Inclusive HRI: Equity and Diversity in Design, Application, Methods, and Community

Discrimination and bias are pressing issues of many AI and robotics applications. These outcomes may derive from limited datasets that do not fully represent society as a whole or from the AI scientific community's western-male configuration bias. Although being a pressing issue, understanding how robotic systems can replicate and amplify...

Exploring Multiple Perspectives in Citizenship Education with a Serious Game

Within citizenship education, a new focus is being laid upon what is expected of citizens within a diverse and lightning-fast society: more emphasis is placed on teaching students how to understand and respect other people’s opinions, regardless of how they may contrast with one’s own. However, learning to be tolerant with others’ viewpoints...

MovieTweeters: An Interactive Interface to Improve Recommendation Novelty

This paper introduces and evaluates a novel interface, MovieTweeters. It is a movie recommendation system which incorporates social information with a traditional recommendation algorithm to generate recommendations for users. Few previous studies have investigated the influence of using social information in interactive<br/>interfaces to...

A Diversity Adjusting Strategy with Personality for Music Recommendation

Diversity-based recommender systems aim to select a wide rangeof relevant content for users, but diversity needs for users withdifferent personalities are rarely studied. Similarly, research onpersonality-based recommender systems has primarily focused onthe ‘cold-start problem’; few previous works have investigated howpersonality influences...

Building with a positive ecological footprint: Development and evaluation of a Cradle to Cradle ®-inspired energy-plus house

Energy-plus houses have been taking on particular significance in future-oriented residential construction. Therefore, it should be possible to build CO2-neutral buildings that can meet their own energy demand and in fact supply energy for additional consumers, e.g. electromobility. Based on the example of Cradle to Cradle® (C2C), the aim is...