Question answering with the RoboTutor Nao

This thesis project worked towards extending the interactive capabilities of the RoboTutor Nao, by enabling it to answers natural language questions about topics such as computers, robots and the Nao itself. The main questions we focused on were 1) what a system for answering questions in Dutch and intended for elementary school age children...

Virtual humans in games: Realistic behavior and emotions for non-player characters

In this project we have set out to promote behavioral-realism in non-player characters (NPCs) on an emotional level. We do this as a step towards a tool that will allow developers to build ?exible and scalable emotional behavior for NPCs and that could be used either in game-development applications or scienti?c psychological studies. In order...

Applying feature selection methods on fMRI data

In neuroscience, the ability to correlate and classify certain activity patterns of the brain to different physical and mental states of the subject is of high importance. Analysis of fMRI data is one of the venues in which this objective is being pursued. However data produced using fMRI technology is highly complex. To this end, machine...

Haarlemmermeer|Mobility & Infrastructure: A new system for making the co-existence of infrastructure, agriculture and inhabitance possible

The project proposes a new system for making the co-existence of agriculture (and green in general) and the infrastructure possible. This infrastrucutre of mobility connects the Schiphol region of the Netherlands within itself via a network of several different means of transportation. In this region, the dominant elements of the architectural...