Elicitation of technical requirements in large research projects: The CERBERO approach

Technical Requirements (TRs) provide a “black box” conceptualization of the target project results with explicit verification tests. The goal of Technical Requirements Elicitation (TRE) is to ensure that all needs of involved stakeholders are being identified and adequately addressed without prescribing how to achieve them. Whilst TRE...

Towards a computational theory of action causation and power for normative reasoning

A digital coach that provides affective and social learning support to low-literate learners

In this study, we investigate if a digital coach for low-literate learners that provides cognitive learning support based on scaffolding can be improved by adding affective learning support based on motivational interviewing, and social learning support based on small talk. Several knowledge gaps are identified: motivational interviewing and...

The role of emotion in self-explanations by cognitive agents

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, including intelligent agents, are becoming increasingly complex. Explainable AI (XAI) is the capability of these systems to explain their behaviour, in a for humans understandable manner. Cognitive agents, a type of intelligent agents, typically explain their actions with their beliefs and desires. However,...

Workshop on longitudinal human-robot teaming

As robots that share working and living environments with humans proliferate, human-robot teamwork (HRT) is becoming more relevant every day. By necessity, these HRT dynamics develop over time, as HRT can hardly happen only in the moment. What theories, algorithms, tools, computational models and design methodologies enable effective and safe...

Containerization of high level architecture-based simulations: A case study

NATO and the nations use distributed simulation environments for various purposes, such as training, mission rehearsal, and decision support in acquisition processes. Consequently, modeling and simulation (M&S) has become a critical technology for the coalition and its nations. Achieving interoperability between participating simulation systems...

Lost in persuasion A multidisciplinary approach for developing usable, effective, and reproducible persuasive technology for health promotion

Despite its acknowledged benefits for health promotion, the full potential of persuasive technology is not (yet) reached in regard to usability, effectiveness, and reproducibility. It often lacks an effective combination of technical features and behavior change strategies. This paper presents a multidisciplinary approach, addressing both...

Measurement network design including traveltime determinations to minimize model prediction uncertainty

Traveltime determinations have found increasing application in the characterization of groundwater systems. No algorithms are available, however, to optimally design sampling strategies including this information type. We propose a first-order methodology to include groundwater age or tracer arrival time determinations in measurement network...

Objective assessment of simulated daytime and NVG image fidelity

Synthetic imagery used for training and evaluating visual search and detection tasks should result in the same observer performance as obtained in the field. The generation of synthetic imagery generally involves a range of computational approximations and simplifications of the physical processes involved in the image formation, in order to...

Performance comparison of different graylevel image fusion schemes through a universal image quality index

We applied a recently introduced universal image quality index Q that quantifies the distortion of a processed image relative to its original version, to assess the performance of different graylevel image fusion schemes. The method is as follows. First, we adopt an original test image as the reference image. Second, we produce several distorted...