Research projects
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AI - The Benevolent Dictator?
This project delves deeper into the processes behind AI decision-making, specifically how we weigh the various costs and benefits of ceding decisional authority to AI.
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Critical AI Literacy (CAIL)
Critical AI literacy is crucial for our world, as AI applications rapidly spread across society. In this project, we educate students, education professionals, and the public on how uncritical AI adoption causes harm and what steps can minimize it.
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QoLEAD
Dementia has a major impact on quality of life and is a highly experienced disease burden. The project researches technological innovations that better meet the individual needs of people with dementia and their carers.
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What’s BOThering You?
In the project researchers will use AI and take into account the complex nature of student well-being. Information will be used to develop an advanced chatbot that will provide students with personalized support and improve their well-being.
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Look Who’s Talking
The main aim of this project is to create and field-test chatbots designed to develop and foster long-term engaging and human-like conversations with humans for two technologically and linguistically diverse domains.
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Chatbot Usability
In this project, we seek to identify the key characteristics that influence users' interactions with chatbots. Specifically, we examine the impact of Emotional Interaction.
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SpeakAPP!-Kids
We developed a free virtual reality smartphone app, allowing elementary school children to practice presentations in front of virtual audiences. The app helps to increase presentation skills and can potentially prevent fear of public speaking.
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From cold to warm technologies: the role of emotion during learning
This project explores emotions in learning for enhancing Adaptive Learning Tech. It assesses emotions via physiology, self-reports, and observations to adapt task difficulty, comparing new algorithms with default ALTs.
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INtoEAT
INtoEAT aims at development and implementation of innovative digital tools that can improve healthy eating habits and lifestyle in elderly as a nutrition aid.
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The Understanding Coach
Patients with memory loss often need more support as their condition worsens. The Understanding Coach project is developing a compassionate AI-powered virtual human tool that is aimed at improving these patients’ quality of life.