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Saveur, Tom (author)The promotion of desirable behaviours, such as socially appropriate or health-promoting actions, can be bolstered through a deeper understanding and awareness of the values that underpin the associated behavioural choices. Various implementations for promoting behaviour change based on goals already exist in Human-Robot Interaction, but, since...master thesis 2024
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de Roo, Nina (author), Metze, T.A.P. (author), Leeuwis, Cees (author)In response to a growing understanding that scientific knowledge is not always trusted at face value, many universities organise dialogues to ‘open up’ to society. In four exploratory case studies at the Dutch Wageningen University & Research, we looked into the adherence to dialogue principles and the roles that researchers performed...journal article 2024
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Sándor, Kristóf (author)Large Language Models (LLM) have brought significant performance increase on many Natural Language Processing tasks. However LLMs have not been tested for meeting summarization. This research paper examines the effectiveness of the gpt-3.5-turbo model on the meeting summarization domain. However due to input length limitations, it cannot be...bachelor thesis 2023
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Domhof, Jan (author)Meetings are the keystone of a good company. They allow for quick decision making, multiple-perspective problem solving and effective communication. However, most employees and managers have a negative view on the efficiency and quality of their meetings. High quality meetings where every participant feels equally heard and respected is crucial...bachelor thesis 2023
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Hermsen, P.E.A. (author), van Dommelen, S. (author), Hueso Espinosa, P. (author)Don't we all sometimes seek the perspective of someone unrelated to our work, to get unstuck, or when we seek creativity? Engineers, educators, and students put their trust into science, protocols, procedures and models. Rightfully so, from the perspective of the laws of engineering this makes sense. This also explains why when people deal...conference paper 2023
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Chen, P.Y. (author), Tielman, M.L. (author), Heylen, Dirk K.J. (author), Jonker, C.M. (author), van Riemsdijk, M.B. (author)For personal assistive technologies to effectively support users, they need a user model that records information about the user, such as their goals, values, and context. Knowledge-based techniques can model the relationships between these concepts, enabling the support agent to act in accordance with the user's values. However, user models...conference paper 2023
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Ma, Yao (author), Abbas, T. (author), Gadiraju, Ujwal (author)Crowd-powered conversational systems (CPCS) solicit the wisdom of crowds to quickly respond to on-demand users' needs. The very factors that make this a viable solution - -such as the availability of diverse crowd workers on-demand - - also lead to great challenges. The ever-changing pool of online workers powering conversations with...conference paper 2023
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Baijanova, Francien (author)Background. Dutch universities struggle to find effective evidence-based intervention tools to reduce the high prevalence of sexual violence among their students. Reducing sexual violence means a safer student climate and thus better inclusion of women and more diversity in higher education. Interesting approaches to consider for cultural change...master thesis 2022
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MA, YAO (author)Crowd-powered conversational systems (CPCS) solicit the wisdom of crowds to quickly respond to on-demand users' needs. The very factors that make this a viable solution ---such as the availability of diverse crowd workers on-demand--- also lead to great challenges. The ever-changing pool of online workers powering conversations with individual...master thesis 2022
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Pande, S. (author), Haeffner, Melissa (author), Blöschl, Günter (author), Alam, M.F. (author), Castro, Cyndi (author), Di Baldassarre, Giuliano (author), Frick-Trzebitzky, Fanny (author), Hogeboom, Rick (author), Kreibich, Heidi (author), Mukherjee, Jenia (author)In a recent editorial in the journal Nature Sustainability, the editors raised the concern that journal submissions on water studies appear too similar. The gist of the editorial: “too many publications and not enough ideas.” In this response, we contest this notion, and point to the numerous new ideas that result from taking a broader view...journal article 2022
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le Poole, J.J. (author), Duchateau, E.A.E. (author), Hopman, J.J. (author), Kana, A.A. (author)The development of concept designs during early warship design stages is essential to inform stakeholder dialogues on technical feasibility, affordability, and risk. One of the key aspects of warship concept designs is the layout of systems in the overall arrangement. The adoption of real-time design processes, such as concurrent design, require...journal article 2022
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Penha, G. (author), Vakulenko, Svitlana (author), Dusek, Ondrej (author), Clark, Leigh (author), Pal, Vaishali (author), Adlakha, Vaibhav (author)The goal of the seventh edition of SCAI (https: //scai.info) is to bring together and further grow a community of researchers and practitioners interested in conversational systems for information access. The previous iterations of the workshop already demonstrated the breadth and multidisciplinarity inherent in the design and development of...conference paper 2022
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Si, Wai Man (author), Backes, Michael (author), Blackburn, Jeremy (author), De Cristofaro, Emiliano (author), Stringhini, Gianluca (author), Zannettou, S. (author), Zhang, Y. (author)Chatbots are used in many applications, e.g., automated agents, smart home assistants, interactive characters in online games, etc. Therefore, it is crucial to ensure they do not behave in undesired manners, providing offensive or toxic responses to users. This is not a trivial task as state-of-the-art chatbot models are trained on large, public...conference paper 2022
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Florensa Casals, Cristina (author)The value of customer relationships appears to be a hot topic at the moment as companies need to move from competition to collaboration, or how I will largely refer to: from transactional to relational. However, the value which current customer relationships generate is far from the claimed collaboration. For many years, transactional...master thesis 2021
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Baart, Tessa (author)Climate change is affecting the urban environment in the Netherlands, which increases the risks of droughts, floods, waterlogging, and heatwaves. Consequently, the cities we build many years ago are not resilient to climate change in the long run. In response the national government created the Delta Plan on Spatial Adaptation (DPRA) to adapt to...master thesis 2021
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Abdu, Rotem (author), van Helden, G. (author), Alberto, Rosa (author), Bakker, Arthur (author)In this paper, we combine dialogic and embodied theories of learning to create a unified analytic lens. Embodied cognition is a theoretical approach operating under the premise that thinking and communication are multimodal activities. Under this premise, dialogue between learners needs to be conceptualized using a multimodal lens. We identify...journal article 2021
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Lopez Reyes, M.E. (author)Even though there has been an enormous effort to tackle the problem of gender-based violence against women in Mexico, within legal terms, the landscape still seems uncertain, and the need for innovative approaches that bring new meaningful ways to look at the problem becomes highly relevant.<br/><br/>In those lines, the University Center for...master thesis 2020
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Reichenfeld, Lynn (author)As design challenges are becoming more and more complex, we aim to solve them by including an increasing variety of perspectives and opinions into the creative problem-solving process. Co-creation aims to achieve this by involving stakeholders throughout the process. Including all these different opinions makes co-creation activities...master thesis 2020
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Anzolin, Emma (author)My graduation project [Untitled] re-establishing urban dialogues in complex cityscapes, investigates the impact of qualitative public spaces in disorienting urban contexts. Taking as a case study Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, the research understands the noise that characterises fragmented cities not strictly in terms of acoustic...master thesis 2020
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Wolter, R.C. (author), Hindriks, K.V. (author), Samur, Dalya (author), Jonker, C.M. (author)The commercial availability of robots and voice-operated smart devices such as Alexa or Google Home have some companies wondering whether they can replace some current human interactions by using these devices. One such area of interaction is at the reception desk. While both platforms can offer the necessary interaction features to take on...conference paper 2020