126 research outputs found
Smart driving aids and their effects on driving performance and driver distraction
No full textIn-vehicle information systems have been shown to increase driver workload and cause distraction; both of which are causal factors for accidents. This simulator study evaluates the impact that two designs for a smart driving aid, and scenario complexity have on workload, distraction and driving performance. Results showed that real-time delivery of smart driving information did not increase driver workload or adversely effect driver distraction, while having the effect of decreasing mean driving speed in both the simple and complex driving scenarios. Subjective workload was shown to increase with task difficulty, as well as revealing important differences between the two interface designs
Sonata
No full textSonata (2013)
Composition and film installation
Filmed on location in the Non-Catholic Cemetery, Rome, 5 May 2013
Supported by Creative Scotland Visual Arts Award £10,000
Sonata is a composition for piano, cello and violin based upon the speech, poems and letters of three poets buried in the Non-Catholic Cemetery: the English Romantic poets John Keats (1795-1821) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and the US Beat Poet, Gregory Corso (1930-2001).
The composition is in three movements:
I - Lift Me Up For I Am Dying
The first movement is an evolution of the composition, Lift Me Up For I Am Dying based upon the last spoken words of Keats. Lift Me Up For I Am Dying was commissioned by the Swiss Institute in Rome (2010) and formed the basis for Duet, an audio installation at the Rothko Chapel, Houston, 14-15 May 2013.
II - Adonais - Adagio
The second movement is based upon lines from Shelley’s long poem of lament, Adonais, An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (1821). Shelley, who had also lived in the house on Piazza di Spagna in which Keats died, considered Adonais to be among his best compositions. When Shelley drowned in the Bay of Spezia he was found with a volume of Keats’ poems in his shirt pocket.
III - Letters from Rome
The final movement is based upon three letters written by Corso upon a visit to the graves of Keats and Shelley in the Non-Catholic Cemetery on the anniversary of Keats’ birthday in 1958. Corso’s letters were addressed to his fellow beat poets: Phillip Whalen, Allen Ginsburg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Corso’s ashes were buried at the foot of Shelley’s grave in the Non-Catholic Cemetery on 5 May 2001.
Sonata performed by Da Vinci Trio:
Violin: Tony Moffat, Leader of the Orchestra of Scottish Opera
Cello: Robert Irvine, Head of Chamber Music at the Royal Conservatoire, Scotland
Piano: Mario Montore, Leader of the Avos Quartet, Rome
Filming was preceded by a public recital introduced by Adam Szymczyk, Director of Kunsthalle Basel.
With thanks to:
Amanda Thursfield, Director
THE NON-CATHOLIC CEMETERY IN ROME,
via Caio Cestio, 6, 00153, Roma
Ross Birrell, Duet, Keats-Shelley House,
Piazza di Spagna, 26, 13 May - 6 September 2013
First exhibited in Ross Birrell and David Harding, Winter Line, Kunsthalle Basel, 17 Jan - 23 Ma3 2014.
Performed by DaVinci Trio at Museumsnacht, Kunsthalle Basel, 17 Jan 2014
Ecological IVIS design : using EID to develop a novel in-vehicle information system
No full textNew in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) are emerging which purport to encourage more environment friendly or ‘green’ driving. Meanwhile, wider concerns about road safety and in-car distractions remain. The ‘Foot-LITE’ project is an effort to balance these issues, aimed at achieving safer and greener driving through real-time driving information, presented via an in-vehicle interface which facilitates the desired behaviours while avoiding negative consequences. One way of achieving this is to use ecological interface design (EID) techniques. This article presents part of the formative human-centred design process for developing the in-car display through a series of rapid prototyping studies comparing EID against conventional interface design principles. We focus primarily on the visual display, although some development of an ecological auditory display is also presented. The results of feedback from potential users as well as subject matter experts are discussed with respect to implications for future interface design in this field
Abstract P4-16-02: An open labelled longitudinal evaluation of a subcutaneous combination of testosterone and anastrozole in pre-menopausal women with high volumetric mammographic breast density
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This abstract was withdrawn by the authors.</jats:p
Looking forward to a safer future: The new WHO guidelines for safe surgery
No full textEach year in Australia there are approximately 2 million hospital admissions for surgical services (Australia’s Health, 2008) and this number is set to grow significantly, with forecasts of at least a 22% increase by 2021 (Birrell, Hawthorne & Rapson, 2003). Surprisingly, for such a high-risk high-volume specialty, we have very little data on perioperative adverse events. This lack of even basic data means that we are unable to track event rates, leaving us oblivious to the full extent of the problem.
Research on intraoperative adverse events tells us that the rate of major complications is between 3-16%, with a mortality rate of 0.4-0.8%. (Kable, Gibbered & Spigelman, 2002; Gawande et al, 1999). Applying the lowest of these rates (3% & 0.4%) to Australia’s surgical population reveals that a staggering 60,000 patients annually suffer significant complications, with 8000 patients dieing during or immediately after surgery as a result of adverse events. This is indeed a significant number, and given that the research indicates that nearly half of these events are preventable (Kable, Gibbered & Spigelman, 2002; Gawande et al, 1999), one that clearly needs addressing.
This paper will review the research on perioperative safety and adverse events and examine some of the safety strategies put forward in the new World Health Organizations (WHO) Guidelines for Safe Surgery. These guidelines were developed for the WHO by renowned perioperative safety champion Dr Atul Gawande and contain recommendations for ‘safer surgery practices’ that have been demonstrated to reduce adverse events
Book review: Comparing devolved governance
No full text"Comparing Devolved Governance." Derek Birrell. Palgrave Macmillan. May 2012. --- In Comparing Devolved Governance, Derek Birrell compares the separate governments and legislatures of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Akash Paun finds that the author comprehensively and successfully describes and compares the three political systems that are too often discussed separately. However, the book does not quite amount to more than the sum of its (many and good) parts, and was frustrating for what it did not do, such as make the case for why the question of asymmetry is so important. This is nonetheless a useful and thorough reference work for students and researchers of devolution
Vibrotactile pedals : provision of haptic feedback to support economical driving
No full textThe use of haptic feedback is currently an underused modality in the driving environment, especially with respect to vehicle manufacturers. This exploratory study evaluates the effects of a vibrotactile (or haptic) accelerator pedal on car driving performance and perceived workload using a driving simulator. A stimulus was triggered when the driver exceeded a 50% throttle threshold, past which is deemed excessive for economical driving. Results showed significant decreases in mean acceleration values, and maximum and excess throttle use when the haptic pedal was active as compared to a baseline condition. As well as the positive changes to driver behaviour, subjective workload decreased when driving with the haptic pedal as compared to when drivers were simply asked to drive economically. The literature suggests that the haptic processing channel offers a largely untapped resource in the driving environment, and could provide information without overloading the other attentional resource pools used in driving
More Than Just Boxes and Lines on a Page: Stories from a Special Collections Department Reorganization
No full textThis article was originally published in Library Leadership and Management . The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v37i4.7585. Copyright (c) 2024 Lori BirrellInterested in leveraging a reorganization to bring about sustained and meaningful organizational and cultural change, the author developed a multi-step process anchored by three decision-making drivers that guided the work. These drivers helped the author articulate to herself and the department the “why” behind the reorganization and to keep focused on those drivers during even the messiest parts of the process. The case study presented here describes the author’s process and lessons learned
Inscription in Later Essays, 1917-1920
No full textPossible owners inscription, "Augustine Birrell / March 10th 1921 / Dies dolorosa - 1915." The reverse of the page includes a handwritten list of other works by the author and some annotations are included in the text. If it is the same Augustine Birrell, he was Chief Secretary for Ireland (1907-1916). The "Dies dolorosa - 1915" might refer to the troubles he experienced that year with World War I, the Irish uprisings and the death of his wife Eleanor. He resigned in 1916 after criticisms of his response to the Irish uprisings.Edward's 'Canons of criticism'.--An eighteenth-century Hippocrates [William Heberden]--'Hermes' Harris.--The journeys of John Howard.--'The learned Mrs. Carter.'--The Abbé Edgeworth.--A casual causerie.--Index
Austin Dobson 1840-1921
The Fugitive Self: Authorship and Subjectivity in Contemporary Art and Experimental Documentary
No full textThis thesis identifies and theoretically articulates strategies of ‘fugitive authorship’ in the work of The Otolith Group, Ursula Biemann, and Hito Steyerl. I argue that within the work of such contemporary artists, all of whom work with experimental documentary, a renegotiation of the author-self has emerged in response to new frontiers of crisis in the twenty-first century, including new crises of the human within an emergent post-human paradigm. Drawing on histories of the essay film, feminist and postcolonial counter-cinemas, and feminist Posthumanist theory, this thesis demonstrates how these artists actively revolt against the documentary’s claims to authorial authority by moving towards a radical aesthetics of fugitivity. Vacillating between presence and absence, knowledge and doubt, clarity and opacity, they become fugitive by performing a ‘flight’ from the author-self while simultaneously remaining accountable to their socio-historical location. Working with the theories of Karen Barad and Rosi Braidotti in particular, this thesis identifies a new form of authorship, fugitive authorship, at the centre of emergent forms of experimental documentary in contemporary art that meet the complexities of the contemporary condition. As a theoretical model, fugitive authorship provides a new critical language to account for recent authorial practices that continue to push against prevailing ideas of the author, the human subject, and the documentary form in contemporary art. As we stand on the threshold of unknown post-human, more-than-human, and beyond-human futures, the fugitive author challenges the most basic assumptions we hold about the self. In doing so, it projects communal futures for human and non-human subjects alike
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