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Autonomous vehicles can behave unexpectedly, as automated systems that rely on data-driven machine learning have shown to infer false predictions or misclassifications, e.g., due to stickers on traffic signs, and thus fail in some situations. In ...

We introduce and evaluate if user acceptance increases by allowing users to select their preferred driving velocity in the context of autonomous driving. While the actual driving style does not differ, adjustments are made with regard to visualisation ...

In a fully autonomous driving situation, passengers hand over the steering control to a highly automated system. Autonomous driving behaviour may lead to confusion and negative user experience. When establishing such new technology, the user’s ...

Form, function and the relationship between the two serve a crucial role in design. Within architectural design, key aspects of the anticipated function of buildings, or of spatial environments in general, are supposed to be supported by their ...

We demonstrate the manner in which high-level design requirements, e.g., as they correspond to the commonsensical conceptualisation of expert designers, may be formally specified within practical information systems, wherein heterogeneous perspectives ...

We propose ontological blending as a new method for 'creatively' combining ontologies.

Assisted living systems are intended to support daily-life activities in user homes by automatizing and monitoring behavior of the environment while interacting with the user in a non-intrusive way. The knowledge base of such systems therefore has to ...

We present a detailed semantics for linguistic spatial expressions supportive of computational processing that draws substantially on the principles and tools of ontological engineering and formal ontology. We cover language concerned with space, ...

We present an approach to assist the smart environment design process by means of automated validation of work-in-progress designs. The approach facilitates validation of not only the purely structural requirements, but also the functional requirements ...

Designs of architectural environments have to take into account various sources of heterogeneous information. Not only quantitative spatial constraints and qualitative relations but also functionally-dependent and abstract conceptualizations are ...

Based on the neurobiological and cognitive principles of human information processing, we develop a system for the automatic visual identification and exploration of scenes. The system architecture consists of three layers: a bottom-up feature ...

We address the problem of relating natural language descriptions of spatial situations with spatial logical calculi, focusing on projective terms (orientations). We provide a formalism based on the theory of $\mathcal{E}$-connections that connects ...

This paper discusses the design challenges encountered when building an ontology repository for an application framework devoted to assistive technologies that can be browsed and queried in a highly heterogeneous and expressive way. As a main vehicle to ...

We aim to combine the semantics of spatial natural language specified as a linguistically motivated ontology, the Generalized Upper Model, with spatial logics or ontologies that specify space according to certain conceptualisations, based on regions, ...

The combination of vision and speech, together with the resulting necessity for formal representations, builds a central component of an autonomous system. A robot that is supposed to navigate autonomously through space must be able to perceive its ...