— This article presents the design of Iromec, a modular robot companion tailored towards engaging in social exchanges with children with different disabilities with the aim to em...
Acknowledging the social functions that emotions serve, there has been growing interest in the interpersonal effect of emotion in human decision making. Following the paradigm of e...
Celso M. de Melo, Peter Carnevale, Jonathan Gratch
We investigate services giving users an adequate insight on his or her energy consumption habits in order to optimize it in the long run. The explored energy awareness services are...
Abstract. We present the data modeling concepts of Tricia, an opensource Java platform used to implement enterprise web information systems as well as social software solutions inc...
This paper describes results from a large-scale survey to explore users’ comfort with different styles of avatars for workplace communication. Thirty-one avatars were evaluated ...