Social Virtual Reality (social VR or SVR) provides digital spaces for diverse human activities,
social interactions, and embodied face-to-face encounters. While our digital bodies in SVR …

The Metaverse offers a second world beyond reality, where boundaries are non-existent,
and possibilities are endless through engagement and immersive experiences using the …

Code authorship attribution is the process of identifying the author of a given code. With
increasing numbers of malware and advanced mutation techniques, the authors of malware …

Abstract Machine ethics and robot rights are quickly becoming hot topics in artificial
intelligence/robotics communities. We will argue that the attempts to allow machines to make …

This paper attempts to formalize and to address the 'leakproofing'of the Singularity problem
presented by David Chalmers. The paper begins with the definition of the Artificial …

Cognitive consumer electronics (CE), the fastest-growing sector worldwide that is driven by
machine intelligence and cognitive systems, is triggered and enabled by audio-and video …

Abstract Machine ethics and robot rights are quickly becoming hot topics in artificial
intelligence and robotics communities. We will argue that attempts to attribute moral agency …

This chapter investigates how existing biometric research can be advanced by integrating it
with the social behavioural information. Analytical discussions on how social behavioural …

Domestic and industrial robots, intelligent software agents, virtual-world avatars, and other
artificial entities are being created and deployed in our society for various routine and …

Criminal activity in virtual worlds is becoming a major problem for law enforcement
agencies. Forensic investigators are becoming interested in being able to accurately and …