322 subjects participated in an experimental study to investigate the effects of tactile,
olfactory, audio and visual sensory cues on a participant's sense of presence in a virtual …

Chatbots are simple conversational agents using “pattern matching rules” to carry out the
dialogue with the user and various expedients to improve their credibility. However, the rules …

In the last decade, there has been a growing interest in emotion analysis research, which
has been applied in several areas of computer science. Many authors have contributed to …

A system aimed at facilitating the interaction between a human user and an humanoid robot
is presented. The system is suited to answer questions about laboratories activities, people …

The advent of advanced user interface devices has raised the interest of industry and
academia in finding new modes of Human-Computer Interaction. Advanced interfaces …

This paper discusses the design of a PDA-driven remote display control system which was
designed for a pervasive computing scenario. Our solution enables a PDA to perform as an …

Mobile computing is becoming ubiquitous across many areas including education. Many of
the education-based applications are targeted toward the student as the end-user and trying …

In this paper a multi-method approach is used to setup and validate a monitoring system
applied to a small sailing boat during real sailing conditions. This monitoring system is able …

Finding the maximum common subgraph of a pair of given graphs is a well-known task in
theoretical computer science and with considerable practical applications, for example, in …

The health sector has traditionally been one of the early adopters of databases, from the
most simple Electronic Health Record (formerly Computer-Based Patient Record) systems in …