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Preserving the self with artificial intelligence using VIPCare-a virtual interaction program for dementia caregivers by Francis, Linda, Ghafurian, Moojan

“…Assistive technology is increasingly used to support the physical needs of differently abled persons but has yet to make inroads on support for cognitive or…”
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An investigation into the use of smart home devices, user preferences, and impact during COVID-19 by Ghafurian, Moojan, Ellard, Colin, Dautenhahn, Kerstin

“…With the goal of designing smart environments that can support users’ physical/mental well-being, we studied users’ experiences and different factors that can…”
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Evaluating people's perceptions of an agent as a public speaking coach by Forghani, Delara, Ghafurian, Moojan, Rasouli, Samira, Nehaniv, Chrystopher L., Dautenhahn, Kerstin

“…The use of interactive tools, such as voice assistants and social robots, holds promise as coaching aids during public speaking rehearsals. To create a coach…”
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VIPCare: Understanding the support needed to create affective interactions between new caregivers and residents with dementia by Ghafurian, Moojan, Francis, Linda, Tao, Zhuofu, Step, Mary, Hoey, Jesse

“…Introduction In this paper, we study the support needed by professional caregivers of those with dementia, and present a first step toward development of…”
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A Framework for Smart Pavements in Canada by Pejoohan Tavassoti, Hassan Baaj, Moojan Ghafurian, Omran Maadani, Mohammad Shafiee

“…Maintaining an acceptable durability and satisfactory in-service condition for pavements is a crucial and relatively complex task, which otherwise can have…”
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Smart Home Devices for Supporting Older Adults: A Systematic Review by Ghafurian, Moojan, Wang, Kang, Dhode, Isha, Kapoor, Mannat, Morita, Plinio P., Dautenhahn, Kerstin

“…Smart home devices have great potential for supporting older adults' health, safety, and independent living. Past reviews have identified only a few studies on…”
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Heart rate prediction with contactless active assisted living technology: a smart home approach for older adults by Wang, Kang, Cao, Shi, Kaur, Jasleen, Ghafurian, Moojan, Butt, Zahid Ahmad, Morita, Plinio

“…As global demographics shift toward an aging population, monitoring their heart rate becomes essential, a key physiological metric for cardiovascular health…”
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Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction in Pedestrian-Vehicle Mixed Environments: A Systematic Review by Golchoubian, Mahsa, Ghafurian, Moojan, Dautenhahn, Kerstin, Azad, Nasser Lashgarian

“…Planning an autonomous vehicle's (AV) path in a space shared with pedestrians requires reasoning about pedestrians' future trajectories. A practical pedestrian…”
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University Students’ Opinions on Using Intelligent Agents to Cope with Stress and Anxiety in Social Situations by Rasouli, Samira, Ghafurian, Moojan, Nilsen, Elizabeth S., Dautenhahn, Kerstin

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Improving Humanness of Virtual Agents and Users' Cooperation Through Emotions by Ghafurian, Moojan, Budnarain, Neil, Hoey, Jesse

“…In this article, we analyze the performance of an agent developed according to a well-accepted appraisal theory of human emotion with respect to how it…”
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The Zoomorphic Miro Robot’s Affective Expression Design and Perceived Appearance by Ghafurian, Moojan, Lakatos, Gabriella, Dautenhahn, Kerstin

“…This article proposes design guidelines for 11 affective expressions for the Miro robot, and evaluates the expressions through an online video study with 116…”
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Correction: How Non-experts Kinesthetically Teach a Robot over Multiple Sessions: Diversity in Teaching Styles and Effects on Performance by Aliasghari, Pourya, Ghafurian, Moojan, Nehaniv, Chrystopher L., Dautenhahn, Kerstin

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Using Affect as a Communication Modality to Improve Human-Robot Communication in Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue Scenarios by Akgun, Sami Alperen, Ghafurian, Moojan, Crowley, Mark, Dautenhahn, Kerstin

“…Emotions can provide a natural communication modality to complement the existing multi-modal capabilities of social robots, such as text and speech, in many…”
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Indirect associations in learning semantic and syntactic lexical relationships by Kelly, M.A., Ghafurian, Moojan, West, Robert L., Reitter, David

“…•Words in the lexicon have varying degrees of separation on a graph of co-occurrences.•Words frequently at 4 degrees of separation are likely to share…”
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A Biologically Inspired Program-level Imitation Approach for Robots: Proof-of-Concept by Aliasghari, Pourya, Ghafurian, Moojan, Nehaniv, Chrystopher L., Dautenhahn, Kerstin

“…For social robots to succeed in places such as homes, they must learn new skills from various people and act in a manner desirable to different users. We…”
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How Non-experts Kinesthetically Teach a Robot over Multiple Sessions: Diversity in Teaching Styles and Effects on Performance by Aliasghari, Pourya, Ghafurian, Moojan, Nehaniv, Chrystopher L., Dautenhahn, Kerstin

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Artificial intelligence techniques for pavement performance prediction: a systematic review by Kang, Jianqi, Tavassoti, Pejoohan, Chaudhry, Muhammad Nuh Ali Reza, Baaj, Hassan, Ghafurian, Moojan

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Uncertainty-Aware DRL for Autonomous Vehicle Crowd Navigation in Shared Space by Golchoubian, Mahsa, Ghafurian, Moojan, Dautenhahn, Kerstin, Azad, Nasser Lashgarian

“…Safe, socially compliant, and efficient navigation of low-speed autonomous vehicles (AVs) in pedestrian-rich environments necessitates considering pedestrians'…”
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Application of artificial intelligence in active assisted living for aging population in real-world setting with commercial devices – A scoping review by Wang, Kang, Ghafurian, Moojan, Chumachenko, Dmytro, Cao, Shi, Butt, Zahid A., Salim, Shahan, Abhari, Shahabeddin, Morita, Plinio P.

“…The aging population is steadily increasing, posing new challenges and opportunities for healthcare systems worldwide. Technological advancements, particularly…”
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Word Adoption in Online Communities by Cole, Jeremy, Ghafurian, Moojan, Reitter, David

“…In this paper, we examine the origination and dispersion of neologisms from the perspective of both communities and cognitive modeling. We use the Reddit…”
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