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Virtual Reality (VR) in Safety Education: A Case Study of Mining Engineering (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chang, H., Pan, Z., & Cristea, A. I. (2024, July). Virtual Reality (VR) in Safety Education: A Case Study of Mining Engineering. Presented at AIED 2024: Artificial Intelligence in Education, Recife, Brazil

Safety education and training are vital in the mining industry. However, traditional training relies on passive modalities, such as lectures, videos and brochures. These suffer from sever limitations - poor reproducibility, inefficient resource utili... Read More about Virtual Reality (VR) in Safety Education: A Case Study of Mining Engineering.

Towards Neuro-Enhanced Education: A Systematic Review of BCI-Assisted Development for Non-academic Skills and Abilities (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pan, Z., & Cristea, A. I. (2024, June). Towards Neuro-Enhanced Education: A Systematic Review of BCI-Assisted Development for Non-academic Skills and Abilities. Presented at ITS 2024: Generative Intelligence and Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Thessaloniki, Greece

Students’ success in the 21st century demands not only strong academic skills but also well-developed Non-academic Skills and Abilities (NaSAs) such as critical thinking, concentration, and emotion regulation. The emerging field of Brain-Computer Int... Read More about Towards Neuro-Enhanced Education: A Systematic Review of BCI-Assisted Development for Non-academic Skills and Abilities.

Reducing University Students’ Exam Anxiety via Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in VR with Real-Time EEG Neurofeedback (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pan, Z., Cristea, A. I., & Li, F. W. B. (2024, July). Reducing University Students’ Exam Anxiety via Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in VR with Real-Time EEG Neurofeedback. Presented at AIED 2024: Artificial Intelligence in Education, Recife, Brazil

This research aims to develop and evaluate a novel approach to reduce university students’ exam anxiety and teach them how to better manage it using a personalised, emotion-informed Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) method, delivered within... Read More about Reducing University Students’ Exam Anxiety via Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in VR with Real-Time EEG Neurofeedback.

Prediction of sentiment polarity in restaurant reviews using an ordinal regression approach based on evolutionary XGBoost (2024)
Journal Article
Al-Qudah, D. A., Al-Zoubi, A. M., Cristea, A. I., Merelo-Guervós, J. J., Castillo, P. A., & Faris, H. (in press). Prediction of sentiment polarity in restaurant reviews using an ordinal regression approach based on evolutionary XGBoost. PeerJ Computer Science,

Elgizouli v Secretary of State for the Home Department: mutual legal assistance and the death penalty (Case Comment) (2020)
Journal Article
Almutawa, A., & Walker, C. (2020). Elgizouli v Secretary of State for the Home Department: mutual legal assistance and the death penalty (Case Comment). European Human Rights Law Review, 2020(5), 533-541

Comments on Elgizouli v Secretary of State for the Home Department (SC) on the lawfulness under common law and the Data Protection Act 2018 of transferring personal data to the US authorities in response to their request for mutual legal assistance i... Read More about Elgizouli v Secretary of State for the Home Department: mutual legal assistance and the death penalty (Case Comment).