Monica Tentori

TL;DR: This work trained a discrete hidden Markov model (HMM) to map contextual information to a user activity and evaluated the model using data captured from almost 200 hours of detailed observation and documentation of hospital workers.

TL;DR: The results of this study demonstrate that MOSOCO facilitates practicing and learning social skills, increases both quantity and quality of social interactions, reduces social and behavioral missteps, and enables the integration of children with autism in social groups of neurotypical children.

TL;DR: How augmented reality helps integrate the physical and digital worlds, mimicking current strategies for attention management in autism, is explored in a special issue on managing attention.

TL;DR: This article introduces activity-aware computing, which uses activity-based computing to enhance pervasive environments in two ways: to help users associate resources and services with activities, resulting in seamless interaction with those resources and Services, and to enable pervasive environments to automatically infer activities and thus opportunistically offer services that support the user's current goal.

TL;DR: Results qualitatively indicate that the content shared in SNSs strengthens older adults' social network by enriching and complementing traditional social engagements such as those conducted over the phone or in-person.