Caring for individuals living with dementia can be a challenging and emotionally taxing experience, especially for caregivers who are often spouses or partners. Many caregivers lack prior experience in providing care and would greatly benefit from ...

The emergence of large vision models (LVMs) is following in the footsteps of the recent prosperity of Large Language Models (LLMs) in following years. However, there’s a noticeable gap in structured research applying LVMs to human-robot interaction (HRI)...

This paper presents findings from an exploratory needfinding study investigating the research current status and potential participation of the competitions on the robotics community towards four human-centric topics: safety, privacy, ...

Dementia poses significant challenges to individuals, particularly those grappling with Alzheimer’s disease, impacting their daily lives, well-being, and communication. The task of enhancing communication for People with Dementia (PwD) has grown ...

We develop a continuous time framework for sequential goals-based wealth management. A stochastic factor process drives asset price dynamics and the client’s goal amount and income. We prove the weak dynamic programming principle for the value function of ...

The increasing prevalence of voice assistants in daily life has transformed human-technology interaction. However, current voice assistants fall short in their ability to comprehend users’ emotional states through speech and respond empathetically. This ...

Industrial process tomography (IPT) is a specialized imaging technique widely used in industrial scenarios for process supervision and control. Today, augmented/mixed reality (AR/MR) is increasingly being adopted in many industrial occasions, even ...

Augmented Reality (AR) has grown into a well-established technique with a compelling potential for interactive visualization. In spite of its clear potential, this novel tool has not yet been widely embraced as an industrial solution. In this ...

Augmented reality (AR) is evolving to become a pervasive tool for interacting with virtual objects. We conducted a comparative study to explore the impact of virtuality and physicality in supporting human memorization through gamification. A head-...

We formulate a mean field game where each player stops a privately observed Brownian motion with absorption. Players are ranked according to their level of stopping and rewarded as a function of their relative rank. There is a unique mean field ...

This paper approaches the unsupervised learning problem by gradient descent in the space of probability density functions. A main result shows that along the gradient flow induced by a distribution-dependent ordinary differential equation (ODE), the ...

Augmented reality (AR) is today becoming more widely utilized as it allows for interacting with the virtual objects. In this study, we propose an head-mounted display (HMD) AR system supporting book searching with visual cues. The visual cue is ...

As a cutting edge technique requiring high-precision equipment, augmented reality (AR) and its users are influenced by the ambient environment. With the tremendous effect brought by COVID-19 pandemic, most people have shifted from on-site working to ...

Following the risk-taking model of Seel and Strack, $n$ players decide when to stop privately observed Brownian motions with drift and absorption at zero. They are then ranked according to their level of stopping and paid a rank-dependent reward. We study ...

This paper studies competitions with rank-based reward among a large number of teams. Within each sizable team, we consider a mean-field contribution game in which each team member contributes to the jump intensity of a common Poisson project ...

We analyze a mean field tournament: a mean field game in which the agents receive rewards according to the ranking of the terminal value of their projects and are subject to cost of effort. Using Schrödinger bridges we are able to explicitly calculate the ...

Today, in-situ analyzing and monitoring are imperative for ensuring successful and healthy industrial processes in confined environments. With the rapid development of digitization, augmented reality (AR) has been utilized for letting people ...

Humans show different emotions in response to variant colormaps when facing visual presentations. The affect—colormap relationship thus becomes an important factor in human-in-the-loop systems. In this paper, we explore how to effectively exploit deep ...

How important is the human vision? Simply speaking, it is central for domain related users to understand a design, a framework, a process, or an application in terms of human-centered cognition. This thesis focuses on facilitating visual ...

Some industrial processes take place in confined settings only observable by sensors, e.g. infrared (IR) cameras. Drying processes take place while a material is transported by means of a conveyor through a "black box" equipped with internal IR cameras. ...