17 April 2026
This study investigates how two key characteristics of AI-enabled chatbots in mobile banking applications—perceived intelligence and perceived anthropomorphism—influence users’ cognitive and hedonic evaluations, namely perceived use...
Background/Objectives: Childhood disability is a major stressor for caregivers. There are many problems and challenges in relation to satisfying the psychological support needs of caregivers. This study aims to explore the modifiable psycho-behaviora...
To scientifically enhance user perception in decision-making for designing interactive spaces in schools for children with intellectual disabilities, we propose an innovative design model that integrates the Kano model, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AH...
Background/Objectives: Inclusive education emphasizes positive interactions between students with and without special needs to foster mutual understanding and acceptance. This study explored the effect of an experiential learning program (ExL Prog) o...
Upper-limb rehabilitation robots should provide adaptive assistance while avoiding excessive robotic intervention when users can contribute to movement. A key challenge is that measured interaction forces contain both voluntary and passive mechanical...
For students with Special Educational Needs in their Emotional and Social Development (SEN-ESD), school interactions can intensify distrust in adults or foster corrective relational experiences. Physical Education (PE) presents a dual-natured context...
12 May 2021
Use of eye-gaze assistive technology (EGAT) provides children/youths with severe motor and speech impairments communication opportunities by using eyes to control a communication interface on a computer. However, knowledge about how using EGAT contri...
Social robots hold promise for enhancing later-life support, but user needs and preferences for multimodal interaction modalities remain underexplored. This study explores awareness, willingness, perceived barriers, and modality–function associ...
Emotion recognition is a key capability of social robots operating in real-world human-centered environments, especially when interacting with users with special needs. Such users may express emotions in atypical, subtle, or strongly context-dependen...
Fluid intelligence and need for cognition are relevant predictors of school grades and might also interact in the prediction of grades. We examined the independent predictive values of fluid intelligence and need for cognition as well as their intera...
There are many children with disabilities who need specialised devices to communicate and to be understood, which poses an added challenge for their caregivers. This study aims to diagnose the training needs of informal caregivers concerning high-tec...
7 April 2020
Adolescents nowadays spend much time communicating via social networks. Recent investigations also report a noticeable proportion showing a problematic usage behavior, underlining the importance of better understanding its development and maintenance...
Based on the theory of user needs and the product development mode and framework of mobile Internet interactive innovation, a new “reality → virtual → reality” interactive innovation product development mode is constructed. It d...
As AI-generated influencers increasingly dominate social media landscapes, their psychological impact on human users necessitates rigorous empirical investigation. Grounded in Self-Determination Theory, this study examines how AI influencers influenc...
The accelerating global population aging has brought increasing attention to the loneliness and emotional needs experienced by older adults due to shrinking social networks and the loss of relatives and friends, which significantly impair their quali...
The next generation of climate services needs not only tailoring to specific user needs but to provide, in addition, access to key information in a usable way that satisfies the needs of different users’ profiles; especially web-based services....
This study empirically investigates the impact (overall, regional, and seasonal) of weather and climate extremes on basic human needs by employing a new poverty index, i.e., the Human Needs Index (HNI), in the United States of America. Detecting the...
This study aims to explore through a qualitative thematic analysis the reflections of six animal protection and wildlife conservation NGOs in Romania regarding the development of the first specialized master’s degree program in ethology and human-ani...
With the maturity of haptic technology and complex systems, tactile interaction has gradually become realized through specific hardware and software configurations in the e-commerce and business industries. As an innovative form depending on haptic s...
Occupant behavior is acknowledged as a main contribution to building energy consumption. Many efforts have been devoted to identifying the impact of occupant behaviors on building energy consumption. However, the lack of understanding of the interact...
Restaurants have been using robots to meet the increasing consumer demand for food customization and safety and contactless service operations. This study identified the antecedent factors influencing a customer’s attitude and acceptance intent...
Musical play offers learners with Special Educational Needs (SEN) an immediate way to act on, perceive, and reorganize a learning environment through sound. This study protocol proposes a randomized, counterbalanced, within-participant mixed-methods...
21 December 2023
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disability that negatively affects children’s learning, motor behavior, social communication, and interaction. It was estimated that, in 2020, 1 in 36 children aged 8 years in the U...
Active patient participation in the rehabilitation process after stroke has been shown to accelerate neural remodeling. The control framework of rehabilitation robots should provide appropriate assistive forces to users. An assist-as-needed (AAN) con...
In this paper, we propose an assist-as-needed (AAN) backstepping control scheme for a lower-limb exoskeleton with nonlinear dynamics and uncertain human–robot interactions. The main objective is to achieve a good trajectory tracking capability...
4 September 2026
While Augmented Reality (AR) places a product visually and spatially inside the consumer’s own environment, it cannot deliver touch. The more faithfully AR renders an object, the more conspicuous its missing tactile channel becomes. We term thi...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is acknowledged worldwide to be a grave threat to public health, with the number of US end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients increasing steeply from 10,000 in 1973 to 703,243 in 2015. Protein-bound uremic toxins (PBUTs...
Soybean is a crop in high demand, in particular as a crucial source of plant protein. As a short-day plant, soybean is sensitive to the latitude of the growing site. Consequently, varieties that are well adapted to higher latitudes are required to ex...
22 February 2021
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has posed a great challenge to teaching and learning activities in higher education, particularly for service-learning subjects that involve intensive human interaction. Although service-learning may be tra...
Janusmed interactions is a drug-drug interactions (DDI) database available online for healthcare professionals (HCP) at all levels of the healthcare system including pharmacies. The database is aimed at HCP but is also open to the public for free, fo...
The interaction between emerging adult psychological well-being and decision-making, in South Africa, has not been explicitly explored in Self-Determination Theory. Life goals have been thought to play a role in the interaction between basic psycholo...
Objectives: The aim of this work is to provide a scoping review to compile and classify the systems helping train and enhance psychomotor skills in hearing impaired (HI) children. Methods: Based on an exhaustive review on psychomotor deficits in HI c...
Robot-assisted rehabilitation therapy has been proven to effectively improve upper-limb motor function in stroke patients. However, most current rehabilitation robotic controllers will provide too much assistance force and focus only on the patient&r...
Assessing and addressing spiritual needs is a key factor in the quality of life and overall wellbeing of cancer patients. However, the evolution and diversification of assessment tools has not automatically been followed by their successful implement...
The aging population and the high incidence of neurological disorders have driven an increasing demand for lower-limb motor dysfunction rehabilitation. Traditional rehabilitation methods suffer from limitations such as low efficiency and a lack of pe...
Background: Cervical cancer prevention in regions with limited access to screening and HPV vaccination necessitates innovative approaches. This study explored the potential of a test-and-treat strategy using mRNA HPV tests to impact cervical cancer p...
This study proposes a model predictive control (MPC)-based Assist-as-Needed (AAN) strategy for upper-limb rehabilitation robots, with particular emphasis on mitigating motor slacking. In conventional error-based AAN approaches, robotic assistance is...
This study focused on assessing the language needs of English-speaking animal professionals in their interactions with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking animal caretakers. A survey was administered to a target audience of non-Spanish speaking and bilingual a...
Polypharmacy is a common phenomenon among adults using opioids, which may influence the frequency, severity, and complexity of drug–drug interactions (DDIs) experienced. Clinicians must be able to easily identify and resolve DDIs since opioid-r...
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 4 stresses the importance of offering all students an inclusive, quality education, so that they can develop necessary life skills, including academic and social skills. Students with special edu...
The changes deriving from the birth of a child with a congenital anomaly (CA) or cerebral palsy (CP) imply, in many cases, an increased interaction with health services. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with a convenience sample of p...
15 April 2022
The aim of the study was to verify whether the frequency of face-to-face interactions with the public at work can reveal differences in how people react to emotional regulation demands. In particular, we investigated the mediating role of surface act...
This study explores the interactive characteristics of the public, referencing existing data mining methods. This research attempts to develop a community data mining and integration technology to investigate the trends of global retail chain brands....
Technologies for home movement rehabilitation after stroke are rapidly expanding. However, for consumers, the number and nature of available products are unclear, and the information provided by device manufacturers varies widely. To understand this...
Remote sensing image change detection (CD) is an essential technique for analyzing surface changes from co-registered images of different time periods. The main challenge in CD is to identify the alterations that the user intends to emphasize, while...
An important goal of biological research is to explain and hopefully predict cell behavior from the molecular properties of cellular components. Accordingly, much work was done to build extensive “omic” datasets and develop theoretical me...
The vision of On-the-Fly (OTF) Computing is to compose and provide software services ad hoc, based on requirement descriptions in natural language. Since non-technical users write their software requirements themselves and in unrestricted natural lan...
Highly active antiretroviral therapy has led to a significant increase in the life expectancy of people living with HIV. The trade-off is that HIV-infected patients often suffer from comorbidities that require additional treatment, increasing the ris...
One of the biggest uncertainties of climate change is determining the response of vegetation to many co-occurring stressors. In particular, many forests are experiencing increased nitrogen deposition and are expected to suffer in the future from incr...
Electric vehicle (EV) performance can vary substantially under real-world operating conditions, particularly due to ambient temperature effects on energy consumption, battery behavior, and thermal management requirements. This study quantifies how we...
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