C. Botha-Ravyse, T. Frøland, Mika Luimula, P. Markopoulos, Fahmi Bellalouna
{"title":"Towards a methodology for online VR application testing","authors":"C. Botha-Ravyse, T. Frøland, Mika Luimula, P. Markopoulos, Fahmi Bellalouna","doi":"10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237893","url":null,"abstract":"Performing online testing for applications is a common practice in business, but for research without much control over the participants it is unknown as to what this process should look like and what could be possible scenarios. Furthermore, making use of VR testing is reliant on users owning their own devices which could influence the process and level of criticism greatly but also foster new thoughts on best practice for this type of research. This paper explains the steps that were taken for the gathering of the data and reports on the feedback from participants regarding their perception of the process","PeriodicalId":236400,"journal":{"name":"2020 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133103072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alan López-Fraga, Rafael Salazar-Salazar, Raymundo Ramirez-Pedraza, Felix Ramos
{"title":"A Human-like Strategy For Pervasive Service Composition","authors":"Alan López-Fraga, Rafael Salazar-Salazar, Raymundo Ramirez-Pedraza, Felix Ramos","doi":"10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237861","url":null,"abstract":"Insecurity is a common problem that all cities face, and different solutions have been developed throughout history to prevent or eradicate this problem. Using existing technology or developing new one is a good strategy; currently there has been technological breakthroughs, both in software and hardware, that allows us to use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. Cognitive processes are studied in order to build solutions of problems in a way similar to what humans do. In this work, we propose the interaction among cognitive processes and info-communication devices to enable an artificial cognitive system to compose pervasive services useful to solve complex problems of public safety. Specifically, to deter predatory crimes when the predator decides to perform the crime and is within the victim's vicinity.","PeriodicalId":236400,"journal":{"name":"2020 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133181798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cecilia Hammar Wijkmark, I. Heldal, Sune Fankvist, Maria-Monika Metallinou
{"title":"Remote Virtual Simulation for Incident Commanders: Opportunities and Possibilities","authors":"Cecilia Hammar Wijkmark, I. Heldal, Sune Fankvist, Maria-Monika Metallinou","doi":"10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237830","url":null,"abstract":"Fire and rescue service Incident Commanders (ICs) need to be prepared to be the first officer at the incident scene, in charge of the assessments and decisions taken. Their education incorporates practice-based training in the role of the IC in different scenarios, using live simulation (LS) on a physical training ground, but also virtual simulation (VS) in dedicated simulation facilities. LS is considered as the most valuable simulation method, and even though added values of VS have been shown and the possibility of remote virtrual simulation (RVS) has been discussed, there have been hesitations towards VS and RVS implementation. In March 2020, all IC training onsite was stopped by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), due to the Covid-19 restictions on no gathering of people. At the same time the need for IC final exams forced the decision to conduct these using RVS for one IC class. This was the first RVS IC examination in its kind, to our recent knowledge. This paper aims to examine enablers for the implementation of RVS in IC's education. The study behind it was conducted in two steps, a pilot study during the development of the RVS scenarios and a field study conducted during the IC examination using RVS. The results describe the opportunities opening up for RVS, and necessary prerequisites at the responsible organizations. The possibilities for the implementation are shown by discussing acceptance of the RVS as a substitute for LS in the current IC educational curriculum.","PeriodicalId":236400,"journal":{"name":"2020 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131424634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. P. Senese, Carla Nasti, Francesca Mottola, Ida Sergi, A. Gnisci
{"title":"Validation and Measurement Invariance across Gender and Age of the Italian Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection Loneliness Scale","authors":"V. P. Senese, Carla Nasti, Francesca Mottola, Ida Sergi, A. Gnisci","doi":"10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237869","url":null,"abstract":"The Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection Loneliness Scale (IPARLS) is a self-report measure recently developed to measure the feeling of sadness resulting from the perception of the absence of adequate intimate or social interpersonal relationships and to overcome some limitations of the existing loneliness scales. The present study evaluates the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the IPARLS, latent dimensionality, reliability, validity, and tests the measurement invariance of the scale across gender and age. The scale was administered to a sample of 688 Italian adults (19–69 years; 351 females, 337 males). Results confirmed the uni-dimensionality of the scale and showed that it is reliable, valid and fully invariant as a function of gender and age. Moreover, data showed that only for males, loneliness is negatively associated with ageing. The IPARLS scale is confirmed to be a valid tool for investigating loneliness in the life cycle both from a clinical and research point of view.","PeriodicalId":236400,"journal":{"name":"2020 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124347624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Healthcare Framework for Smarter Cities with bio-sensory data","authors":"Emirhan Enler, István Péntek, A. Adamkó","doi":"10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237838","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, innovations that occurred in technology caused an evolution in computational and communicational areas. These advancements allowed us to apply some capabilities of smartphones, smart devices, and wearable devices as well. Sensory data, produced by smart devices are essential for implementing a cognitive, scalable, autonomous, and extensible Smart City architecture. Based on it, we propose an architecture which could extend Smart City solutions in a way that recognizes new data sources and applies data categorization rules without introducing any side effects for maintenance while protecting data privacy definition that complies with the GDPR and providing an anonymized data repository that is publicly available for the client consumption to further produce useful, value-added data based on analytics. Considering the evolution of smart devices, it becomes a necessity to provide an architecture definition such as microservice orchestration that allows an easier adaption of new data types and domain requirements to keep the ever-maintainable state of the Smart City architecture in a technology-agnostic fashion. Our paper shows a small fragment of this field on a focus on eHealth.","PeriodicalId":236400,"journal":{"name":"2020 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125752772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Chivarov, D. Chikurtev, Matus Pleva, S. Ondáš, Y. Liao
{"title":"User identification and prioritization control of service robot teleoperation","authors":"N. Chivarov, D. Chikurtev, Matus Pleva, S. Ondáš, Y. Liao","doi":"10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237871","url":null,"abstract":"In this article a new version of our tele-controlled assistive robot for elderly and disabled care - ROBCO 20 is presented. The robot can be controlled remotely via the Internet. Therefore, systems, methods, and algorithms for ensuring security and safety of the end-users in tele-control are proposed. Methods for visual/facial recognition and voice verification of the speaker are described and evaluated. A system for behavioral management and prioritizing users and their rights to access the robot is proposed.","PeriodicalId":236400,"journal":{"name":"2020 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125936907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francesca Mottola, Ida Sergi, V. P. Senese, A. Gnisci, M. Perugini
{"title":"Does Observer HEXACO-MSI Personality Traits Predict Academic Performance Beyond the Self-Report Ones? : A study on children and adolescents","authors":"Francesca Mottola, Ida Sergi, V. P. Senese, A. Gnisci, M. Perugini","doi":"10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237819","url":null,"abstract":"The HEXACO model consists of six dimensions of personality: Honesty-Humility (H), Emotionality (E), eXtraversion (X), Agreeableness (A), Conscientiousness (C) and Openness to experience (O). Several studies in literature have shown that observer ratings of personality traits were strong predictors of job performance and academic performance. In this study we evaluated the personality traits of adolescents using the HEXACO-Middle School Inventory (MSI) and the Observer form of it. The aim was establishing if the observer HEXACO-MSI personality traits predict academic performance beyond the same self-report traits. Participants were 1089 children and 1089 Observers. The results showed that ratings by observer add something more to the self-report evaluations. The observer HEXACO-MSI personality traits predict scholastic performance beyond the same self-report traits. Parents or caregivers provide an evaluation that can complement the one provided by the adolescents themselves.","PeriodicalId":236400,"journal":{"name":"2020 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130654178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cristina A. Costescu, Adrian Roșan, Alina Petru, Serge Thill, T. Stefanut, I. Heldal, A. Kovari, J. Katona, Robert Demeter
{"title":"Development of a technological screening platform for children","authors":"Cristina A. Costescu, Adrian Roșan, Alina Petru, Serge Thill, T. Stefanut, I. Heldal, A. Kovari, J. Katona, Robert Demeter","doi":"10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237878","url":null,"abstract":"Emotional and behavioral problems are common in children and adolescents and can impact their quality of life. The motivation behind this paper is to develop a better understanding for screening support contributing to the identification of the emotional and behavioral symptoms as well as executive functions, emotion regulation strategies, and attentional patterns. We have conducted a study in which we enrolled 32 children (with the mean age of 10.54 years) with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). By investigating if the difficulties regarding executive functions are related to other emotional and behavioral problems, this study shows interdependencies, between executive functions and emotional and behavioral problems. By showing the interrelation between functional and cognitive problems, and the possibility to use technologies to support screening by objective measurements, this paper argues for the need for further developing a platform that includes the different screening results for the individuals. This paper argues for the possibility of cross dependencies between the different executive and behavioral problems. However, further research is needed to demonstrate the feasibility for such a platform and the validity of combining the measurements from the included technologies.","PeriodicalId":236400,"journal":{"name":"2020 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127903540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive/Cognitive Resonance and the Architecture Issues of Cognitive Information Systems","authors":"Dóra Mattyasovszky-Philipp, B. Molnár","doi":"10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237901","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid change of world causes new challenges in the business environment and in operational areas of enterprises. Those challenges likely increase the chance for client satisfaction and other key factors meanwhile improve companies' efficiency. Enterprises are not able to answer these challenges easily in time, e.g. predicting the potential future as one of the key elements impacting the long-term success. The required skills are rarely available in one single person or team, and they are not affordable or not efficient. Therefore, one of the possible solutions is to leverage the capability of a Cognitive Information System via Human Computer Interaction trough cognitive resonance and Cognitive Infocommunication. The cognitive resonance is a process, a resonance that supports and enhances the outcome of the Human Computer Interaction at each step. That determinate the Cognitive Infocommunication is a channel and a tool to realize the cognitive resonance that ensure and improve the quality of Human Computer Interaction that support the sensed data extraction and the semantic understanding. The aim of the article is to describe the silicon agent and the human interaction in light of Cognitive Infocommunication, meanwhile to map the value of Cognitive Infocommunication via human computer interaction. The results of the mapping support a better understanding of the importance of cognitive infocommunication, meanwhile it helps to place it interdisciplinary into the Information Technology sciences. The publication related to, how the human knowledge builds into the Cognitive Information System knowledge, meanwhile highlights the importance of Cognitive Infocommunication process during knowledge transfer between silicon and carbon agent.","PeriodicalId":236400,"journal":{"name":"2020 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125532207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Miklós Gábriel Tulics, György Szaszák, K. Mészáros, K. Vicsi
{"title":"Using ASR Posterior Probability and Acoustic Features for Voice Disorder Classification","authors":"Miklós Gábriel Tulics, György Szaszák, K. Mészáros, K. Vicsi","doi":"10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CogInfoCom50765.2020.9237866","url":null,"abstract":"Dysphonia can be caused not only by the frequent use voice, but many other reasons, including environmental noise, environmental pollution and dry environment. Dysphonia can serve as an indicator for several serious and less serious diseases. Therefore a system that models the cognitive decision making processes of an expert would be of great value in order to make reliable and quick decisions to help physicians in diagnosing dysphonia. This paper focuses on the front-end of such a system, and evaluates acoustic features measured in different phonetic classes and ASR posterior probability values in two classification model schemes, with SVM and a DNN, for the classification of healthy and disordered voices in Hungarian-speaking patients. When the combination of the two features is used the classification accuracy increases to 89 %. While this is better than just using ‘acoustic’ features as an input for the DNN (88 %), we did not find significant impact of using ASR posterior probability values. Based on our results, it can be concluded that it is not worthwhile to calculate ASR phone posterior, as it has no significant impact, but it can greatly complicate and slow down a diagnosis support system.","PeriodicalId":236400,"journal":{"name":"2020 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)","volume":"270 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123364066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}