• Affective state-based framework for e-learning systems

  Rodríguez, Juan Antonio; Comas, Joaquim; Binefa i Valls, Xavier (IOS Press, 2021)

  Virtual learning and education have become crucial during the COVID19 pandemic, which has forced a rethink by teachers and educators into designing online content and the indirect interaction with students. In an face-to-face ...
• The power of beauty or the tyranny of algorithms. How do teens understand body image on instagram?

  Sánchez Reina, Jesús Roberto; Theophilou, Emily; Hernández Leo, Davinia; Medina Bravo, Pilar, 1966- (Dykinson, 2021)
• Mapping epileptic networks with scalp and invasive EEG: applications to epileptogenic zone localization and seizure prediction

  Vila-Vidal, Manel; Tauste Campo, Adrià (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

  This chapter offers an overview of core topics in epilepsy research from a complex systems perspective, starting from single-node studies up to network theory analysis. In its first part, the chapter reviews the advances ...
• Web-based embodied conversational agents and older people

  Llorach, Gerard; Agenjo, Javier; Blat, Josep; Sayago Barrantes, Sergio (Springer, 2019)

  Within Human-Computer Interaction, there has recently been an important turn to embodied and voice-based interaction. In this chapter, we discuss our ongoing research on building online Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs), ...
• Musical sound modeling with sinusoids plus noise

  Serra, Xavier (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 1997)

  When generating musical sound on a digital computer, it is important to have a good model whose parameters provide a rich source of meaningful sound transformations. Three basic model types are in prevalent use today for ...
• Incorporating subject areas into the Apertium machine translation system

  Duran Cals, Jordi; Villarejo Muñoz, Luis; Farrús, Mireia; Ortiz, Sergio; Ramírez, Gemma (Springer, 2013)

  The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC), is a public university based in Barcelona. The UOC is characterised by three main factors: (a) it is a virtual university based in an e-Learning ...
• The Musical communication chain and its modeling

  Serra, Xavier (Springer, 2002)
• Música i persuasió

  Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964- (Indigestió Musical, 2009)
• Música y persuasión

  Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964- (Indigestió Musical, 2009)
• Prosody in automatic speaker recognition: applications in biometrics and voice imitation

  Farrús, Mireia (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010)
• Designing an interactive installation for children to experience abstract concepts

  Parés, Narcís, 1966-; Carreras, Anna (Springer, 2009)

  In this chapter we present the design process followed for an interactive experience in a museum installation for children of age 14 to 18. The experience wishes to communicate a set of abstract concepts through full-body ...
• Content processing of music audio signals

  Gouyon, Fabien; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964-; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Cano Vila, Pedro; Bonada, Jordi, 1973-; Loscos, Àlex; Amatriain, Xavier; Serra, Xavier (Logos Verlag, 2008)

  In this chapter, we provide an overview of state-of-the-art algorithms for the automatic description of music audio signals, both from a low-level perspective (focusing on signal characteristics) and a more musical perspective ...
• A system for sound analysis/transformation/synthesis based on a deterministic plus stochastic decomposition

  Serra, Xavier (Stanford University, 1989)

  This dissertation introduces a new analysis/synthesis method. It is designed to obtain musically useful intermediate representations for sound transformations. The method’s underlying model assumes that a sound is composed ...
• A Roadmap for sound and music computing

  Serra, Xavier; Leman, Marc; Widmer, Gerhard (The S2S Consortium, 2007)

  Music is an important aspect of all human cultures. Music is meant to give new experiences, to give sense and meaning to life, to console and to promote social coherence and personal identity in and across very diverse ...
• Spectral Processing

  Amatriain, Xavier; Bonada, Jordi, 1973-; Loscos, Àlex; Serra, Xavier (John Wiley & Sons, 2002)

  In the context of this book, we are looking for representations of sound signals and signal processing systems that can give us ways to design sound transformations in a variety of music applications and contexts. It should ...
• The Dynamical and structural basis of brain activity

  Deco, Gustavo; Jirsa, Viktor K.; Friston, Karl (MIT Press, 2012)

  Global network dynamics over distributed brain areas emerge from the local dynamics of each brain area. Conversely, global dynamics constrain local activity such that the whole system becomes self-organizing. The implicit ...
• Development of an RFID Inventory Robot (AdvanRobot)

  Morenza-Cinos, Marc; Casamayor Pujol, Víctor; Soler Busquets, Jordi; Sanz, José Luis; Guzmán, Roberto; Pous Andrés, Rafael (Springer, 2017)

  AdvanRobot proposes a new robot for inventorying and locating all the products inside a retail store without the need of installing any fixed infrastructure. The patent pending robot combines a laser-guided autonomous ...
• Recurrent neural network interaction quality estimation

  Pragst, Louisa; Ultes, Stefan; Minker, Wolfgang (Springer, 2016)

  Getting a good estimation of the Interaction Quality (IQ) of a spoken dialogue helps to increase the user satisfaction as the dialogue strategy may be adapted accordingly. Therefore, some research has already been conducted ...
• Generating CSCL scripts: from a conceptual model of pattern languages to the design of real scripts

  Hernández Leo, Davinia; Asensio-Pérez, Juan I.; Dimitriadis, Yannis; Villasclaras-Fernández, Eloy D. (Sense Publishers, 2010)

  E-learning environments designed for computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) mediate social interactions as key activators of learning). However, free collaboration does not necessarily by itself produce the ...
• Light and color

  Bertalmío, Marcelo (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014)

  Image Processing for Cinema presents a detailed overview of image processing techniques that are used in practice in digital cinema. The book shows how image processing has become ubiquitous in movie-making, from shooting ...

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