The human dimension plays an essential role in the energy performance of buildings and is
considered as significant as technological advances. Several studies highlighted the …

Some applications of service robots within domestic and working environments are
envisaged to be a significant part of our lives in the not too distant future. They are …

Socially assistive robotics has gained a valuable role in assisting, influencing and motivating
the human behavior in many Human–Machine Interaction contexts. This finding suggested …

Social robots, when used for information providing, are able to affect humans'
trustworthiness and willingness to interact with them. In this work, we conducted an …

In this paper, we analyze what effects indicators of a shared situation have on a speaker's
persuasiveness by investigating how a robot's advice is received when it indicates that it is …

People with schizophrenia generally have different speech disorders, such as tangentiality,
dissociation of thought, or perseveration. These disorders can be classified using the …

Developing technologies associated with tracking human movement and behaviour enable
new applications for competence assessments from training results of professionals, such as …

The primary purpose of this thesis work is to design and implement a system supporting the
fire-fighter's training evaluation. The solution presented in this report comprises a real-time …