Aboriginal peoples are among the most food insecure groups in Canada, yet their perspectives and knowledge are often sidelined in mainstream food security debates. In order to create food security for all, Aboriginal perspectives must be included in food security research and discourse. This project demonstrates a process in which Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal partners engaged in a culturally a...

Speaker independent, spontaneous and continuous speech recognition system (ASR) can be integrated to other technologies like mobile to create an interface between technology and illiterate people so that they can use modern technologies. One of the major hurdles in such ASR is unacceptable word error rate. The paper explores the possibility of analyzing the Urdu speech corpus based on recogniti...

In this paper, we report on a project applying participatory design methods to include people who have experience of social exclusion (in one form or another) in designing possible technologies for e-(local)-government services. The work was part of a project for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the UK, and was concerned with ‘access tokens’ that can provide personal identification fo...

Many real-world phenomena can be modelled as dynamic optimization problems. In such cases, the environment problem changes dynamically and therefore, conventional methods are not capable of dealing with such problems. In this paper, a novel multi-swarm cellular particle swarm optimization algorithm is proposed by clustering and local search. In the proposed algorithm, the search space is partit...

2010 has been an exciting and challenging year for the Lindsay Leg Club Foundation with the introduction of the Big Society and The NHS White Paper: Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS (Department of Health (DH), 2010). The coalition government’s vision of a society where individuals and communities have more power and responsibility, and are encouraged to create better neighbourhoods and...

In this paper, we report on a project applying participatory design methods to include people who have experience of social exclusion (in one form or another) in designing possible technologies for e-(local)-government services. The work was part of a project for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the UK, and was concerned with ‘access tokens’ that can provide personal identification fo...

In 2013, the UK Government announced a major £3.8 billion healthcare initiative, the Better Care Fund. This funding was intended to be used within local health and care systems to drive closer integration, create new service efficiencies, support technological innovation and most importantly, improve outcomes for patients and people with care and support needs. The research described in this pa...