Putting Time (Back) Into Dynamic Function Allocation

Putting Time (back) into Dynamic Function Allocation

This position paper discusses extensions to concepts of Dynamic Function Allocation (DFA) that could improve our understanding of the trade-offs involved in designing and operating humanautomation systems. We suggest that current DFA paradigms, focusing predominantly on allocation along the human-automation resource dimension, may provide an insufficient basis for design decisions as they fail ...

Putting proteins back into water

We introduce a simplified protein model where the solvent (water) degrees of freedom appear explicitly (although in an extremely simplified fashion). Using this model we are able to recover the thermodynamic phenomenology of proteins over a wide range of temperatures. In particular we describe both the warm and the cold protein denaturation within a single framework, while addressing important ...

Putting Claus Back into Christmas

A Christmas season wouldn’t be complete without the annual complaint that the holiday has become too commercialized and that we need to put Christ back into Christmas, that he is the reason for the season. This gripe is not only misguided but has things backwards – Santa Claus is a better representative of the true spirit of Christmas than Jesus ever was or ever could be. As we will see, Christ...

Putting the heart back into audit.

Putting the virtual back into VR

Firstly, I will suggest here that although there is now a common practice of associating VR with the theatre as a form of representation with stories, plots and characters, VR actually has more in common with performance (and here I mean performance art or ritual rather than the conventional theatre), music and the visual arts. This is because what we could call the ‘classical’ theatre establis...