The Influence of Adapting an Agent’s Explanation Style to a Human Team Leader Role on Human-Agent Teamwork during a Simulated Search and Rescue Task

Communication is one of the main challenges in Human-Agent Teams (HATs). An important aspect of communication in HATs is the use of explanation styles. This thesis examines the influence of an explainable agent adapting its explanation style to a supervising human team leader on team performance, trust, situation awareness, collaborative fluency...

Few shot emotion recognition using intelligent voice assistants and wearables: Learning from few samples of speech and physiological signals

Emotion Recognition is one of the vastly studied areas of affective computing. Attempts have been made to design emotion recognition systems for everyday settings. The ubiquitous nature of Intelligent voice assistants (IVAs) in households, make them a great anchor for the introduction of emotion recognition technology to consumers. The existing...

Designing and Evaluating Avatar Biosignal Visualization Techniques in Social Virtual Reality

Social VR is the application of virtual reality that supports remote social interaction in virtual spaces. Users communicate and interact with others in the social VR environment through avatars, which are virtual anthropomorphic characters that aim to represent humans in virtual worlds. In addition, the development of the HMD and commercially...

Credit Scoring Prediction using Graph Features

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) bring a significant contribution to each country’s economy, ensuring both a high employment rate and financial prosperity. Despite their essential role, these type of companies presents a higher vulnerability to default than large corporates. The default event implies that the SME could not properly reimburse...

Rate-controlled Low Latency Service with OpenFlow

The use of interactive media applications is becoming more common. With the current advancements in technologies, applications are becoming more advanced and research is being performed into adding more modalities to these applications to enrich the experience and increase their capabilities and uses.<br/> he performance of these applications...

Multiple viewpoint rendering by exploiting image coherence in epipolar space

In recent years, there has been a widespread increase in the adoption of virtual reality and 3d displays which require many images as input, e.g. head mounted displays or lightfield displays. Real-time rendered imagery for such displays is commonly computed using brute-force rendering pipelines based on forward(+) or deferred rendering pipelines...

Improving the video streaming backend with on-the-fly format conversion and cloud storage

Online advanced media streaming services using HTTP adaptive stream-<br/>ing are increasingly popular. However in practice, the multi-protocol, multi-<br/>format nature of adaptive streaming creates a lot of engineering eort and<br/>costs for the operators, in the storage and preparation of the dierent<br/>formats. In this work, we acknowledge...