Paul Matthews

MEMOPAD: Multimodal Emotion Monitoring in Clinical Pathways for Anxiety Disorders

Luigi Moretti, Miles Thompson, Paul Matthews, Michael Loizou et autres

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Animal Spirit(s): Hegel, Habit, and the Reanimalization of Religion

Paul Matthews

Film Genre Prediction and Analysis Using Multimodal Embeddings from Large Models: The Case of Noir

Paul Matthews, Kathrina Glitre

Abstract: We used embeddings (numerical representations) from open-sourced language and image models to compare and contrast films in the "noir" and "neo-noir" genres with each other and with those in other genres, using as proxy sources the available plot summaries for text …

Time Series Forecasting for Air Quality with Structured and Unstructured Data Using Artificial Neural Networks

Kenneth Chan, Paul Matthews, Kamran Munir

Various machine learning algorithms exist to predict air quality, but they can only analyse structured data gathered from monitoring stations. However, the concentration of certain pollutants, such as PM2.5 and PM10, can be visually significant when there is a marked difference in …

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Foundation Anchor Testing and Performance Evaluation in Varying Soil Environments

Paul Matthews, J. Brian Anderson, James S. Davidson, David B. Roueche et autres

Ground anchors have been used in construction for decades to provide tethering and uplift support to many types of construction and utility operations. New materials and design technology have allowed for a wide range of structures to be deployed in various industries …

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Affective Computing in Anxiety Disorders: A Rapid Literature Review of Emotion Recognition Applications

Miles Thompson, Paul Matthews, Michael Loizou, David Western

Anxiety disorders (ADs) affect roughly one in ten people in the UK, and this number is expected to increase, intensifying the need for innovation. Digital technologies such as affective computing (AC, technology to detect human emotions) could foster a more patient-centric approach, …

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Personalisation and Recommendation for Mental Health Apps: A Scoping Review

Paul Matthews, Clemence Rhodes-Maquaire

Personalisation, which tailors to individual preferences, is considered a possible route for improving engagement with digital mental health (DMH) products. Despite claims about the presence and importance of personalised features, evidence about their extent and impact is limited. The study objective was …

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‘It's like a compass which I use to find direction’: Findings and learning from an evaluation of an App designed to support the teaching of reading comprehension in rural and township schools in South Africa

Jane Carter, Pravina Pillay, Tessa J. Podpadec, Jethro Gina et autres

Abstract South Africa has low literacy levels and teachers face multiple challenges in their endeavours to elevate levels of literacy. This is especially prevalent in rural and township schools where teachers face the additional challenges of isolation, limited resources and access to …

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A Framework for the Estimation of Air Quality by Applying Meteorological Images: Colours-of-the-Wind (COLD)

Kenneth Chan, Paul Matthews, Kamran Munir

This paper presents a new framework, “colours-of-the-wind” (COLD), which is designed to estimate air quality based on images from meteorological cameras, data analytics techniques, and the application of deep learning. Existing air quality estimation systems mainly rely on physical monitoring stations, which …

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Development and Evaluation of a Mobile App to Support Reading Education

Lindiwe Carol Mthethwa, Paul Matthews

We report on the design, development and evaluation of an app to support teachers in the teaching of reading at primary level. The app was developed with two main features: book levelling, where a book photograph, OCR and a simple machine learning …

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6. Supercedure: Into the Posthuman

Paul Matthews

What could it be like to leave behind our purely biological/natural mental and physical constraints? For a long time in SF an optimistic vision of immortality and transcendence, we visit examples of mind uploading and cognitive and sensory enhancement that might enable …

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7. Conclusion

Paul Matthews

With the exception of the authors cited in the chapters of this book, examples of transparent alien minds are relatively limited, and this suggests that there is huge scope for the expansion of endeavours to create empathy and the experience of contact …

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