Formalizations in dog cognition

Interobserver reliability is a problem in behavioural studies. In order to increase the interobserver reliability, a formal checker is used to study behaviour. Together with a clear ethogram of basic behaviours, this tool can be used to automatically check for more complex behaviours and thus reducing the risk of biases introduced by human...

Intelligent Agents that Support Students with Self-Study

University students are expected to study on their own for large amounts of time. However a lot of these hours are not spent effectively by students. Eventually students who have trouble with self-studying in an effective manner may end up failing courses because of this. When students realise they have a (self-study) problem they can seek aid...

Evaluating trading and sharing control for constraint motion tasks in a domestic environment using a remote controlled semi-autonomous robot

Automation in a domestic environment is not flawless and human interference will be necessary, for implementing robots in this environment. <br/>When remotely controlling semi-autonomous robots, proposed concepts can be divided into two main concepts: To trade control back and forth between the human and the operator and to share control...

Automated Pricing Suggestions

As Machine Learning is becoming more accessible to small businesses, thanks to the rapid advance in computing power, smaller start-ups such as Sjauf (a ride sharing start-up) are starting to get interested in implementing Machine Learning solutions in their product. Sjauf needed a system that could automatically tell its customers how much a...

Politags: Breaking the filter bubble by using information extraction techniques to enable diverse personalization

This research is aimed at breaking online political filter bubbles. We present a system that uses artificial intelligence and human computation to automatically collect article metadata on political content and thereby enables diverse personalization on content-serving platforms. This way, exploring alternative viewpoints could become as simple...

Automation mechanisms for market models: Case study to reduce cultural discrimination in energy trading

The energy markets are emerging slowly towards a more decentralized form, e.g. technologies are allowing prosumers to trade energy from their solar house rooftops. But as these markets are governed by people and depend on the behavior of people directly, they are susceptible to challenges from the social, economic and cultural norms around the...

Teaching critical thinking through argument mapping

During this project we have created a product for the company FeedbackFruits to promote critical thinking in education. Research has shown that argument mapping is a promising method to promote critical thinking. Several existing related platforms were analyzed to draw lessons from their experience. Literature research revealed that product...