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L'eco di una trascendenza (2017)
Book Chapter
Cicchetti, P. (2017). L'eco di una trascendenza. In D. Persico, & A. Stellino (Eds.), To The Wonder. Gli ultimi visionari (pp. 23-28). AgenziaX. https://www.agenziax.it/wonder-gli-ultimi-visionari

A critical analysis of Terrence Malick's position and work within the canon of American cinema, the chapter offers an alternative take to the established Heideggerian reading, drawing attention to Malick's engagement with American mythologies through... Read More about L'eco di una trascendenza.

Central bank communication and the impact of public announcements of new monetary policy data on the reaction of foreign exchange and stock markets: Evidence from Poland (2017)
Journal Article
Brzeszczyński, J., Gajdka, J., & Kutan, A. M. (2017). Central bank communication and the impact of public announcements of new monetary policy data on the reaction of foreign exchange and stock markets: Evidence from Poland. Argumenta Oeconomica, 2(39), 21-60. https://doi.org/10.15611/aoe.2017.2.02

We analyze the impact of monetary policy communication of the National Bank of Poland (NBP), i.e. the NBP announcements of interest rates changes and the release of new macroeconomic figures, on the Polish financial market in its two main segments: t... Read More about Central bank communication and the impact of public announcements of new monetary policy data on the reaction of foreign exchange and stock markets: Evidence from Poland.

Touching a mechanical body: tactile contact with body parts of a humanoid robot is physiologically arousing (2017)
Journal Article
Li, J. J., Ju, W., & Reeves, B. (2017). Touching a mechanical body: tactile contact with body parts of a humanoid robot is physiologically arousing. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 6(3), 118-130. https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Li

A large literature describes the use of robots' physical bodies to support communication with people. Touch is a natural channel for physical interaction, yet it is not understood how principles of interpersonal touch might carry over to a robot. Exp... Read More about Touching a mechanical body: tactile contact with body parts of a humanoid robot is physiologically arousing.

A simple nod of the head: The effect of minimal robot movements on children's perception of a low-anthropomorphic robot (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zaga, C., De Vries, R. A., Li, J., Truong, K. P., & Evers, V. (2017). A simple nod of the head: The effect of minimal robot movements on children's perception of a low-anthropomorphic robot. CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 336-341). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025995

In this note, we present minimal robot movements for robotic technology for children. Two types of minimal gaze movements were designed: social-gaze movements to communicate social engagement and deictic-gaze movements to communicate task-related ref... Read More about A simple nod of the head: The effect of minimal robot movements on children's perception of a low-anthropomorphic robot.

Glucose prediction data analytics for diabetic patients monitoring (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Huzooree, G., Khedo, K. K., & Joonas, N. (2017). Glucose prediction data analytics for diabetic patients monitoring. 2017 1st International Conference on Next Generation Computing Applications (NextComp) (19, pp. 188-195). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/nextcomp.2017.8016197

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is one of the leading health complication around the world causing national economic burden and low quality of life. This increases the need to focus on prevention and early detection to improve the management and treatment of... Read More about Glucose prediction data analytics for diabetic patients monitoring.

Towards Next-Generation Lip-Reading Driven Hearing-Aids: A preliminary Prototype Demo (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adeel, A., Gogate, M., & Hussain, A. (2017). Towards Next-Generation Lip-Reading Driven Hearing-Aids: A preliminary Prototype Demo. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Challenges in Hearing Assistive Technology (CHAT 2017) (pp. 61-64).

Speech enhancement aims to enhance the perceived speech quality and intelligibility in the presence of noise. Classical speech enhancement methods are mainly based on audio only processing which often perform poorly in adverse conditions, where overw... Read More about Towards Next-Generation Lip-Reading Driven Hearing-Aids: A preliminary Prototype Demo.

Regulation of the EU Insurance Market. Impact of the Lamfalussy Structure on EU Insurance Acts (2017)
Journal Article
Kunertová, T. (2017). Regulation of the EU Insurance Market. Impact of the Lamfalussy Structure on EU Insurance Acts. The Lawyer Quarterly, 7(2). https://tlq.ilaw.cas.cz/index.php/tlq/article/view/235

Financial services represent a highly regulated area under the law of the European Union. Insurance industry is not an exception. Day by day Member States, insurers and as a consequence consumers as well, have to deal with an avalanche of coming byla... Read More about Regulation of the EU Insurance Market. Impact of the Lamfalussy Structure on EU Insurance Acts.

Bauhaus: El mito de la modernidad (2017)
Digital Artefact
Stutterheim, K., & Bolbrinker, N. (2017). Bauhaus: El mito de la modernidad [Film]. Fundación Arquia.

Es un documental sobre la escuela de arte o diseño, probablemente más conocida de la modernidad. Sus productos “estilo Bauhaus” responden a un diseño estilizado, funcional y moderno. Los profesores que recorrieron sus aulas recibieron reconocimiento... Read More about Bauhaus: El mito de la modernidad.

The BURCHAK corpus: A challenge data set for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Eshghi, A., Mills, G., & Lemon, O. J. (2017). The BURCHAK corpus: A challenge data set for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings. Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Vision and Language. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://aclanthology.org/W17-2001/

We motivate and describe a new freely available human-human dialogue data set for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings through ostensive definition by a tutor to a learner. The data has been collected using a novel, character-by-ch... Read More about The BURCHAK corpus: A challenge data set for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings.

Alana: Social dialogue using an ensemble model and a ranker trained on user feedback (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Papaioannou, I., Curry, A. C., Part, J. L., Shalyminov, I., Xu, X., Yu, Y., Dušek, O., Rieser, V., & Lemon, O. (2017). Alana: Social dialogue using an ensemble model and a ranker trained on user feedback. 1st Proceedings of Alexa Prize. https://www.amazon.science/alexa-prize/proceedings/alana-social-dialogue-using-an-ensemble-model-and-a-ranker-trained-on-user-feedback

We describe our Alexa prize system (called ‘Alana’) which consists of an ensemble of bots, combining rule-based and machine learning systems, and using a contextual ranking mechanism to choose system responses. This paper reports on the version of th... Read More about Alana: Social dialogue using an ensemble model and a ranker trained on user feedback.

VOILA: An optimised dialogue system for interactively learning visually-grounded word meanings (demonstration system) (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Eshghi, A., & Lemon, O. (2017). VOILA: An optimised dialogue system for interactively learning visually-grounded word meanings (demonstration system). Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (pp. 197-200). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

We present VOILA: an optimised, multi-modal dialogue agent for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings from a human user. VOILA is: (1) able to learn new visual categories interactively from users from scratch; (2) trained on real hum... Read More about VOILA: An optimised dialogue system for interactively learning visually-grounded word meanings (demonstration system).

Decentralizing the Semantic Web: Who Will Pay to Realize It? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grubenmann, T., Dell'Aglio, D., Bernstein, A., Moor, D., & Seuken, S. (2017). Decentralizing the Semantic Web: Who Will Pay to Realize It?. Proceedings of the Workshop on Decentralizing the Semantic Web 2017 co-located with 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) (1934). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1934/contribution-01.pdf

Fueled by enthusiasm of volunteers, government subsidies, and open data legislation, the Web of Data (WoD) has enjoyed a phenomenal growth. Commercial data, however, has been stuck in proprietary silos, as the monetization strategy for sharing data i... Read More about Decentralizing the Semantic Web: Who Will Pay to Realize It?.

Shared Value in SMEs: Evidence from Europe (2017)
Book
Berberich, R. (2017). Shared Value in SMEs: Evidence from Europe. Independently published.

Master Thesis in Strategic Project Management concerning 'Shared Value in SMEs'. Shared Value, as a new concept in CSR aims to offer a route to social responsibility that not only 'does good' but is also financially beneficial for the originator.

Creating Shared Value and Increasing Project Success by Stakeholder Collaboration: A Case in European Manufacturing (2017)
Book Chapter
Berberich, R. (2017). Creating Shared Value and Increasing Project Success by Stakeholder Collaboration: A Case in European Manufacturing. In M. A. Camilleri (Ed.), CSR 2.0 and the New Era of Corporate Citizenship. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1842-6.ch006

This chapter introduces the idea of accessing new resources by collaborative interaction with stakeholders to optimize the value chain and product development process. It is acknowledged that Creating Shared Value (CSV) could be a value driver by rev... Read More about Creating Shared Value and Increasing Project Success by Stakeholder Collaboration: A Case in European Manufacturing.

Nanette Norris, ed., Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914–1918 (2017)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2017). Nanette Norris, ed., Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914–1918 [Review of the book Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918, ed. Nanette Norris (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015)]. Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, 4(3), 193-197. https://journalofdhlawrencestudies.com/jdhls-2017/