2023
Conference article
Open Access
Self-assess momentary mood in mobile devices: a case study with mature female participants
Senette C., Buzzi M. C., Paratore M. T.
Starting from the assumption that mood has a central role in domain-specific persuasion systems for well-being, the main goal of this study was to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of single-input methods to assess momentary mood as a medium for further interventions in health-related mobile apps destined for mature women. To this aim, we designed a very simple android App providing four user interfaces, each one showing one interactive widget to self-assess mood. Two widgets report a hint about the momentary mood they represent; the last two do not have the hints but were previously refined through questionnaires administered to 63 women (age 45-65) in order to reduce their expressive ambiguity. Next, fifteen women (age 45-65 years) were recruited to use the app for 15 days. Participants were polled about their mood four times a day and data were saved in a remote database. Moreover, users were asked to fill out a preliminary questionnaire, at the first access to the app, and a feedback questionnaire at the end of the testing period. Results appear to prove the feasibility and acceptability of this approach to self-assess momentary mood in the target population and provides some potential input methods to be used in this context.Source: ICCT 2023, Jaipur, India, 9-12/10/2023
Senette C., Buzzi M. C., Paratore M. T.
Starting from the assumption that mood has a central role in domain-specific persuasion systems for well-being, the main goal of this study was to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of single-input methods to assess momentary mood as a medium for further interventions in health-related mobile apps destined for mature women. To this aim, we designed a very simple android App providing four user interfaces, each one showing one interactive widget to self-assess mood. Two widgets report a hint about the momentary mood they represent; the last two do not have the hints but were previously refined through questionnaires administered to 63 women (age 45-65) in order to reduce their expressive ambiguity. Next, fifteen women (age 45-65 years) were recruited to use the app for 15 days. Participants were polled about their mood four times a day and data were saved in a remote database. Moreover, users were asked to fill out a preliminary questionnaire, at the first access to the app, and a feedback questionnaire at the end of the testing period. Results appear to prove the feasibility and acceptability of this approach to self-assess momentary mood in the target population and provides some potential input methods to be used in this context.Source: ICCT 2023, Jaipur, India, 9-12/10/2023
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Open Access
Efficient adaptive ensembling for image classification
Bruno A., Moroni D., Martinelli M.
In recent times, except for sporadic cases, the trend in Computer Vision is to achieve minor improvements over considerable increases in complexity. To reverse this tendency, we propose a novel method to boost image classification performances without an increase in complexity. To this end, we revisited ensembling, a powerful approach, not often adequately used due to its nature of increased complexity and training time, making it viable by specific design choices. First, we trained end-to-end two EfficientNet-b0 models (known to be the architecture with the best overall accuracy/complexity trade-off in image classification) on disjoint subsets of data (i.e. bagging). Then, we made an efficient adaptive ensemble by performing fine-tuning of a trainable combination layer. In this way, we were able to outperform the state-of-the-art by an average of 0.5\% on the accuracy with restrained complexity both in terms of number of parameters (by 5-60 times), and FLoating point Operations Per Second (by 10-100 times) on several major benchmark datasets, fully embracing the green AI.Source: Expert systems (Online) (2023). doi:10.1111/exsy.13424
DOI: 10.1111/exsy.13424
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Bruno A., Moroni D., Martinelli M.
In recent times, except for sporadic cases, the trend in Computer Vision is to achieve minor improvements over considerable increases in complexity. To reverse this tendency, we propose a novel method to boost image classification performances without an increase in complexity. To this end, we revisited ensembling, a powerful approach, not often adequately used due to its nature of increased complexity and training time, making it viable by specific design choices. First, we trained end-to-end two EfficientNet-b0 models (known to be the architecture with the best overall accuracy/complexity trade-off in image classification) on disjoint subsets of data (i.e. bagging). Then, we made an efficient adaptive ensemble by performing fine-tuning of a trainable combination layer. In this way, we were able to outperform the state-of-the-art by an average of 0.5\% on the accuracy with restrained complexity both in terms of number of parameters (by 5-60 times), and FLoating point Operations Per Second (by 10-100 times) on several major benchmark datasets, fully embracing the green AI.Source: Expert systems (Online) (2023). doi:10.1111/exsy.13424
DOI: 10.1111/exsy.13424
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2023
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Open Access
Revisiting ensembling for improving the performance of deep learning models
Bruno A., Moroni D., Martinelli M.
Ensembling is a very well-known strategy consisting in fusing several different models to achieve a new model for classification or regression tasks. Over the years, ensembling has been proven to provide superior performance in various contexts related to pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. Moreover, the basic ideas that are at the basis of ensembling have been a source of inspiration for the design of the most recent deep learning architectures. Indeed, a close analysis of those architectures shows that some connections among layers and groups of layers achieve effects similar to those obtainable by bagging, boosting and stacking, which are the well-known three basic approaches to ensembling. However, we argue that research has not fully leveraged the potential offered by ensembling. Indeed, this paper investigates some possible approaches to the combination of weak learners, or sub-components of weak learners, in the context of bagging. Based on previous results obtained in specific domains, we extend the approach to a reference dataset obtaining encouraging results.Source: ICPR 2022 - International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 445–452, Montreal, Canada, 21-25/08/2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37742-6_34
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Bruno A., Moroni D., Martinelli M.
Ensembling is a very well-known strategy consisting in fusing several different models to achieve a new model for classification or regression tasks. Over the years, ensembling has been proven to provide superior performance in various contexts related to pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. Moreover, the basic ideas that are at the basis of ensembling have been a source of inspiration for the design of the most recent deep learning architectures. Indeed, a close analysis of those architectures shows that some connections among layers and groups of layers achieve effects similar to those obtainable by bagging, boosting and stacking, which are the well-known three basic approaches to ensembling. However, we argue that research has not fully leveraged the potential offered by ensembling. Indeed, this paper investigates some possible approaches to the combination of weak learners, or sub-components of weak learners, in the context of bagging. Based on previous results obtained in specific domains, we extend the approach to a reference dataset obtaining encouraging results.Source: ICPR 2022 - International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 445–452, Montreal, Canada, 21-25/08/2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37742-6_34
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Open Access
Mesoscale events classification in sea surface temperature imagery
Reggiannini M., Janeiro J., Martins F., Papini O., Pieri G.
Sea observation through remote sensing technologies plays an essential role in understanding the health status of marine fauna species and their future behaviour. Accurate knowledge of the marine habitat and the factors affecting faunal variations allows to perform predictions and adopt proper decisions. This is even more relevant nowadays, with policymakers needing increased environmental awareness, aiming to implement sustainable policies. There is a connection between the biogeochemical and physical processes taking place within a biological system and the variations observed in its faunal populations. Mesoscale phenomena, such as upwelling, countercurrents and filaments, are essential processes to analyse because their arousal entails, among other things, variations in the density of nutrient substances, in turn affecting the biological parameters of the habitat. This paper concerns the proposal of a classification system devoted to recognising marine mesoscale events. These phenomena are studied and monitored by analysing Sea Surface Temperature images captured by satellite missions, such as Metop and MODIS Terra/Aqua. Classification of such images is pursued through dedicated algorithms that extract temporal and spatial features from the data and apply a set of rules to the extracted features, in order to discriminate between different observed scenarios. The results presented in this work have been obtained by applying the proposed approach to images captured over the south-western region of the Iberian Peninsula.Source: Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, edited by Nicosia G., Ojha V., La Malfa E., La Malfa G., Pardalos P., Di Fatta G., Giuffrida G., Umeton R., pp. 516–527, 2023
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25599-1_38
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Reggiannini M., Janeiro J., Martins F., Papini O., Pieri G.
Sea observation through remote sensing technologies plays an essential role in understanding the health status of marine fauna species and their future behaviour. Accurate knowledge of the marine habitat and the factors affecting faunal variations allows to perform predictions and adopt proper decisions. This is even more relevant nowadays, with policymakers needing increased environmental awareness, aiming to implement sustainable policies. There is a connection between the biogeochemical and physical processes taking place within a biological system and the variations observed in its faunal populations. Mesoscale phenomena, such as upwelling, countercurrents and filaments, are essential processes to analyse because their arousal entails, among other things, variations in the density of nutrient substances, in turn affecting the biological parameters of the habitat. This paper concerns the proposal of a classification system devoted to recognising marine mesoscale events. These phenomena are studied and monitored by analysing Sea Surface Temperature images captured by satellite missions, such as Metop and MODIS Terra/Aqua. Classification of such images is pursued through dedicated algorithms that extract temporal and spatial features from the data and apply a set of rules to the extracted features, in order to discriminate between different observed scenarios. The results presented in this work have been obtained by applying the proposed approach to images captured over the south-western region of the Iberian Peninsula.Source: Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, edited by Nicosia G., Ojha V., La Malfa E., La Malfa G., Pardalos P., Di Fatta G., Giuffrida G., Umeton R., pp. 516–527, 2023
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25599-1_38
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2023
Conference article
Open Access
On the applicability of prototypical part learning in medical images: breast masses classification using ProtoPNet
Carloni G., Berti A., Iacconi C., Pascali M. A., Colantonio S.
Deep learning models have become state-of-the-art in many areas, ranging from computer vision to agriculture research. However, concerns have been raised with respect to the transparency of their decisions, especially in the image domain. In this regard, Explainable Artificial Intelligence has been gaining popularity in recent years. The ProtoPNet model, which breaks down an image into prototypes and uses evidence gathered from the prototypes to classify an image, represents an appealing approach. Still, questions regarding its effectiveness arise when the application domain changes from real-world natural images to gray-scale medical images. This work explores the applicability of prototypical part learning in medical imaging by experimenting with ProtoPNet on a breast masses classification task. The two considered aspects were the classification capabilities and the validity of explanations. We looked for the optimal model's hyperparameter configuration via a random search. We trained the model in a five-fold CV supervised framework, with mammogram images cropped around the lesions and ground-truth labels of benign/malignant masses. Then, we compared the performance metrics of ProtoPNet to that of the corresponding base architecture, which was ResNet18, trained under the same framework. In addition, an experienced radiologist provided a clinical viewpoint on the quality of the learned prototypes, the patch activations, and the global explanations. We achieved a Recall of 0.769 and an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.719 in our experiments. Even though our findings are non-optimal for entering the clinical practice yet, the radiologist found ProtoPNet's explanations very intuitive, reporting a high level of satisfaction. Therefore, we believe that prototypical part learning offers a reasonable and promising trade-off between classification performance and the quality of the related explanation.Source: ICPR 2022 - International Conference on Pattern Recognition - ICPR 2022 International Workshops and Challenges, pp. 539–557, Montreal, Canada, 21-25/08/2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37660-3_38
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Carloni G., Berti A., Iacconi C., Pascali M. A., Colantonio S.
Deep learning models have become state-of-the-art in many areas, ranging from computer vision to agriculture research. However, concerns have been raised with respect to the transparency of their decisions, especially in the image domain. In this regard, Explainable Artificial Intelligence has been gaining popularity in recent years. The ProtoPNet model, which breaks down an image into prototypes and uses evidence gathered from the prototypes to classify an image, represents an appealing approach. Still, questions regarding its effectiveness arise when the application domain changes from real-world natural images to gray-scale medical images. This work explores the applicability of prototypical part learning in medical imaging by experimenting with ProtoPNet on a breast masses classification task. The two considered aspects were the classification capabilities and the validity of explanations. We looked for the optimal model's hyperparameter configuration via a random search. We trained the model in a five-fold CV supervised framework, with mammogram images cropped around the lesions and ground-truth labels of benign/malignant masses. Then, we compared the performance metrics of ProtoPNet to that of the corresponding base architecture, which was ResNet18, trained under the same framework. In addition, an experienced radiologist provided a clinical viewpoint on the quality of the learned prototypes, the patch activations, and the global explanations. We achieved a Recall of 0.769 and an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.719 in our experiments. Even though our findings are non-optimal for entering the clinical practice yet, the radiologist found ProtoPNet's explanations very intuitive, reporting a high level of satisfaction. Therefore, we believe that prototypical part learning offers a reasonable and promising trade-off between classification performance and the quality of the related explanation.Source: ICPR 2022 - International Conference on Pattern Recognition - ICPR 2022 International Workshops and Challenges, pp. 539–557, Montreal, Canada, 21-25/08/2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37660-3_38
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2023
Conference article
Open Access
GAM Forest explanation
Lucchese C., Orlando S., Perego R., Veneri A.
Most accurate machine learning models unfortunately produce black-box predictions, for which it is impossible to grasp the internal logic that leads to a specific decision. Unfolding the logic of such black-box models is of increasing importance, especially when they are used in sensitive decision-making processes. In thisworkwe focus on forests of decision trees, which may include hundreds to thousands of decision trees to produce accurate predictions. Such complexity raises the need of developing explanations for the predictions generated by large forests.We propose a post hoc explanation method of large forests, named GAM-based Explanation of Forests (GEF), which builds a Generalized Additive Model (GAM) able to explain, both locally and globally, the impact on the predictions of a limited set of features and feature interactions.We evaluate GEF over both synthetic and real-world datasets and show that GEF can create a GAM model with high fidelity by analyzing the given forest only and without using any further information, not even the initial training dataset.Source: EDBT 2022 - 26th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, pp. 171–182, Ioannina, Greece, 28-31/03/2023
DOI: 10.48786/edbt.2023.14
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Lucchese C., Orlando S., Perego R., Veneri A.
Most accurate machine learning models unfortunately produce black-box predictions, for which it is impossible to grasp the internal logic that leads to a specific decision. Unfolding the logic of such black-box models is of increasing importance, especially when they are used in sensitive decision-making processes. In thisworkwe focus on forests of decision trees, which may include hundreds to thousands of decision trees to produce accurate predictions. Such complexity raises the need of developing explanations for the predictions generated by large forests.We propose a post hoc explanation method of large forests, named GAM-based Explanation of Forests (GEF), which builds a Generalized Additive Model (GAM) able to explain, both locally and globally, the impact on the predictions of a limited set of features and feature interactions.We evaluate GEF over both synthetic and real-world datasets and show that GEF can create a GAM model with high fidelity by analyzing the given forest only and without using any further information, not even the initial training dataset.Source: EDBT 2022 - 26th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, pp. 171–182, Ioannina, Greece, 28-31/03/2023
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Open Access
A case study in formal analysis of system requirements
Belli D., Mazzanti F.
One of the goals of the 4SECURail project has been to demonstrate the benefits, limits, and costs of introducing formal meth- ods in the system requirements definition process. This has been done, on an experimental basis, by applying a specific set of tools and method- ologies to a case study from the railway sector. The paper describes the approach adopted in the project and some considerations resulting from the experience.Source: Software Engineering and Formal Methods. SEFM 2022 Collocated Workshops, edited by Masci P., Bernardeschi C., Graziani P., Koddenbrock M., Palmieri M., pp. 164–173, 2023
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26236-4_14
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Belli D., Mazzanti F.
One of the goals of the 4SECURail project has been to demonstrate the benefits, limits, and costs of introducing formal meth- ods in the system requirements definition process. This has been done, on an experimental basis, by applying a specific set of tools and method- ologies to a case study from the railway sector. The paper describes the approach adopted in the project and some considerations resulting from the experience.Source: Software Engineering and Formal Methods. SEFM 2022 Collocated Workshops, edited by Masci P., Bernardeschi C., Graziani P., Koddenbrock M., Palmieri M., pp. 164–173, 2023
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26236-4_14
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Conference article
Open Access
Automated image processing for remote sensing data classification
Reggiannini M., Papini O., Pieri G.
Remote sensing technologies allow for continuous and valuable monitoring of the Earth's various environments. In particular, coastal and ocean monitoring presents an intrinsic complexity that makes such monitoring the main source of information available. Oceans, being the largest but least observed habitat, have many different factors affecting theirs faunal variations. Enhancing the capabilities to monitor and understand the changes occurring allows us to perform predictions and adopt proper decisions. This paper proposes an automated classification tool to recognise specific marine mesoscale events. Typically, human experts monitor and analyse these events visually through remote sensing imagery, specifically addressing Sea Surface Temperature data. The extended availability of this kind of remote sensing data transforms this activity into a time-consuming and subjective interpretation of the information. For this reason, there is an increased need for automated or at least semi-automated tools to perform this task. The results presented in this work have been obtained by applying the proposed approach to images captured over the southwestern region of the Iberian Peninsula.Source: ICPR 2022 - International Workshops and Challenges, pp. 553–560, Montreal, Canada, 21-25/08/2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37742-6_43
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Reggiannini M., Papini O., Pieri G.
Remote sensing technologies allow for continuous and valuable monitoring of the Earth's various environments. In particular, coastal and ocean monitoring presents an intrinsic complexity that makes such monitoring the main source of information available. Oceans, being the largest but least observed habitat, have many different factors affecting theirs faunal variations. Enhancing the capabilities to monitor and understand the changes occurring allows us to perform predictions and adopt proper decisions. This paper proposes an automated classification tool to recognise specific marine mesoscale events. Typically, human experts monitor and analyse these events visually through remote sensing imagery, specifically addressing Sea Surface Temperature data. The extended availability of this kind of remote sensing data transforms this activity into a time-consuming and subjective interpretation of the information. For this reason, there is an increased need for automated or at least semi-automated tools to perform this task. The results presented in this work have been obtained by applying the proposed approach to images captured over the southwestern region of the Iberian Peninsula.Source: ICPR 2022 - International Workshops and Challenges, pp. 553–560, Montreal, Canada, 21-25/08/2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37742-6_43
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2023
Conference article
Open Access
Haptic-based cognitive mapping to support shopping malls exploration
Paratore M. T., Leporini B.
This paper describes a study, which is currently underway, whose aim is to investigate how the haptic channel can be effectively exploited by visually impaired users in a mobile app for the preliminary exploration of an indoor environment, namely a shopping mall. Our goal was to use haptics to convey knowledge of how the points of interest (POIs) are distributed within the physical space, and at the same time provide information about the function of each POI, so that users can get a perception of how functional areas are distributed in the environment "at a glance". Shopping malls are typical indoor environments in which orientation aids are highly appreciated by customers, and many different functional areas persist. We identified seven typical categories of POIs which can be encountered in a mall, and then associated a different vibration pattern each. In order to validate our approach, we designed and developed a prototype for preliminary testing, based on the Android platform. The prototype was periodically debugged with the aid of two visually impaired experienced users, who gave us precious advice throughout the development process. We will describe how this app was conceived, the issues emerged during its development and the positive outcomes produced by a very early testing stage. Finally, we will show that the proposed approach is promising and is worthy of further investigation.Source: EAI GOODTECHS 2022 - 8th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, pp. 54–62, Online event, 16-18/11/2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-28813-5_4
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Paratore M. T., Leporini B.
This paper describes a study, which is currently underway, whose aim is to investigate how the haptic channel can be effectively exploited by visually impaired users in a mobile app for the preliminary exploration of an indoor environment, namely a shopping mall. Our goal was to use haptics to convey knowledge of how the points of interest (POIs) are distributed within the physical space, and at the same time provide information about the function of each POI, so that users can get a perception of how functional areas are distributed in the environment "at a glance". Shopping malls are typical indoor environments in which orientation aids are highly appreciated by customers, and many different functional areas persist. We identified seven typical categories of POIs which can be encountered in a mall, and then associated a different vibration pattern each. In order to validate our approach, we designed and developed a prototype for preliminary testing, based on the Android platform. The prototype was periodically debugged with the aid of two visually impaired experienced users, who gave us precious advice throughout the development process. We will describe how this app was conceived, the issues emerged during its development and the positive outcomes produced by a very early testing stage. Finally, we will show that the proposed approach is promising and is worthy of further investigation.Source: EAI GOODTECHS 2022 - 8th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, pp. 54–62, Online event, 16-18/11/2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-28813-5_4
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Open Access
A primer on open science-driven repository platforms
Bardi A., Manghi P., Mannocci A., Ottonello E., Pavone G.
Following Open Science mandates, institutions and communities increasingly demand repositories with native support for publishing scientific literature together with research data, software, and other research products. Such repositories may be thematic or general-purpose and are deeply integrated with the scholarly communication ecosystem to ensure versioning, persistent identifiers, data curation, usage stats, and so on. Identifying the most suitable off-the-shelf repository platform is often a non-trivial task as the choice depends on functional requirements, programming and technical skills, and infrastructure resources. This work analyses four state-of-the-art Open Source repository platforms, namely Dryad, Dataverse, DSpace, and InvenioRDM, from both a functional and a software perspective. This work intends to provide an overview serving as a primer for choosing repository platform solutions in different application scenarios. Moreover, this paper highlights how these platforms reacted to some key Open Science demands, moving away from the original and old-fashioned concept of a repository serving as a static container of files and metadata.Source: Metadata and Semantic Research, edited by Garoufallou E., Vlachidis A., pp. 222–234, 2023
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-39141-5_19
Project(s): OpenAIRE Nexus
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Bardi A., Manghi P., Mannocci A., Ottonello E., Pavone G.
Following Open Science mandates, institutions and communities increasingly demand repositories with native support for publishing scientific literature together with research data, software, and other research products. Such repositories may be thematic or general-purpose and are deeply integrated with the scholarly communication ecosystem to ensure versioning, persistent identifiers, data curation, usage stats, and so on. Identifying the most suitable off-the-shelf repository platform is often a non-trivial task as the choice depends on functional requirements, programming and technical skills, and infrastructure resources. This work analyses four state-of-the-art Open Source repository platforms, namely Dryad, Dataverse, DSpace, and InvenioRDM, from both a functional and a software perspective. This work intends to provide an overview serving as a primer for choosing repository platform solutions in different application scenarios. Moreover, this paper highlights how these platforms reacted to some key Open Science demands, moving away from the original and old-fashioned concept of a repository serving as a static container of files and metadata.Source: Metadata and Semantic Research, edited by Garoufallou E., Vlachidis A., pp. 222–234, 2023
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-39141-5_19
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Closed Access
Shallow portion of an active geothermal system revealed by multidisciplinary studies: the case of Le Biancane (Larderello, Italy)
Granieri D., Mazzarini F., Cerminara M., Calusi B., Scozzari A., Menichini M., Lelli M.
The natural park of Le Biancane is located in the southern sector of the Larderello-Travale geothermal field (LTGF). It extends over an approximately 100,000 m2 area where the impermeable caprock is locally absent and deep fluids may directly reach the surface. Through a multidisciplinary approach including measurements of soil CO2 flux (total output of 11.5 t day-1), soil temperature (average 34.4 °C), stable isotope and chemical data on fluids from fumaroles (dominated by a mixture of geothermal gases and air or gases from air-saturated meteoric water), and structural analysis of the formation outcropping, we found that anomalous CO2 emissions are positively correlated with shallow temperature anomalies. These are in restricted locations adjacent to vents and fumaroles, where a network of well-connected fractures (preferentially NW-SE and NE-SW orientated and with steep dips) drains efficiently allowing upward migration of the deep fluids and the energy toward the surface.Source: Geothermics 108 (2023). doi:10.1016/j.geothermics.2022.102616
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2022.102616
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Granieri D., Mazzarini F., Cerminara M., Calusi B., Scozzari A., Menichini M., Lelli M.
The natural park of Le Biancane is located in the southern sector of the Larderello-Travale geothermal field (LTGF). It extends over an approximately 100,000 m2 area where the impermeable caprock is locally absent and deep fluids may directly reach the surface. Through a multidisciplinary approach including measurements of soil CO2 flux (total output of 11.5 t day-1), soil temperature (average 34.4 °C), stable isotope and chemical data on fluids from fumaroles (dominated by a mixture of geothermal gases and air or gases from air-saturated meteoric water), and structural analysis of the formation outcropping, we found that anomalous CO2 emissions are positively correlated with shallow temperature anomalies. These are in restricted locations adjacent to vents and fumaroles, where a network of well-connected fractures (preferentially NW-SE and NE-SW orientated and with steep dips) drains efficiently allowing upward migration of the deep fluids and the energy toward the surface.Source: Geothermics 108 (2023). doi:10.1016/j.geothermics.2022.102616
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2022.102616
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Brain metastases from NSCLC treated with stereotactic radiotherapy: prediction mismatch between two different radiomic platforms
Carloni G., Garibaldi C., Marvaso G., Volpe S., Zaffaroni M., Pepa M., Isaksson L. J., Colombo F., Durante S., Lo Presti G., Raimondi S., Spaggiari L. J., De Marinis F., Piperno G., Vigorito S., Gandini S., Cremonesi M., Positano V., Jereczek-Fossa B. A.
Background and purpose. Radiomics enables the mining of quantitative features from medical images. The influence of the radiomic feature extraction software on the final performance of models is still a poorly understood topic. This study aimed to investigate the ability of radiomic features extracted by two different radiomic platforms to predict clinical outcomes in patients treated with radiosurgery for brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer. We developed models integrating pre-treatment magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-derived radiomic features and clinical data. Materials and methods. Pre-radiotherapy gadolinium enhanced axial T1-weighted MRI scans were used. MRI images were re-sampled, intensity-shifted, and histogram-matched before radiomic extraction by means of two different platforms (PyRadiomics and SOPHiA Radiomics). We adopted LASSO Cox regression models for multivariable analyses by creating radiomic, clinical, and combined models using three survival clinical endpoints (local control, distant progression, and overall survival). The statistical analysis was repeated 50 times with different random seeds and the median concordance index was used as performance metric of the models. Results. We analysed 276 metastases from 148 patients. The use of the two platforms resulted in differences in both the quality and the number of extractable features. That led to mismatches in terms of end-to-end performance, statistical significance of radiomic scores, and clinical covariates found significant in combined models. Conclusion. This study shed new light on how extracting radiomic features from the same images using two different platforms could yield several discrepancies. That may lead to acute consequences on drawing conclusions, comparing results across the literature, and translating radiomics into clinical practice.Source: Radiotherapy and oncology 178 (2023). doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2022.11.013
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2022.11.013
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Carloni G., Garibaldi C., Marvaso G., Volpe S., Zaffaroni M., Pepa M., Isaksson L. J., Colombo F., Durante S., Lo Presti G., Raimondi S., Spaggiari L. J., De Marinis F., Piperno G., Vigorito S., Gandini S., Cremonesi M., Positano V., Jereczek-Fossa B. A.
Background and purpose. Radiomics enables the mining of quantitative features from medical images. The influence of the radiomic feature extraction software on the final performance of models is still a poorly understood topic. This study aimed to investigate the ability of radiomic features extracted by two different radiomic platforms to predict clinical outcomes in patients treated with radiosurgery for brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer. We developed models integrating pre-treatment magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-derived radiomic features and clinical data. Materials and methods. Pre-radiotherapy gadolinium enhanced axial T1-weighted MRI scans were used. MRI images were re-sampled, intensity-shifted, and histogram-matched before radiomic extraction by means of two different platforms (PyRadiomics and SOPHiA Radiomics). We adopted LASSO Cox regression models for multivariable analyses by creating radiomic, clinical, and combined models using three survival clinical endpoints (local control, distant progression, and overall survival). The statistical analysis was repeated 50 times with different random seeds and the median concordance index was used as performance metric of the models. Results. We analysed 276 metastases from 148 patients. The use of the two platforms resulted in differences in both the quality and the number of extractable features. That led to mismatches in terms of end-to-end performance, statistical significance of radiomic scores, and clinical covariates found significant in combined models. Conclusion. This study shed new light on how extracting radiomic features from the same images using two different platforms could yield several discrepancies. That may lead to acute consequences on drawing conclusions, comparing results across the literature, and translating radiomics into clinical practice.Source: Radiotherapy and oncology 178 (2023). doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2022.11.013
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2022.11.013
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2023
Journal article
Open Access
Privacy by design in systems for assisted living, personalized care and well-being: a stakeholder analysis
Carboni A., Russo D., Moroni D., Barsocchi P.
The concept of privacy-by-design within a system for assisted living, personalized care and well-being is crucial to protect users from misuse of the data collected about their health. Especially if the information is collected through audio-video devices, the question is even more delicate due to the nature of this data. In fact, in addition to guaranteeing a high level of privacy, it is necessary to reassure end-users about the correct use of these streams. The evolution of data analysis techniques began to take In review on an important role and increasingly defined characteristics in recent years. In this article, with reference to European projects in the AHA/AAL domain, we will see a differentiation of the concept of privacy-by-design according to different dimensions (Technical, Contextual, Business) and to the Stakeholders involved. The analysis is intended to cover technical aspects, legislative and policies-related aspects also regarding the point of view of the municipalities and aspects related to the acceptance and, therefore, to the perception of the safety of these technologies by the final end-users.Source: Frontiers in digital health (2023). doi:10.3389/fdgth.2022.934609
DOI: 10.3389/fdgth.2022.934609
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Carboni A., Russo D., Moroni D., Barsocchi P.
The concept of privacy-by-design within a system for assisted living, personalized care and well-being is crucial to protect users from misuse of the data collected about their health. Especially if the information is collected through audio-video devices, the question is even more delicate due to the nature of this data. In fact, in addition to guaranteeing a high level of privacy, it is necessary to reassure end-users about the correct use of these streams. The evolution of data analysis techniques began to take In review on an important role and increasingly defined characteristics in recent years. In this article, with reference to European projects in the AHA/AAL domain, we will see a differentiation of the concept of privacy-by-design according to different dimensions (Technical, Contextual, Business) and to the Stakeholders involved. The analysis is intended to cover technical aspects, legislative and policies-related aspects also regarding the point of view of the municipalities and aspects related to the acceptance and, therefore, to the perception of the safety of these technologies by the final end-users.Source: Frontiers in digital health (2023). doi:10.3389/fdgth.2022.934609
DOI: 10.3389/fdgth.2022.934609
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2023
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Open Access
A self-training automatic infant-cry detector
Coro G., Bardelli S., Cuttano A., Scaramuzzo R. T., Ciantelli M.
Infant cry is one of the first distinctive and informative life signals observed after birth. Neonatologists and automatic assistive systems can analyse infant cry to early-detect pathologies. These analyses extensively use reference expert-curated databases containing annotated infant-cry audio samples. However, these databases are not publicly accessible because of their sensitive data. Moreover, the recorded data can under-represent specific phenomena or the operational conditions required by other medical teams. Additionally, building these databases requires significant investments that few hospitals can afford. This paper describes an open-source workflow for infant-cry detection, which identifies audio segments containing high-quality infant-cry samples with no other overlapping audio events (e.g. machine noise or adult speech). It requires minimal training because it trains an LSTM-with-self-attention model on infant-cry samples automatically detected from the recorded audio through cluster analysis and HMM classification. The audio signal processing uses energy and intonation acoustic features from 100-ms segments to improve spectral robustness to noise. The workflow annotates the input audio with intervals containing infant-cry samples suited for populating a database for neonatological and early diagnosis studies. On 16 min of hospital phone-audio recordings, it reached sufficient infant-cry detection accuracy in 3 neonatal care environments (nursery--69%, sub-intensive--82%, intensive--77%) involving 20 infants subject to heterogeneous cry stimuli, and had substantial agreement with an expert's annotation. Our workflow is a cost-effective solution, particularly suited for a sub-intensive care environment, scalable to monitor from one to many infants. It allows a hospital to build and populate an extensive high-quality infant-cry database with a minimal investment.Source: Neural computing & applications (Print) (2023). doi:10.1007/s00521-022-08129-w
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-022-08129-w
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Coro G., Bardelli S., Cuttano A., Scaramuzzo R. T., Ciantelli M.
Infant cry is one of the first distinctive and informative life signals observed after birth. Neonatologists and automatic assistive systems can analyse infant cry to early-detect pathologies. These analyses extensively use reference expert-curated databases containing annotated infant-cry audio samples. However, these databases are not publicly accessible because of their sensitive data. Moreover, the recorded data can under-represent specific phenomena or the operational conditions required by other medical teams. Additionally, building these databases requires significant investments that few hospitals can afford. This paper describes an open-source workflow for infant-cry detection, which identifies audio segments containing high-quality infant-cry samples with no other overlapping audio events (e.g. machine noise or adult speech). It requires minimal training because it trains an LSTM-with-self-attention model on infant-cry samples automatically detected from the recorded audio through cluster analysis and HMM classification. The audio signal processing uses energy and intonation acoustic features from 100-ms segments to improve spectral robustness to noise. The workflow annotates the input audio with intervals containing infant-cry samples suited for populating a database for neonatological and early diagnosis studies. On 16 min of hospital phone-audio recordings, it reached sufficient infant-cry detection accuracy in 3 neonatal care environments (nursery--69%, sub-intensive--82%, intensive--77%) involving 20 infants subject to heterogeneous cry stimuli, and had substantial agreement with an expert's annotation. Our workflow is a cost-effective solution, particularly suited for a sub-intensive care environment, scalable to monitor from one to many infants. It allows a hospital to build and populate an extensive high-quality infant-cry database with a minimal investment.Source: Neural computing & applications (Print) (2023). doi:10.1007/s00521-022-08129-w
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-022-08129-w
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2023
Journal article
Open Access
Global-scale parameters for ecological models
Coro G., Bove P., Kesner-Reyes K.
This paper presents a collection of environmental, geophysical, and other marine-related data for marine ecological models and ecological-niche models. It consists of 2132 raster data for 58 distinct parameters at regional and global scales in the ESRI-GRID ASCII format. Most data originally belonged to open data owned by the authors of this article but residing on heterogeneous repositories with different formats and resolutions. Other data were specifically created for the present publication. The collection includes 565 data with global scale range; 154 at 0.5° resolution and 411 at 0.1° resolution; 196 data with annual temporal aggregation over ~10 key years between 1950 and 2100; 369 data with monthly aggregation at 0.1° resolution from January 2017 to ~May 2021 continuously. Data were also cut out on 8 European marine regions. The collection also includes forecasts for different future scenarios such as the Representative Concentration Pathways 2.6 (63 data), 4.5 (162 data), and 8.5 (162 data), and the A2 scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (180 data).Source: Scientific data 10 (2023). doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01904-3
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01904-3
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Coro G., Bove P., Kesner-Reyes K.
This paper presents a collection of environmental, geophysical, and other marine-related data for marine ecological models and ecological-niche models. It consists of 2132 raster data for 58 distinct parameters at regional and global scales in the ESRI-GRID ASCII format. Most data originally belonged to open data owned by the authors of this article but residing on heterogeneous repositories with different formats and resolutions. Other data were specifically created for the present publication. The collection includes 565 data with global scale range; 154 at 0.5° resolution and 411 at 0.1° resolution; 196 data with annual temporal aggregation over ~10 key years between 1950 and 2100; 369 data with monthly aggregation at 0.1° resolution from January 2017 to ~May 2021 continuously. Data were also cut out on 8 European marine regions. The collection also includes forecasts for different future scenarios such as the Representative Concentration Pathways 2.6 (63 data), 4.5 (162 data), and 8.5 (162 data), and the A2 scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (180 data).Source: Scientific data 10 (2023). doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01904-3
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01904-3
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2023
Conference article
Open Access
Towards adaptation of humanoid robot behaviour in serious game scenarios using reinforcement learning
Zedda E., Manca M., Paternò F.
Repetitive cognitive training can be seen as tedious by older adults and cause participants to drop out. Humanoid robots can be exploited to reduce boredom and the cognitive burden in playing serious games as part of cognitive training. In this paper, an adaptive technique to select the best actions for a robot is proposed to maintain the attention level of elderly users during a serious game. The goal is to create a strategy to adapt the robot's behaviour to stimulate the user to remain attentive through reinforcement learning. Specifically, a learning algorithm (QL) has been applied to obtain the best adaptation strategy for the selection of the robot's actions. The robot's actions consist of a combination of verbal and nonverbal interaction aspects. We have applied this approach to the behaviour of a Pepper robot for which two possible personalities have been defined. Each personality is exhibited by performing specific actions in the various modalities supported. Simulation results indicate learning convergence and seem promising to validate the effectiveness of the obtained strategy. Preliminary test results with three participants suggest that the adaption in the robot is perceived.Source: ALTRUIST 2022 - 2nd Workshop on sociAL roboTs for peRsonalized, continUous and adaptIve aSsisTance, pp. 93–99, Florence, Italy, 16/12/2022
Zedda E., Manca M., Paternò F.
Repetitive cognitive training can be seen as tedious by older adults and cause participants to drop out. Humanoid robots can be exploited to reduce boredom and the cognitive burden in playing serious games as part of cognitive training. In this paper, an adaptive technique to select the best actions for a robot is proposed to maintain the attention level of elderly users during a serious game. The goal is to create a strategy to adapt the robot's behaviour to stimulate the user to remain attentive through reinforcement learning. Specifically, a learning algorithm (QL) has been applied to obtain the best adaptation strategy for the selection of the robot's actions. The robot's actions consist of a combination of verbal and nonverbal interaction aspects. We have applied this approach to the behaviour of a Pepper robot for which two possible personalities have been defined. Each personality is exhibited by performing specific actions in the various modalities supported. Simulation results indicate learning convergence and seem promising to validate the effectiveness of the obtained strategy. Preliminary test results with three participants suggest that the adaption in the robot is perceived.Source: ALTRUIST 2022 - 2nd Workshop on sociAL roboTs for peRsonalized, continUous and adaptIve aSsisTance, pp. 93–99, Florence, Italy, 16/12/2022
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2023
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Closed Access
Assessment of the acceleration floor spectra through dynamic identification: the Museum of Bargello in Florence
Azzara R. M., Pellegrini D., Cardinali V., Viti S., Tanganelli M.
Artworks represent a priceless asset to the economic and cultural features of communities. Most art collections are hosted in Museums, which can be new buildings, appositely made for an expositive purpose, or monumental buildings, whose high artistic and historical value enhances the exposed art pieces. In this latter case, however, the Museums can disregard the seismic safety requirements provided for new constructions, becoming the main source of hazard for the precious contents they should preserve. In this paper, the dynamic behavior of the National Museum of Bargello in Florence is studied by means of a dynamic identification, focusing the attention on the "Sala di Donatello". An experimental campaign was performed by simultaneously installing two sets of three seismometric stations in the mentioned room and inside the corresponding one at the base of the building ("Sala Michelangelo"). Analysis of the recorded data via Operational Modal Analysis techniques has furnished the structure's natural frequencies, damping ratio and mode shapes allowing the assessment of the amplification of the seismic acceleration experienced by the art works exposed in "Sala di Donatello". The effect of the seismic acceleration on the artifacts has been checked on a case-study, i.e. the masterpiece "Marzocco". It is the statue of the lion considered the symbol of Florence, realized by Donatello in 1420, placed on a marble pedestal made by Benedetto da Maiano in 1480, which is a work of art as well. The assessment has been made by performing a simplified rigid-block analysis. The geometrical data of Marzocco has been stated based on a detailed photogrammetric survey, which provided a reliable representation of the mass distribution.Source: WCSI 2023 - 17th World Conference on Seismic Isolation, Torino, Italy, 12-16/09/2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-21187-4_88
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Azzara R. M., Pellegrini D., Cardinali V., Viti S., Tanganelli M.
Artworks represent a priceless asset to the economic and cultural features of communities. Most art collections are hosted in Museums, which can be new buildings, appositely made for an expositive purpose, or monumental buildings, whose high artistic and historical value enhances the exposed art pieces. In this latter case, however, the Museums can disregard the seismic safety requirements provided for new constructions, becoming the main source of hazard for the precious contents they should preserve. In this paper, the dynamic behavior of the National Museum of Bargello in Florence is studied by means of a dynamic identification, focusing the attention on the "Sala di Donatello". An experimental campaign was performed by simultaneously installing two sets of three seismometric stations in the mentioned room and inside the corresponding one at the base of the building ("Sala Michelangelo"). Analysis of the recorded data via Operational Modal Analysis techniques has furnished the structure's natural frequencies, damping ratio and mode shapes allowing the assessment of the amplification of the seismic acceleration experienced by the art works exposed in "Sala di Donatello". The effect of the seismic acceleration on the artifacts has been checked on a case-study, i.e. the masterpiece "Marzocco". It is the statue of the lion considered the symbol of Florence, realized by Donatello in 1420, placed on a marble pedestal made by Benedetto da Maiano in 1480, which is a work of art as well. The assessment has been made by performing a simplified rigid-block analysis. The geometrical data of Marzocco has been stated based on a detailed photogrammetric survey, which provided a reliable representation of the mass distribution.Source: WCSI 2023 - 17th World Conference on Seismic Isolation, Torino, Italy, 12-16/09/2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-21187-4_88
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2023
Journal article
Open Access
From unstructured texts to semantic story maps
Bartalesi V., Coro G., Lenzi E., Pagano P., Pratelli N.
Digital maps greatly support storytelling about territories, especially when enriched with data describing cultural, societal, and ecological aspects, conveying emotional messages that describe the territory as a whole. Story maps are interactive online digital narratives that can describe a territory beyond its map by enriching the map with text, pictures, videos, and other multimedia information. This paper presents a semi-automatic workflow to produce story maps from textual documents containing territory data. An expert first assembles one territory-contextual document containing text and images. Then, automatic processes use natural language processing and Wikidata services to (i) extract key concepts (entities) and geospatial coordinates associated with the territory, (ii) assemble a logically-ordered sequence of enriched story-map events, and (iii) openly publish online story maps and an interoperable Linked Open Data semantic knowledge base for event exploration and inter-story correlation analyses. Our workflow uses an Open Science-oriented methodology to publish all processes and data. Through our workflow, we produced story maps for the value chains and territories of 23 rural European areas of 16 countries. Through numerical evaluation, we demonstrated that territory experts considered the story maps effective in describing their territories, and appropriate for communicating with citizens and stakeholders.Source: International journal of digital earth (Online) 16 (2023): 234–250. doi:10.1080/17538947.2023.2168774
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2023.2168774
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Bartalesi V., Coro G., Lenzi E., Pagano P., Pratelli N.
Digital maps greatly support storytelling about territories, especially when enriched with data describing cultural, societal, and ecological aspects, conveying emotional messages that describe the territory as a whole. Story maps are interactive online digital narratives that can describe a territory beyond its map by enriching the map with text, pictures, videos, and other multimedia information. This paper presents a semi-automatic workflow to produce story maps from textual documents containing territory data. An expert first assembles one territory-contextual document containing text and images. Then, automatic processes use natural language processing and Wikidata services to (i) extract key concepts (entities) and geospatial coordinates associated with the territory, (ii) assemble a logically-ordered sequence of enriched story-map events, and (iii) openly publish online story maps and an interoperable Linked Open Data semantic knowledge base for event exploration and inter-story correlation analyses. Our workflow uses an Open Science-oriented methodology to publish all processes and data. Through our workflow, we produced story maps for the value chains and territories of 23 rural European areas of 16 countries. Through numerical evaluation, we demonstrated that territory experts considered the story maps effective in describing their territories, and appropriate for communicating with citizens and stakeholders.Source: International journal of digital earth (Online) 16 (2023): 234–250. doi:10.1080/17538947.2023.2168774
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2023.2168774
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2023
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Open Access
The impact of noise on evaluation complexity: the deterministic trust-region case
Bellavia S., Gurioli G., Morini B., Toint P. L.
Intrinsic noise in objective function and derivatives evaluations may cause premature termination of optimization algorithms. Evaluation complexity bounds taking this situation into account are presented in the framework of a deterministic trust-region method. The results show that the presence of intrinsic noise may dominate these bounds, in contrast with what is known for methods in which the inexactness in function and derivatives' evaluations is fully controllable. Moreover, the new analysis provides estimates of the optimality level achievable, should noise cause early termination. Numerical experiments are reported that support the theory. The analysis finally sheds some light on the impact of inexact computer arithmetic on evaluation complexity.Source: Journal of optimization theory and applications (2023). doi:10.1007/s10957-022-02153-5
DOI: 10.1007/s10957-022-02153-5
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Bellavia S., Gurioli G., Morini B., Toint P. L.
Intrinsic noise in objective function and derivatives evaluations may cause premature termination of optimization algorithms. Evaluation complexity bounds taking this situation into account are presented in the framework of a deterministic trust-region method. The results show that the presence of intrinsic noise may dominate these bounds, in contrast with what is known for methods in which the inexactness in function and derivatives' evaluations is fully controllable. Moreover, the new analysis provides estimates of the optimality level achievable, should noise cause early termination. Numerical experiments are reported that support the theory. The analysis finally sheds some light on the impact of inexact computer arithmetic on evaluation complexity.Source: Journal of optimization theory and applications (2023). doi:10.1007/s10957-022-02153-5
DOI: 10.1007/s10957-022-02153-5
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2023
Conference article
Open Access
An environment to collect personal memories of older adults and use them to personalise serious games with humanoid robots
Catricalà B., Ledda M., Manca M., Paternò F., Santoro C., Zedda E.
One of the goals of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions is to be able to stimulate the cognitive resources of older adults. An innovative way to address such stimulation is the use of serious games delivered through humanoid robots, as they can provide an engaging way to perform exercises useful for training human memory, attention, processing, and planning activities. This paper presents an approach to supporting cognitive stimulation based on personal memories. The humanoid robot can exhibit different behaviours using various modalities, and propose the games in a way personalised to specific individuals' requirements, preferences, abilities, and motivations, which can vary among older adults, and even dynamically evolve over time for the same person depending on changing user needs and health conditions. Using personal memories associated with facts and events that occurred in older adults life in the serious games can increase their engagement, and thus potentially reduce the cognitive training drop-out.Source: ALTRUIST 2022 - 2nd Workshop on sociAL roboTs for peRsonalized, continUous and adaptIve aSsisTance, pp. 44–54, Florence, Italy, 16/12/2022
Catricalà B., Ledda M., Manca M., Paternò F., Santoro C., Zedda E.
One of the goals of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions is to be able to stimulate the cognitive resources of older adults. An innovative way to address such stimulation is the use of serious games delivered through humanoid robots, as they can provide an engaging way to perform exercises useful for training human memory, attention, processing, and planning activities. This paper presents an approach to supporting cognitive stimulation based on personal memories. The humanoid robot can exhibit different behaviours using various modalities, and propose the games in a way personalised to specific individuals' requirements, preferences, abilities, and motivations, which can vary among older adults, and even dynamically evolve over time for the same person depending on changing user needs and health conditions. Using personal memories associated with facts and events that occurred in older adults life in the serious games can increase their engagement, and thus potentially reduce the cognitive training drop-out.Source: ALTRUIST 2022 - 2nd Workshop on sociAL roboTs for peRsonalized, continUous and adaptIve aSsisTance, pp. 44–54, Florence, Italy, 16/12/2022
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