Zurich", Proceedings of Structures for Knowledge Co-creation Between Organisations and the Public (COPS2014) workshop at CSCW 2014.
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Papadopoulou, E., Gallacher, S., Taylor, N.K., Williams, M.H., Blackmun, F.R., Ibrahim, I.S., Whyte, S.: 2014, "Combining pervasive computing with social networking for a student environment", In Proceedings of the Twelfth Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing-Volume 152, pp. 11-19). Australian Computer Society, Inc. 2014.
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Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N.K., Williams, M.H., Gallacher, S.: 2014, "Personalizing System Behaviour in a Pervasive Social Networking System", In Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), pp. 484-488. IEEE 2014.
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2013.publications

Gallacher, S., Kalnikaite, V., McCann, J., Prendergast, D., Bird, J., Jetter, H.C.: 2013, "SenCity: uncovering the hidden pulse of a city (workshop)", In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication, ACM, pp. 1311-1316.
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Gallacher, S., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N.K., Williams, M.H.: 2013, "Learning User Preferences for Adaptive Pervasive Environments: an Incremental and Temporal Approach", ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), 8(1), Article 5.
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Papadopoulou, E., Gallacher, S., Taylor, N.K., Williams, M.H.: 2013, "Learning User Behaviour in a Pervasive Social Networking System", Proc. of IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science (ACS 2013), 10-12 April 2013, Phuket, Thailand, pp. 357-364.
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Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N.K., Williams, M.H., Gallacher, S.: 2013, "Learning User Preferences in a System Combining Pervasive Behaviour and Social Networking", In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Information Technology in Asia (CITA), pp. 1-7. IEEE 2013.
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2012.publications

Gallacher, S., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N., Williams, H., Abu-Shaaban, Y.: "Dynamic Context-Aware Personalisation in a Pervasive Environment", Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMC). Available online 23 December 2012, ISSN 1574-1192, 10.1016/j.pmcj.2012.11.002
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Papadopoulou, E., Gallacher, S., Taylor, N.K., Williams, M.Howard, Blackmun, F.: 2012, "Context-aware user preferences in systems for pervasive computing and social networking", Proceedings of the International Conference on Context-Aware Systems and Applications (ICCASA), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 26-27 November 2012, Springer LNICST vol. 109, pp. 10-17. ISBN 978-1-936968-65-7.
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Gallacher, S., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N.K., Williams, M.H.: 2012, "The Challenge of Preparational Behaviours in Preference Learning for Ubiquitous Systems", 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing and 9th International Conference on Autonomic & Trusted Computing (UIC/ATC), 4th-7th September, pp.233-239.
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Gallacher S., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N.K., Blackmun, F.R., Williams, M.H.: 2012, "Intelligent Systems that Combine Pervasive Computing and Social Networking", 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing and 9th International Conference on Autonomic & Trusted Computing (UIC/ATC), 4th-7th September, pp.151-158.
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Gallacher, S., Papadopoulou, E., Blackmun, F., Taylor, N.K., Williams, M.H.: 2012, "A Community Enhanced Personalisation System for Digital and Physical Social Spaces", (poster), Pervasive 2012, 20th-22nd June, Newcastle, UK.
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Papadopoulou, E., Gallacher, S., Blackmun, F.R., Taylor, N.K., Williams, M.H.: 2012, "Intelligent Systems for Pervasive Computing and Social Networking", (poster), 1st International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applications (INTELLI 2012), 29th April - 4th May, Chamonix, France.
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Papadopoulou, E., Gallacher, S., Taylor, N.K., Williams, M.H.: 2012, "Personalising the User's Physical Environment in a Pervasive System", Proc. 7th International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering (ACSE 2012), 2nd-4th April, Phuket, Thailand, 8 pp.
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Gallacher, S., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N.K., Williams, Blackmun, F.R.: 2012, "Linking Between Personal Smart Spaces", Proc. Mobiquitous 2010, P. Senac, M. Ott and A. Seneviratne (Eds.), Springer Verlag LNICST 73, pp. 401 - 408. (2010 publication - now published in Springer Verlag series)
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2011.publications

Papadopoulou, E., Gallacher, S., Taylor, N.K., Williams, M.H.: 2011, "A Personal Smart Space Approach to Realising Ambient Ecologies", Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, Available online 4 November 2011, ISSN 1574-1192, 10.1016/j.pmcj.2011.10.008.
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Gallacher, S., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N.K., Williams, M.H.: 2011, "User Recognition and Memory Support in a Pervasive System", Proc. Sixth Int. Conf. on Pervasive Computing and Applications (ICPCA 2011) pp. 146-152.
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Gallacher, S., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N.K., Blackmun, F.R., Williams, M.H., Roussaki, I., Kalatzis, N., Liampotis, N., Zhang, D.: 2011, "Personalisation in a System Combining Pervasiveness and Social Networking", Proc. 1st Workshop on Social Interactive Media Networking and Applications (SIMNA 2011), Maui, Hawaii, 7 pp. (2011)
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2010.publications

Gallacher, S., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N.K., Williams, M.H., Blackmun, F.: 2010, "Linking Between Personal Smart Spaces", 2nd Perada Workshop on User Centric Pervasive Adaptive Systems (UCPA '10), at the 7th International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 2010), Sydney, December 2010.
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Papadopoulou, E., Gallacher, S., Taylor, N.K., Williams, M.H.: 2010, "Personal Smart Spaces as a Basis for Identifying Users in Pervasive Systems", International Workshop on Ubiquitous Service Systems and Technologies (USST 2010), in 2010 Symposia and Workshops on Ubiquitous, Autonomic and Trusted Computing, Xian, China, October 2010, IEEE CS Press, pp. 88 - 93 (2010).
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Gallacher, S., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N., Williams, H.: 2010, "Putting the 'Personal' into Personal Smart Spaces", Pervasive Personalisation Workshop, Pervasive 2010, Helsinki, Finland.
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Papadopoulou, E., Abu-Shaaban, Y., Gallacher, S., Taylor, N., Williams, M.H.: 2010, "Two Approaches to Handling Proactivity in Pervasive Systems", Proc. International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management (ICISTM '10), pp. 64-75.
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2009.publicatons

Papadopoulou, E., McBurney, S., Taylor, N., Williams, M.H., Abu-Shaaban, Y.: 2009, "User Preferences to Support Privacy Policy Handling in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Systems", Int. Journal on Advances in Security, 2(1), pp. 62-71.
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McBurney, S., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N., Williams, H., Abu-Shaaban, Y.: 2009, "Comparing Two Different Architectures for Pervasive Systems from the Viewpoint of Personalisation", In Proc. eChallenges (e2009), IOS Press, ISBN 978-1-905824-13-7.
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McBurney, S., Taylor, N., Williams, H., Papadopoulou, E.: 2009, "Giving the User Explicit Control over Implicit Personalisation", In Proc. Persist Workshop on Intelligent Pervasive Environments (AISB 09), ISBN 1902956834, pp. 16-19.
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Abu-Shaaban, Y., McBurney, S., Taylor, N., Williams, M.H., Kalatzis, N., Roussaki, I.: 2009, "User Intent to Support Pro-activity in a Pervasive System", In Proc. Persist Workshop on Intelligent Pervasive Environments (AISB 09), ISBN 1902956834, pp. 3-8.
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Frank, K., Robertson, P., McBurney, S., Kalatzis, N., Roussaki, I., Marengo, M.: 2009, "A Hybrid Preference Learning and Context Refinement Architecture", In Proc. Persist Workshop on Intelligent Pervasive Environments (AISB 09), ISBN 1902956834, pp 9-15.
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McBurney, S., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N., Williams, M.H.: 2009, "Implicit Adaptation of User Preferences in Pervasive Systems", Proc. Fourth International Conference on Systems (ICONS 09), pp. 56-62.
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Papadopoulou, E., McBurney, S., Taylor, N., Williams, M.H.: 2009, "A Model for Personalised Communications Control in Pervasive Systems", Proc. The IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering (ACSE 09).
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McBurney, S., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N., Williams, M.H.: 2009, "User Preference Management in a Pervasive System should be a Trusted Function", Proc. The IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering (ACSE 09).
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2008.publications

McBurney, S., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N., Williams, M.H.: 2008, "Adapting Pervasive Environments through Machine Learning and Dynamic Personalization", Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing (IPC-08), Sydney, Dec 2008, pp. 395-402.
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Papadopoulou, E., McBurney, S., Taylor, N., Williams, M.H.: 2008, "A Dynamic Approach to Dealing with User Preferences in a Pervasive System", Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing (IPC-08), Sydney, Dec 2008, pp. 409-416.
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Papadopoulou, E., McBurney, S., Taylor, N., Williams, M.H.: 2008, "Linking Privacy and User Preferences in the Identity Management for a Pervasive System", Proc. IEEE/WIC/ACM Conf on Web Intelligence (WI-08), Sydney, Dec 2008, pp. 192-195.
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Papadopoulou, E., McBurney, S., Taylor, N., Williams, M.H.: 2008, "Using Personalisation to Support Privacy in Ubiquitous Systems", Poster supplement for The 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), South Korea, September 2008.
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Papadopoulou, E., McBurney, S., Taylor, N., Williams, M.H., Dolinar, K., Neubauer, M.: 2008, "Using User Preferences to Enhance Privacy in Pervasive Systems", Proc. Third International Conference on Systems (ICONS '08), Mexico, April 2008, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 271-276.
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Papadopoulou, E, McBurney, S., Taylor, N., Williams, M.H., Lo Bello, G.: 2008, "Adapting Stereotypes to Handle Dynamic User Profiles in a Pervasive System", Proc. of Fourth International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology (ACST 2008), pp. 7-12.
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2007.publications

Williams, M.H., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N., McBurney, S., Dolinar, K.: 2007, "Conflict between Privacy and Personalisation in a Pervasive Service Environment", Proc. Advances in Computer Science and Technology, pp. 172-181.
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McBurney, S., Williams, M.H., Taylor, N.K., Papadopoulou, E.: 2007, "Managing User Preferences for Personalization in a Pervasive Service Environment", Proc. The Third Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications, (AICT 2007), pp. 32-37.
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2006.publications

Angermann, M., McBurney, S., Kuhmuench, C., Mahon, F., Mitic, J., Robertson, P., Whitmore, J.: 2006, "Integrating and Demonstrating Pervasiveness in a Scenario Driven Approach", IEEE sponsored e-Challenges, Barcelona, October 2006, 8 pp.
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Papadopoulou, E., Williams, H., McBurney, S., Taylor, N.: 2006, "Redirecting Communication in a Pervasive System", IEEE sponsored e-Challenges, IOS Press, pp. 1688-1694.
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Yang, Y., Williams, M.H., Taylor, N., McBurney, S., Papadopoulou, E.: 2006, "Handling Personalized Redirection in a Wireless Pervasive Computing System with Different Approaches to Identity", Proc. First International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, 6 pp.
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Williams, M.H., Yang, Y., Taylor, N., McBurney, S., Papadopoulou, E., Mahon, F., Crotty, M.: 2006, "Personalized Dynamic Composition of Services and Resources in a Wireless Pervasive Computing Environment", Proc. First International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, pp. 377-382.
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PhD.thesis

Gallacher, S.: 2011, "Learning Preferences for Personalisation in a Pervasive Environment", PhD Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.
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undergradute.dissertation

McBurney, S., "Fractals and Music Composition", 2005

My 5th Year Masters dissertation was based on the concept of Fractal Music. I investigated the possibility of creating "pleasing" music from a fractal image.

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