The Varieties of Agency in Human–Smart Device Relationships: The Four Agency Profiles
As the interest of intelligent/smart devices in growing in society, this paper explores the concept of agency in human-smart device relationships, focusing on two key aspects: The study introduces four agency profiles that characterize different types of human-smart device relationships: Figure below presents an intuitive idea of the research: The researcher is validated by conducting […]
Understanding Users’ Experiences of Interaction with Smart Devices: A Socio-Technical Perspective
Human-computer interaction (HCI) is a multidisciplinary field that explores the interaction between humans and computers, emphasizing especially the design and use of computer technology. Within this domain, the notion of sense of agency, usually defined as the users perceiving their actions as influencing the system, is of crucial importance. Another central notion is that of […]
Phd or Postdoc in Switzerland for International Students: On Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships
Do you have a fresh master or PhD and are you considering Phd or Postdoc in Switzerland? The Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship offers young researchers from around the world who have completed a master’s degree or PhD the opportunity to start or continue their research careers in Switzerland. The scholarship supports research endeavors for a […]
AI Beyond Efficiency: note on the event
This is a small note that summarize the first workshop of AI beyond efficiency that we did in Valencia in the past spring. It was a really fun and formative experience where we had the possibility to interact with many colleagues across Europe. We can clearly declare the workshop successful as we had to cap […]
Can You Use the Internet of Things to Fight Addiction?
Over the last two decades, there have been significant technological advancements that have impacted how we perform various functions, including travel, shopping, education, and health. A significant health concern is addiction, a brain disease that can affect anyone. The most severe form of substance use disorder (SUD), addiction manifests as a compulsion for a substance […]
Human and Smart Device Interaction: Help Wanted
The topic of human and smart device interaction touches everybody in their everyday life. Why do you like a particular smart device? Why do you choose that particular object? At a first look these questions look really obvious, to the point that they do not really need to be answered. However, “the obvious” is what […]
The Tiny Instrument Element
Abstract of the Tiny Instrument Element In the past few years, the idea of extending the Grid to cover also the remote access, control, management of instrument devices has been explored in a few initiatives. Existing tools lack in generality and require advanced specialized computer science knowledge, thus making them difficult to be broadly adopted […]
Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge (NEPOMUK)
Nepomuk was one of the biggest European Information and Society Technologies projects. Its goal was to develop a comprehensive solution for extending the personal desktop into a collaboration environment which supports both the personal information management and sharing and exchange across social and organizational relations. This solution is called the Social Semantic Desktop. On the […]
Grid Enabled Remote Instrumentation with Distributed Control and Computation (GridCC)
The goal of GridCC was to exploit Grid opportunities for secure and collaborative work of distributed teams to remotely operate and monitor scientific equipment using the Grid’s massive memory and computing resources for storing and processing data generated by this kind of equipment. The project aims to extend the state of the art of computing […]
Interoperability of the Time of Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things
Abstract: Industry 4.0 demands a dynamic optimization of production lines. They are formed by sets of heterogeneous devices that cooperate towards a shared goal. The Internet of Things can serve as a technology enabler for implementing such a vision. Nevertheless, the domain is struggling in finding a shared understanding of the concepts for describing a […]
