The past four years have seen the rise of conversational agents (CAs) in everyday life.
Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook have all embedded proprietary CAs within …

With the rapid growth of socio-technical ecosystems, smart interactions and services are
permeating every walk of life. As smart interactions must managed automatically and …

Software-intensive systems become more and more important in our everyday lives. But
their increasing complexity makes it difficult to develop and maintain them. This chapter …

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In the last few years, people are increasingly demanding personalized information to carry
out their daily activities. Information systems are needed to manage a representation of the …

Over the past decade and a half, corporations and academies have invested considerable
time and money in the realization of ubiquitous computing. Yet design approaches that yield …

In our work, we focus on detection of affective states, their proper identification and
interpretation with use of wearable and mobile devices. We propose a data acquisition layer …

Many research areas are attempting to address this input deciency, but they can mainly be
seen in terms of two basic approaches: Improving the language that humans can use to …

Context-awareness plays a key role in a paradigm shift from traditional desktop styled
computing to emerging pervasive computing. Many context-aware systems have been built …

In this paper, we consider the use of wearable sensors for providing affect-based adaptation
in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems. We begin with discussion of selected issues …