• Participatory design process in a Cooperative Mixed Reality Full-body Interactive Experience

  Tüter, Gözde (2023-10-27)

  The importance of involving children in technology design has been emphasized in previous and recent studies. Moreover, as stated in the literature, the fact that the creativity of children is higher than that of adults ...
• Emerging leadership effect on group outcomes in CSCL activities

  Blasco Royo, Laia (2023-10-27)

  Research has demonstrated that Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is beneficial in fostering students’ engagement and enhancing their learning outcomes. Consequently, the effect of group settings in learning ...
• Hacking into the Memory Palace. . A study on the effects of spatial clustering and active learning on item memorization

  Benazet i Montobbio, Pau (2023-10-27)

  Plenty of research has been conducted on the role of space in organizing memories. Recent studies indicate a connection between spatial clustering and free-recall memory performance. However, the long-term stability of ...
• The effects of a synchronous full-body interactive mixed reality system on the prosocial behavior of children with and without autism spectrum condition

  Schumacher, Karina (2023-10-27)

  Prosociality refers to behaviors that are intended to benefit others and is, therefore, a key element of a thriving society. Fostering prosocial behaviors in children with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) can be more ...
• Investigating decision making process in a 2d grid world: a hotel lobby experiment

  Ak, Cansu (2023-10-18)

  Recent research into video game playing (VGP) has produced varied and inconclusive results. Past investigations have indicated potential positive impacts of VGP on cognitive abilities, specifically enhancements in areas ...
• Dashboard for Environmental Awareness Education

  Balcells Falgueras, Paula (2022-10)

  An educational dashboard can provide opportunities for new methodologies and learning activities aligned with the 21st -century skills and the challenges of our society, such as the fight against climate change. In ...
• Overcoming allostatic challenges through predictive robot regulatory behavior

  Orozco Castiblanco, Valeria (2022-10)

  Internal processes such as homeostasis and allostasis operate to keep the internal environment within desired conditions to sustain fitness by satisfying rising needs such as thirst or hunger. However, when two or more ...
• Studying the physiological relationship between Cognitive Flexibility and Moral Decision-Making

  Kahali, Sajad (2022-10)

  As a human, moral decision-making plays a crucial role in our life because the consequences of our decisions affect others' welfare. Our physiological changes (i.e., increased heart rate) might influence our judgment. ...
• Modeling social conventions with Sequential Episodic Control

  López Hernández, Adriana (2022-10)

  Computational models can help bring light to the underlying cognitive mechanisms responsible for the emergence of conventions in human societies. In order to pro- vide meaningful theoretical insight, these models of ...
• I know what you type: empathy in real-time typed Computer Mediated Communication

  Micozzi Ferri, Lorenzo (2022-10)

  We tend to give the design of the environments that host our daily digital interactions with other humans for granted. As we march towards a future where our digital life is always more prominent, is it time that we start ...
• Promoting Prosocial Behavior in Children with and without Autism Spectrum Condition by Using a Full-Body Interactive Mixed Reality System

  Ercan, Sena Beste (2022-10)

  Autism spectrum condition (ASC) is a neurodevelopmental disability that can result in social and communication difficulties. There are many therapy approaches and interventions developed and used to be able to help ...
• Behavioral Correlates of Habituation and Deliberation: a virtual reality study with the Hotel Elevator Rows task

  Fettweis Neto, Lydia (2022-10)

  Humans are often confronted with partial information, nevertheless, the human brain manages to adapt to and act upon the constantly changing environment. A widely accepted idea in psychology, neuroscience and behavioral ...
• The Effects of Breath Training on Users' Experience in a Virtual Reality Stroke Rehabilitation Game

  Zhang, Xiaoming (2022-10)

  Stroke patients can regain their motor and cognitive functions through rehabilitation based on neuroregeneration. Following the development of technology, Virtual Reality serious games have brought stroke rehabilitation ...
• Evaluation of the effects of COVD-19 pandemic on moral decision-making using affective rating

  Tigau, Andrei (2022-10)

  The measures taken by the public authorities to reduce the spread COVID-19 virus during the pandemics put the population under challenging psychological conditions, generating stress, depression, and other potential ...
• Augmenting perceived interpersonal connection with an affective computing-informed video conferencing interface

  LeBeuf, Hilary (2021-08)

  Video conferencing is not only becoming more common in the 21st century, but globalization and the COVID-19 pandemic have shown it to be a crucial part of modern communication and collaboration. Video conferencing may ...
• Assessing orchestration load in teacher-facing dashboards

  Crespi, Francisco (2021-07)

  This thesis project reports the results of a study that assessed the orchestration load of a teacher orchestrating pyramid activities using PyramidApp in an online setting, by observing a combination of data sources, ...
• Dynamic modulation of portable device interface with the assessment of cognitive load using built-in sensors

  Küçüktütüncü, Esen (2021-07)

  With more and more intelligent systems surrounding us, many design decisions and system architectures that facilitate the flow of information and the scope of interaction have become crucial for the sustainability and the ...
• Homeostatic and allostatic principles for behavioral regulation in desert reptiles: a robotic evaluation

  Ngo, Tue (2021-07)

  The survival of living organisms is accomplished through regulatory behaviors. In the case of the specialist Namibian sand-diving lizards, those behaviors are modulated not only in response to external events in their ...
• Uncertainty-based decision-making in reinforcement learning and the distributed adaptive control cognitive architecture

  Talavante Díaz, Pablo (2021-07)

  This thesis explores the role of uncertainty estimation during training in Reinforce- ment Learning as a potential way of increasing sample efficiency, acting as a regu- lator between two subsystems that shape a policy: ...
• Assessing state and trait anxiety through digital phenotyping

  El-Shaarawi, Dara (2021-07)

  Mental health disorders place an immense burden on individuals and have significant personal and social impacts. This has been worsened by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in remote access to healthcare ...

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