Publications by authors named "Helen Hastie"
Article Synopsis
- Smart speakers are commonly used at home for various tasks but face acceptance challenges in workplaces, potentially due to privacy concerns and their lack of social cues.
- A study compared the effectiveness of a humanoid robot, a smart speaker, and a dialogue manager in a first responder team setting, examining trust, engagement, and performance.
- Results showed that the humanoid robot was more trusted and led to better task engagement and performance than the smart speaker, suggesting that more human-like embodiments could improve the adoption of conversational agents in professional environments.
This paper describes IEEE P7001, a new draft standard on transparency of autonomous systems. In the paper, we outline the development and structure of the draft standard. We present the rationale for transparency as a measurable, testable property.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 50-year-old Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) from Okuma, ∼1 km southwest of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, was cored and each annual ring was analysed for (14)C. The (14)C specific activity values varied from 330.4 Bq kg(-1) C in the tree ring formed in 1971 to 231.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 30-year-old Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica), collected from Iwaki, Fukushima in 2014, was analyzed for the long-lived radionuclide (14)C. Values of Δ(14)C varied from 211.7‰ in 1984 to 16.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUp to a fifth of Accident and Emergency admissions are head-injury related. Alcohol is involved in a large proportion of adult head injuries and although the incidence of death due to head injury (HI) is relatively low, long-term sequelae including cognitive disturbance are frequent. Contrecoup contusions (CCs) have been observed commonly in closed head injuries and may be an independent factor in long-term neuro-disability.
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