Sooyeon Jeong,Laura Aymerich-Franch,Kika Arias et al. Sooyeon Jeong et al.

Despite the increase in awareness and support for mental health, college students' mental health is reported to decline every year in many countries. Several interactive technologies for mental health have been proposed and are aiming to ma...

Yun Huang,Steven Dang,J Elizabeth Richey et al. Yun Huang et al.

Gaming the system, a behavior in which learners exploit a system's properties to make progress while avoiding learning, has frequently been shown to be associated with lower learning. However, when we applied a previously validated gaming d...

Patrícia Alves,Helena Martins,Pedro Saraiva et al. Patrícia Alves et al.

To travel in leisure is an emotional experience, and therefore, the more the information about the tourist is known, the more the personalized recommendations of places and attractions can be made. But if to provide recommendations to a tou...

Gerard Canal,Carme Torras,Guillem Alenyà Gerard Canal

Task planning in human-robot environments tends to be particularly complex as it involves additional uncertainty introduced by the human user. Several plans, entailing few or various differences, can be obtained to solve the same given task...

Min Hun Lee,Daniel P Siewiorek,Asim Smailagic et al. Min Hun Lee et al.

Socially assistive robots are increasingly being explored to improve the engagement of older adults and people with disability in health and well-being-related exercises. However, even if people have various physical conditions, most prior ...

Alexia Dini Kounoudes,Georgia M Kapitsaki,Ioannis Katakis Alexia Dini Kounoudes

In the IoT era, sensitive and non-sensitive data are recorded and transmitted to multiple service providers and IoT platforms, aiming to improve the quality of our lives through the provision of high-quality services. However, in some cases...

Barry Smyth,Aonghus Lawlor,Jakim Berndsen et al. Barry Smyth et al.

Every year millions of people, from all walks of life, spend months training to run a traditional marathon. For some it is about becoming fit enough to complete the gruelling 26.2 mile (42.2 km) distance. For others, it is about improving t...

Riccardo De Benedictis,Alessandro Umbrico,Francesca Fracasso et al. Riccardo De Benedictis et al.

Socially assistive robotics (SAR) aims at designing robots capable of guaranteeing social interaction to human users in a variety of assistance scenarios that range, e.g., from giving reminders for medications to monitoring of Activity of D...

Noemi Mauro,Zhongli Filippo Hu,Liliana Ardissono Noemi Mauro

With the increasing demand for predictable and accountable Artificial Intelligence, the ability to explain or justify recommender systems results by specifying how items are suggested, or why they are relevant, has become a primary goal. Ho...

Vishal Kuvar,Nathaniel Blanchard,Alexander Colby et al. Vishal Kuvar et al.

Task-unrelated thought (TUT), commonly referred to as mind wandering, is a mental state where a person's attention moves away from the task-at-hand. This state is extremely common, yet not much is known about how to measure it, especially d...