Then we went next door to Zarraffas, the actual purpose of the post lunch trip, to work on her Bayesian network for passenger wayfinding at the airport. This was really fun - I've never done something like that before. Basically, from my perspective, it was all about thinking what influences the quality of wayfinding at an airport...things like human system and airport system, what they are composed of (eg signs, iconography, pathways, spatial design, language, speaker systems for announcements etc). It was quite interesting putting it all together. More on this in Day 22.
I also looked at an invitation to contribute to a special issue of a newish journal called "Cancers". It's an issue on tumour immune system interactions (which I have done a little modelling of). It's not really the kind of journal that I can publish in - it's quite focussed on experimental work. But I have written to the guest editor asking if they might be interested in a short paper of a few pages, discussing the methods I use (hybrid cellular automata essentially) and how they can be employed as a pre-experimental stage to refine hypotheses etc and hopefully save some money on experiments. Haven't heard back yet...but hopefully they will be interested - it's always good to get the word out to the experimental community.
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