Exploring the relationship between social presence, conversational expressiveness, and robot acceptance, we set up an experiment with a robot in an eldercare institution, comparing...
Abstract--Social networking on the Web has become an integral part of our lives. Merging of computing with physical things enabled the conversion of everyday objects into informati...
In this paper, we present a software framework, called HDS (Heterogeneous Distributed System), that tries to simplify the realization of distributed applications and, in particular...
Abstract. This paper describes the design and evaluation of an adaptive museum guide for families. In the Kurio system, a mixture of embedded and tangible technology imbues the mus...
Marek Hatala, Karen Tanenbaum, Ron Wakkary, Kevin ...
In this paper we present the IDUM system, a successful application of logic programming to e-tourism. IDUM exploits two technologies that are based on the state-of-the-art ASP syst...
Francesco Ricca, Antonella Dimasi, Giovanni Grasso...