Publications

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2018

Joel-Edgar, S., Gopsill, J. 2018. Understanding user requirements in context: A case study of developing visualisation tool to map skills in an engineering organisation. In ICIMP 2018: International Conference on Information Management and Processing. London, UK.

Mogles, N., Emanuel, C., Gopsill, J., Joel-Edgar, S., Robinson, K., Hicks, B., Jones, D., Newnes, L. 2018. A visualisation tool to investigate the interplay of external and internal processes. In DCC’18: Design, Computing, & Cognition.

Snider, C., Gopsill, J., and Hicks, B. 2018. Engineering Project Health Management: A Computational Approach for Project Management Support through Analytics of Digital Engineering Activity. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. In Press.

Gopsill, J., Shakespeare, P., Snider, C., Newnes, L., and Hicks, B. 2018. Investigating the Evolving Knowledge Structures in New Technology Development. In PLM 2018: Product Lifecycle Management. Turin, Italy.

Snider, C., Gopsill, J., Jones, D., and Hicks, B. 2018. Engineering Project Health Monitoring: Application of automatic, real-time analysis to PDM systems. In PLM 2018: Product Lifecycle Management. Turin, Italy.

Jones, D., Snider, C., Yon, J., Xie, Y., Chanchevrier, N., Hicks, B. 2018. The Design of Visual Information Objects in 3D Virtual Environments for Engineering Information Navigation. In DESIGN 2018: 15th International Design Conference. Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Whiskard, H., Jones, D., Voller, S., Snider, C., Gopsill, J., and Hicks, B. 2018. Mixed reality tools as an enabler for improving operation and maintenance in small and medium enterprises. In PLM 2018: Product Lifecycle Management. Turin, Italy.

2017

Snider, C., S. Škec, J. A. Gopsill, and B. J. Hicks. 2017. The Characterisation of Engineering Activity through Email Communication and Content Dynamics, for Support of Engineering Project Management. Design Science 3.

Gopsill, J. and Hicks B. 2017. Investigating the effect of scale and scheduling strategies on the productivity of 3D managed print services. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture.

Shi, L., Newnes, L., Culley, S., Allen, B. 2017. Learning to predict characteristics for engineering service projects. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis, and Manufacturing 31.

Snider, Chris, Lia Emanuel, James A Gopsill, Sian Joel-Edgar, and Ben J Hicks. 2017. Identifying the Influences on Performance of Engineering Design and Development Projects. In ICED 2017: International Conference on Engineering Design. Vancouver, Canada.

Gopsill, J., C. Snider, L. Emanuel, S. Joel-Edgar, and B. Hicks. 2017. Automatic Design Structure Matrices: A Comparison of Two Formula Student Projects. In ICED 2017: International Conference on Engineering Design. Vancouver, Canada.

2016

Gopsill, J., Snider C., McMahon, C., and Hicks, B. 2016. Automatic generation of design structure matrices through the evolution of product modelsArtificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis, and Manufacturing 30.

McAlpine, H., Cash, P., and Hicks, B. 2016. The role of logbooks as mediators of engineering design work. Design Studies 48.

Snider, C., Gopsill, J., Stanko, S. and Hicks, B. 2016. Determining work focus, common language, and issues in engineering project through topic persistence. DESIGN 2016: 14th International Design Conference. Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Gopsill, J., Snider C. and Hicks, B. 2016. Computer aided design as a sensor for monitoring engineers and the engineering design process. DESIGN 2016: 14th International Design Conference. Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Hicks, B., McAlpine, H., Gopsill, J., Snider, C. 2016. The Digital Footprint of Engineering Design Projects: Sensors for Project Health Monitoring.  7th International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC ’16).

Shi, L., Newnes, L., Culley, S., Allen, B. 2016. Modelling, monitoring, and evaluation to support automatic engineering process management. Proceedings of the IMechE, Part:B Journal of Engineering Manufacture.

Snider, C., Dekoninck, E. and Culley, S. 2016. Beyond the concept: characterisations of later-stage creative behaviour in design. Research in Engineering Design.

Joel-Edgar, S., Shi, L., Emanuel, L., Jones, S., Watts, L., Newnes, L., Payne, S., Hicks, B. and Culley, S. 2016. Visual Support for Complex Repair Operations in a Global Aerospace Company in Visual Analytics for Management. Springer

2015

Hicks, B. The Language of Collaborative Manufacturing. Digital Technologies for Manufacturing Innovation: Embracing Industry 4.0, 30 Nov 2015 – 1 Dec 2015, Nottingham, UK.

Gopsill J., Jones S., Snider C., Shi L., Hicks B. The Evolution of Terminology within a Large Distributed Engineering Project. ICED15: The 20th International Conference on Engineering Design. Milan, Italy.

Jones SL., Payne, SJ., Hicks BJ., Gopsill JA. and Snider, C. Subject Lines as Sensors: Co-word Analysis of Email to Support the Management of Collaborative Engineering Work. ICED15: The 20th International Conference on Engineering Design. Milan, Italy.

Shi L., Newnes L. and Culley S.J. Identifying and Visualising KPIs for Collaborative Engineering Projects: a Knowledge Based Approach. ICED15: The 20th International Conference on Engineering Design. Milan, Italy.

Snider, C., McAlpine, H., Hicks, B., Gopsill, J. A., Jones, S. It’s Not Personal: Can Logbooks Provide Insights into Engineering Projects? ICED15: The 20th International Conference on Engineering Design. Milan, Italy.

Snider, C., Hicks, B., Gopsill, J. A., Jones, S. Understanding Engineering Projects: An Integrated Vehicle Health Management Approach to Engineering Project Monitoring. ICED15: The 20th International Conference on Engineering Design. Milan, Italy.

Gopsill J., Snider C., Shi L., and Hicks B., 2015. Modelling the Evolution of Computer Aided Design Models: Investigating the Potential for Supporting Engineering Project Management. International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM’15). Doha, Qatar.

Snider, C., Gopsill, J., Shi, L. Hicks, B. Digital Footprints as a means to aid the understanding, monitoring, and management of open and crowd based design paradigms. ICMR15: The 13th International Conference on Manufacturing Research. Bath, UK.

Shi L., Newnes L., Culley S.J. and Snider C. Process Reconstruction and Visualisation for Collaborative Engineering Projects. ICMR15: The 13th International Conference on Manufacturing Research. Bath, UK.

Shi, L., Newnes, L. and Culley, S., 2015. Data-driven Modelling: Towards Interpreting and Understanding Process Evolution of In-Service Engineering Projects. In: 12th International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM15), 2015-10-19 – 2015-10-21, Doha.

2014

Shi L., Newnes L., Culley S.J. and Hicks, B. Predicting the Performance of Collaborative Manufacturing Projects: Knowledge Discovery from Digital Assets. 3rd Annual EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Conference, 23 – 24 September 2014, Glasgow Science Centre.

Jones, S., Cotterill, R., Dewdney, N., Muir, K. and Joinson, A. (2014) Finding Zelig in Text: A Measure for Normalizing Linguistic Accommodation. COLING 2014: 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Dublin, Ireland. August 23-29 2014.

Shi L., Gopsill J., Snider C., Jones, S., Newnes, L. and Culley, S. (2014). Towards identifying patterns in engineering documents to aid project planning. DESIGN 2014: 13th International Design Conference. Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Snider, C. M., Jones, S., Gopsill, J., Shi, L., Hicks, B. J. (2014). A framework for the development of characteristic signatures of engineering projects. DESIGN 2014: 13th International Design Conference. Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Gopsill, J., Jones, S., Snider, C., Shi, L., McMahon, C., Hicks, B. J. (2014). Understanding the engineering design process through the evolution of engineering digital objects. DESIGN 2014: 13th International Design Conference. Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Gopsill, J., McAlpine, H. C., Hicks, B. J. (2014). Supporting engineering design communication through a social media tool – Insights for engineering project management. DESIGN 2014: 13th International Design Conference. Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Shi, L, Gopsill, J, Newnes, L, Culley, SJ. A Sequence-based Approach to Analysing and Representing Engineering Project Normality. ICTAI 2014 : 26th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence.

2013

Gopsill, J., Payne, S., and Hicks, B. 2013. An Exploratory Study into Automated Real-Time Categorisation of Engineering E-Mail. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Manchester, UK. Special Session: Future ICT-Enabled Manufacturing Execution.

Jones, S., Payne, S., Hicks, B., and Watts, L. 2013. Visualization of Heterogeneous Text Data in Collaborative Engineering Projects. The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics. IEEE VIS 2013. Atlanta, GA October 13-18 2013.

Hicks, B. The Language of Collaborative Engineering projects. International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED13), August 19-22nd 2013, Seoul, South Korea.