Submissions from 2025
The Digital Loophole: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Age Verification Methods on Social Media, Fatmaelzahraa Eltaher, Rahul Gajula, Luis Miralles-Pechuán, Christina Thorpe, and Susan McKeever
Quantifying the Role of Active Listening and Reassurance in Virtual Health Coach Interactions, GHULAM HUSSAIN, Brian Keegan, and Robert Ross
Submissions from 2024
Identifying Subject Bias in WiFi-based Human Activity Recognition Evaluation Methods, Amany Elkelany, Robert J. Ross, and Susan McKeever
Habit Coach: Customising RAG-based chatbots to support behavior change, Arian Fooroogh Mand Arabi, Cansu Koyuturk, Michael O'Mahony, Raffaella Calati, and Dimitri Ognibene
Reducing Carbon Footprint in AI: A Framework for Sustainable Training of Large Language Models, Sunbal Iftikhar and Steven Davy
“What does THIS Mean?”: A Collaborative Expert Evaluation of Health Data Representations for Older Adults, Peterson Jean, Enda Bates, and Emma Murphy
Exploring the Design of Low-End Technology to Increase Patient Connectivity to Electronic Health Records, Rens Kievit, Abdullahi Abubakar Kawu, Mirjam van Reisen, Dympna O'Sullivan, and Lucy Hederman
Automatic Speech Recognition Models for Pathological Speech: Challenges and Insights, Kesego Mokgosi, Cathy Ennis, and Robert Ross
Getting to the point: Contrasting Directness and Warmth in Motivational Embodied Conversational Agents, Michael O'Mahony, Cathy Ennis, and Robert Ross
On the Benefits of Directness in Virtual Characters for Motivational Interviews, Michael O'Mahony, Cathy Ennis, and Robert Ross
Design Considerations for Self-Management Technologies for People Living with Dementia and Informal Carers – Perspectives of Healthcare Professionals and Charity Workers, Dympna O'Sullivan
A Comparative Analysis of SHAP, LIME, ANCHORS, and DICE for Interpreting a Dense Neural Network in Credit Card Fraud Detection, Bujar Raufi, Ciaran Finnegan, and Luca Longo
Human Centered Approaches and Taxonomies for Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Helen Sheridan, Emma Murphy, and Dympna O'Sullivan
Using ChatGPT to Generate Gendered Language, Shweta Soundararajan, Manuela Nayantara Jeyaraj, and Sarah Jane Delany
Chatting for Change: Insights into and Directions for Using Online Peer Support Groups to Interrupt Prolonged Workplace Sitting, Ekaterina Uetova, Lucy Hederman, Dympna O'Sullivan, Robert J. Ross, and Marily Oppezzo
Submissions from 2023
Interpretable Input-Output Hidden Markov Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for the Predictive Maintenance of Turbofan Engines, Ammar N. Abbas, Georgios C. Chasparis, and John Kelleher
Capturing the Behaviour of Volunteer Pedestrians in a Newly-Developed University Campus Using a Distributed Array of Bluetooth Low Energy Devices, Ahlam Al Anbouri, Mayank Parmar, David Powell, Paula Kelly, Niall Holmes Dr., Damon Berry, and Lorraine D'Arcy
The Role of SOC in Ensuring the Security of IoT Devices: A Review of Current Challenges and Future Directions, Hajar Bennouri, Abdiaziz Abdi, Iqbal Hossain, and Alexandre Pujol
Work in Progress: A Virtual Educational Robotics Coding Club Framework to Improve K-6 Students Emotional Engagement in STEM, Kate Carmody, Julie Booth, Jospehine Bleach, Pramod Pathak, and Paul Styles
BiLSTM−BiGRU: A Fusion Deep Neural Network For Predicting Air Pollutant Concentration, Prasanjit Dey, Soumyabrata Dev, and Bianca Schoen-Phelan
CombineDeepNet: A Deep Network for Multistep Prediction of Near-Surface PM2.5 Concentration, Prasanjit Dey, Soumyabrata Dev, and Bianca Schoen-Phelan
NeSDeepNet: A Fusion Framework for Multi-step Forecasting of Near-surface Air Pollutants, Prasanjit Dey, Soumyabrata Dev, and Bianca Schoen-Phelan
WiFi-Based Human Activity Recognition Using Attention-Based BiLSTM, Amany Elkelany, Robert J. Ross, and Susan McKeever
Detecting Road Intersections from Satellite Images using Convolutional Neural Networks, Fatmaelzahraa Eltaher, Luis Miralles-Pechuán, Jane Courtney, and Susan McKeever
Meme Sentiment Analysis Enhanced with Multimodal Spatial Encoding and Face Embedding, Muzhaffar Hazman, Susan McKeever, and Josephine Griffith
Exploring the Impact of Competition and Incentives on Game Jam Participation and Behaviour, John Healy and Niamh Germaine
Graph-Based Mutations for Music Generation, Maziar Kanani, Sean O'Leary, and James McDermott
Towards A Framework for Privacy-Preserving Pedestrian Analysis, Anil Kunchala, Mélanie Bouroche, and Bianca Schoen-Phelan
Actor-Centric Spatio-Temporal Feature Extraction for Action Recognition, Anil Kunchala, Bianca Schoen-Phelan, and Mélanie Bouroche
Show, Prefer and Tell: Incorporating User Preferences into Image Captioning, Annika Lindh, Robert J. Ross, and John Kelleher
Applying Positional Encoding to Enhance Vision-Language Transformers, Xuehao Liu, Sarah Jane Delany, and Susan McKeever
An Investigation into the Application of the Meijering Filter for Document Recapture Detection, John Magee, Stephen Sheridan PhD, and Christina Thorpe PhD
Optimization of Biomedical Imaging Filters for use in Recaptured Identity Document Classification, John Magee, Stephen Sheridan PhD, and Christina Thorpe PhD
Determining Child Sexual Abuse Posts based on Artificial Intelligence, Susan McKeever, Christina Thorpe, and Vuong Ngo
Dynamic Influence Diagram-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework and Application for Decision Support for Operators in Control Rooms, Joseph Mietkiewicz, Ammar N. Abbas, Chidera Winifred Amazu, Anders L. Madsen, and Gabriele Baldissone
Interpretable timbre synthesis using variational autoencoders regularized on timbre descriptors, Anastasia Natsiou, Luca Longo, and Sean O'Leary
An Exploration of the Latent Space of a Convolutional Variational Autoencoder for the Generation of Musical Instrument Tones, Anastasia Natsiou, Sean O'Leary, and Luca Longo
Identifying Online Child Sexual Texts in Dark Web through Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms, Vuong Ngo, Susan McKeever, and Christina Thorpe
Analysing child sexual abuse activities in the dark web based on an efficient CSAM detection algorithm, Vuong Ngo, Christina Thorpe, and Susan McKeever
Co-designing Assistive Technology with and for Persons Living with Dementia, Dympna O'Sullivan, Jonathan Turner, Siobhan O'Neill, Micheal Wilson, and Julie Doyle
Queer In AI: A Case Study in Community-Led Participatory AI, Anaelia Ovalle, Arjun Subramonian, Ashwiin Singh, Claas Voelcker, Danica Sutherland, Davide Locatelli, Eva Breznik, Felip Klubicka, Hang Yuan, Hetvi J, Huan Zhang, Jaidev Shriram, Kruno Lehman, Luca Soldaini, Maarten Sap, Marc Peter Deisenroth, Maria Leonor Pacheco, Maria Ryskina, Martin Mundt, Melind Agarwal, Nyx McLean, Pan Xu, A. Pranav, Raj Korpan, Ruchira Ray, Sarah Mathew, Sarthak Arora, S.T. John, Tanvi Anand, Vishakha Agrawal, William Agnew, Yanan Long, Zijie J. Wang, Zeerak Talat, Avijit Ghosh, Nathaniel Dennler, Michael Noseworthy, Sharvani Jha, Emi Baylor, Aditya Joshi, Natalia Y. Bilenko, Andrew McNamara, Raphael Gontijo-Lopes, Alex Markham, Evyn Dong, Jackie Kay, Manu Saraswat, Nikhil Vytla, and Luke Stark
Detection of Pause in a Pedestrian’s Movement on a Linear Walkway using Bluetooth Low Energy Received Signal Strength Indicator, Mayank Parmar, Paula Kelly, and Damon Berry
Indication of Pedestrian’s Travel Direction Through Bluetooth Low Energy Signals Perceived by a Single Observer Device, Mayank Parmar, Paula Kelly, and Damon Berry
Deep Learning Framework For Intelligent Pavement Condition Rating: A direct classification approach for regional and local roads, Waqar Shahid Qureshi and David Power
Robustness of Image-Based Malware Classification Models Trained with Generative Adversarial Networks, Ciaran Reilly, Stephen O Shaughnessy, and Christina Thorpe
BlendMaster: A Collaborative Board Game for Training Teachers in Blended Learning, Mariana Rocha and Paul Doyle
Exploring Wav2vec 2.0 Model for Heart Murmur Detection, Davoud Shariat Panah, Andrew Hines, and Susan McKeever
Exploring Mental Models for Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Engaging Cross-Disciplinary Teams using a Design Thinking Approach, Helen Sheridan, Emma Murphy Dr., and Dympna O'Sullivan Dr.
A Real-time Machine Learning Framework for Smart Home-based Yoga Teaching System, Jothika Sunney, Musfira Jilani, Pramod Pathak, and Paul Stynes
A Deep Learning-Based Object Detection Framework for Automatic Asphalt Pavement Patch Detection Using Laser Profiling Images, Ibrahim Hassan Syed, Susan McKeever Dr., Kieran Feighan, David Power, and Dympna O'Sullivan
Using Machine Learning to Identify Patterns in Learner-Submitted Code for the Purpose of Assessment, Botond Tarcsay, Fernando Perez-Tellez, and Jelena Vasic
A Tutoring Framework to Support Computer Science Programmes in Higher Education, Emer Thornbury, Frances Sheridan, Pramod Pathak, Cristina Hava Muntean, and Paul Stynes
Submissions from 2022
Deep Residual Policy Reinforcement Learning as a Corrective Term in Process Control for Alarm Reduction: A Preliminary Report, Ammar N. Abbas, Georgios C. Chasparis, and John Kelleher
Addressing the "Leaky Pipeline": A Review and Categorisation of Actions to Recruit and Retain Women in Computing Education, Alina Berry, Susan McKeever, Brenda Murphy, and Sarah Jane Delany
"What's in a Name?”: The Use of Instructional Design in Overcoming Terminology Barriers Associated with Dark Patterns, Andrea Curley, Damian Gordon, and Dympna O'Sullivan
“Be a Pattern for the World”: The Development of a Dark Patterns Detection Tool to Prevent Online User Loss, Jordan Donnelly, Alan Dowley, Yunpeng Liu, Yufei Su, Quanwei Sun, Lan Zeng, Andrea Curley, Damian Gordon, Paul Kelly, Dympna O'Sullivan, and Anna Becevel
AccessDesign: An inclusive co-design toolkit for the creation of accessible digital tools., Claudia Fernandez-Rivera, Sarah Boland, Eamon Aswad, John Gilligan, Dympna O'Sullivan, and Emma Murphy
Technical Debt is an Ethical Issue, Paul John Gibson, Yannis Stavrakakis, Massamaesso Narouwa, Damian Gordon, Dympna O'Sullivan, Jonathan Turner, and Michael Collins
The Development of a Template for Structuring Case Studies about Blended Learning, and an Associated Evaluation Check Sheet, Damian Gordon, Paul Doyle, Anna Becevel, and Tina Baloh
Dialogue Policies for Confusion Mitigation in Situated HRI, Na Li and Robert J. Ross
An Ontological Approach for Recommending a Feature Selection Algorithm, Aparna Nayak, Bojan Bozic, and Luca Longo
Linked Data Quality Assessment: A Survey, Aparna Nayak, Bojan Bozic, and Luca Longo
Investigation, Detection and Prevention of Online Child Sexual Abuse Material: A Comprehensive Survey, Vuong Ngo, Christina Thorpe, Cach N. Dang, and Susan Mckeever
The Smart Dementia Care Project, Dympna O'Sullivan, Jonathan Turner, Ciaran Nugent, Damon Berry, Michael Wilson, and Julie Doyle
Identity Term Sampling for Measuring Gender Bias in Training Data, Nasim Sobhani and Sarah Jane Delany
Minding the Gap: Computing Ethics and the Political Economy of Big Tech, Ioannis Stavrakakis, Damian Gordon, Paul John Gibson, Dympna O'Sullivan, and Anna Becevel
Monitoring Activities of Daily Living for Maintaining Independent Living in Dementia, Jonathan Turner, Ciaran Nugent, Damon Berry, Dympna O'Sullivan, Michael Wilson, and Julie Doyle
Learning fruit class from short wave near infrared spectral features, an AI approach towards determining fruit type, Ayesha Zeb, Waqar Shahid Qureshi, Abdul Ghafoor, and Dympna O'Sullivan
Submissions from 2021
Interactive Learning Approach for Arabic Target-Based Sentiment Analysis, Husamelddin Balla, Marisa Llorens, and Sarah Jane Delany
Physiological Measurements for Real-time Fatigue Monitoring in Train Drivers: Review of the State of the Art and Reframing the Problem, Bojana Bjegojevic, Maria Chiara Leva, Nora Balfe, Sam D. Cromie, and Luca Longo
The Development of Teaching Case Studies to Explore Ethical Issues Associated with Computer Programming, Michael Collins, Damian Gordon, and Dympna O'Sullivan
Feature Engineering vs Feature Selection vs Hyperparameter Optimization in the Spotify Song Popularity Dataset, Alan Cueva Mora and Brendan Tierney
k-Nearest Neighbour Classifiers - A Tutorial, Padraig Cunningham and Sarah Jane Delany
Underestimation Bias and Underfitting in Machine Learning, Padraig Cunningham and Sarah Jane Delany
Adaptable and Reusable Educational ‘bricks’ for Teaching Computer Science Ethics, Andrea Curley, Damian Gordon, Ioannis Stavrakakis, Anna Becevel, J.P. Gibson, and Dympna O'Sullivan
Formulating Automated Responses to Cognitive Distortions for CBT Interactions, Ignacio de Toledo, Giancarlo Salton, and Robert J. Ross
Exploring the Personality of Virtual Tutors in Conversational Foreign Language Practice, Johanna Dobbriner, Cathy Ennis, and Robert J. Ross
Virtual Tutor Personality in Computer Assisted Language Learning, Johanna Dobbriner, Cathy Ennis, and Robert J. Ross
Insurance Reserve Prediction: Opportunities and Challenges, Ayman Taha Farahat, Bernard Cosgrave Dr., Wael Rashwan, and Susan McKeever Dr.
Human or Robot?: Investigating voice, appearance and gesture motion realism of conversational social agents, Ylva Ferstl, Sean Thomas, Cédric Guiard, Cathy Ennis, and Rachel McDonnell
“YOU MUST HAVE YOUR WEBCAM ON FOR THE ENTIRE DURATION OF THE EXAMINATION”: THE TRADE-OFF BETWEEN THE INTEGRITY OF ON-LINE ASSESSMENTS AND THE PRIVACY RIGHTS OF STUDENTS, Damian Gordon, Paul J. Gibson, Brendan Tierney, Dympna O'Sullivan, Ioannis Stavrakakis, and Andrea Curley
Interrupting The Propaganda Supply Chain, Kyle Hamilton, Bojan Bozic, and Luc Longo
Combining Text and Image Knowledge with GANs for Zero-Shot Action Recognition in Videos, Kaiqiang Huang, Luis Miralles-Pechuán, and Susan Mckeever
Zero-Shot Action Recognition with Knowledge Enhanced Generative Adversarial Networks, Kaiqiang Huang, Luis Miralles-Pechuán, and Susan Mckeever
A Comparison of Risk Factors and Risk Models for Stroke by Age Group Using TILDA Data, Elizabeth Hunter and John D. Kelleher
The Effects of Differences in Vaccination Rates Across Socioeconomic Groups on the Size of Measles Outbreaks, Elizabeth Hunter and John D. Kelleher
MULTI-MODAL SELF-SUPERVISED REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR EARTH OBSERVATION, Pallavi Jain, Bianca Schoen Phelan, and Robert J. Ross
Detecting Interlocutor Confusion in Situated Human-Avatar Dialogue: A Pilot Study, Na Li, John D. Kelleher, and Robert J. Ross
Wider Vision: Enriching Convolutional Neural Networks via Alignment to External Knowledge Bases, Xuehao Liu, Sarah Jane Delany, and Susan McKeever
Stratifying Ischaemic Stroke Patients Across 3 Treatment Windows Using T2 Relaxation Times, Ordinal Regression and Cumulative Probabilities, Bryony McGarry, Elizabeth Hunter, Robin Damian, Michael Knight, Philip Clatworthy, George Harston, Keith Muir, Risto Kauppinen, and John Kelleher
Extending R2RML-F to support dynamic datatype and language tags, Aparna Nayak, Bojan Bozic, and Luca Longo
(Linked) Data Quality Assessment: An Ontological Approach, Aparna Nayak, Bojan Bozic, and Luca Longo
Finding BERT’s Idiomatic Key, Vasudevan Nedumpozhimana and John Kelleher
TRANSFER LEARNING PERFORMANCE FOR REMOTE PASTURELAND TRAIT ESTIMATION IN REAL-TIME FARM MONITORING, Patricia O'Byrne, Patrick Jackman Dr., Damon Dr. Berry Dr., Hector-Hugo Franco-Penya Dr., Michael French, and Robert J. Ross
Just-in-Time Biomass Yield Estimation with Multi-modal Data and Variable Patch Training Size, Patricia O'Byrne, Patrick Jackman Dr., Damon Dr. Berry Dr., Thomas Lee, Michael French, and Robert J. Ross
Monitoring Quality of Life Indicators at Home from Sparse and Low-Cost Sensor Data., Dympna O'Sullivan, Rilwan Basaru, Simone Stumpf, and Neil Maiden
The Future of Medicine is Digital: Developing Educational Materials to Explore the Ethics of Digital Pills., Dympna O'Sullivan, J. Paul Gibson, Yael Jacob, Ioannis Stavrakakis, and Damian Gordon
Check your Tech, whose responsibility is it when cyberharassment occurs?, Dympna O'Sullivan, Damian Gordon, Michael Collins, and Emma Murphy
Check Your Tech - The Ethics of Deepfakes in a Political Context, Dympna O'Sullivan, Damian Gordon, Ioannis Stavrakakis, and Michael Collins