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Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, Volume 2, Issue 4

December 2018 - 22 articles

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Articles (22)

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,607 Views
13 Pages

X-Reality System Architecture for Industry 4.0 Processes

  • Bruno Simões,
  • Raffaele De Amicis,
  • Iñigo Barandiaran and
  • Jorge Posada

Information visualization has been widely adopted to represent and visualize data patterns as it offers users fast access to data facts and can highlight specific points beyond plain figures and words. As data comes from multiple sources, in all type...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,205 Views
27 Pages

Broad access to automated cars (ACs) that can reliably and unconditionally drive in all environments is still some years away. Urban areas pose a particular challenge to ACs, since even perfectly reliable systems may be forced to execute sudden react...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,445 Views
13 Pages

Children’s playworlds are a complex interweaving of modes, with the border areas between the digital and non-digital often becoming increasingly blurred. Growing in popularity and prevalence, multimodal technologies blending digital and non-dig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,081 Views
16 Pages

Design and Evaluation of a Mixed-Reality Playground for Child-Robot Games

  • Maria Luce Lupetti,
  • Giovanni Piumatti,
  • Claudio Germak and
  • Fabrizio Lamberti

In this article we present the Phygital Game project, a mixed-reality game platform in which children can play with or against a robot. The project was developed by adopting a human-centered design approach, characterized by the engagement of both ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,472 Views
14 Pages

Vehicle automation is linked to various benefits, such as increase in fuel and transport efficiency as well as increase in driving comfort. However, automation also comes with a variety of possible downsides, e.g., loss of situational awareness, loss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,618 Views
26 Pages

Social allostasis is a mechanism of adaptation that permits individuals to dynamically adapt their physiology to changing physical and social conditions. Oxytocin (OT) is widely considered to be one of the hormones that drives and adapts social behav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,711 Views
25 Pages

This research investigates the effect of different user characteristics on the perception and evaluation of an agent’s appearance variables. Therefore, two different experiments have been conducted. In a 3 × 3 × 5 within-subjects de...

  • Review
  • Open Access
69 Citations
8,018 Views
21 Pages

Gesture Elicitation Studies for Mid-Air Interaction: A Review

  • Panagiotis Vogiatzidakis and
  • Panayiotis Koutsabasis

Mid-air interaction involves touchless manipulations of digital content or remote devices, based on sensor tracking of body movements and gestures. There are no established, universal gesture vocabularies for mid-air interactions with digital content...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,317 Views
15 Pages

ERIKA—Early Robotics Introduction at Kindergarten Age

  • Stefan Schiffer and
  • Alexander Ferrein

In this work, we report on our attempt to design and implement an early introduction to basic robotics principles for children at kindergarten age. One of the main challenges of this effort is to explain complex robotics contents in a way that pre-sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,048 Views
47 Pages

The context of the work presented in this article is the assessment and automated evaluation of human behaviour. To facilitate this, a formalism is presented which is unambiguous as well as such that it can be implemented and interpreted in an automa...

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Multimodal Technol. Interact. - ISSN 2414-4088