Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
In the intellectual property field two tasks are of high relevance: prior art searching and patent classification. Prior art search is fundamental for many strategic issues such as...
Douglas Teodoro, Julien Gobeill, Emilie Pasche, Di...
Abstract. Traditional parallel programming methodologies for improving performance assume cache-based parallel systems. However, new architectures, like the IBM Cyclops-64 (C64), b...
Elkin Garcia, Ioannis E. Venetis, Rishi Khan, Guan...
Today's mobile phones represent a rich and powerful computing platform, given their sensing, processing and communication capabilities. Phones are also part of the everyday l...
Kiran K. Rachuri, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo,...
One of the major challenges in the design of social technologies is the evaluation of their qualities of use and how they are appropriated over time. While the field of HCI abound...