University of Plymouth Pedagogic Research and Development Database
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The Potential Mental Health Effects of Remote Control in an Autonomous Maritime World
(University of Plymouth, 2021-05-06)Many maritime activities, such as loading, unloading and transporting cargoes, consist primarily of long periods of low-stress, with some moments of high stress during complex manoeuvres or unanticipated, dangerous, ... -
Companion robots for older people: importance of user-centred design demonstrated through observations and focus groups comparing preferences of older people and roboticists in South West England.
(University of Plymouth, 2019)Companion robots for older people: importance of usercentred design demonstrated through observations and focus groups comparing preferences of older people and roboticists in South West England. BMJ Open 2019;9:e032468. ... -
Offshore longline mussel farms: a review of oceanographic and ecological interactions to inform future research needs, policy and management
(University of Plymouth, 2021-03-15)With a growing human population and the need to protect our oceans from over-fishing, there is a requirement for society to source alternative means of sustain-able protein. Mussel aquaculture has rapidly expanded in many ... -
Similarities and differences: Comment on Chan et al.
(University of Plymouth, 2021)Spicer et al. (2020) reported a series of causal learning experiments in which participants appeared to learn most readily about cues when they were not certain of their causal status, and proposed that their results were ... -
Fathers, sons, and monsters: Rousseau, Blake, and Mary Shelley
(University of Plymouth, 2019)Through their reading of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Blake, and Mary Shelley arrive at a similar formula for their respective texts: the mismanagement, neglect, and eventual abandonment of children by their fathers ... -
Demonstration and Damnation: William Blake's Eternal Death of Unbelief
(University of Plymouth, 2018)In Blake’s mythopoeia, as well as his personal eschatology, belief is the source of life itself; all creative acts, all visionary episodes, stem from an individual’s belief. “Eternal Death,” which is the cycle of Generation, ... -
A Conceptual Cyber-Risk Assessment of Port Infastructure
(University of Plymouth, 2021-01-29)Cyber-security is a growing issue across the world, however increasing concerns are being directed at ports, as they are a hub for multiple transport operations. Ransomware has shown its potential effects in recent events, ... -
The use of cyber ranges in the maritime context: Assessing maritime-cyber risks, raising awareness, and providing training
(University of Plymouth, 2020-07-21)A good defensive strategy against evolving cyber threats and cybercrimes is to raise awareness and use that awareness to prepare technical mitigation and human defense strategies. A prime way to do this is through training. ... -
Real World Learning: Simulation and Gaming
(University of Plymouth, 2020-11)Simulations and games are being used across a variety of subject areas as a means to provide insight into real world situations within a classroom setting; they offer many of the benefits of real world learning but without ... -
Musical Borrowing in Sonification
(University of Plymouth, 2019)Sonification presents some challenges in communicating information, particularly because of the large difference between possible data to sound mappings and cognitively valid mappings. It is an information transmission ...
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