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03/07/2023
Walking Down the Road to Independent Mobility: An Adaptive Route Training System for the Cognitively Impaired
In this paper we describe the design and development of a route training...
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09/20/2021
Crowdsourcing Diverse Paraphrases for Training Task-oriented Bots
A prominent approach to build datasets for training task-oriented bots i...
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07/28/2021
On the state of reporting in crowdsourcing experiments and a checklist to aid current practices
Crowdsourcing is being increasingly adopted as a platform to run studies...
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12/07/2020
Bringing Cognitive Augmentation to Web Browsing Accessibility
In this paper we explore the opportunities brought by cognitive augmenta...
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11/08/2020
Chatbots as conversational healthcare services
Chatbots are emerging as a promising platform for accessing and deliveri...
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11/05/2020
On the impact of predicate complexity in crowdsourced classification tasks
This paper explores and offers guidance on a specific and relevant probl...
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11/05/2020
Challenges and strategies for running controlled crowdsourcing experiments
This paper reports on the challenges and lessons we learned while runnin...
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09/07/2020
Chatbot integration in few patterns
Chatbots are software agents that are able to interact with humans in na...
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08/19/2020
Automatic Generation of Chatbots for Conversational Web Browsing
In this paper, we describe the foundations for generating a chatbot out ...
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09/06/2019
CrowdHub: Extending crowdsourcing platforms for the controlled evaluation of tasks designs
We present CrowdHub, a tool for running systematic evaluations of task d...
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09/06/2019
Understanding the Impact of Text Highlighting in Crowdsourcing Tasks
Text classification is one of the most common goals of machine learning ...
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04/01/2019
Combining Crowd and Machines for Multi-predicate Item Screening
This paper discusses how crowd and machine classifiers can be efficientl...
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01/14/2019
Technologies for promoting social participation in later life
Social participation is known to bring great benefits to the health and ...
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05/31/2018
Designing for Co-located and Virtual Social Interactions in Residential Care
In this paper we explore the feasibility and design challenges in suppor...
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05/31/2018
Design Challenges for Reconnecting in Later Life: A Qualitative Study
Friendships and social interactions are renown contributors to wellbeing...
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05/31/2018
CrowdRev: A platform for Crowd-based Screening of Literature Reviews
In this paper and demo we present a crowd and crowd+AI based system, cal...
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05/31/2018
Crowdsourcing for Reminiscence Chatbot Design
In this work-in-progress paper we discuss the challenges in identifying ...
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04/18/2018
Smart Conversational Agents for Reminiscence
In this paper we describe the requirements and early system design for a...
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01/25/2018