Storytelling is a long-established tradition and listening to stories is still a popular leisure activity. Caused by technization, storytelling media expands, e.g., to social robots acting as multi-modal storytellers, using different multimodal …

With the popularity of immersive media, developing usable tools for content development is important for the production process. In the context of 3D audio production, user interfaces for authoring and editing 3D audio trajectories enable content …

Wi-Fi and acoustic signal-based human–computer interaction (HCI) methods have received growing attention in academia. However, there still are issues to be addressed despite their flourishing. In this work, we evaluate the practicality of the …

Listening skills are critical for human communication. Social skills training (SST), performed by human trainers, is a well-established method for obtaining appropriate skills in social interaction. Previous work automated the process of social …

Numerous projects, normally run by younger people, are exploring robot use by older people. But are older any different from younger people in the way they want to interact with robots? Understanding older compared to younger people’s preferences …

In the Arab world, mobile health (mHealth) applications are an effective way to provide health benefits to medically needy in the absence of health services. However, end users around the world use technology to perform tasks in a way that appears …

Flying an aircraft is a mentally demanding task where pilots must process a vast amount of visual, auditory and vestibular information. They have to control the aircraft by pulling, pushing and turning different knobs and levers, while knowing …

Emotion recognition based on facial expression is a challenging research topic and has attracted a great deal of attention in the past few years. This paper presents a novel method, utilizing multi-modal strategy to extract emotion features from …