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	Author	Maedeh Aghaei; Mariella Dimiccoli; C. Canton-Ferrer; Petia Radeva
	Title	Towards social pattern characterization from egocentric photo-streams			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Computer Vision and Image Understanding	Abbreviated Journal	CVIU
	Volume	171	Issue		Pages	104-117
	Keywords	Social pattern characterization; Social signal extraction; Lifelogging; Convolutional and recurrent neural networks
	Abstract	Following the increasingly popular trend of social interaction analysis in egocentric vision, this article presents a comprehensive pipeline for automatic social pattern characterization of a wearable photo-camera user. The proposed framework relies merely on the visual analysis of egocentric photo-streams and consists of three major steps. The first step is to detect social interactions of the user where the impact of several social signals on the task is explored. The detected social events are inspected in the second step for categorization into different social meetings. These two steps act at event-level where each potential social event is modeled as a multi-dimensional time-series, whose dimensions correspond to a set of relevant features for each task; finally, LSTM is employed to classify the time-series. The last step of the framework is to characterize social patterns of the user. Our goal is to quantify the duration, the diversity and the frequency of the user social relations in various social situations. This goal is achieved by the discovery of recurrences of the same people across the whole set of social events related to the user. Experimental evaluation over EgoSocialStyle – the proposed dataset in this work, and EGO-GROUP demonstrates promising results on the task of social pattern characterization from egocentric photo-streams.
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	Notes	MILAB; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ ADC2018			Serial	3022
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	Author	Mireia Forns-Nadal; Federico Sem; Anna Mane; Laura Igual; Dani Guinart; Oscar Vilarroya
	Title	Increased Nucleus Accumbens Volume in First-Episode Psychosis			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Psychiatry Research-Neuroimaging	Abbreviated Journal	PRN
	Volume	263	Issue		Pages	57-60
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	Abstract	Nucleus accumbens has been reported as a key structure in the neurobiology of schizophrenia. Studies analyzing structural abnormalities have shown conflicting results, possibly related to confounding factors. We investigated the nucleus accumbens volume using manual delimitation in first-episode psychosis (FEP) controlling for age, cannabis use and medication. Thirty-one FEP subjects who were naive or minimally exposed to antipsychotics and a control group were MRI scanned and clinically assessed from baseline to 6 months of follow-up. FEP showed increased relative and total accumbens volumes. Clinical correlations with negative symptoms, duration of untreated psychosis and cannabis use were not significant.
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	Notes	MILAB; no menciona			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FSM2017			Serial	3028
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	Author	Debora Gil; Rosa Maria Ortiz; Carles Sanchez; Antoni Rosell
	Title	Objective endoscopic measurements of central airway stenosis. A pilot study			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Respiration	Abbreviated Journal	RES
	Volume	95	Issue		Pages	63–69
	Keywords	Bronchoscopy; Tracheal stenosis; Airway stenosis; Computer-assisted analysis
	Abstract	Endoscopic estimation of the degree of stenosis in central airway obstruction is subjective and highly variable. Objective: To determine the benefits of using SENSA (System for Endoscopic Stenosis Assessment), an image-based computational software, for obtaining objective stenosis index (SI) measurements among a group of expert bronchoscopists and general pulmonologists. Methods: A total of 7 expert bronchoscopists and 7 general pulmonologists were enrolled to validate SENSA usage. The SI obtained by the physicians and by SENSA were compared with a reference SI to set their precision in SI computation. We used SENSA to efficiently obtain this reference SI in 11 selected cases of benign stenosis. A Web platform with three user-friendly microtasks was designed to gather the data. The users had to visually estimate the SI from videos with and without contours of the normal and the obstructed area provided by SENSA. The users were able to modify the SENSA contours to define the reference SI using morphometric bronchoscopy. Results: Visual SI estimation accuracy was associated with neither bronchoscopic experience (p = 0.71) nor the contours of the normal and the obstructed area provided by the system (p = 0.13). The precision of the SI by SENSA was 97.7% (95% CI: 92.4-103.7), which is significantly better than the precision of the SI by visual estimation (p < 0.001), with an improvement by at least 15%. Conclusion: SENSA provides objective SI measurements with a precision of up to 99.5%, which can be calculated from any bronchoscope using an affordable scalable interface. Providing normal and obstructed contours on bronchoscopic videos does not improve physicians' visual estimation of the SI.
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	Notes	IAM; 600.075; 600.096; 600.145			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GOS2018			Serial	3043
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	Author	Katerine Diaz; Francesc J. Ferri; Aura Hernandez-Sabate
	Title	An overview of incremental feature extraction methods based on linear subspaces			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Knowledge-Based Systems	Abbreviated Journal	KBS
	Volume	145	Issue		Pages	219-235
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	Abstract	With the massive explosion of machine learning in our day-to-day life, incremental and adaptive learning has become a major topic, crucial to keep up-to-date and improve classification models and their corresponding feature extraction processes. This paper presents a categorized overview of incremental feature extraction based on linear subspace methods which aim at incorporating new information to the already acquired knowledge without accessing previous data. Specifically, this paper focuses on those linear dimensionality reduction methods with orthogonal matrix constraints based on global loss function, due to the extensive use of their batch approaches versus other linear alternatives. Thus, we cover the approaches derived from Principal Components Analysis, Linear Discriminative Analysis and Discriminative Common Vector methods. For each basic method, its incremental approaches are differentiated according to the subspace model and matrix decomposition involved in the updating process. Besides this categorization, several updating strategies are distinguished according to the amount of data used to update and to the fact of considering a static or dynamic number of classes. Moreover, the specific role of the size/dimension ratio in each method is considered. Finally, computational complexity, experimental setup and the accuracy rates according to published results are compiled and analyzed, and an empirical evaluation is done to compare the best approach of each kind.
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	ISSN	0950-7051	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	ADAS; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DFH2018			Serial	3090
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	Author	Katerine Diaz; Jesus Martinez del Rincon; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil
	Title	Continuous head pose estimation using manifold subspace embedding and multivariate regression			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	IEEE Access	Abbreviated Journal	ACCESS
	Volume	6	Issue		Pages	18325 - 18334
	Keywords	Head Pose estimation; HOG features; Generalized Discriminative Common Vectors; B-splines; Multiple linear regression
	Abstract	In this paper, a continuous head pose estimation system is proposed to estimate yaw and pitch head angles from raw facial images. Our approach is based on manifold learningbased methods, due to their promising generalization properties shown for face modelling from images. The method combines histograms of oriented gradients, generalized discriminative common vectors and continuous local regression to achieve successful performance. Our proposal was tested on multiple standard face datasets, as well as in a realistic scenario. Results show a considerable performance improvement and a higher consistence of our model in comparison with other state-of-art methods, with angular errors varying between 9 and 17 degrees.
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	ISSN	2169-3536	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	ADAS; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DMH2018b			Serial	3091
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	Author	Sangheeta Roy; Palaiahnakote Shivakumara; Namita Jain; Vijeta Khare; Anjan Dutta; Umapada Pal; Tong Lu
	Title	Rough-Fuzzy based Scene Categorization for Text Detection and Recognition in Video			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	80	Issue		Pages	64-82
	Keywords	Rough set; Fuzzy set; Video categorization; Scene image classification; Video text detection; Video text recognition
	Abstract	Scene image or video understanding is a challenging task especially when number of video types increases drastically with high variations in background and foreground. This paper proposes a new method for categorizing scene videos into different classes, namely, Animation, Outlet, Sports, e-Learning, Medical, Weather, Defense, Economics, Animal Planet and Technology, for the performance improvement of text detection and recognition, which is an effective approach for scene image or video understanding. For this purpose, at first, we present a new combination of rough and fuzzy concept to study irregular shapes of edge components in input scene videos, which helps to classify edge components into several groups. Next, the proposed method explores gradient direction information of each pixel in each edge component group to extract stroke based features by dividing each group into several intra and inter planes. We further extract correlation and covariance features to encode semantic features located inside planes or between planes. Features of intra and inter planes of groups are then concatenated to get a feature matrix. Finally, the feature matrix is verified with temporal frames and fed to a neural network for categorization. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the existing state-of-the-art methods, at the same time, the performances of text detection and recognition methods are also improved significantly due to categorization.
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	Notes	DAG; 600.097; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RSJ2018			Serial	3096
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	Author	Marc Bolaños; Alvaro Peris; Francisco Casacuberta; Sergi Solera; Petia Radeva
	Title	Egocentric video description based on temporally-linked sequences			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation	Abbreviated Journal	JVCIR
	Volume	50	Issue		Pages	205-216
	Keywords	egocentric vision; video description; deep learning; multi-modal learning
	Abstract	Egocentric vision consists in acquiring images along the day from a first person point-of-view using wearable cameras. The automatic analysis of this information allows to discover daily patterns for improving the quality of life of the user. A natural topic that arises in egocentric vision is storytelling, that is, how to understand and tell the story relying behind the pictures. In this paper, we tackle storytelling as an egocentric sequences description problem. We propose a novel methodology that exploits information from temporally neighboring events, matching precisely the nature of egocentric sequences. Furthermore, we present a new method for multimodal data fusion consisting on a multi-input attention recurrent network. We also release the EDUB-SegDesc dataset. This is the first dataset for egocentric image sequences description, consisting of 1,339 events with 3,991 descriptions, from 55 days acquired by 11 people. Finally, we prove that our proposal outperforms classical attentional encoder-decoder methods for video description.
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	Notes	MILAB; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ BPC2018			Serial	3109
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	Author	Ivet Rafegas; Maria Vanrell
	Title	Color encoding in biologically-inspired convolutional neural networks			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Vision Research	Abbreviated Journal	VR
	Volume	151	Issue		Pages	7-17
	Keywords	Color coding; Computer vision; Deep learning; Convolutional neural networks
	Abstract	Convolutional Neural Networks have been proposed as suitable frameworks to model biological vision. Some of these artificial networks showed representational properties that rival primate performances in object recognition. In this paper we explore how color is encoded in a trained artificial network. It is performed by estimating a color selectivity index for each neuron, which allows us to describe the neuron activity to a color input stimuli. The index allows us to classify whether they are color selective or not and if they are of a single or double color. We have determined that all five convolutional layers of the network have a large number of color selective neurons. Color opponency clearly emerges in the first layer, presenting 4 main axes (Black-White, Red-Cyan, Blue-Yellow and Magenta-Green), but this is reduced and rotated as we go deeper into the network. In layer 2 we find a denser hue sampling of color neurons and opponency is reduced almost to one new main axis, the Bluish-Orangish coinciding with the dataset bias. In layers 3, 4 and 5 color neurons are similar amongst themselves, presenting different type of neurons that detect specific colored objects (e.g., orangish faces), specific surrounds (e.g., blue sky) or specific colored or contrasted object-surround configurations (e.g. blue blob in a green surround). Overall, our work concludes that color and shape representation are successively entangled through all the layers of the studied network, revealing certain parallelisms with the reported evidences in primate brains that can provide useful insight into intermediate hierarchical spatio-chromatic representations.
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	Notes	CIC; 600.051; 600.087			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @RaV2018			Serial	3114
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	Author	Pau Rodriguez; Miguel Angel Bautista; Sergio Escalera; Jordi Gonzalez
	Title	Beyond Oneshot Encoding: lower dimensional target embedding			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Image and Vision Computing	Abbreviated Journal	IMAVIS
	Volume	75	Issue		Pages	21-31
	Keywords	Error correcting output codes; Output embeddings; Deep learning; Computer vision
	Abstract	Target encoding plays a central role when learning Convolutional Neural Networks. In this realm, one-hot encoding is the most prevalent strategy due to its simplicity. However, this so widespread encoding schema assumes a flat label space, thus ignoring rich relationships existing among labels that can be exploited during training. In large-scale datasets, data does not span the full label space, but instead lies in a low-dimensional output manifold. Following this observation, we embed the targets into a low-dimensional space, drastically improving convergence speed while preserving accuracy. Our contribution is two fold: (i) We show that random projections of the label space are a valid tool to find such lower dimensional embeddings, boosting dramatically convergence rates at zero computational cost; and (ii) we propose a normalized eigenrepresentation of the class manifold that encodes the targets with minimal information loss, improving the accuracy of random projections encoding while enjoying the same convergence rates. Experiments on CIFAR-100, CUB200-2011, Imagenet, and MIT Places demonstrate that the proposed approach drastically improves convergence speed while reaching very competitive accuracy rates.
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	Notes	ISE; HuPBA; 600.098; 602.133; 602.121; 600.119			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RBE2018			Serial	3120
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	Author	Jianzhy Guo; Zhen Lei; Jun Wan; Egils Avots; Noushin Hajarolasvadi; Boris Knyazev; Artem Kuharenko; Julio C. S. Jacques Junior; Xavier Baro; Hasan Demirel; Sergio Escalera; Juri Allik; Gholamreza Anbarjafari
	Title	Dominant and Complementary Emotion Recognition from Still Images of Faces			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	IEEE Access	Abbreviated Journal	ACCESS
	Volume	6	Issue		Pages	26391 - 26403
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	Abstract	Emotion recognition has a key role in affective computing. Recently, fine-grained emotion analysis, such as compound facial expression of emotions, has attracted high interest of researchers working on affective computing. A compound facial emotion includes dominant and complementary emotions (e.g., happily-disgusted and sadly-fearful), which is more detailed than the seven classical facial emotions (e.g., happy, disgust, and so on). Current studies on compound emotions are limited to use data sets with limited number of categories and unbalanced data distributions, with labels obtained automatically by machine learning-based algorithms which could lead to inaccuracies. To address these problems, we released the iCV-MEFED data set, which includes 50 classes of compound emotions and labels assessed by psychologists. The task is challenging due to high similarities of compound facial emotions from different categories. In addition, we have organized a challenge based on the proposed iCV-MEFED data set, held at FG workshop 2017. In this paper, we analyze the top three winner methods and perform further detailed experiments on the proposed data set. Experiments indicate that pairs of compound emotion (e.g., surprisingly-happy vs happily-surprised) are more difficult to be recognized if compared with the seven basic emotions. However, we hope the proposed data set can help to pave the way for further research on compound facial emotion recognition.
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	Notes	HUPBA; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GLW2018			Serial	3122
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	Author	Pichao Wang; Wanqing Li; Philip Ogunbona; Jun Wan; Sergio Escalera
	Title	RGB-D-based Human Motion Recognition with Deep Learning: A Survey			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Computer Vision and Image Understanding	Abbreviated Journal	CVIU
	Volume	171	Issue		Pages	118-139
	Keywords	Human motion recognition; RGB-D data; Deep learning; Survey
	Abstract	Human motion recognition is one of the most important branches of human-centered research activities. In recent years, motion recognition based on RGB-D data has attracted much attention. Along with the development in artificial intelligence, deep learning techniques have gained remarkable success in computer vision. In particular, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved great success for image-based tasks, and recurrent neural networks (RNN) are renowned for sequence-based problems. Specifically, deep learning methods based on the CNN and RNN architectures have been adopted for motion recognition using RGB-D data. In this paper, a detailed overview of recent advances in RGB-D-based motion recognition is presented. The reviewed methods are broadly categorized into four groups, depending on the modality adopted for recognition: RGB-based, depth-based, skeleton-based and RGB+D-based. As a survey focused on the application of deep learning to RGB-D-based motion recognition, we explicitly discuss the advantages and limitations of existing techniques. Particularly, we highlighted the methods of encoding spatial-temporal-structural information inherent in video sequence, and discuss potential directions for future research.
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	Notes	HUPBA; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ WLO2018			Serial	3123
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	Author	Jun Wan; Sergio Escalera; Francisco Perales; Josef Kittler
	Title	Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	79	Issue		Pages	55-64
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	Abstract	This guest editorial introduces the twenty two papers accepted for this Special Issue on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO). They are grouped into four main categories within the field of AMDO: human motion analysis (action/gesture), human pose estimation, deformable shape segmentation, and face analysis. For each of the four topics, a survey of the recent developments in the field is presented. The accepted papers are briefly introduced in the context of this survey. They contribute novel methods, algorithms with improved performance as measured on benchmarking datasets, as well as two new datasets for hand action detection and human posture analysis. The special issue should be of high relevance to the reader interested in AMDO recognition and promote future research directions in the field.
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	Notes	HUPBA; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ WEP2018			Serial	3126
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	Author	Joan Serrat; Felipe Lumbreras; Idoia Ruiz
	Title	Learning to measure for preshipment garment sizing			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Measurement	Abbreviated Journal	MEASURE
	Volume	130	Issue		Pages	327-339
	Keywords	Apparel; Computer vision; Structured prediction; Regression
	Abstract	Clothing is still manually manufactured for the most part nowadays, resulting in discrepancies between nominal and real dimensions, and potentially ill-fitting garments. Hence, it is common in the apparel industry to manually perform measures at preshipment time. We present an automatic method to obtain such measures from a single image of a garment that speeds up this task. It is generic and extensible in the sense that it does not depend explicitly on the garment shape or type. Instead, it learns through a probabilistic graphical model to identify the different contour parts. Subsequently, a set of Lasso regressors, one per desired measure, can predict the actual values of the measures. We present results on a dataset of 130 images of jackets and 98 of pants, of varying sizes and styles, obtaining 1.17 and 1.22 cm of mean absolute error, respectively.
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	Notes	ADAS; MSIAU; 600.122; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SLR2018			Serial	3128
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	Author	Julio C. S. Jacques Junior; Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera
	Title	Exploiting feature representations through similarity learning, post-ranking and ranking aggregation for person re-identification			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Image and Vision Computing	Abbreviated Journal	IMAVIS
	Volume	79	Issue		Pages	76-85
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	Abstract	Person re-identification has received special attention by the human analysis community in the last few years. To address the challenges in this field, many researchers have proposed different strategies, which basically exploit either cross-view invariant features or cross-view robust metrics. In this work, we propose to exploit a post-ranking approach and combine different feature representations through ranking aggregation. Spatial information, which potentially benefits the person matching, is represented using a 2D body model, from which color and texture information are extracted and combined. We also consider background/foreground information, automatically extracted via Deep Decompositional Network, and the usage of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) features. To describe the matching between images we use the polynomial feature map, also taking into account local and global information. The Discriminant Context Information Analysis based post-ranking approach is used to improve initial ranking lists. Finally, the Stuart ranking aggregation method is employed to combine complementary ranking lists obtained from different feature representations. Experimental results demonstrated that we improve the state-of-the-art on VIPeR and PRID450s datasets, achieving 67.21% and 75.64% on top-1 rank recognition rate, respectively, as well as obtaining competitive results on CUHK01 dataset.
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	Notes	HuPBA; 602.143			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ JBE2018			Serial	3138
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	Author	Maria Elena Meza-de-Luna; Juan Ramon Terven Salinas; Bogdan Raducanu; Joaquin Salas
	Title	A Social-Aware Assistant to support individuals with visual impairments during social interaction: A systematic requirements analysis			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	International Journal of Human-Computer Studies	Abbreviated Journal	IJHC
	Volume	122	Issue		Pages	50-60
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	Abstract	Visual impairment affects the normal course of activities in everyday life including mobility, education, employment, and social interaction. Most of the existing technical solutions devoted to empowering the visually impaired people are in the areas of navigation (obstacle avoidance), access to printed information and object recognition. Less effort has been dedicated so far in developing solutions to support social interactions. In this paper, we introduce a Social-Aware Assistant (SAA) that provides visually impaired people with cues to enhance their face-to-face conversations. The system consists of a perceptive component (represented by smartglasses with an embedded video camera) and a feedback component (represented by a haptic belt). When the vision system detects a head nodding, the belt vibrates, thus suggesting the user to replicate (mirror) the gesture. In our experiments, sighted persons interacted with blind people wearing the SAA. We instructed the former to mirror the noddings according to the vibratory signal, while the latter interacted naturally. After the face-to-face conversation, the participants had an interview to express their experience regarding the use of this new technological assistant. With the data collected during the experiment, we have assessed quantitatively and qualitatively the device usefulness and user satisfaction.
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MTR2019			Serial	3142
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