• PYWDF: an open source library for prototyping and simulating wave filter circuits in Python

  Anthon, Gustav; Lizarraga Seijas, Xavier; Font Corbera, Frederic (Aalborg University Copenhagen, 2023)

  This paper introduces a new open-source Python library for the modeling and simulation of wave digital filter (WDF) circuits. The library, called pwydf, allows users to easily create and analyze WDF circuit models in a ...
• Addressing class imbalance in multilabel Prototype Generation for k-Nearest Neighbor classification

  Penarrubia, Carlos; Valero-Mas, Jose J.; Gallego, Antonio Javier; Calvo-Zaragoza, Jorge (Springer, 2023)

  Prototype Generation (PG) methods seek to improve the efficiency of the k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) classifier by obtaining a reduced version of a given reference dataset following certain heuristics. Despite being largely ...
• Intrinsic motivation for social media literacy, a look into the narrative scripts

  Lobo Quintero, René; Sánchez Reina, Jesús Roberto; Theophilou, Emily; Hernández Leo, Davinia (Springer, 2023)

  Social media embodies the idyllic representation of the information society providing users opportunities to connect and communicate. Likewise, it can represent humanity’s worst nightmare with a plethora of negative ...
• The “Courage companion” – an AI-supported environment for training teenagers in handling social media critically and responsibly

  Aprin, Farbod; Malzahn, Nils; Lomonaco, Francesco; Donabauer, Gregor; Ognibene, Dimitri; Kruschwitz, Udo; Hernández Leo, Davinia; Fulantelli, Giovanni; Hoppe, H. Ulrich (Springer, 2023)

  The provision of toxic content and misinformation is a frequent phenomenon in current social media with specific impact and risks for younger users. We report on efforts taken in the project Courage to mitigate and overcome ...
• The role of educational interventions in facing social media threats: overarching principles of the COURAGE project

  Taibi, Davide; Börsting, Johanna; Hoppe, H. Ulrich; Ognibene, Dimitri; Hernández Leo, Davinia; Eimler, Sabrina; Kruschwitz, Udo (Springer, 2023)

  Social media are offering new opportunities for communication and interaction way beyond what was possible only a few years ago. However, social media are also virtual spaces where young people are exposed to a variety of ...
• Generative pre-trained transformers for coding text data? An analysis with classroom orchestration data

  Amarasinghe, Ishari; Marques, Francielle; Ortiz-Beltran, Ariel; Hernández Leo, Davinia (Springer, 2023)

  Video content analysis is of importance for researchers in technology-enhanced learning. A common starting point typically involves transcribing video into textual transcripts that enable the application of a coding scheme ...
• CASSA: a Context-Aware Synonym Simplification Algorithm

  Baeza Yates, Ricardo; Rello, Luz, 1984-; Dembowski, Julia (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015)

  We present a new context-aware method for lexical simplification that uses two free language resources and real web frequencies. We compare it with the state-of-the-art method for lexical simplification in Spanish and the ...
• EVALITA: evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian

  Basile, Pierpaolo; Cutugno, Franco; Nissim, Malvina; Patti, Viviana; Sprugnoli, Rachele (Accademia University Press, 2016)

  EVALITA is the evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for the Italian language: since 2007 shared tasks have been proposed covering the analysis of both written and spoken language with the aim ...
• A wearable bracelet device for promoting arm use in stroke patients

  Rubio Ballester, Belén; Lathe, Alica; Duarte Oller, Esther; Duff, Armin; Verschure, Paul F. M. J. (SciTePress. Science and Technology Publications, 2015)

  After stroke, many patients experience hemiparesis or weakness on one side of the body. In order to compensate for this lack of motor function, they tend to overuse their non-affected limb. This so called learned non-use ...
• The term well-being in technology-enhanced learning: a systematic literature review

  El Aadmi-Laamech, Khadija; Hakami, Eyad; Santos, Patricia; Hernández Leo, Davinia (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)

  Well-being as a concept has a wide spectrum, easily gaining an interdisciplinary quality more often than not. Its concurrent use in education is more prominent now, gaining relevance due to the discussions surrounding the ...
• Meta Research Conference, MERE 2022

  Hernández Leo, Davinia; Sánchez Reina, Jesús Roberto (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-06-09)

  The MERE Conference has become an annual tradition, showcasing the remarkable research work of students from the Master’s Programs in Sound and Music Computing, Intelligent and Interactive Systems, and Computational ...
• Empirically investigating virtual learning companions to enhance social media literacy

  Theophilou, Emily; Schwarze, Veronica; Börsting, Johanna; Sánchez Reina, Jesús Roberto; Scifo, Lidia; Lomonaco, Francesco; Aprin, Farbod; Ognibene, Dimitri; Taibi, Davide; Hernández Leo, Davinia; Eimler, Sabrina (Springer, 2023)

  Social media platforms provide opportunities for users across the world to connect and communicate between them and engage into acts of social support and entertainment. Yet it can also bring negative consequences as it ...
• State representation learning for goal-conditioned reinforcement learning

  Steccanella, Lorenzo; Jonsson, Anders (Springer, 2022)

  This paper presents a novel state representation for reward-free Markov decision processes. The idea is to learn, in a self-supervised manner, an embedding space where distances between pairs of embedded states correspond ...
• Efficient remote photoplethysmography with temporal derivative modules and time-shift invariant loss

  Comas, Joaquim; Ruiz Ovejero, Adrià; Sukno, Federico Mateo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)

  We present a lightweight neural model for remote heart rate estimation focused on the efficient spatio-temporal learning of facial photoplethysmography (PPG) based on i) modelling of PPG dynamics by combinations of multiple ...
• Networks of injectable microdevices powered and digitally linked by volume conduction for neuroprosthetics: a proof-of-concept

  Becerra Fajardo, Laura; Minguillon, Jesus; Comerma-Montells, Albert; Ivorra Cano, Antoni, 1974- (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)

  Wireless power transfer (WPT) methods such as inductive coupling and ultrasounds are used as an alternative to electrochemical batteries to energize active implantable medical devices. However, existing WPT methods require ...
• Effectiveness of a mixed reality system in terms of social interaction behaviors in children with and without autism spectrum condition

  Galí Pérez, Olga; Sayis, Batuhan; Parés, Narcís, 1966- (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2021)

  The present study analyses the effectiveness of a mixed reality (MR) face-to-face full-body system to foster social interaction behaviors (SIBs) in a child with ASC and a play partner, a child without ASC (non-ASC). An MR ...
• FastLAS: scalable inductive logic programming incorporating domain-specific optimisation criteria

  Law, Mark; Russo, Alessandra; Bertino, Elisa; Broda, Krysia; Lobo, Jorge (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020)

  Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) systems aim to find a set of logical rules, called a hypothesis, that explain a set of examples. In cases where many such hypotheses exist, ILP systems often bias towards shorter solutions, ...
• Exemplar-based image inpainting using an affine invariant similarity measure

  Fedorov, Vadim; Arias Martínez, Pablo; Facciolo Furlan, Gabriele; Ballester, Coloma (Springer, 2016)

  Patch-based approaches are used in state-of-the-art methods for image inpainting. This paper presents a new method for exemplar-based image inpainting using transformed patches. The transformation is determined for each ...
• ECTS: enhanced centralized TSCH scheduling with packet aggregation for industrial IoT

  Michaelides, Michael; Adame, Toni; Bellalta, Boris (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)

  The Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) has gained a lot of momentum thanks to the introduction of Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) in IEEE 802.15.4. At last, we can enjoy collision-free, low-latency wireless communication ...
• A virtual reality system for the simulation of neurodiversity

  López-Carral, Héctor; Blancas Muñoz, Maria; Mura, Anna; Omedas, Pedro; España-Cumellas, Àdria; Martínez Bueno, Enrique; Milliken, Neil; Moore, Paul; Haque, Leena; Gilroy, Sean; Verschure, Paul F. M. J. (Springer, 2021)

  Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social communication and repetitive patterns of behavior. Individuals affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may face overwhelming sensory ...

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