University of Plymouth Pedagogic Research and Development Database: Recent submissions
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Morphology of socially assistive robots for health and social care: A reflection on 24 months of research with anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and mechanomorphic devices
(University of Plymouth, 2021)This paper reflects on four studies completed over the last 24 months, with social robots including Pepper, Paro, Joy for All cats and dogs, Miro, Pleo, Padbot and cheaper toys, including i) focus groups and interviews ... -
Design recommendations for socially assistive robots for health and social care based on a large scale analysis of stakeholder positions
(University of Plymouth, 2021-06)Objectives Socially assistive robots (SAR) may have an important role in health and social care. Design of such SAR can be informed through detailed studies with end-users, but we also need shared understanding of SAR ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Dynamic accretion beneath a slow spreading ridge segment: IODP Hole U1743A & the Atlantis Bank Oceanic Core Complex
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Flow of partially molten crust controlling construction, growth and collapse of the Variscan orogenic belt: 1 the geologic record of the French Massif Central
(University of Plymouth, 2020)We present here a tectonic-geodynamic model for the generation and flow of partially molten rocks and for magmatism during the Variscan orogenic evolution from the Silurian to the late Carboniferous based on a synthesis ...