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Oana Balan
Researcher at Politehnica University of Bucharest
Publications - 45
Citations - 455
Oana Balan is an academic researcher from Politehnica University of Bucharest. The author has contributed to research in topics: Acrophobia & Sound localization. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 45 publications receiving 319 citations. Previous affiliations of Oana Balan include Cardiff University.
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Designing sensory-substitution devices: Principles, pitfalls and potential1.
Árni Kristjánsson,Alin Moldoveanu,Ómar I. Jóhannesson,Oana Balan,Simone Spagnol,Vigdís Vala Valgeirsdóttir,Runar Unnthorsson +6 more
TL;DR: An overview of techniques that have been developed for sensory substitution for the blind, through both touch and audition, with special emphasis on the importance of training for the use of such devices, while highlighting potential pitfalls in their design.
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Fear Level Classification Based on Emotional Dimensions and Machine Learning Techniques
TL;DR: A comparative study between various machine and deep learning techniques, with and without feature selection, for recognizing and classifying fear levels based on the electroencephalogram (EEG) and peripheral data from the DEAP (Database for Emotion Analysis using Physiological signals) database.
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Emotion Classification Based on Biophysical Signals and Machine Learning Techniques
Oana Balan,Gabriela Moise,Livia Petrescu,Alin Moldoveanu,Marius Leordeanu,Florica Moldoveanu +5 more
TL;DR: The approach to emotion classification has future applicability in the field of affective computing, which includes all the methods used for the automatic assessment of emotions and their applications in healthcare, education, marketing, website personalization, recommender systems, video games, and social media.
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Navigational audio games: an effective approach toward improving spatial contextual learning for blind people
TL;DR: This paper reviews the most notable navigational audio-based games in terms of their conceptual and technological approach, accessibility and user interaction efficiency.
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An Investigation of Various Machine and Deep Learning Techniques Applied in Automatic Fear Level Detection and Acrophobia Virtual Therapy.
TL;DR: Various machine learning classifiers used in the Virtual Reality (VR) system for treating acrophobia showed a very high cross-validation accuracy on the training set and good test accuracies, ranging from 42.5% to 89.5%.