With the rapid and dramatic increase in web feeds published by different publishers, providers or websites via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and Atom, users cannot be expected t...
In the very near future complete households will be entirely networked as a de facto standard. In this poster we briefly describe our work in the area of domotics, where personali...
Internet business has grown at an unprecedented rate in the past several years. Recent research has found that the functions provided by a store have a significant impact on custo...
In this paper we describe a multi-agent simulation called the Human Agent Virtual Environment (or HAVE). HAVE is a test bed to explore agent-environment interaction in multiagent ...
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...