Cyprus interaction lab

Living in Two Neighborhoods – Social Interaction Effects in the Lab

Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behavior exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct a laboratory experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field and allows us to study the behavioral logic of social interaction effects. Our novel design feature is that each subject is simultaneously a member of two randoml...

Rutgers Information Interaction Lab at TREC 2005: Trying HARD

Within the structure of the TREC 2005 HARD track guidelines, we investigated the following hypotheses: H1: Query expansion using a “clarity”-based approach will increase effectiveness over baseline queries and baseline queries plus pseudo-relevance feedback; H2: Query expansion based on the Web will increase effectiveness over baseline queries and baseline queries plus pseudo-relevance feedback...

Context Awareness R&D at SAIT Interaction Lab

Human-Building Interaction in the Smart Living Lab

Hamed Alavi Human-IST Research Center University of Fribourg Boulevard de Perolles 90, Fribourg, Switzerland [email protected] Himanshu Verma Human-IST Research Center University of Fribourg Boulevard de Perolles 90, Fribourg, Switzerland [email protected] Abstract This paper briefly introduces how we approach the domain of Human-Building Interaction (HBI) and describes a set of relate...

Final Report for DARPA MARS 2020 USC Interaction Lab

This report summarizes the work conducted at the USC Interaction Lab in the scope of the DARPA MARS 2020 Program project “Acquisition of Autonomous Behaviors by Robotic Assistants”, via the NASA subcontract NAG9-1444 “Skill Learning by Primitives-Based Demonstration & Imitation”. It covers the full period of the project, from August/01/2002 to August/31/2004.