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DCAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
The Intelligent Butler: A Virtual Agent for Disabled and Elderly People Assistance
Abstract. Social assistance constitutes an increasing problem in developed countries, which can be considered from two dimensions: the home and the hospital frameworks. Anyway, mos...
Gabriel Fiol-Roig, Diana Arellano, Francisco J. Pe...
AAAI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Towards a Cognitive Model of Crowd Behavior Based on Social Comparison Theory
Models of crowd behavior facilitate analysis and prediction of human group behavior, where people are affected by each other’s presence. Unfortunately, existing models leave man...
Natalie Fridman, Gal A. Kaminka
FIS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Towards an Ontological Foundation for Services Science
Most of the efforts conducted on services nowadays are focusing on aspects related to data and control flow, often disregarding the main goal of the future Internet of services, na...
Roberta Ferrario, Nicola Guarino
MOBIHOC
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Dissemination in opportunistic social networks: the role of temporal communities
: Epidemic content dissemination in opportunistic social networks (OSN) has been analyzed in depth, theoretically and empirically. Most related works have studied the pairwise cont...
Anna Kaisa Pietiläinen, Christophe Diot
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
How anthropomorphism affects empathy toward robots
A long-standing question within the robotics community is about the degree of human-likeness robots ought to have when interacting with humans. We explore an unexamined aspect of ...
Laurel D. Riek, Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, Bhismadev Ch...