Competent collaboration between robots and people in the open world requires sensing and reasoning about transitions of people's attention to the robots themselves, as well as to other people and objects in the environment. We present challenges and ...

P2P outsourcing model is introduced to describe an interaction process of project tasks distribution between employees as a part of the enterprise project management system that supports decision-making process within the company. The proposed solution ...

In this paper, we propose a learning framework for the adaptation of an interactive agent to a new user. We focus on applications where safety and personalization are essential, as Rehabilitation Systems and Robot Assisted Therapy. We argue that ...

Present context-aware systems gather a lot of information to maximize their functionality but they predominantly use rather static ways to communicate. This paper motivates two components that serve as mediators between arbitrary components for ...

P2P outsourcing model is proposed to describe an interaction process of tasks distribution between employees when centralized project management cannot be performed due to high uncertainty and complexity of tasks. This paper describes a solution for ...

Small IT companies contribute significantly to national economy and have special characteristic features such as limited employee and customer base and very few products with single path of evolution. They survive and grow on strong goodwill of their ...

Information overload and spam are serious problems that plague our society today. In the advent of context aware systems and applications, these problems will inevitably continue to cause anguish among users. The problems stem primarily from the lack of ...

Interruptions are a central aspect of working life. The prevalence of remote co-workers and the use of mobile technology mean that interruptions are more prevalent, and workers have to learn to manage availability. To understand general issues in ...

Organizations increasingly define many business processes as projects executed by “virtual (project) teams”, where team members from within an organization cooperate with “outside” experts. Virtual teams require and enable people to collaborate across ...

The capabilities of Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)/Extensible 3D (X3D) permit building collaborative virtual environments (CVE) using the Internet and the World Wide Web. However, they do not provide a multi-user collaborative interaction ...

To support real-time natural interaction in the Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) with limited network bandwidth and computer processing power, the development of an efficient interaction management mechanism is a key issue. In this paper, we ...