Here you will find a summary of the key publications from our partners, displaying their wealth of experience and knowledge. Publications made during and following the project will be updated in due course.


Stara, V.; Maranesi, E.; Möller, J.; Palmier, C.; Ogawa, T.; Browne, R.; Luc, M.; Wieching, R.; Boudy, J.; Bevilacqua, R. Technology-Enabled Senior Living: A Preliminary Report on Stakeholder Perspectives. Healthcare 202412, 381. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12030381


Stara V, Soraci L, Takano E, Kondo I, Möller J, Maranesi E, Luzi R, Riccardi GR, Browne R, Dacunha S, Palmier C, Wieching R, Ogawa T, Bevilacqua R. Intrinsic Capacity and Active and Healthy Aging Domains Supported by Personalized Digital Coaching: Survey Study Among Geriatricians in Europe and Japan on eHealth Opportunities for Older Adults. J Med Internet Res. 2023 Oct 12;25:e41035. doi: 10.2196/41035. PMID: 37824183; PMCID: PMC10603559.


Ruben Albers and Marc Hassenzahl. 2024. Let’s Talk About Death: Existential Conversations with Chatbots. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 529, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642421


Lehmann, J.; Granrath, L.; Browne, R.; Ogawa, T.; Kokubun, K.; Taki, Y.; Jokinen, K.; Janboecke, S.; Lohr, C.; Wieching, R.; et al. Digital Twins for Supporting Ageing Well: Approaches in Current Research and Innovation in Europe and JapanSustainability 202416, 3064. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16073064


University of Siegen. (2024). e-ViTAプロジェクト3年間の歩み. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10940349


Enabling Interoperability for Smart Ageing Solutions in Europe and Japan: The e-VITA Approach, Naccarelli R., Maggio M., Napolitano G. et al. on behalf of the e-VITA Consortium, University of Siegen. (2024). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10912774


Bevilacqua Roberta , Stara Vera , Amabili Giulio , Margaritini Arianna , Benadduci Marco , Barbarossa Federico , Maranesi Elvira , Rigaud Anne-Sophie , Dacunha Sébastien , Palmier Cecilia , Moller Johanna , Browne Ryan , Ogawa Toshimi , Wieching Rainer e-VITA study protocol: EU-Japan virtual coach for smart aging , Frontiers in Public Health, Vol. 12 2024, DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2024.1256734


Gérard Chollet, Hugues Sansen, Yannis Tevissen, Jérôme Boudy, Mossaab Hariz, Christophe Lohr, Fathy Yassa Privacy Preserving Personal Assistant with On-Device Diarization and Spoken Dialogue System for Home and Beyond, Cornell University; arXiv:2401.01146


Möller, J.; Stara, V.; Amabili, G.; Barbarossa, F.; Riccardi, G.R.; Martella, C.; Di Donna, V.; Palmier, C.; Ogawa, T.; Luc, M.; et al. Toward Innovation in Healthcare: An Analysis of the Digital Behavior of Older People in Europe and Japan for the Introduction of a Technological Coaching SystemHealthcare 202412, 143. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12020143


Naccarelli, R.; D’Agresti, F.; Roelen, S.D.; Jokinen, K.; Casaccia, S.; Revel, G.M.; Maggio, M.; Azimi, Z.; Alam, M.M.; Saleem, Q.; et al. Empowering Smart Aging: Insights into the Technical Architecture of the e-VITA Virtual Coaching System for Older Adults. Sensors 202424, 638. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24020638


Kristiina JOKINEN, Contextual Coaching: Support for Well-being based on Environmental Sensor Information and Conversational AIProceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, 2023, Volume JSAI2023, 37th (2023), Session ID 3U5-IS-4-03, Pages 3U5IS403, Released on J-STAGE July 10, 2023, Online ISSN 2758-7347, https://doi.org/10.11517/pjsai.JSAI2023.0_3U5IS403


Sarah Janböcke, Toshimi Ogawa, Johanna Langendorf, Koki Kobayashi, Ryan Browne, Rainer Wieching and Yasuyuki Taki, Human Coach Technology Reactance Factors and their Influence on End-Users’ Acceptance of e-Health Applications” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 14(10), 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2023.0141001


Shen, Z. et al. (2022). Participatory Design and Early Deployment of DarumaTO-3 Social Robot. In: Cavallo, F., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13818. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_49


Gabriele TrovatoYueh-Hsuan WengYegang Du, “Never complain, never explain”: why robots may not have to be explicable after all” ICRA2023 Workshop on Explainable Robotics, Open Review.net


Weber, Philip, Mahmood, Faisal, Ahmadi, Michael, von Jan, Vanessa, Ludwig, Thomas and Wieching, Rainer. Fridolin: participatory design and evaluation of a nutrition chatbot for older adults” i-com, vol. 22, no. 1, 2023, pp. 33-51. https://doi.org/10.1515/icom-2022-0042


Sarah Janböcke, Toshimi Ogawa, Koki Kobayashi, Ryan Browne, Yasuki Taki, Rainer Wieching and Johanna Langendorf, “Remote International Collaboration in Scientific Research Teams for Technology Development” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 13(9), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130902


Florian Szczepaniak, Jérôme Boudy, Gérard Chollet, Mossaab Hariz, and Christophe Lohr. 2023. A virtual Assistant Dedicated to the Accompaniment of the Person Informed of his Life Context thanks to the Smartphone. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 662–666. https://doi.org/10.1145/3594806.3596594


Florian Szczepaniak, Jérôme Boudy, Gérard Chollet, Mossaab Hariz, Christophe Lohr. Un assistant virtuel dédié à l’accompagnement de la personne, averti de son contexte de vie, grâce au smartphone9ème Colloque sur la Télésanté : “Dispositifs biomédicaux et technologies numériques en santé: des besoins aux usages” (JETSAN 2023), Université Paris 8; Sorbonne Université, Jun 2023, Paris, France. ⟨hal-04181543⟩


R. Naccarelli, S. Casaccia, K. Homma, R. Bevilacqua and G. M. Revel,e-VITA Use Cases Configurator: A Tool to Identify the Optimal Configuration of the Sensor Network and Coaching Devices to Enable Older People to Age Well at Home,” 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Living Environment (MetroLivEnv), Milano, Italy, 2023, pp. 196-201, doi: 10.1109/MetroLivEnv56897.2023.10164067


McTear, M.; Jokinen, K.; Alam, M.M.; Saleem, Q.; Napolitano, G.; Szczepaniak, F.; Hariz, M.; Chollet, G.; Lohr, C.; Boudy, J.; et al. Interaction with a Virtual Coach for Active and Healthy AgeingSensors 202323, 2748. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23052748


Homma, K., Matsumoto, Y. (2022). Hazard Identification for a Virtual Coaching System for Active Healthy Ageing. In: Gao, Q., Zhou, J. (eds) Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology in Everyday Living. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13331. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05654-3_16


S. Casaccia, K. Jokinen, R. Naccarelli and G. M. Revel, Well-being and comfort of ageing people based on indoor environmental conditions: preliminary study on human-coach conversation, 2022 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Living Environment (MetroLivEn), Cosenza, Italy, 2022, pp. 164-169, doi: 10.1109/MetroLivEnv54405.2022.9826905.


Carros, F.; Buervenich, B.; Browne, R.; Matsumoto, Y.; Trovato, G.; Manavi, M.; Homma, K.; Ogawa, T; Wieching, R.; Wulf, V. (2022). Not that Uncanny After All? An Ethnographic Study on Android Robots Perception of Older Adults in Germany and Japan. In: , et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13818. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_51


Sheen Varghese Marokkie, Michael McTear, Yaxin Bi, A virtual companion for older adults using the Rasa Conversational AI framework, Position paper presented at CONVERSATIONS 2022 – the 6th International Workshop on Chatbot
Research, Applications and Design, hosted by the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.


Riccardo Naccarelli, Sara Casaccia, Michela Pirozzi, Gian Marco Revel, Using a Smart Living Environment Simulation Tool and Machine Learning to Optimize the Home Sensor Network Configuration for Measuring the Activities of Daily Living of Older People, Buildings 202212, 2213. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12122213


Möller, J., Bevilacqua, R., Browne, R., Shinada, T., Dacunha, S., Palmier, C., Stara, V., Maranesi, E., Margaritini, A., Takano, E., Kondo, T., Watanabe, S., Ahmadi, M., Wieching, R., Ogawa, T. (2022). User Perceptions and Needs Analysis of a Virtual Coach for Active and Healthy Ageing – An International Qualitative Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 10341. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610341 


Schwaninger, I., Carros, F., Weiss, A. et al. Video connecting families and social robots: from ideas to practices putting technology to work. Univ Access Inf Soc (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-022-00901-y


Vizcarra, J., Jokinen, K. (2022). Knowledge-Based Dialogue System for the Ageing Support on Daily Activities. In: Gao, Q., Zhou, J. (eds) Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology in Everyday Living. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13331. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05654-3_8


Michael Mctear, Kristiina Jokinen, Mohnish Dubey, Gérard Chollet, Jérôme Boudy, et al. Empowering Well-Being Through Conversational Coaching for Active and Healthy Ageing Participative Urban Health and Healthy Aging in the Age of AI – 19th International Conference, ICOST 2022, Paris, France, June 2022, Springer, Hamdi Aloulou, Bessam Abdulrazak, Antoine de Marassé-Enouf, Mounir Mokhtari, Jun 2022, PARIS, France. ffhal-03955899


McTear, M.; Jokinen, K.; Alam, M.M.; Saleem, Q.; Napolitano, G.; Szczepaniak, F.; Hariz, M.; Chollet, G.; Lohr, C.; Boudy, J.; et al. Interaction with a Virtual Coach for Active and Healthy Ageing. Sensors 2023, 23, 2748. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23052748


Ryan BROWNE, Toshimi OGAWA, Julio VIZCARRA, *Kristiina JOKINEN Experiments on the Nao Robot as a Virtual Coach, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, 2022, Volume JSAI2022, 36th (2022), Session ID 3S4-IS-4-04, Pages 3S4IS404, Released on J-STAGE July 11, 2022 https://doi.org/10.11517/pjsai.JSAI2022.0_3S4IS404, https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pjsai/JSAI2022/0/JSAI2022_3S4IS404/_article/-char/en


Bevilacqua R, Soraci L, Stara V, Riccardi GR, Corsonello A, Pelliccioni G, Lattanzio F, Casaccia S, Möller J, Wieching R, Ogawa T, Watanabe S, Kokobun K, Kondo I, Takano E and Maranesi E (2022) A systematic review of multidomain and lifestyle interventions to support the intrinsic capacity of the older population. Front. Med. 9:929261. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.929261


Felix Carros, Isabel Schwaninger, Adrian Preussner, Dave Randall, Rainer Wieching, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, and Volker Wulf. 2022. Care Workers Making Use of Robots: Results of a Three-Month Study on Human-Robot Interaction within a Care Home. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 631, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517435


Naccarelli, R.; Casaccia, S.; Revel, G.M. The Problem of Monitoring Activities of Older People in Multi-Resident Scenarios: An Innovative and Non-Invasive Measurement System Based on Wearables and PIR Sensors. Sensors 202222, 3472. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22093472


Kokubun, K.; Ogawa, T.; Browne, R.; Shinada, T.; Granrath, L.; Moeller, J.; Tram, N.; Wieching, R.; Taki, Y. Social Capital Mediates the Association between the ICT Usage and Well-Being of Older People in Japan: Implication for a New Design Paradigm. Sustainability 202214, 4148. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074148


G.Trovato, N.Mavridis, A. Huerta-Mercado and R. ChellaliCross-cultural timeline of the history of thought of the artificial. adfa, p. 1, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011


Jokinen, K., Homma, K., Matsumoto, Y., Fukuda, K. (2022). Integration and Interaction of Trustworthy AI in a Virtual Coach – An Overview of EU-Japan Collaboration on Eldercare. In: Takama, Y. et al. (eds.): Advances in Artificial Intelligence – Selected Papers from the Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2021).  Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1423, Springer, Cham. pp.190-200. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96451-1_17

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Former Publications

Wulf, V., Rohde, M., Pipek, V. and Stevens, G. “Engaging with practices: design case studies as a research framework in CSCW”. Proc. of CSCW’11, p. 505–512. 2011 

Müller, C.; Neufeldt, C.; Randall, D. & Wulf, V. (2012): ICT-Development in Residential Care Settings: Sensitizing Design to the Life Circumstances of the Residents of a Care Home. Proc. ACM CHI ’12, May 05 – 10 2012, Austin, TX, USA, 2639-2648. 

Ogonowski, C., Aal, K., Vaziri, D., et al. ICT-Based Fall Prevention System for Older Adults: Qualitative Results from a Long-Term Field Study. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). Volume 23 Issue 5, November 2016

David Unbehaun, Konstantin Aal, Rainer Wieching, Volker Wulf, Daryoush Daniel Vaziri, Stefan Jahnke, Bruno Wulf. Development of an ICT-based Training System for People with Dementia, Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion, S. 65-68, New York, NY, USA: ACM, https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3325153

Felix Carros, Johanna Meurer, Diana Löffler, David Unbehaun, Sarah Matthies, Inga Koch, Rainer Wieching, Dave Randall, Marc Hassenzahl, Volker Wulf. Exploring Human-Robot Interaction with the Elderly: Results from a Ten-Week Case Study in a Care Home. CHI ‘20, April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376402

Hassenzahl, M., Eckoldt, K., Diefenbach, S., Laschke, M. & Lenz, E. (2013). Designing moments of meaning and pleasure – Experience Design and Happiness. International Journal of Design, 7,21-31. 

Hassenzahl, M., Wiklund-Engblom, A., Bengs, A., Hägglund, S., & Diefenbach, S. (2015). Experience-oriented and product-oriented evaluation: psychological need fulfillment, positive affect, and product perception. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 31, 530–544.  

Dörrenbächer, J., Löffler, D., & Hassenzahl, M. (accepted). Becoming a Robot – Overcoming Anthropomorphism with Techno-Mimesis. Accepted at ACM CHI2020. 

Löffler, D., Dörrenbächer, J., Welge, J., & Hassenzahl, M. (accepted). Hybridity as Design Strategy for Service Robots to Become Domestic Products. Accepted at ACM CHI2020. 

Taki Y, Kinomura S, Ebihara S, Thyreau B, Sato K, Goto R, Kakizaki M, Tsuji I, Kawashima R, Fukuda H. “Correlation between pulmonary function and brain volume in healthy elderly subjects” Neuroradiology, Jun;55(6):689-95, 2013.    

Taki Y, Thyreau B, Hashizume H, Sassa Y, Takeuchi H, Wu K, Kotozaki Y, Nouchi R, Asano M, Asano K, Fukuda H, Kawashima R. “Linear and curvilinear correlations of brain white matter volume, fractional anisotropy, and mean diffusivity with age using voxel-based and region-of-interest analyses in 246 healthy children” Human Brain Mapping, Aug;34(8):1842-56, 2013.  

Taki Y, Hashizume H, Thyreau B, Sassa Y, Takeuchi H, Wu K, Kotozaki Y, Nouchi R, Asano M, Asano K, Fukuda H, Kawashima R. “Linear and curvilinear correlations of brain gray matter volume and density with age using voxel-based morphometry with the Akaike information criterion in 291 healthy children” Human Brain Mapping, Aug; 34(8):1857-71, 2013. 

Taki Y, Thyreau B, Kinomura S, Sato K, Goto R, Wu K, Kawashima R, Fukuda H. “A longitudinal study of age- and gender-related annual rate of volume changes in regional gray matter in healthy adults” Human Brain Mapping, Sep;34(9):2292-301, 2013.   

Taki Y, Thyreau B, Kinomura S, Sato K, Goto R, Wu K, Kakizaki M, Tsuji I, Kawashima R, Fukuda H. “Correlation between high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and brain gray matter volume in healthy elderly subjects” Human Brain Mapping, Oct;34(10):2418-24, 2013. 

Taki Y, Thyreau B, Kinomura S, Sato K, Goto R, Wu K, Kawashima R, Fukuda H. “A longitudinal study of the relationship between personality traits and the annual rate of volume changes in regional gray matter in healthy adults” Human Brain Mapping, Dec;34(12):3347-53,2013. 

Pietroni, F., Casaccia, S., Revel, G. M., & Scalise, L. (2016, April). Methodologies for continuous activity classification of user through wearable devices: Feasibility and preliminary investigation. In 2016 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) (pp. 1-6). IEEE. 

S. Casaccia, F.Pietroni, A. Calvaresi, L. Scalise, G. M. Revel. Smart monitoring of user’s health at home: Performance evaluation and signal processing of a wearable sensor for measurement of Heart Rate and Breathing Rate. in International Conference on Bio-Inspired System and Signal processing, BIOSTEC. 2016. 

Revel, G. M., Arnesano, M., & Pietroni, F. (2014). Development and validation of a low-cost infrared measurement system for real-time monitoring of indoor thermal comfort. Measurement Science and Technology, 25(8), 085101. 

G.M. Revel, M. Arnesano, F. Pietroni, Integration of real-time metabolic rate measurement in a low-cost tool for the thermal comfort monitoring in AAL environments, Biosystems and Biorobotics, 2015, Vol. 11, pp 101-110. 

Monteriù, A., Prist, M., Frontoni, E., Longhi, S., Pietroni, F., Casaccia, S., Pescosolido, L. (2018). A Smart Sensing Architecture for Domestic Monitoring: Methodological Approach and Experimental Validation. Sensors, 18(7), 2310. 

S. Casaccia, L.Romeo, A. Calvaresi, N. Morresi, A. Monteriù, E. Frontoni, L. Scalise and G.M. Revel. Measurement of users’ well-being through domotic sensors and machine learning algorithms. IEEE Sensors, accepted for publication. 

Ozaki K, Kondo I, Hirano S, Kagaya H, Saitoh E, Osawa A, Yoichi F. Training with a balance exercise assist robot (BEAR) is more effective than conventional training for frail elderly. Geriatr Gerontol Int. 017;17: 1982-1990. https://doi.org/10.1111/ggi.13009

Takano E. Osawa A, Ueda I, Ito N, Kondo I. Trial of activity with a human-shaped robot for care recipients. Geriatr Gerontol Int. 2018; 18: 1298-1299, https://doi.org/10.1111/ggi.13442

Kondo I. Frailty in an Aging Society and Application of Robots. Jpn J Compr Rehabil Sci 2019; 10: 47-49. 

Itadera S, Aoyama T, Hasegawa Y, Aimoto K, Kato K, Kondo I. A clinical pilot study on posture stabilization via light contact with cane-type companion robot. Robomech J 2019; 6: 17, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40648-019-0145-y

Suzumura S, Takano E, Sugishima Y, Narukawa R, Makino I, Abiko T, Oi S, Kondo I. Reduced Family Care Burden by Using a Communication Robot: Case report. Geriatr Gerontol Int. 2020; 20: 384-385, https://doi.org/10.1111/ggi.13871

M. Gref, C. Schmidt, S. Behnke and J. Köhler, “Two-Staged Acoustic Modeling Adaption for Robust Speech Recognition by the Example of German Oral History Interviews,” 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Shanghai, China, 2019, pp. 796-801, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICME.2019.00142

M. Gref, C. Schmidt and J. Koehler, “Improving Robust Speech Recognition for German Oral History Interviews Using Multi-Condition Training,” Speech Communication; 13th ITG-Symposium, Oldenburg, Germany, 2018, pp. 1-5. 

 Jens Lehmann, Robert Isele, Max Jakob, Anja Jentzsch, Dimitris Kontokostas, Pablo N. Mendes, Sebastian Hellmann, Mohamed Morsey, Patrick van Kleef, Sören Auer, Christian Bizer. “DBpedia – A Large-scale, Multilingual Knowledge Base Extracted from Wikipedia.” Semantic Web Journal, 2015. 

Bader, S. R., Grangel-Gonzalez, I., Nanjappa, P., Vidal, M. E., & Maleshkova, M. (2020, May). A Knowledge Graph for Industry 4.0. In European Semantic Web Conference (pp. 465-480). Springer, Cham. 

 H. Zafar, G. Napolitano, J. Lehmann “Formal Query Generation for Question Answering over Knowledge Bases.” In: Gangemi A. et al. (eds) The Semantic Web. ESWC 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10843: 714-728. Springer, Cham. 

Jokinen, K. (2018). Dialogue Models for Socially Intelligent Robots.  In: Ge S. et al. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11357. Springer, Cham, pp. 127-138 

Jokinen, K., Furukawa, H., Nishida, M., Yamamoto, S. (2013). Gaze and Turn-taking Behavior in Casual Conversational Interactions. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) Journal, Special Section on Eye-gaze and Conversational Engagement, Vol 3, Issue 2, Article 12, pp. 12:1-12:30. 

Jokinen, K., Fukuda, K., Iino, N., Nishimura, S., Nishimura, T., Oota, Y., Watanabe, K., Yoshida, Y. (2019). Privacy and Sensor Information in the Interactive Service Applications for Elder People. Proceedings of 7th National Conference of Serviceology, Tokyo. 

Nishimura, S., Ohtani, H., Hatakeyama, N., Hasebe, K., Fukuda, K., Kitamura, Y., Mizoguchi, R., Nishimura, T. (2017). Employee Driven Approach to “Knowledge Explication” in Elderly Care Service, Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages C-G95_1-15. 

Wilcock, G., Jokinen, K. (2020). WikiTalk and WikiListen: Towards listening robots that can join in conversations with topically relevant contributions. 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2020). 

Hideyuki Takahashi, Kazunori Terada, Tomoyo Morita, Shinsuke Suzuki, Tomoki Haji, Hideki Kozima, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Yoshio Matsumoto, Takashi Omori, Minoru Asada, Eiichi Naito, Different impressions of other agents obtained through social interaction uniquely modulate dorsal and ventral pathway activities in the social human brain, Cortex, vol.58, pp.289-300, September, 2014. https://dor.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.03.011

Kerstin Sophie Haring, David Silvera-Tawil, Yoshio Matsumoto, Mari Velonaki, Katsumi Watanabe, Perception of an Android Robot in Japan and Australia: A Cross-Cultural Comparison, Proc. of Int Conf in Social Robotics, pp.166-175, Sydney (Australia), October, 2014. 

Yoshio Matsumoto, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Masahiko Sumitani, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Impression of Android Robot for Communication Support in Hospitals and Elderly Facilities, Proc. 8th Int Conf on Field and Service Robotics (FSR2012), pp.1-12, Miyagi (Japan), July, 2012. 

Keiko Homma, Osamu Matsumoto, Development of a Risk Assessment Assistance Tool for Robotic Care Devices, proc. of the 14th conference of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE 2017), pp.551-557, September, 2017 

Keiko Homma, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Isamu Kajitani, Takuya Ogure, Safety Evaluation Technologies for Defecation Assistance Devices, Proc. of 2018 IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligence and Safety for Robotics, pp.446-451, August, 2018 

Amina Jarraya, Nathan Ramoly, Amel Bouzeghoub, Khedija Arour, Amel Borgi, Béatrice Finance: A Fuzzy Semantic CEP Model for Situation Identification in Smart Homes. ECAI 2016: 1678-1679 

P. A. Cavalcante A., J.  Boudy, D. Istrate, B. Dorizzi, J. C. Moura Mota, A Dynamic Evidential Network for Fall DetectionIEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 18, no. 4, July 2014. 

P. Chahuara, A. Fleury, F. Portet, M. Vacher, “On-line Human Activity Recognition from Audio and Home Automation Sensors: comparison of sequential and non-sequential models in realistic Smart Homes”, Journal of ambient intelligence and smart environments, 2016, 8 (4), pp.399-422. 

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