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Don’t Judge by Looks: Search User Interface to Make Searchers Reflect on Their Relevance Criteria and Promote Content-Quality-Oriented Web Searches
Searchers often judge the webpage quality by the visual appearance, even for tasks where the content quality is more important such as health information. We propose a search user interface (UI) that makes searchers reflect on their webpage selection ...
Web-based human activity recognition using images and descriptive web pages
Loss of autonomy is a problem that researchers have been trying to solve for the last two decades thanks to technologies that facilitate the prolongation of home care. In order to ensure the well being and security of residents in loss of autonomy, it ...
Addressing Popularity Bias in Citizen Science
Citizen science projects rely on volunteers to contribute time and effort to solve scientific problems, but the majority of citizen science users typically contribute to only one or two projects. Recommender systems have been recently used in citizen ...
Privacy-aware Snippets: Enhancing Assessment of Balance between Privacy Risks and Benefits in Web Search
This paper proposes two search user interfaces (UI) to provide web search users with comprehensive information about to whom web browsing histories could be shared and how much. The two UIs aim to encourage web searchers to consider the trade-off ...
Assessing the Causal Impact of Online Instruction due to COVID-19 on Students’ Grades and its aftermath on Grade Prediction Models
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many educational institutions to transition to online learning activities. This significantly impacted various aspects of students’ lives. Many of the studies aimed at assessing the impact of the online instruction on ...
Accessible System and Social Media Mobile Application for Deaf Users: ASM4Deaf
- Alexandros Yeratziotis,
- Achilleas Achilleos,
- Stavroulla Koumou,
- Regan A. Thibodeau,
- Evangelia Vanezi,
- George Geratziotis,
- George Angelos Papadopoulos,
- Iasonos Iasonas,
- Alexandros Yeratziotis
Usability, accessibility and inclusion are major concerns and have a huge impact for many people with special abilities. Specifically, people who are Deaf have a serious and unfair disadvantage in regards to different social aspects of everyday life. ...
Recognizing the Age, Gender, and Mobility of Pedestrians in Smart Cities using a CNN-BGRU on Thermal Images
In order to extend ambient assisted living technologies for semi-autonomous people from smart homes to smart cities, it is necessary to recognize vulnerable people in the city. Gait-based approaches have been used to perform soft biometrics recognition,...
Exploring Anxiety of Québec University Community during COVID-19 Pandemic via Machine Learning
Many studies showed that COVID-19 global pandemic had a negative impact on the mental health of post-secondary students over the world. To date, very few studies have been conducted in a university setting, not only with students but also with ...
Information Presentation Methods for Setting Achievable and Meaningful Goals on Fitness Apps
Exercise beginners often use recommender systems, such as fitness apps, to form new exercise habits. However, it is difficult for individuals with little training experience to estimate the costs and benefits of the recommended exercise goals and to ...
Towards Digital Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Forms of Neurocognitive Disorder: the INFORMA Software Platform
- Carlo Fantozzi,
- Andrea Zanella,
- Marco Simoni,
- Donata Gollin,
- Cristina Ruaro,
- Mariella Casa,
- Alessandra Codemo,
- Elisabetta Gasparoli,
- Carlo Gabelli
In this paper, we present the INFORMA software platform, designed to administer therapy to people with a neurocognitive disorder (NCD). The platform includes an app for tablets through which people with NCD can access, while at home, personalized ...
Sleepminting, the brand new frontier of Non Fungible Tokens fraud
Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are becoming a standard to represent unique and valuable items, such as a piece of art, a videogame item, or other digital or physical goods, and keep track of their provenance. Thanks to blockchain technology and the power ...
Analysis of Trust Factors in Children’s Abilities to Use Digital Devices
Parents struggle with configuring the settings of web content filters on digital devices, such as smartphones, which limit time use, to protect them from security threats, to minimize addictions to digital device usage, or to avoid trouble with social ...
A new Workflow for Human-AI Collaboration in Citizen Science
The unprecedented growth of online citizen science projects provides growing opportunities for the public to participate in scientific discoveries. Nevertheless, volunteers typically make only a few contributions before exiting the system. Thus a ...
On the Use of Chatbots to Report Non-consensual Intimate Images Abuses: the Legal Expert Perspective
Non-consensual intimate images (NCII) violence, also known as “non-consensual pornography” or “revenge pornography”, is the disclosure or sharing of sexually explicit images/videos without the consent of the people depicted or a legitimate purpose. ...
Measuring the Uncertainty of Environmental Good Preferences with Bayesian Deep Learning
Due to climate change and resulting natural disasters, there has been a growing interest in measuring the value of social goods to our society, like environmental conservation. Traditionally, the stated preference, such as contingent valuation, ...
CloudRecoMan: Cloud adoption made easy: A platform for assisting small and medium enterprises to adopt cloud solutions
- Christos Mettouris,
- Evangelia Vanezi,
- George Zampas,
- Stylianos Argyrou,
- Achilleas Achilleos,
- Avgoustinos Constantinides,
- George Angelos Papadopoulos
Although the adoption and use of cloud computing in large, medium and small enterprises is increasing every year, statistics show that medium and especially small enterprises have a much slower adoption than large enterprises. This suggests that various ...
Data Management Platform For Smart Orchestration of Decentralized and Heterogeneous Vehicular Edge Networks
Intelligent edge orchestration has become a vital component within next generation communication networks, such as 5G. They offer optimal resource allocation and service distribution, hence allow for full utilization of the opportunities provided by ...
GeoSpread: an Epidemic Spread Modeling Tool for COVID-19 Using Mobility Data
We present an individual-centric agent-based model and a flexible tool, GeoSpread, for studying and predicting the spread of viruses and diseases in urban settings. Using COVID-19 data collected by the Korean Center for Disease Control & Prevention (...
Classifying mosquito wingbeat sound using TinyML
Every year more than one billion people are infected and more than one million people die from vector-borne diseases including malaria, dengue, zika and chikungunya. Mosquitoes are the best known disease vector and are geographically spread worldwide. ...
A Technology Exploration towards Trustable and Safe Use of Social Media for Vulnerable Women based on Islam and Arab Culture
- Mirko Franco,
- Salah A. Falioun,
- Karen E. Fisher,
- Ombretta Gaggi,
- Yacine Ghamri-Doudane,
- Ayat J. Nashwan,
- Claudio E. Palazzi,
- Mohammed Shwamra
We live in an era characterized by unprecedented communication possibilities; yet significant parts of the world’s population are left behind and at increased vulnerability of harm due to low digital literacy, poverty, war, surveillance, gender and ...
Catering for Students’ Well-being during COVID-19 Social Distancing: a Case Study from a University Campus
COVID-19 gave rise to discussions around designing for life during the pandemic, in particular related to health, leisure and education. In 2020, an online survey aimed at university students (N=225) pointed the authors to various challenges related to ...
LibertyMFD: A Lexicon to Assess the Moral Foundation of Liberty.
Quantifying the moral narratives expressed in the user-generated text, news, or public discourses is fundamental for understanding individuals’ concerns and viewpoints and preventing violent protests and social polarisation. The Moral Foundation Theory ...
Applying deep learning approaches to mixed quantitative-qualitative analyses
We here verify whether a quantitative approach, i.e., a deep learning-based one, may be used to synthesize a model apt to perform specific qualitative analyses. To this aim, we leverage a previous contribution, where we approached the concrete problem ...
Improving accessibility of web accessibility rules
Accessibility is still an open issue since, despite the increasing attention at a legislative, academic, and social level, a wide range of sites are still not able to meet the minimum level of accessibility requirements. For this reason, we implemented ...
On Designing a Time Sensitive Interaction Graph to Identify Twitter Opinion Leaders
What happened on social media during the recent pandemic? Who was the opinion leader of the conversations? Who influenced whom? Were they medical doctors, ordinary people, scientific experts? Did health institutions play an important role in informing ...
Impact of Vaccination and Testing in an Urban Campus Model for the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
The crisis induced by the Coronavirus pandemic severely impacted educational institutes. Even with vaccination efforts underway in 2021, it was not clear that sufficient confidence will be achieved for schools to reopen soon. This paper considers the ...
Social Good and Cultural Heritage: making the Brendel models accessible again
From the late 19th to the first 20th centuries, the Brendel Company produced three-dimensional botanical models as teaching aids. Meant to be observed and physically manipulated by entire classes of students, the models embody both artistic and ...
Performance Comparison of Motion-Related Sensor Technology and Acoustic Sensor Technology in the Field of Human Health Monitoring
Smartwatches are reaching more people every year and have long since found their way into research. When monitoring the health of people with neurological conditions, it is crucial to detect disease progression as early as possible. These can be ...
Indoor Contact Awareness on Spatiotemporal Analytics with Smartphone-Based Pedestrian Dead Reckoning
Due to the prevalence of COVID-19, providing safe environments and avoiding exposure to the virus play a pivotable role in our daily lives. As a well-established measurement, contact tracing is widely applied to suppress its spread. Most of the digital ...
Smart Hydroponic Greenhouse: Internet of Things and Soilless Farming
Population growth and rapid climate change are leading to a reduction in arable lands and this requires an immediate solution. Hydroponic cultivation is one of the best approaches developed in recent years since this method requires water as a means of ...