The need for a female perspective in designing agent-based negotiation support

This study investigates whether an agent-based Negotiation Training System (NTS) can teach women Strategic Empathy - a recently introduced negotiation strategy based on perspective taking - and whether this can improve their negotiation performance. Developed and tested through an interaction-based real-time experiment was a NTS that integrated...

Understanding the Potential of Augmented Reality in Manufacturing Environments

Manufacturing companies are confronted with challenges due to increasing flexibility requirements and skill gaps. Augmented Reality applications offer an efficient way to overcome these tensions by enhancing the interaction between people and technology. The positive effects of Augmented Reality solutions are often described in individual models...

Exploring users' perception of rating summary statistics

Collaborative filtering systems heavily depend on user feedback expressed in product ratings to select and rank items to recommend. These summary statistics of rating values carry two important descriptors about the assessed items, namely the total number of ratings and the mean rating value. In this study we explore how these two signals...

Towards automatic semantic labelling of 3D city models

The lack of semantic information in many 3D city models is a considerable limiting factor in their use, as a lot of applications rely on semantics. Such information is not always available, since it is not collected at all times, it might be lost due to data transformation, or its lack may be caused by non-interoperability in data integration...

Observing group decision making processes

Most research on group recommender systems relies on the assumption that individuals have conflicting preferences; in order to generate group recommendations the system should identify a fair way of aggregating these preferences. Both empirical studies and theoretical frameworks have tried to identify the most effective preference aggregation...

A pressure correction local defect correction algorithm for laminar flame simulation

We have developed a numerical simulation code for laminar premixed flames, based on the isobaric model. The main numerical techniques employed are: the finite volume method in combination with an exponential flux approximation scheme for space discretisation, a pressure-correction (PC) method to decouple the computation of the velocity and...