Machine Learning (ML) is extensively used in diverse healthcare applications to aid physicians in diagnosing and identifying associations, sometimes hidden, between dif- ferent biomedical parameters. This PhD thesis investigates the interplay of ...

Relational Agents (RAs) are virtual anthropomorphic characters able to engage in multimodal (i.e. using both verbal and nonverbal behavior) face-toface interactions with users in real-time. RAs are also capable of establishing and maintaining a long-term ...

In the domain of intelligent systems, the management of mental resources is typically called “attention”. Attention exists because all moderately complex environments – and the real-world environments of everyday life in particular – are a source of ...