An action recognition system has many applications, ranging from security to sign language interpretation. If a subject's body pose can be tracked in streams of video, a wealth of information about possible actions can ...

Brain oscillations are known to re ect uctuations of low and high excitability states in neuronal populations. These oscillations can adjust to the surrounding environment such that high excitability states co-occur ...

Humans often stabilize objects by co-contraction, also known as the activation of opposing muscles. With more muscle activation there is also more limb stiffness. More muscle activation requires more energy. Several ...

Psychometric models have been used to parametrize a relevant model capturing the behavioral response of the user in a yes/no or 2AFC task. The obtained model would be analyzed in order to evaluate the performance of the ...

Diabetes type 2 (DM2) is a common lifestyle disease caused by an insufficient amount of physical activity, bad eating habits and possibly some genetic factors. Coaching people on their eating habits and physical activity ...

In the rod-and-frame task human subjects are asked to judge the orientation of a rod in a frame (clock or counter clockwise) relative to the subjects perceived gravity. The orientations of both the frame and the rod are ...

As machine learning systems grow to take up ever more space in our everyday lives, ensuring that they are aligned with human values became an important topic. One issue of automatic systems which learn from large amount ...

A key challenge in developing companion agents for children is keeping them inter- ested after novelty e ects wear o . Self-Determination Theory posits that motivation is sustained if the human feels related to the agent. ...

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This thesis presents an investigation of how environmental settings influence the appearance of altruism within small groups of agents. A set of simulation environments has been setup in which agents can perform simple ...