11 Result(s)
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Ana Almeida
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Toward Collaborative Scheduling
The scheduling process, usually involve the evaluation and selection of one alternative between a set of them. These decisions are not trivial, considering that they usually involve multiple, and sometimes con...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Intelligent Hybrid Architecture for Tourism Services
This paper presents an artificial intelligence-based architecture to be used in various tourism services, namely the user modeling and recommender system components. Through the use of several machine learning...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Some Evidences of the Impact of Environment’s Design Features in Routes Selection in Virtual Environments
This paper reports results from a research project investigating users’ navigation in a Virtual Environment (VE), using immersive Virtual Reality. The experiment was conducted to study the extent that certain ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Providing Location Everywhere
The ability to locate an individual is an essential part of many applications, specially the mobile ones. Obtaining this location in an open environment is relatively simple through GPS (Global Positioning Sys...
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Affect Recognition
This survey describes the advances in affect recognition from the first emotion theories and models to affective computer techniques used in affect detection. These techniques allow the recognition of human bo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Web 2.0: Tagging Usefulness
User tagging in social networks has emerged in the recent years like a very promising way of new knowledge extraction. Our work focus is to understand tags importance and the correlation between them and user ...
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Methodological Framework for Control Centres Evaluation and Optimization
Workers in control centers often pay attention to a large amount of information from several sources and must be able to identify, at all times, the system state to, in an emergency, take correct decisions. In...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Including Emotion in Learning Process
The purpose of this paper is to propose new architecture that includes the student’s, learning preferences, personality traits and emotions to adapt the user interface and learning path to the students need an...
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Artificial Neural Networks in Diagnosis of Liver Diseases
Liver diseases have severe patients’ consequences, being one of the main causes of premature death. These facts reveal the centrality of one`s daily habits, and how important it is the early diagnosis of these...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Emotion Effects on Online Learning
Learning is understood as an educational activity which aims to help develop the capacities of individuals. These capabilities make individuals able to establish a personal relationship with the environment in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Compliance with Static vs. Dynamic Warnings in Workplaces such as Warehouses: A Study Using Virtual Reality
The static nature of traditional warnings cannot always capture the user’s attention. The effectiveness of a warning refers to the way in which it prompts the user to engage in safe behavior. It is known that ...
