Evaluating the engagement with social robots

SM Anzalone, S Boucenna, S Ivaldi… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
To interact and cooperate with humans in their daily-life activities, robots should exhibit
human-like “intelligence”. This skill will substantially emerge from the interconnection of all …

Smart home supporting integrated health and care services for older adults in the community: literature review and research agenda

S Colnar, V Dimovski, B Grah, V Rogelj… - … on System Theory …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the ageing of European populations, a growing number of older adults are exposed
to risks of losing their autonomy and independence. Technological innovations can support …

Quantifying patterns of joint attention during human-robot interactions: An application for autism spectrum disorder assessment

SM Anzalone, J Xavier, S Boucenna, L Billeci… - Pattern Recognition …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper we explore the dynamics of Joint Attention (JA) in children with Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD) during an interaction task with a small humanoid robot. While this …

Lost in translation? Conceptions of privacy and independence in the technical development of AI-based AAL

KV Hartmann, N Primc, G Rubeis - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2023 - Springer
AAL encompasses smart home technologies that are installed in the personal living
environment in order to support older, disabled, as well as chronically ill people with the …

Fast and robust detection of fallen people from a mobile robot

M Antonello, M Carraro, M Pierobon… - 2017 IEEE/RSJ …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with the problem of detecting fallen people lying on the floor by means of a
mobile robot equipped with a 3D depth sensor. In the proposed algorithm, inspired by …

Foreground segmentation with PTZ camera: a survey

E Komagal, B Yogameena - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2018 - Springer
The alertness of terrorism in the present is greater than that in the past b with reference to
the incident of September 11. Still now, there has been a fight against terrorism and that has …

Cost-efficient RGB-D smart camera for people detection and tracking

M Carraro, M Munaro… - Journal of Electronic …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We describe a software library we developed for efficiently using the Kinect v2, a time-of-
flight RGB-D sensor, with an embedded system, the NVidia Jetson TK1, as a cost-efficient …

The iReCheck project: using tablets and robots for personalised handwriting practice

DC Tozadore, S Gauthier, B Bruno, C Wang… - … Publication of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Handwriting is an important skill in children development as well as in education that take
years to be mastered. While keyboards and similar technological devices increasingly …

Designing a video monitoring system for AAL applications: The SPHERE case study

IT based Healthcare platforms have been widely recognized by research communities and
institutions as key players in the future of home-based health monitoring and care. Features …

A powerful and cost-efficient human perception system for camera networks and mobile robotics

M Carraro, M Munaro, E Menegatti - … Systems 14: Proceedings of the 14th …, 2017 - Springer
In this work, we present a software library which enables the efficient use of the Kinect One,
a time-of-flight RGB-D sensor, with the nVidia Jetson TK1, an ARM-based embedded …