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Personal Assistants: Emerging Computational Technologies

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Editors:
  1. Angelo Costa

    1. Departamento de Informática/Centro ALGORITMI, Escola de Engenharia, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  2. Vicente Julian

    1. Department of Computer Systems and Computation, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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  3. Paulo Novais

    1. Departamento de Informática/Centro ALGORITMI, Escola de Engenharia, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  • Provides an introduction to the growing area of PA for a general readership
  • Presents recent research and specific and complex PA architectures for graduates and researchers
  • Includes a multidisciplinary spectrum of cognitive assistants interesting for anyone working in areas, such as applied sciences, computer science, medical, biomedical, healthcare and law
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library (ISRL, volume 132)

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About this book

This book provides an overview of the current research in the interdisciplinary area of personal assistants (PA) and cognitively inspired systems.

It discusses the most relevant topics in this highly diversified domain, like reasoning, health, personalization, robotics, and ethical and social issues. Personal assistants (PA) are a relatively new concept directed at people with cognitive or physical disabilities, and is expanding to include complex platforms such as sensors, actuators, monitoring abilities and decision processes.

Designed for a general audience, it is also of interest to undergraduates, graduates and researchers involved with intelligent systems, ambient intelligence or ambient assisted living. The content goes from an introduction of the field (aimed at undergraduates and a general readership) to specific and complex architectures (aimed at graduates and researchers).

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Survey of Cognitive Assistants

      • Angelo Costa, Paulo Novais, Vicente Julian
      Pages 3-16

  3. Reasoning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Argumentation-Based Personal Assistants for Ambient Assisted Living

      • Stella Heras, Javier Palanca, Carlos Iván Chesñevar
      Pages 19-36

    3. Kidney Care—A Personal Assistant Assessment

      • Bia Martins, Joao Rei, Miguel Braga, Antonio Abelha, Henrique Vicente, Joao Neves et al.
      Pages 37-54

  4. Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Visual Working Memory Training of the Elderly in VIRTRAEL Personalized Assistant

      • Miguel J. Hornos, Sandra Rute-Pérez, Carlos Rodríguez-Domínguez, María Luisa Rodríguez-Almendros, María José Rodríguez-Fórtiz, Alfonso Caracuel
      Pages 57-76

    3. Personal Robot Assistants for Elderly Care: An Overview

      • Ester Martinez-Martin, Angel P. del Pobil
      Pages 77-91

  5. Personalization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Personalized Visual Recognition via Wearables: A First Step Toward Personal Perception Enhancement

      • Hosub Lee, Cameron Upright, Steven Eliuk, Alfred Kobsa
      Pages 95-112

    3. Intelligent Personal Assistant for Educational Material Recommendation Based on CBR

      • Néstor Darío Duque Méndez, Paula Andrea Rodríguez Marín, Demetrio Arturo Ovalle Carranza
      Pages 113-131

  6. Robotics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Characterize a Human-Robot Interaction: Robot Personal Assistance

      • Dalila Durães, Javier Bajo, Paulo Novais
      Pages 135-147

    3. Collaboration Between a Physical Robot and a Virtual Human Through a Unified Platform for Personal Assistance to Humans

      • S. M. Mizanoor Rahman
      Pages 149-177

    4. Emotion Detection and Regulation from Personal Assistant Robot in Smart Environment

      • José Carlos Castillo, Álvaro Castro-González, Fernándo Alonso-Martín, Antonio Fernández-Caballero, Miguel Ángel Salichs
      Pages 179-195

  7. Ethic and Social Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. EDI for Consumers, Personal Assistants and Ambient Intelligence—The Right to Be Forgotten

      • Francisco Pacheco de Andrade, Teresa Coelho Moreira, Mikhail Bundin, Aleksei Martynov
      Pages 199-207

    3. Personal Assistants: Civil Liability and Dispute Resolution

      • Marco Carvalho Gonçalves
      Pages 209-220
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Departamento de Informática/Centro ALGORITMI, Escola de Engenharia, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Angelo Costa, Paulo Novais

  • Department of Computer Systems and Computation, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Julian

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Personal Assistants: Emerging Computational Technologies

  • Editors: Angelo Costa, Vicente Julian, Paulo Novais

  • Series Title: Intelligent Systems Reference Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62530-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62529-4Published: 08 September 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87334-3Published: 11 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62530-0Published: 29 August 2017

  • Series ISSN: 1868-4394

  • Series E-ISSN: 1868-4408

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 220

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence

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