Digitization Puts Many at a Disadvantage
Digitization has many downsides. It puts many people at a disadvantage and relegates them to the sidelines. Many service providers apparently are unaware of this, or consciously accept it. It...
View ArticleToward a Solid Acceptance of the Decentralized Web of Personal Data: Societal...
Citizens using common online services such as social media, health tracking, or online shopping effectively hand over control of their personal data to the service providers—often large corporations....
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Shortcut Learning of Large Language Models in Natural Language Understanding
Natural language understanding (NLU) is a subfield of artificial intelligence that requires computer software to comprehend input in the form of sentences. Representative NLU tasks include natural...
View ArticleThe User as a Key Ingredient in AAC Design
Communication is the essence of being human. We interact with one another using body language, gesture, and speech. The way in which we dress and adorn ourselves enables us to share our personality...
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Nonverbal Communication through Expressive Objects
1. Introduction Augmented communicators (ACs) with motor disabilities that affect speech production may use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices to speak. AAC devices include...
View ArticleAutocorrect Is Not: People Are Multilingual and Computer Science Should Be Too
Computer science has a language problem—and we are not alluding to programming languages. Many prevalent, flawed views about natural human language are limiting who is in computer science and what...
View ArticleTalking about Large Language Models
The advent of large language models (LLMs) such as Bert12 and GPT-228 was a game-changer for artificial intelligence (AI). Based on transformer architectures,36 comprising hundreds of billions of...
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Anthropomorphism and Human-Robot Interaction
Robots are fast becoming a part of everyday life. Indeed, robots are now deployed in retail stores, warehouses, hospitals, factories, and so on to perform tasks conventionally done by humans. Nestle...
View ArticleWhat’s That Smell?
The fashion designer Donna Karan once said, “Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger...
View ArticleA Healthy Dose of AI
Diagnosing and treating medical problems is at the heart of effective healthcare. However, too often, symptoms are vague, errors occur, or people simply do not have access to adequate healthcare at...
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