When deploying robots, its physical characteristics, role, and tasks are often fixed. Such factors can also be associated with gender stereotypes among humans, which then transfer to the robots. One factor that can in...
When deploying robots, its physical characteristics, role, and tasks are often fixed. Such factors can also be associated with gender stereotypes among humans, which then transfer to the robots. One factor that can induce gendering but is comparatively easy to change is the robot’s voice. Designing voice in a way that interferes with fixed factors might therefore be a way to reduce gender stereotypes in human-robot interaction contexts. To this end, we have conducted a video-based online study to investigate how factors that might inspire gendering of a robot interact. In particular, we investigated how giving the robot a gender-ambiguous voice can affect perception of the robot. We compared assessments (n=111) of videos in which a robot’s body presentation and occupation mis/matched with human gender stereotypes. We found evidence that a gender-ambiguous voice can reduce gendering of a robot endowed with stereotypically feminine or masculine attributes. The results can inform more just robot design while opening new questions regarding the phenomenon of robot gendering.
The ubiquity of dynamic memory allocations in computer programs makes the comprehension of their prevalent patterns of major importance. Previous studies have discussed patterns of memory allocations in different cate...
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The ubiquity of dynamic memory allocations in computer programs makes the comprehension of their prevalent patterns of major importance. Previous studies have discussed patterns of memory allocations in different categories of applications. In this paper, we investigate these patterns for GUI-based applications. We analyzed 16 real-world applications built on top of two widely adopted frameworks, GTK+ and Qt. The target applications were selected due to their similarities in terms of look and feel and functionalities. We found that most of their memory allocation patterns were compatible with prevalent patterns observed in non-GUI applications. Surprisingly, on average, Qt-based applications showed allocation sizes twice larger than applications using GTK+, which underscores the significant impact of framework selection on memory allocation sizes. Two distinct patterns of allocation paths were observed in GTK+ applications and Qt applications, which indicate how these applications and the related frameworks behave in terms of memory allocations.
Reviews have a direct impact on customer satisfaction. The aim of this study is to dissect and analyze a collection of 775 negative and 557 positive comment reviews, drawn from four distinct e-commerce platforms. By c...
Reviews have a direct impact on customer satisfaction. The aim of this study is to dissect and analyze a collection of 775 negative and 557 positive comment reviews, drawn from four distinct e-commerce platforms. By classifying these remarks into positive and negative sentiments, this research endeavors to illuminate underlying trends permeating these marketplaces. The research methodology employed involves field observations of online shopping experiences, utilizing data derived from 254 e-commerce customers. These data were collected via validated questionnaires and subsequently analyzed using the partial least squares structural equation modeling approach, employing the lavaan r library within the R programming environment. The questionnaire results produced a rating scale from 1 to 5, categorizing responses from “very satisfied” to “less satisfied”, effectively illustrating both positive and negative commentary. The field comment data collected was coordinated with comment data extracted from four marketplace trading accounts. This data comment customer was analyzed using a range of comparative models such as k-nearest neighbors, multinomial naive bayes, stochastic gradient descent, and decision trees to conduct sentiment analysis. The findings reveal that the naive bayes method generates the greatest accuracy in sentiment analysis, registering an accuracy value of 0.886. Moreover, the analysis executed through r programming indicates that the e-service quality model yields the most robust results, reflected by an adjusted r-square value of 0.885. This study exerts a notable impact on service quality, as evidenced by a coefficient value of 0.865 and a perceived reputation score of 0.162.
A Burling graph is an induced subgraph of some graph in Burling’s construction of triangle-free high-chromatic graphs. We provide a polynomial-time algorithm which decides whether a given graph is a Burling graph and...
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The network has enabled enormous volumes of services without any restrictions, different users need to have access to the service provided are more focused by malicious users. It is imperative to identify malicious en...
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One major goal of digital twin technology applied in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Industry is the mapping of roads and road environments with their associated information. Such digital twins c...
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Linear structural causal models (SCMs) are used to express and analyse the relationships between random variables. Direct causal effects are represented as directed edges and confounding factors as bidirected edges. I...
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Systematic evaluation of speech separation and enhancement models under moving sound source conditions requires extensive and diverse data. However, real-world datasets often lack sufficient data for training and eval...
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Digital transformation and predictive maintenance are still some of the key challenges faced by the industrial sector as it moves towards Industry 4.0. However, the lack of resources, experienced personnel, and the ab...
Digital transformation and predictive maintenance are still some of the key challenges faced by the industrial sector as it moves towards Industry 4.0. However, the lack of resources, experienced personnel, and the absence of digital-savvy culture in manufacturing companies, often hinder the adoption of the required technologies. In this context, maintenance is a required process to ensure the smooth and continuous operation of the production, but to this day, engineers are still required to physically inspect equipment on site. By applying digital technologies, a predictive maintenance framework will enable the industry to maximize the life of the equipment and to act on time in order to prevent failures and thus reduce costs and optimize maintenance efficiency. In this effort, integrating such technologies and the required modern computing devices for monitoring legacy industrial equipment remains a challenge. Therefore, in this paper, we present a low-cost IIoT system for an AI-based predictive maintenance of machinery in a real-world industrial environment. In specific, a data collection system, consisting of a Raspberry Pi device and several sensors (namely, an accelerometer, temperature sensors and a microphone), was designed and developed. The collected data was then utilized to feed a deep-learning LSTM-autoencoder model for anomaly detection through a semi-supervised learning approach. Despite the small amount of data collected, the model is able to effectively detect anomalies. Finally, ways in which the existing system can be improved are proposed.
Due to domain shift, a large performance drop is usually observed when a trained crowd counting model is deployed in the wild. While existing domain-adaptive crowd counting methods achieve promising results, they typi...
Due to domain shift, a large performance drop is usually observed when a trained crowd counting model is deployed in the wild. While existing domain-adaptive crowd counting methods achieve promising results, they typically regard each crowd image as a whole and reduce domain discrepancies in a holistic manner, thus limiting further improvement of domain adaptation performance. To this end, we propose to untangle domain-invariant crowd and domain-specific background from crowd images and design a fine-grained domain adaption method for crowd counting. Specifically, to disentangle crowd from background, we propose to learn crowd segmentation from point-level crowd counting annotations in a weakly-supervised manner. Based on the derived segmentation, we design a crowd-aware domain adaptation mechanism consisting of two crowd-aware adaptation modules, i.e., Crowd Region Transfer (CRT) and Crowd Density Alignment (CDA). The CRT module is designed to guide crowd features transfer across domains beyond background distractions. The CDA module dedicates to regularising target-domain crowd density generation by its own crowd density distribution. Our method outperforms previous approaches consistently in the widely-used adaptation scenarios.
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