Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804573
Agata Wlaszczyk, B. Indurkhya
Metaphors are present in a wide range of everyday activities. They usually work by understanding or explaining complex subjects by terms from more familiar domains. Metaphors in everyday context are often used unconsciously, as their sources are basic entities and perceptual experiences. They can, however, be used deliberately in educational discourse to explain difficult concepts and introduce new ideas in an intelligible manner. This approach falls under constructivism, which claims that an effective learning strategy is to scaffold on the previous knowledge and conceptual representations. However, there are some limitations of introducing a new concept indirectly via a metaphor. We consider these issues here in the domains of physics education, human-computer interfaces and human-robot interactions. We argue that metaphors are most effective for novices, when one needs to grasp a general idea about a concept and understand its functions without a detailed analysis. In this respect, metaphor can be a powerful tool for bridging gaps in understanding between familiar terms and abstract ideas that are yet to be learned.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804529
Ferenc Fejes, R. Katona, Levente Pusok
Cognitive infocommunications research has been on the rise in recent years and it is becoming more and more prevalent. The underlying network infrastructure needs to be able to satisfy the new requirements set forth by these systems that also include 3D video and audio delivery. Now more than ever, it is also inevitable to take mobile devices into consideration when talking about the development and use cases of new technologies. These also need to be prepared to provide an experience as seamless as possible. This means utilizing the available network resources with a high efficiency both in mobile and desktop environments. In our paper we briefly summarize the solutions available today for using multiple network interfaces simultaneously, providing throughput aggregation and failover capabilities. We discuss a couple of already implemented multi-interface mobile environments, their operating principles, their advantages and drawbacks. We review the difficulties of operating multiple interfaces in a mobile environment, and the solutions provided in different implementations. We present our own results in the topic, achieved with the MPT Library developed at the University of Debrecen, Faculty of Informatics. We also touch on the software's Android implementation, describe the differences to other implementations and examine possibilities for further development.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804556
K. Chmielewska, A. Gilányi, A. Lukasiewicz
In this paper, we consider some educational aspects related to mathability. Our main goal is to approach an answer to the question what are computer assisted ways to assimilate mathematical knowledge and possess mathematical abilities.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804525
Firoj Alam, M. Danieli, G. Riccardi
In the context of automatic behavioral analysis, we aim to classify empathy in human-human spoken conversations. Empathy underlies to the human ability to recognize, understand and to react to emotions, attitudes, and beliefs of others. While empathy and its different manifestations (e.g., sympathy, compassion) have been widely studied in psychology, very little has been done in the computational research literature. In this paper, we present a case study where we investigate the occurrences of empathy in call-centers human-human conversations. In order to propose an operational definition of empathy, we adopt the modal model of emotions, where the appraisal processes of the unfolding of emotional states are modeled sequentially. We have designed a binary classification system to detect the presence of empathic manifestations in spoken conversations. The automatic classification system has been evaluated using spoken conversations by exploiting and comparing performances of the lexical, acoustic and psycholinguistic features.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804517
Annie W. Sokol, Kamila Skowronska, Adam Skowroński
Improving cognitive communication between end user and mobile app using various micro-services from IBM BlueMix cloud - based on banking use cases.
使用IBM BlueMix基于银行用例的各种微服务，改善终端用户和移动应用程序之间的认知沟通。
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804549
György Kovács, Tamás Grósz, T. Váradi
Understanding topical units is important for improved human-computer interaction (HCI) as well as for a better understanding of human-human interaction. Here, we take the first steps towards topical unit recognition by creating a topical unit classifier based on the HuComTech multimodal database. We create this classifier by means of Deep Rectifier Neural Nets (DRN) and the Unweighted Average Recall (UAR) metric, applying the technique of probabilistic sampling. We demonstrate in several experiments that our proposed method attains a convincingly better performance than that using a support vector machine or a deep neural net by itself. We also experiment with the number of topical unit labels, and examine whether distinguishing between different types of topic changes based on the level of motivatedness is feasible in this framework.
{"title":"Topical unit classification using deep neural nets and probabilistic sampling","authors":"György Kovács, Tamás Grósz, T. Váradi","doi":"10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804549","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding topical units is important for improved human-computer interaction (HCI) as well as for a better understanding of human-human interaction. Here, we take the first steps towards topical unit recognition by creating a topical unit classifier based on the HuComTech multimodal database. We create this classifier by means of Deep Rectifier Neural Nets (DRN) and the Unweighted Average Recall (UAR) metric, applying the technique of probabilistic sampling. We demonstrate in several experiments that our proposed method attains a convincingly better performance than that using a support vector machine or a deep neural net by itself. We also experiment with the number of topical unit labels, and examine whether distinguishing between different types of topic changes based on the level of motivatedness is feasible in this framework.","PeriodicalId":440408,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128237332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804558
I. Papp, Róbert Tornai, Marianna Zichar
What is obvious in real life may be rather complicated to represent and reproduce in a digital environment. A growing number of technologies and devices have an associated property called 3D, referring to their ability of approximating reality. This study presents the forms of 3D in education and the ways in which using a 3D printer affects the life of an educational institution.
{"title":"What 3D technologies can bring to education: The impacts of acquiring a 3D printer","authors":"I. Papp, Róbert Tornai, Marianna Zichar","doi":"10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804558","url":null,"abstract":"What is obvious in real life may be rather complicated to represent and reproduce in a digital environment. A growing number of technologies and devices have an associated property called 3D, referring to their ability of approximating reality. This study presents the forms of 3D in education and the ways in which using a 3D printer affects the life of an educational institution.","PeriodicalId":440408,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129612292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804543
Miroslav Macík, I. Maly, Eva Lorencova, Tomáš Flek, Z. Míkovec
Indoor environments like hospitals are typically very complex and hard to navigate even for healthy individuals. Factors like bad health status, higher stress level, and possible impairments can make the orientation in hospitals even more challenging. We describe the evolution of context-sensitive navigation system that provides adaptive indoor navigation without forcing users to use sophisticated smartphones or other specialized personal navigation devices. Instead, various networked navigation terminal installed at appropriate spots in the indoor environment are used to guide users to their destination. User study (N=10) and on-site study in a big hospital have been conducted. Prototypes including hospital visit preparation website, smart kiosk and waiting room kiosk, were developed and evaluated. These prototypes have been evaluated with target user audience, LoFi prototype (N=6) and HiFi prototype (N=12). The results suggest usability and utility of our navigation systems for the target user audience.
{"title":"Smartphoneless context-aware indoor navigation","authors":"Miroslav Macík, I. Maly, Eva Lorencova, Tomáš Flek, Z. Míkovec","doi":"10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804543","url":null,"abstract":"Indoor environments like hospitals are typically very complex and hard to navigate even for healthy individuals. Factors like bad health status, higher stress level, and possible impairments can make the orientation in hospitals even more challenging. We describe the evolution of context-sensitive navigation system that provides adaptive indoor navigation without forcing users to use sophisticated smartphones or other specialized personal navigation devices. Instead, various networked navigation terminal installed at appropriate spots in the indoor environment are used to guide users to their destination. User study (N=10) and on-site study in a big hospital have been conducted. Prototypes including hospital visit preparation website, smart kiosk and waiting room kiosk, were developed and evaluated. These prototypes have been evaluated with target user audience, LoFi prototype (N=6) and HiFi prototype (N=12). The results suggest usability and utility of our navigation systems for the target user audience.","PeriodicalId":440408,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)","volume":"58 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132442768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804568
K. Pomázi, László Gazdi, Bertalan Radostyán, M. Szabó, Luca Szegletes, B. Forstner
There are different theories to estimate cognitive abilities. Gardner proposed a model, where intelligence is defined by multiple fields instead of using one specific number. However, the characterization and automated evaluation of these fields are still open issues. If we can make standalone measurements in separate intelligence fields, the numerical modeling of the competencies is possible. Observing the cognitive abilities of children can lead us to an optimized learning experience in performance and engagement. Our aim is to automatically match problem sets and intelligence fields in order to achieve a faster and deeper learning experience. The amount of data to be collected makes the automation of this process a focus point of these studies. In this paper we present an automatic cognitive profiling system with the help of smart devices and AdaptEd - an adaptive educational gaming framework. With the presented system the learning methods and tasks can be fine-tuned, and a personalized and more effective learning environment can be achieved.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1109/COGINFOCOM.2016.7804564
O. Matarazzo, Barbara Pizzini, C. Greco, Michele Carpentieri
This study investigated the effect of a chance task outcome on the offers made at the Ultimatum Game (UG). In addition, the putative mediation role of incidental (unrelated to UG) and integral (elicited by UG) emotions and beliefs was examined. The incidental emotions were induced by manipulating the task outcome in a positive or negative direction. As concerns integral emotions and beliefs, we took into account those supposed to underlie the offers amount, such as empathy, sense of fairness, fear of rejection etc. Results showed that a negative outcome led proposers to decrease the offers amount and that this effect was mediated by integral emotions and beliefs. Instead, positive incidental emotions produced suppression effects.
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