By Andreas Birk, Silvia Coradeschi, Satoshi Tadokoro

This e-book is the 5th professional archival booklet dedicated to RoboCup. It records the achievements offered on the fifth robotic international Cup football video games and meetings held in Seattle, Washington, united states, in August 2001.
The publication includes the subsequent components: creation, champion groups, problem award finalists, technical papers, poster shows, and group descriptions (arranged based on quite a few leagues).
This ebook is essential examining for the swiftly transforming into RoboCup group in addition to a necessary resource of references and idea for R&D pros drawn to multi-agent platforms, dispensed man made intelligence, and clever robotics.

By Sven Casteleyn, Gustavo Rossi, Marco Winckler

This publication constitutes the refereed court cases of the 14th overseas convention on internet Engineering, ICWE 2014, held in Toulouse, France, in July 2014. The 20 complete examine papers, thirteen overdue breaking outcome papers, 15 poster papers, and four contributions to the PhD symposium provided have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from a hundred submissions. additionally three tutorials and three workshops are provided. The papers specialise in six learn tracks, specifically cross-media and cellular internet purposes, HCI and the net, Modelling and Engineering internet purposes, caliber facets of net purposes, social net purposes, internet purposes composition and mashups.

By Ulrich H. Hoppe, H. Ogata, A. Soller

This ebook relates modern info and conversation applied sciences (ICT) to their particular instructing and studying capabilities, together with how ICT is appropriated for and through academic or studying groups. The technological "hot spots" of curiosity during this booklet comprise: groupware or multi-user applied sciences comparable to crew information or synchronous co-construction environments, embedded interactive applied sciences within the spirit of ubiquitous computing, and modeling instruments according to wealthy representations.

By Tim Roberts

By Anthony Jameson, Cecile Paris, Carlo Tasso

User modeling researchers search for methods of allowing interactive software program platforms to conform to their users-by developing, holding, and exploiting consumer types, that are representations of homes of person clients. consumer modeling has been stumbled on to reinforce the effectiveness and/or usability of software program structures in a wide selection of events. ideas for consumer modeling were constructed and evaluated through researchers in a few fields, together with synthetic intelligence, schooling, psychology, linguistics, human-computer interplay, and knowledge technology. The biennial sequence of overseas meetings on person Modeling presents a discussion board within which educational and business researchers from all of those fields can alternate their complementary insights on consumer modeling concerns. the broadcast complaints of those meetings characterize a big resource of data approximately advancements during this area.

By James Kalbach

Completely rewritten for present day internet setting, this bestselling publication deals a clean examine a basic subject of site improvement: navigation layout. Amid the entire alterations to the internet some time past decade, and all of the hype approximately net 2.0 and diverse "rich" interactive applied sciences, the fundamental difficulties of constructing a great net navigation approach stay. Designing internet Navigation demonstrates that sturdy navigation isn't approximately technology-it's concerning the methods humans locate details, and the way you consultant them.Ideal for starting to intermediate net designers, managers, different non-designers, and internet improvement execs trying to find one other viewpoint, Designing net Navigation deals easy layout ideas, improvement concepts and useful recommendation, with real-world examples and crucial innovations seamlessly folded in. How does your site serve your enterprise targets? How does it meet a user's wishes? you will examine that navigation layout touches so much different features of website improvement. This ebook: * presents the principles of internet navigation and provides a framework for navigation layout * Paints a vast photo of net navigation and simple human details habit * Demonstrates how navigation displays model and impacts website credibility * is helping the matter you are attempting to remedy sooner than you put out to layout * completely experiences the mechanisms and sorts of navigation * Explores "information smell" and "information form" * Explains "persuasive" structure and different layout ideas * Covers detailed contexts, similar to navigation layout for net purposes * contains a whole bankruptcy on tagging"

By David Traum, William Swartout, Peter Khooshabeh, Stefan Kopp, Stefan Scherer, Anton Leuski

This e-book constitutes the court cases of the sixteenth overseas convention on clever digital brokers, IVA 2016, held in la, CA, united states, in September 2016. The 12 complete papers, 18 brief papers, and 37 demo and poster papers authorised have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from eighty one submissions. IVA 2016 additionally contains 3 workshops: Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational brokers (WOCHAT), are you able to think me now? growing Physiologically acutely aware digital brokers (PAVA), and Graphical and robot Embodied brokers for healing structures, GREATS16.
clever digital facets (IVAs) are clever electronic interactive characters that may converse with people and different brokers utilizing usual human modalities akin to facial expressions, speech, gestures, and stream. they're in a position to real-time notion, cognition, emotion and motion that permit them to take part in dynamic social environments. developing and learning IVAs calls for instruments from quite a lot of fields comparable to machine technological know-how, psychology, cognitive technological know-how, conversation, linguistics, interactive media, human-computer interplay and synthetic intelligence.

By Thomas MacTavish, Santosh Basapur

This publication constitutes the refereed court cases of the tenth overseas convention on Persuasive expertise, PERSUASIVE 2015, held in Chicago, IL, united states in June 2015. the nineteen revised complete papers and five revised brief papers offered have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from forty-one submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on figuring out contributors, empowering participants and realizing and empowering communities.

By Pedro Teixeira

Automating exams to your consumer interfaces has regularly been the holy grail of programming. Now, utilizing Zombie.js and Mocha you could create and fast run your exams, permitting you to check even small adjustments. elevate your self assurance within the code and reduce the variety of instances you need to use a true browser if you boost.

By Jordi Nin, Daniel Villatoro

This publication constitutes the completely refereed post-conference court cases of the 1st overseas Workshop on Citizen Sensor Networks, CitiSens 2012, in Montpellier, France, on August 27, 2012.
The 7 revised complete papers offered including 1 keynote lectures have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from sixteen submissions. The accredited papers care for themes like crowdsourcing, shrewdpermanent towns, multi-agent platforms, privateness in social networks, information anonymity or clever sensors.