Gareth Loudon

About my work and interests

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- Publications

PATENTS

1.  Loudon,G.H. and Tng,T.H.. WuBiPad – New method for Chinese text input on a mobile phone using a 5- way joystick.

2.  Tng,T.H. and Loudon,G.H.. Mobile Communications Device, KeyPad CompPad.

3.  Loudon,G.H., Wu,Y.M., Pittman,J.A.. Methods and apparatuses for handwriting recognition.

4.  Loudon,G.H., Chen,H. and Tng,T.H.. Handwritten radicals recognition process for Chinese and Japanese handwritten ideographic scripts.

5.  Bai,S., Li,H., Loudon,G.H., and Wu,H.J.P.. Tokenization and named entity recognition method of ideographic language.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Bhullar,H.K., Loudon,G.H., Fothergill,J.C. and Jones,N.B.. A Selective Non-invasive Electrode to study Myoelectric Signals – Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing journal, UK, (1990) Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 581 – 586.

2. Loudon,G.H.. Advances in Knowledge Based Signal Processing : a Case Study in EMG Decomposition – Ph.D. Thesis, University of Leicester, UK, (1991).

3. Jones,N.B. and Loudon,G.H..  A set of classification techniques for the extraction of non-periodic transients from noise:- an application in electromyography – IEE Proceedings Part A, UK, (1992) Vol. 139, No. 2., pp. 74 – 78.

4. Loudon,G.H., Jones,N.B. and Sehmi,A.S.. New signal processing techniques for the decomposition of EMG signals – Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing journal, UK, (1992), Vol. 30., pp. 591-599.

5. Sehmi,A.S., Jones,N.B., Wang,S.Q., and Loudon,G.H.. Knowledge-based systems for neuroelectric signal processing – IEE Proceedings Part A,  UK, (1994), Vol. 141, No. 3, May, pp. 215 – 223.

6. Chen,H.., Loudon,G.H., Wu,Y.M. and Zitserman,R.. Segmentation and Recognition of Continuous Handwritten Chinese Text – International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Aritificial Intelligence, (1998), Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 223-232.

7. Sacher,H., Tng,T.H. and Loudon,G.H.. Beyond Translation: Approaches to Interactive Products for Chinese Consumers – International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., (2001), Vol. 13, No. 1, pp.  41-51.

8. Sacher,H. and Loudon,G.H.. Understanding the wireless interaction paradigm: From 3G technology to customer solutions, Interactions (ACM), (2002), Volume IX.1, pp.17-23.

9. Loudon,G.H., Sacher,H. and Yu,L.. BuddySync:  Thinking Beyond Cell Phones to Create A Third-Generation Wireless Application for U.S. Teenagers, “Revista de Estudios de Juventud” (Magazine on Youth Studies), Title of issue: “Juventud y Teléfono Móvil” (Youth and Cell Phone), (2002), March.

10. Loudon, G. (2006) Nice technology, shame about the product, Invited article in IET Communications Engineer magazine, August/September issue.

11. Gill, S., Walker, D., Loudon, G., Dix, A., Woolley, A., Ramduny-Ellis, D. and Hare, J. (2008) to be published in Tangible and Embedded Interaction, a special issue of the International Journal of Arts and Technology, September 2008. Online ISSN 1754?8861, print ISSN 1754?8853

12. Gill, S., Loudon, G. and Walker, D. (2008) Designing a Design Tool – Working with Industry to Create an Information Appliance Design Methodology to be published in the Journal of Design Research, Inderscience Publishers Ltd. Vol 7 Iss 2.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. Loudon,G.H., Sehmi,A.S. and Jones,N.B.. Intelligent Classification in EMG decomposition – Condition monitoring and diagnostic management, R.B.K.N. Rao, J. Au and B. Griffiths (Eds.), Chapman and Hall,  UK, (1990), pp. 317 – 325.

2. Loudon,G.H., Jones,N.B. and Sehmi,A.S.. Intelligent decomposition and interpretation of myoelectric signals – Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, J.C.H. Goh and A. Nather (Eds.), Singapore, (1990), pp. 362 – 365.

3. Jones,N.B. and Loudon,G.H.. A set of classification techniques for the extraction of motor unit potentials in electromyography – World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, published in Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing journal, UK, (1991), Vol. 29 Supplement Part 1, pp. 566.

4. Jones,N.B., Lynch,M., Loudon,G.H. and Wang,S.Q.. Combining procedural and knowledge based methods for condition monitoring of diesel engines – Condition Monitoring ‘94,  UK, (1994).

5. Gao,Y., Yuan,B., Tng,T., Loo,G. Loudon,G.H., Yogananthan,S., Hon,H.W., Chow,Y.L., Beauregard,G., de Souza,P., Austin,S. and Fineberg,A.. Mandarin Chinese Dictation System – Research & Development – Proceedings of the International Conference on Chinese Computing ‘94, Singapore, (1994), pp. 95-101.

6. Schlindwein,F.S., Kazim,S., Loudon,G.H. and Jones,N.B.. Separation of foetal and maternal ECG via diagonal factor analysis and inverse transfer function – World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (1994), pp. 931.

7. Yuan,B., Gao,Y., Hon,H.W. and Loudon,G.H.. An Unlimited Vocabulary Speaker-Dependent Chinese Speech Recognition System – The 3rd National  Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communications, PRC, (1994).

8. Choi,J., Hon,H.W., Lebrun,J.L., Lee,S.P., Loudon,G., Phan,V.H. and Yogananthan,S.. YanHui, A Software Based High Performance Mandarin Text-to-Speech System – Republic of China Linguistics Conference, ROCLING VII, Taiwan, (1994), pp. 35 – 50.

9. Gao,Y., Hon,H.W., Lin,Z., Loudon,G.H., Yogananthan,S. and Yuan,B.. Tangerine : A Large Vocabulary Mandarin Dictation System – International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing ‘95, USA, (1995).

10. Loudon,G.H., Chen,H., Wu,Y.M. and Zitserman,R.. The Recognition of Handwritten Chinese Characters From Paper Records – IEEE TENCON, Digital Signal Processing Applications, Australia, (1996), pp. 923 – 926.

11. Chen,H., Loudon,G.H., Wu,Y.M. and Zitserman,R.. Segmentation and Recognition of Continuous Handwritten Chinese Text – 17th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, Hong Kong, (1997).

12. Loudon,G.H. and Leong,M.K.. Retrieval of Chinese Documents using Handwriting Input – 3rd International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages, Singapore, (1998), pp. 28-33.

13. Loudon,G.H., Pellijeff,O., Li,Z.W. and Hall,H.. BuddySync – A Mobile Application for Teenagers; A User-Centric Design Approach, Ericsson’s Conference on Usability Engineering , ECUE 99, (1999).

14. Loudon,G.H. Designing 3G Applications for Smartphones and Wireless Data Terminals, International Forum cum Conference on Information Technology, Thailand, (2000).

15. Loudon,G.H., Pellijeff,O. and Li,Z.W.. A Method for Handwriting Input and Correction on Smartphones, Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Amsterdam, (2000).

16. Loudon,G.H. and Sacher,H.. Insights into a wireless interaction paradigm: A 3G concept study, Ericsson’s Conference on Usability Engineering – ECUE 2002, (2002), March.

17. Loudon,G.H., Sacher,H., and Yu, L.. The impact of video usage in mobile communication, Third Wireless World Conference: The Social Shaping of Mobile Futures, July (2002).

18. Loudon,G.H., Sacher,H. and Leong,M.K.. Design Issues for Mobile Information Retrieval, Mobile Personal Information Retrieval Workshop, SIGIR 2002, August (2002).

19. Gill, S., Loudon, G., Hewett, B., Barham, G.: How to Design and Prototype an Information Appliance in 24 Hours – Integrating Product & Interface Design Processes; The proceedings of The 6th international conference on Computer-Aided Industrial Design & Conceptual Design, Delft University of Technology, May 29 – June 1, 2005

20. Gill, S., Johnson, P., Dale, J., Loudon, G., Hewett, B. and Barham, G.: The Traditional Design Process Versus A New Design Methodology: A Comparative Case Study Of A Rapidly Designed Information Appliance; Human Oriented Informatics and Telematics Conference 2005, University of York

21. Loudon, G., Gill, S. and Walker, D. How Different Prototyping Methods for Information Appliance Design Affect Usability Test Results Poster presentation at the Usability Professionals Association Conference, Broomfield, Colorado, June 12 – 16, 2006

22. Reichert, F., Häber, A., Gerdes, M. , Fasbender, A., and Loudon, G. (2006) ““Sven and the Media Portal” A Nomadic Use Case for the Extended Home,” 15th IST Mobile & Wireless Communication Summit, June 4-8, 2006

23. Hare, J., Gill, S., Loudon, G., Ramduny-Ellis, R., and Dix, A. (2009) “Physical Fidelity: Exploring the importance of physicality on physical-digital conceptual prototyping” – proceedings of INTERACT 2009, the 12th IFIP TC13 Conference in Human-Computer Interaction, August 24-28, Sweden.

24. Culverhouse, I., Gill, S., Woolley, A., and Loudon, G. (2009): “Construct, Deconstruct and Reconstruct: Exploring interactive sketching of information appliances” – proceedings of the International Association of Scoieties of Design Research (IASDR) Conference, October 18-22, Seoul Korea.

OTHERS

1. Loudon, G.H. (2005) “Understanding customer need during new product development:
The application of ethnography”, Light Minds White Paper.