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Journal Papers  

• Berber-Solano, T.P., Ajovalasit, M. and Giacomin, J., 2010, Facilitating the driver detection of road surface type by selective manipulation of the steering wheel acceleration signal. Paper in Press in the Proceedings of the IMechE, Part D - Journal of Automobile Engineering.

• Giacomin, J. 2009, Its all about you, Engineering Designer, Institution of Engineering Designers, November/December.

• Rodgers, P. and Giacomin, J. 2009, Group effort: manifesto of a new collaborative design group, design education, newdesign, issue seventythree.

• Antonelli, M. G., Beomonte Zobel, P. and Giacomin, J. 2009, Use of MMG signals for the control of powered orthotic devices: development of a rectus femoris measurement protocol, Assistive Technology, Vol. 21, pp 1-12 .

• Abbott, M., Holland, R., Giacomin, J and Shackleton, J. 2009, Changing the affective content in brand and product attributes, Journal of Product & Brand Management, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp 17-26.

• Ajovalasit, M. and Giacomin, J., 2009, Non-linear dependency of the subjective perceived intensity of steering wheel rotational vibration. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, Vol. 39, No 1, pp 58 -67.

• Jeon, B., Ajovalasit, M. and Giacomin, J., 2009, Effects of gender differences on the subjective perceived intensity of steering wheel rotational vibration. Article in Press in the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics.

• Ajovalasit, M. and Giacomin, J, 2009, A Survey Study of Steering Wheel Vibration and Sound in Automobiles at Idle.  Journal of Engineering Integrity Society, Vol. 26, March, pp 6-14..

• Giacomin, J. 2007, Life and soul: Professor Joseph Giacomin draws us into the 21st century where products are demonstrating activity, intelligence and emotion, Newdesign, Issuefortynine.

• Ajovalasit, M. and Giacomin, J. 2007, Effect of automobile operating condition on the subjective equivalence of steering wheel vibration and sound, Int. J. Vehicle Noise and Vibration, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp 197-215.

• Giacomin, J. 2007, Apparent mass of small children: modelling, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp 183-195.

• Hacaambwa, T.M. and Giacomin, J. 2007, Subjective response to seated fore-and-aft direction whole-body vibration, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, Vol. 37, No.1, pp 61-72.

• Gnanasekaran, S., Ajovalasit, M. and Giacomin, J. 2006, Driver estimation of steering wheel vibration intensity : laboratory-based tests, Engineering Integrity, Vol. 20, September, pp 25-31.
   
• Abdullah, S., Choi, J.C., Giacomin, J.A. and Yates, J.R. 2006, Bump extraction algorithm for variable amplitude fatigue loading, International Journal of Fatigue, Vol. 28, Issue 7, July, pp 675-691.
   
• Scarpa, F., Giacomin, J., Zhang, Y. and Pastorino, P. 2005, Mechanical performance of auxetic polyurethane foam for antivibration glove applications, Cellular Polymers, Vol 24, No. 5, pp 1-16.
   
• Giacomin, J. and Gnanasekaran, S. 2005, Driver estimation of steering wheel vibration intensity : questionnaire-based survey, Engineering Integrity, Vol. 18, September, pp 23-29.
   
• Giacomin, J. 2005, Perception Enhancement for Steer-by-Wire Systems, ATA Ingegneria dell' Autoveicolo, Vol. 58, No. 8/9, Sept./Oct.
   
• Giacomin, J. and Screti, A. 2005, Upper body discomfort due to driving: effect of driving experience, gender and vehicle age, Zeitschrift Arbeitswissenschaft, 5, pp 409-418.
     
• Giacomin, J. and Woo,Y.J. 2005, A study of the human ability to detect road surface type based on steering wheel vibration feedback, Proceedings of the IMechE, Part D - Journal of Automobile Engineering, Vol. 219, No. 11 , pp 1259-1270.
   
• Giacomin, J. and Woo, Y.J. 2005, Steering System Vibration : Information and Perception Enhancement, ATZ Automobiltechnische Zeitschrift, Vol. 107, No. 5, pp 422-429. (English language version)
   
• Giacomin, J. and Woo, Y.J. 2005, Steering System Vibration : Information and Perception Enhancement, ATZ Automobiltechnische Zeitschrift, Vol. 107, No. 5, pp 422-429. (German language version)
   
• Ajovalasit, M. and Giacomin, J. 2005, Human subjective response to steering wheel vibration caused by diesel engine idle, Proceedings of the IMechE, Part D - Journal of Automobile Engineering, Vol 219, No. 4, pp 499-510.
   
• Giacomin, J. and Fustes, F. 2005, Subjective Equivalence of Steering Wheel Vibration and Sound, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, Vol. 35, 517-526.
   
• Giacomin, J. 2005, Absorbed power of small children, Clinical Biomechanics, Vol. 20, pp 372-380.
   
• Giacomin, J. 2004, Apparent mass of small children: experimental measurements, Ergonomics, Vol. 47, No. 13, pp 1454-1474.
   
• Giacomin, J. and Woo, Y.J. 2004, Beyond comfort: information content and perception enhancement, Engineering Integrity, Vol. 16, July, pp 8-16.
   
• Giacomin, J. and Ajovalasit, M. 2004, Human perception of diesel engine idle vibration, ATA Ingegneria dell'Autoveicolo, Vol. 57, N.5/6, pp 52-56.
   
• Giacomin, J., Shayaa, M.S., Dormegnie, E. and Richard, L., 2004, Frequency weighting for the evaluation of steering wheel rotational vibration, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, Vol. 33, pp 527-541.
   
• Abdullah, S., Giacomin, J.A. and Yates, J.R. 2004, A mission synthesis algorithm for fatigue damage analysis, Proceedings of the IMechE, Part D - Journal of Automobile Engineering, Vol. 218, pp 243-258.
   
• Giacomin, J. and Gallo, S. 2003, In-vehicle vibration study of child safety seats, Ergonomics, Vol. 46, No. 15, pp 1500-1512.
   
• Ajovalasit, M. and Giacomin, J. 2003, Analysis of variations in diesel engine idle vibration, Proceedings of the IMechE, Part D - Journal of Automobile Engineering, Vol. 217, No. 10, pp. 921-933.
   
• Steinwolf, A., Giacomin, J.A. and Staszewski, W.J. 2002, On the need for bump event correction in vibration test profiles representing road excitations in automobiles, Proceedings of the ImechE, Part D - Journal of Automobile Engineering, Vol. 216, pp 279-295.
   
• Giacomin, J. and Mackenzie, T.J.P. 2001, Human sensitivity to gearshift loads, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, Vol. 27, pp 187-195.
   
• Giacomin, J., Steinwolf, A. and Staszewski, W.J. 2000, An algorithm for mildly nonstationary mission synthesis [MNMS], Engineering Integrity, Vol. 7, January, pp 44-56.
   
• Giacomin, J. 2000, Some observations regarding the vibrational environment in child safety seats, Applied Ergonomics, Vol. 31, pp 207-215.
   
• Giacomin, J. and Quattrocolo, S, 1997, An analysis of human comfort when entering and exiting the rear seat of an automobile, Applied Ergonomics, Vol. 28, No. 5/6, pp 397-406.
   
• Giacomin J. 1991, Neural network simulation of an automotive shock absorber. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 59-64.

Conference Papers

• Ajovalasit, M. and Giacomin, J. 2007, Hand-arm equal sensation curves for steering wheel rotational vibration, 11th International Conference on Hand-Arm Vibration, HAV 11 Bologna, Italy, June 3-7th.

• Giacomin, J. A. and Berber-Solano, T. P. 2006, Effect of Transient Event Frequency Content and Scale on the Human Detection of Road Surface Type. Joint Baltic-Nordic Acoustics Meeting 2006, BNAM2006, Gothenburg, Sweden, November 8-10th.

• Ajovalasit, M. and Giacomin, J. 2006, Effect of automobile operating condition on the subjective equivalence of steering wheel vibration and sound, International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering ISMA 2006, Leuven, Belgium, September 18-20th.

• Woo, Y.J. and Giacomin, J. 2006, The role of the scale and the frequency bandwidth of steering wheel vibration on road surface recognition, 8th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control (AVEC '06),Taipei, Taiwan, Aug 20-24th.

• Scarpa, F., Giacomin, J.A., Bezazi, A. and Bullough, W.A. 2006, Dynamic behavior and damping capacity of auxetic foam pads, Proceedings of Smart Structures and Materials Conference, SPIE Vol. 6169, San Diego, CA, Feb. 26th to March 2nd.
   
• Berber-Solano, T.P. and Giacomin, J.A. 2005, Perception enhancement system for automotive steering, Annual Conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE 2005), Chania, Crete, Greece, Sept. 29 to Oct. 1.
   
• Abdullah, S., Yates, J.R. and Giacomin, J.A. 2004, A mission synthesis algorithm for editing variable amplitude fatigue signals, International Conference on Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment (ESIA7), Manchester, United Kingdom, 20-21st October.
   
• Abdullah, S., Giacomin, J.A., Yates, J.R. and Choi, J.C., 2004, An experimental validation of the fatigue damaging events extracted using the Wavelet Bump Extraction (WBE) algorithm, 12th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (ICEM12), Bari, Italy, 29th August to 2nd September.
   
• Abdullah, S., Giacomin, J.A. and Yates, J.R. 2004, Identification of fatigue damaging events using a wavelet-based fatigue data editing algorithm, 15th European Conference of Fracture (ECF15), Stockholm, Sweden, 11-13th August.
   
• Abdullah,S., Yates, J.R. and Giacomin, J.A. 2003, Wavelet Bump Extraction (WBE) algorithm for the analysis of fatigue damage, Fifth International Conference on Low Cycle Fatigue, 9th-11th September, Berlin, Germany.
   
• Shayaa, M.S., Giacomin, J., Dormegnie, E. and Richard, L. 2001, Human perception of sinusoidal steering wheel rotational vibration, 36th UK Group Conference on Human Responses to Vibration, Centre for Human Sciences, Farnborough, UK, 12th-14th Sept.
   
• Giacomin, J., Steinwolf, A. and Staszewski, W.J. 2001, Application of Mildly Nonstationary Mission Synthesis (MNMS) to Automotive Road Data, ATA 7th International Conference on the Role of Experimentation in the Modern Automotive Product Development Process, 23-25 May, Florence, Italy
   
• Giacomin, J. and Hacaambwa, T. 2001, Performance of ISO2631 and BS6841 Comfort Criteria for Evaluating Automobile Road Vibrations, ATA 7th International Conference on the Role of Experimentation in the Modern Automotive Product Development Process, 23-25 May, Florence, Italy
   
• Giacomin, J. and Abrahams, O. 2000, Human fatigue due to automobile steering wheel vibration, SIA Conference on Car and Train Comfort, Nov. 15-16, LeMans, France
   
• Giacomin, J., Steinwolf, A. and Staszewski, W.J. 1999, A vibration mission synthesis algorithm for mildly nonstationary road data, ATA 6th International Conference on the New Role of Experimentation in the Modern Automotive Product Development Process, 17-19 Nov., Florence, Italy
   
• Giacomin, J. and Onesti, C. 1999, Effect of frequency and grip force on the perception of steering wheel rotational vibration, ATA 6th International Conference on the New Role of Experimentation in the Modern Automotive Product Development Process, 17-19 Nov., Florence, Italy
   
• Giacomin, J., Scarpa, F. and Caretto, L. 1998, Some observations regarding the nonlinearity of person/seat frequency response functions, International Conference on Noise and Vibration Eng. (ISMA 23), Leuven, Belgium, Sept. 16-18
   
• Giacomin, J. 1997, Modal properties of child safety seats, ATA 4th International Conference on Comfort in the Automobile Industry, Bologna, Italy, October 2-3
   
• Giacomin, J. and Bretin, S. 1997, Measurement of the comfort of automobile clutch pedal actuation, ATA 4th International Conference on Comfort in the Automobile Industry,
  Bologna, Italy, October 2-3
   
• Giacomin, J. 1997, In-vehicle measurement of the apparent mass of small children, United Kingdom Group Meeting on Human Response to Vibration, ISVR, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, September 17-19 
   
• Staszewski, W.J. and Giacomin, J. 1997, Application of the wavelet based FRF's to the analysis of nonstationary vehicle vibration, 15th International Modal Analysis Conference IMAC, Orlando Florida, U.S.A., February 3-6
   
• Giacomin, J. 1996, Vibration characteristics of child safety seats, Conference Metodologie per L'Ergonomia, Torino, Italy, November 21
   
• Giacomin J. and Bracco R. 1995, An experimental approach for the vibration optimisation of automotive seats. ATA 3rd International Conference on Vehicle Comfort and Ergonomics, Bologna, Italy, March 29-31