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Misc

Sky Dash – Evaluation of a Serious Mobile Game

In a current study as part of the #ABCforJobs project, Benjamin Schnitzer – who is a PhD student at the ACI and project manager at KORION Interactive GmbH – is investigating the potentials of a serious mobile game called “Sky Dash”. Learning effectiveness, self-efficacy, and hedonistic quality of the gamified application for mobile devices is …

Flitzmo EmoCare
Events Projects

EmoCare meets Flitzmo robot

The EmoCare research project supports nurses with the help of voice, gesture and facial expression analysis of residents in retirement homes. At the end of September, the EmoCare team exchanged ideas with the operators of the Flitzmo robot. The EmoCare research project of the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences together with the software developer Dr. …

Virtual Agents displayed in the Florida Study
Misc Publication Research

Collaborative study with Florida

How much do we accept virtual agents, even if they give us negative feedback or even insult us? The PhD. Candidate Isaac Wang from Florida investigated this together with the Affective & Cognitive Institute ACI in an intercultural study about acceptance of virtual agents. The result of the different acceptance by American and German participants …

ACI Team Events Projects Research

KoBeLU at IFA 2018

From 09/06/2018 to 09/11/2018 IFA 2018 took place in Berlin. As a nominee for the UX Design Awards KoBeLU also attended. Even though the lighting situation proved to be difficult for the systems cameras on the event, visitors could experience first hand the current capabilities of the system. For demonstration purposes, attendees could fold and …

ACI Team Projects Research

Start of a new project: incluMOVE

On November, 20th 2017 the official kickoff of the project incluMOVE took place in Gärtringen. Representatives of the lead partner and all project partners were present to give the green light for the new educational and research project. At first the lead partner introduced himself and found some encouraging and motivating words for the partners of the …