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Interest is growing in studying canine and human relationships, especially working canines and their role in society. Interest is also growing in designing informed, user centered interactive technologies for animals. Combining these two themes, my doctoral research looks at creating user-centered, ethnographically informed designs for working animals (working dogs). The work examines existing ...

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This paper presents a new methodology aimed at making simpler the product/market fit process. We propose a user-centered approach inspired on the Oriental philosophy that is behind Kansei Engineering. In essence, we advocate for customization of products guided by users’ expectations. Our proposal combines Sensory Analysis and Soft Computing techniques in order to uncover what users think but a...

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Image ranking is a task that involves different parameters. They depend on the intrinsic characteristics of an image, but also on the indexing language used for representing its semantic content. We developed a weighting model that combines these parameters in a general scheme. Finding the best balance between the parameters is not straightforward. Different parameter combinations leads to diff...

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