Our modern society is filled with stressful stimuli that impact our daily lives, and lead to problems that eventually threaten our mental and psychological wellbeing. Expanding urban life and urbanizing people's interactions have drastically increased and resulted in more stressful circumstances. Unfortunately, the role of nature and nature-based design in our urban societies as an alternative ...

PRIMA, GRAVIR-IMAG INRIA Rhône-Alpes, 38349 St. Ismier. France. Abstract. This paper presents a novel approach to detect interaction groups in intelligent environments. To understand human activity, we must identify human actors as well as their interpersonal links. Interaction detection is a good cue to address activity of user groups. An attentional model is derived from gravitational model a...

Even after long-term exposures, androids with a strikingly human-like appearance evoke unnatural feelings. The behavior that would induce human-like feelings after long exposures is difficult to determine, and it often depends on the cultural background of the observers. Therefore, in this study, we generate an acting performance system for the android, in which an android and a human interact ...

The problem of deterioration of works of art is particularly relevant in Countries like Italy that are rich in Cultural Heritage. In fact, following UNESCO data, in Italy are located 2/3 of the Cultural Heritage known in the World. Archeological areas, statues, buildings, museums, churches and items there located, hypogean environments, are subjected to different stresses due the geographical p...

Ubiquitous computing aims for the realisation of environments that assist users autonomously and proactively in a non-distractive manner. Therefore smart environment infrastructures need to be able to identify users needs (intention recognition) and to plan an appropriate assisting strategy (strategy generation) without explicit user interaction. In our two-stage approach we address inferring t...

The Smart Classroom project explores the challenges and potentials of the Intelligent Environment as a new human-computer interaction paradigm. By constructing an intelligent classroom for tele-education, we try to provide teachers the same experiences as in an ordinary classroom when giving teleeducation lessons. The Smart Classroom could actively observe, listen and serve the teachers, and te...

Our work seeks to design and develop a tool to enable the learning of human-computer interaction while contributing to a growing and evolving development environment. This paper focuses on teaching students about analytic evaluations, a popular evaluation method that can be conducted rapidly and inexpensively. With our module, designers and evaluators can debate claims about the interface being...