Dr Christopher Bowers

Research Fellow

Dr Christopher Bowers

Contact details

Telephone (+44) (0)121 414 8002

Office 223 (Y9 Computer Science Building)

Email C.P....@cs.bham.ac.uk (click the ... to reveal)

Web http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~cpb/

School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

About

Research Interests

Adaptive and Intelligent user interfaces, Mobile computing, Interaction affordances.

Bibliography

2013

  • Hendley, R.J., Beale, R., Bowers, C.P., Georgousopoulos, C., Vassiliou, C., Sergios, P., Moeller, R., Karstens, E., Spiliotopoulos, D., 2013, "CASAM: collaborative human-machine annotation of multimedia", Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer US, pp. 1--32
  • Cowan, B.R., Bowers, C.P., Beale, R., Pinder, C., 2013, "The stroppy kettle: an intervention to break energy consumption habits", CHI'13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1485--1490

2012

  • Bowers, C.P., Beale, R., Hendley, R.J., 2012, "Identifying Archetypal Perspectives in News", The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2012), pp. 327--332
  • Bowers, C., Beale, R., Byrne, W., Creed, C., Pinder, C., Hendley, R., 2012, "Interaction issues in computer aided semantic annotation of multimedia", Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design (NordiCHI '12), pp. 534--543
  • Bowers, C.P., Beale, R., Hendley, R.J., 2012, "Identifying archetypal perspectives in news articles", Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers, pp. 327--332

2011

  • Yang, Z., Li, X., Bowers, C.P., Schnier, T., Tang, K., Yao, X., 2011, "An Efficient Evolutionary Approach to Parameter Identification in a Building Thermal Model", Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, IEEE Transactions on, IEEE, pp. 1--13
  • Bowers, C., Byrne, W., Cowan, B., Creed, C., Hendley, R., Beale, R., 2011, "Choosing your moment: interruptions in multimedia annotation", Human-Computer Interaction--INTERACT 2011, Springer, pp. 438--453

2010

  • Li, X., Bowers, C.P., Schnier, T., 2010, "Classification of energy consumption in buildings with outlier detection", Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on, IEEE 57, pp. 3639--3644
  • Creed, C., Bowers, C.P., Hendley, R.J., Beale, R., 2010, "User perception of interruptions in multimedia annotation tasks", Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries, pp. 619--622

2009

  • Bowers, C.P., 2009, "The importance of search space dimensionality in a computational model of embryogeny", Evolutionary Computation, 2009. CEC'09. IEEE Congress on, pp. 3207--3212

2008

  • Bowers, C.P., 2008, "Modularity in a Computational Model of Embryogeny", Design by Evolution, Springer, pp. 243--263

2006

  • Bowers, C., 2006, "Simulating evolution with a computational model of embryogeny", Doctral Thesis, The University of Birmingham

2005

  • Bowers, C.P., 2005, "Formation of modules in a computational model of embryogeny", Evolutionary Computation, 2005. The 2005 IEEE Congress on 1, pp. 537--542
  • Bowers, C., 2005, "Simulating evolution with a computational model of embryogeny: Obtaining robustness from evolved individuals", Advances in Artificial Life, Springer, pp. 149--158
  • Bowers, C.P., Bullinaria, J.A., 2005, "Embryological modelling of the evolution of neural architecture", PROGRESS IN NEURAL PROCESSING, Citeseer 16, pp. 375

2003

  • Bowers, C., 2003, "Evolving robust solutions with a computational embryogeny", Proceedings of the UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI-03), pp. 181--188

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