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Academic boredom(s): a person-centered investigation

Alexandra Corina Niculescu

Should we refer to boredom or boredoms? Research on the emotion of boredom sets itself apart from studies on other emotions by posing the question: is boredom a singular concept or does it have multiple facets? In this manuscript presenting empirical resea ...
2023

Robot Agreeableness and User Engagement in Verbal Human-Robot Interaction

Barbara Bruno

It is a well-established fact in the field of Human-Robot Interaction that the personality a social robot is endowed with (i.e., the one it expresses by its gestures and words) plays a key role towards the engagement experienced by any person interacting w ...
IEEE2020

Whole brain measurements of the positive BOLD response variability during a finger tapping task at 7 T show regional differences in its profiles

Wietske Van der Zwaag, Yohan Boillat

PURPOSE: The positive BOLD response can vary across brain regions. Here, the positive BOLD responses of motor regions, including the cerebellum, were investigated by fast fMRI acquisition. METHODS: The participants were asked to perform an event-related fi ...
2019

On the mechanical, cognitive and sociable facets of human compliance and their robotic counterparts

Aude Billard

Compliance has become a key requirement for robots meant to interact with humans. It is viewed as a necessary property to increase safety and efficiency in human-robot cooperative actions. In humans, compliance takes three dimensions: mechanical, cognitive ...
Elsevier2017

AniSAM & AniAvatar – Animated Visualizations of Affective States

Andreas Sonderegger

Tools that provide visual feedback about emotions to the user in the form of an avatar or an emoticon have become increasingly important. While a great deal of effort has already been put into the reliable and accurate automatic detection of emotions, only ...
ACM2016

Ecological strategies in stable and disturbed environments depend on species specialisation

Séverine Vuilleumier Varisco

Ecological strategies are integral to understanding species survival in different environments. However, how habitat specialisation is involved in such strategies is not fully understood, particularly in heterogeneous and disturbed environments. Here, we s ...
2016

Impact of nitrogen inputs on multiple facets of plant biodiversity in mountain grasslands: does nutrient source matter?

François Gillet

Questions: What is the impact of nitrogen (N) inputs on the vegetation of mountain permanent grasslands? Beyond the effect of fertilizer quantity (total and available N supply), is there a specific effect of fertilizer quality (the various N sources) on th ...
2016

Conscientious Behaviour, Flexibility and Learning in Massive Open On-Line Courses

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey

Since 2011 the growth in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has been so enormous that, according to the Economist magazine, “the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations” (2013). One proposed benefit of MOOCs is that they allow consi ...
2015

Impact of management type and intensity on multiple facets of grassland biodiversity in the French Jura Mountains

François Gillet

Questions(1) Does grassland vegetation differ in its taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional alpha diversity between strictly grazed parcels (SGP) and mowed-and-grazed parcels (MGP)? (2) Do we observe differences in the responses of functional diversity (re ...
Wiley-Blackwell2014

Broadcasting oneself: Visual Discovery of Vlogging Styles

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Oya Aran, Joan Isaac Biel Tres

We present a data-driven approach to discover different styles that people use to present themselves in online video blogging (vlogging). By vlogging style, we denote the combination of conscious and unconscious choices that the vlogger made during the pro ...
2014

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