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Chapter and Conference Paper
Distributing Event Information by Simulating Word-of-Mouth Exchanges
Word-of-mouth is a persuasive but error-prone and unreliable mode of communicating personally relevant event information in a university environment. In this paper we present a design, early prototype, and the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Machine Learning Approaches for Inducing Student Models
The main issue in e-learning is student modelling, i.e. the analysis of a student’s behaviour and prediction of his/her future behaviour and learning performance. Indeed, it is difficult to monitor the student...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Incremental Induction of Classification Rules for Cultural Heritage Documents
This work presents the application of a first-order logic incremental learning system, INTHELEX, to learn rules for the automatic identification of a wide range of significant document classes and their relate...
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Ambient Intelligence Through Agile Agents
The vision of ambient intelligence is one where the populas is supported in the conductance of their everyday lives through the pro-active, opportunistic support of non-intrusive computing devices offering int...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exploitation in Affect Detection in Improvisational E-Drama
We report progress on adding affect-detection to a program for virtual dramatic improvisation, monitored by a human director. To aid the director, we have partially implemented emotion detection. within users’...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Developments in Affect Detection from Text in Open-Ended Improvisational E-Drama
We report progress on adding affect-detection to an existing program for virtual dramatic improvisation, monitored by a human director. To partially automate the directors’ functions, we have partially impleme...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Context-Aware Dynamic Personalised Service Re-composition in a Pervasive Service Environment
A pervasive environment needs to take account of a user’s context and preferences in determining which services to provide to the user. Moreover, one of the important features of a pervasive service environmen...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Haptic Interaction System for Co-evolution with Reactive Virtual Human
Interactions that provide motivating activities, and perform mutual feedback truly in human-scale spaces, were not suggested in any studies. In this paper, we propose and implement a haptic interaction system ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Penetration Testing of OPC as Part of Process Control Systems
We have performed penetration testing on OPC, which is a central component in process control systems on oil installations. We have shown how a malicious user with different privileges – outside the network, a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A CBR System for Knowing the Relationship between Flexibility and Operations Strategy
Changing environments are driving firms towards the development of new techniques for the decision making process in order to fit rapidly with alterations and adjustments of the market. In this context, the re...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Little Big Difference: Gender Aspects and Gender-Based Adaptation in Educational Games
Computer games are tremendously successful and this is why the potential of using this medium for educational purposes is increasingly recognized and researched. However, as new learning technologies need to b...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Colour Image Segmentation Based on a Spiking Neural Network Model Inspired by the Visual System
The human visual system demonstrates powerful image processing functionalities. Inspired by the visual system, a spiking neural network is proposed to segment visual images. The network is constructed in the t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
How Our Personality Shapes Our Interactions with Virtual Characters - Implications for Research and Development
There is a general lack of awareness for the influence of users´ personality traits on human-agent-interaction (HAI). Numerous studies do not even consider explanatory variables like age and gender although th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Generation of Hypertext for Web-Based Learning Based on Wikification
This paper presents a preliminary study into the conversion of plain text documents into hypertext for web-based learning. The novelty of this approach is the generation of two types of hyperlinks: links to Wi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Peering Inside Peer Review with Bayesian Models
Instructors and students would benefit more from computer-supported peer review, if instructors received information on how well students have understood the conceptual issues underlying the writing assignment...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Acoustic Correlates of Deceptive Speech – An Exploratory Study
The current work sets out to enhance our knowledge of changes or lack of changes in the speech signal when people are being deceptive. In particular, the study attempted to investigate the appropriateness of u...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Fundamental Principle of Coactive Design: Interdependence Must Shape Autonomy
This article presents the fundamental principle of Coactive Design, a new approach being developed to address the increasingly sophisticated roles for both people and agents in mixed human-agent systems. The fund...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Display Requirements for an Interactive Rail Scheduling Display
This work, a collaboration between Alstom Transport and the MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory (HAL), is focused on the development of an interactive in-cab scheduling interface for train operators. Currentl...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map for Images Hierarchical Clustering
This paper presents approaches to hierarchical clustering of images using a GHSOM in application as image search engine. It is analysed some hierarchical clustering and SOMs variants. Experiments are based on ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cognitive Engineering of Automated Assembly Processes
A novel approach to cognitive automation of assembly processes is introduced. An experimental assembly cell with two robots has been designed to proof the concept. The cell’s numerical control – termed a cogni...