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The ability to act in a socially-aware way is a key skill for robots that share a space with humans. In this paper we address the problem of socially-aware navigation among people that meets objective criteria such as travel time or path length as well as subjective criteria such as social comfort. Opposed to model-based approaches typically taken in related work, we pose the problem as an unsupervised...
Domestic scholars have given a multi-disciplinary research and practical try for context. In this paper, the author gave analysis on role played by context in the elements of political perception's antecedent, adjustment and, and then discussed impact effectiveness of context for organizational politics perception existed in organizational behavior. The paper summed up context and measurement elements...
Thus far, lifestyle advisory system has become increasingly popular in both developing and developed countries. Among other essential features, personalisation is considered a defining factor that differentiates a system from apparently similar ones. Aiming to assist human health advisors and encourage individual's self-management, HOMEVMI supports personalisation through dynamic and context-aware...
This work applies nonlinear dynamics to model the encoded time series describing human activities performed in the spatio-temporal domain. We augment the concepts of symbolic dynamics and formal language theory to pattern recognition in generating probabilistic feature extraction which are used to drive a Bayesian classifier for behavior recognition. Our motivation for using stochastic context-free...
In this paper, we propose an approach to detect scene geometrical structure given only one monocular image. Several typical scene geometries are investigated and corresponding models are built. A scene geometry reasoning system is set up based on image statistical features and scene geometric features. This system is able to find best fitting geometric models for most of the images from the benchmark...
Large-format displays, in particular tiled displays, remain actively used and researched today after almost two decades since their conception. Many government, academic, and commercial entities have invested considerably in the construction and use of large-format displays. During this time we have developed new applications but have also discovered faulty assumptions. This position paper evaluates...
This paper introduces new objective related knowledge driven product feature definition method in order to achieve better human influence on feature definition in model based product engineering. The proposed method utilizes earlier relevant results by the authors in knowledge communication intensive product modeling and it is devoted as a contribution to solution for some actual problems in current...
Enterprises and industrial companies strive to improve their functional performance by identification of core competencies in order to utilize human resources and optimise the knowledge integration processes of the company. In addition, maintenance operations are one of the most important sections in industrial companies which consist of key personnel and also explicit and implicit knowledge resources...
Advancements in Service-Oriented Architectures, Cloud Computing and Wireless Sensor Networks pose challenges with respect to dynamic application adaptation, the ability to reconfigure applications so as to support continuous, unimpeded augmentation of services in response to changing environmental circumstances. Proactivity of Service Based applications refers to anticipatory, change-oriented and...
In order to facilitate integration into domestic and public environments, companion robots can seek to communicate in a familiar, “socially intelligent” manner, recognizing typical behaviors which people direct toward them. One important type of behavior to recognize is the displaying and seeking of affection, which is fundamentally associated with the modality of touch. This paper identifies how...
Recent behavioral and cultural changes driven by the paradigm of mass collaboration highlighted the phenomenon of crowdsourcing as an innovative and promising production model, with positive effects in several business areas. In the field of music, the so called wave of crowds has fostered creative processes where people from anywhere in the world with Internet access can collaborate in different...
Interlocutors, express not only information in the form of spoken words but also their feelings and commitments with regard to what is being said. In face-to-face communication participants interact in such a way that they react to one another's multimodal positioning in the conversation. Often this means that they take a "stance". The goal of this paper is to explore the notion of stance...
Collective problem solving can lead to the development of new methods and algorithms that can potentially contribute to novel Artificial Intelligence applications and tools. Socially-inspired optimization algorithms are a class of algorithms that aim at conducting a search over a large solution space using mechanisms similar to how humans solve problems in a social context. Several such algorithms...
While the analysis of online social networks is a prominent research topic, offline real-world networks are still not covered extensively. However, their analysis can provide important insights into human behavior. In this paper, we analyze influence factors for link prediction in human contact networks. Specifically, we consider the prediction of new links, and extend it to the analysis of recurring...
This is a design project and research which attempts to look at the attribute of ‘Quirky’ as an aesthetic that hopes to provide tools to conceptualize the ‘wants’ of single user into the ‘needs’ of many.
This paper provides a conceptual discussion on the role accounting practices and procedures play in an organisational transformation on its impact on changes in accounting processes and practices. The discussion deliberates on the institutional theories of both New Institutional Sociology (NIS) and neo Old Institutional Economics (neo OIE) in discussing the reasons for an organisational to transform...
As one of the most important achievements during the last decade in product lifecycle management (PLM), contextual object definition became main integrating factor in product models. In this paper, the authors introduce their recent results in contextual product modeling. Four aspects of contextual product object definition are discussed and recent related results are introduced. The aspects are contextual...
The recent economic growth in Brazil has resulted in a strong demand for human resources qualification. Software Engineering education, in Brazil, offers qualifications at all levels: undergraduate, further education and postgraduate. However, current market demand indicates a mismatch between the academic provision and the industrial demand. To address this mismatch, it is important to take into...
The strong revenue generating engines of mobile social games have caught attention of both researchers and the industry. The analysis of revenue-generating engines has identified the characteristics of service engineering in the era of social media and services. One such finding is that mobile social game design creates different types of satisfaction with a single service, which is unique in social...
Service composition has been acknowledged as a promising approach to create new (composite) services that are capable of supporting multiple needs of service users. Service composition has been used quite extensively to support complex but relatively stable enterprise processes. More recently, service composition is also being applied to support the personalization of services delivered to human end-users...
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