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Leveraging Human Understanding for Identifying and Characterizing Image Atypicality
High-quality data plays a vital role in developing reliable image classification models. Despite that, what makes an image difficult to classify remains an unstudied topic. This paper provides a first-of-its-kind, model-agnostic characterization of image atypicality based on huma
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To Trust or Not To Trust
How a Conversational Interface Affects Trust in a Decision Support System
Trust is an important component of human-AI relationships and plays a major role in shaping the reliance of users on online algorithmic decision support systems. With recent advances in natural language processing, text and voice-based conversational interfaces have provided user
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ContextBot
Improving Response Consistency in Crowd-Powered Conversational Systems for Affective Support Tasks
Crowd-powered conversational systems (CPCS) solicit the wisdom of crowds to quickly respond to on-demand users' needs. The very factors that make this a viable solution - -such as the availability of diverse crowd workers on-demand - - also lead to great challenges. The ever-chan
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TaskGenie
Crowd-Powered Task Generation for Struggling Search
Search tasks provide a medium for the evaluation of system performance and the underlying analytical aspects of IR systems. Researchers have recently developed new interfaces or mechanisms to support vague information needs and struggling search. However, little attention has bee
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Ready Player One!
Eliciting Diverse Knowledge Using A Configurable Game
Access to commonsense knowledge is receiving renewed interest for developing neuro-symbolic AI systems, or debugging deep learning models. Little is currently understood about the types of knowledge that can be gathered using existing knowledge elicitation methods. Moreover, thes
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Contributed
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The negative latency haptic glove
Making Tactile Internet tangible
The field of Tactile Internet (TI) is transporting physical interactions over vast distances as if they were near. This teleoperation method increases the quality of tele-engineering, telesurgery and many other fields. However, it requires the strict end to end latency constraint
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Iterative training with human rated images to improve GAN generated image aesthetics
Effects of dataset size and training length
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) brought rapid developments in generating synthetic images by mimicking structures in the training data. With the list of application of GANs growing drastically, it has lately become an exciting technology to explore for designers to communi
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Exploration of the code review process:
Can a code review checklist improve the process?
In the software engineering field the code review process has been widely adopted as a quality control, in the current day code reviews have also multiple additional advantages. In this research we explored how the code review process is used at Greenchoice, a Dutch energy suppli
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Web3Recommend
Decentralised recommendations with trust and relevance
Web3Recommend is a decentralized Social Recommender System implementation that enables Web3 Platforms on Android to generate recommendations that balance trust and relevance. Generating recommendations in decentralized networks is a non-trivial problem because these networks lack
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The Influence of Interdependence on Trust Repair in Human-Agent Teams
Comparing the Effectiveness of Trust Repair Strategies in Full Independence and Complementary Independence
As autonomous systems are increasingly integrated as a team member for collaborative tasks, trust in human-agent teams (HAT) becomes crucial to foster success. In many real world scenarios, trust violations are expected, thus demanding the use of trust repair strategies to restor
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Agent Failure, Trust Repair, and Fluency in Human-AI Teams
Impact of Opportunistic Interdependence Relationship on Trust Violation, Trust Repair, and on Collaboration Fluency in a Human-Agent Team
Nowadays, Human Autonomy Teams (HATs) are incorporated in many fields, where humans and autonomous agents work collaboratively to combine their capabilities with the ultimate goal of performing tasks more efficiently. In such environments, it is imperative to sustain a high level
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Knowing Better Than the AI
How the Dunning-Kruger Effect Shapes Reliance on Human-AI Decision Making
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly helping people with all kinds of tasks, due to its promising capabilities. In some tasks, an AI system by itself will take over tasks, but in other tasks, an AI system making decisions on its own would be undesired due to ethical and l
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From Clicks to Cues
Exploring user behaviour as a language in music video consumption
As music video streaming occupies a significant market share in how people consume music, gaining an understanding of user behavioural patterns becomes increasingly crucial. This understanding can enable better music video streaming experiences by tailoring them towards more pers
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Improving User Engagement to Reduce Dropout Rates in Long Web Surveys
Exploring the Effectiveness of Achievement Primes Amongst Intrinsically and Extrinsically Motivated Respondents
Web surveys have increasingly been used to collect data from respondents over the years. They offer several advantages compared to other methods of obtaining data. Researchers benefit from a broad demographic representation to make generalized conclusions, and satisfaction surve
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Motivating, your way
Tailoring your fitness journey
A significant cardiovascular health risk is insufficient physical activity. The World Health Organization recommends 150 minutes of strenuous physical activity every week. Inadequate physical activity increases the risk of chronic diseases and other health conditions like cholest
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Who Cares About Fairness
How Background Influences the Way Practitioners Consider Machine Learning Harms
The increasing dangers of unfairness in machine learning (ML) are becoming a frequent subject of discussion, both, in academia and popular media. Recent literature focused on introducing and assessing algorithmic solutions to bias in ML. However, there is a disconnect between the
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Ethics, Gender, and Agents
The Role of Designers in Conversational Agent Design
Research has shown how people anthropomorphize conversational agents (CA) and unconsciously bring their gender stereotypes into human-agent interaction. For this reason, there has been a long lasted dilemma on whether designers should design CAs that conform to or violate stereot
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Designing a dashboard for wellbeing data
A recommendation system for individual wellbeing
Due to COVID-19 the overall wellbeing worldwide decreased. Assessing and improving wellbeing became a more important subject. This article describes the design research that uses the My Wellness Check survey created by the Delft University for Technology and aims to create a dash
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Optimizing Student Teamwork: Improving User Engagement and Collaborative Effectiveness
With SMART Collaborative-Goal-Setting Based Chatbot and Effort Visualization Tool
With the growing importance of teamwork in higher education, effective communication and goal congruence have become vital in improving the effectiveness of student teamwork. This study aims todesign and implement an innovative system that combines a goal-setting chatbot and an e
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Human- or Robot-like Music Assistive Robots
Effects on Fluency and Memory Recall
Longer lifespans and an ageing population put tremendous pressure on the care of the elderly. With the technology of robotics breakthroughs, it appears that the use of robotics in elderly care is ready to take off. Interestingly, more and more robots are now being created with a
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