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 ...

When looking for an activity in a bar or trying to find a good movie it often seems difficult to find complete and correct information about the event. Hyperleap tries to solve this problem of bad information giving by ...

One of the main challenges in cognitive science is to explain how people make reasonable inferences in daily life. Theories that attempt to explain this either fail to capture inference in its full generality or they ...

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 ...

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. ...

In this study a method for artificially composing visual accompaniment for music pieces is proposed. We analyze whether the proposed method composes visual accompaniments that are comparable in quality to visual ...

Security companies around the world use GPS trackers to track the valuable goods of their customers. Using the trackers you know where they are but you cannot assess whether that is okay or not, a car may be moving in the ...

In connection with the application of Bayesian networks in several domains like medical diagnoses and weather forecasting, this thesis introduces the use of Bayesian networks into the field of theft alarm analysis. It is ...

In this thesis it was intended to investigate whether the number of active backchannels in non-verbal listening behaviour exhibited by a robot during a human-robot interaction, influenced the human’s feeling of being ...