Adaptation and Validation of a Serious Game for Motor Learning Training in Children with Cerebral Palsy.

Children with cerebral palsy (CP) present motor learning disorders and somatosensory dysfunction. Although many protocols use videogames in children with CP, few apply or examine motor learning principles. This study aims at (1) implementing therapist-user-designer collaboration in adapting a videogame to the principles of motor learning and the characteristics of users with CP, and (2) piloting the effectiveness of these adaptations by analyzing the achievement of motor learning parameters (learning rate acquisition, retention, and transfer to motor and somatosensory function).

Laughter and smiling facial expression modelling for the generation of virtual affective behavior.

Laughter and smiling are significant facial expressions used in human to human communication. We present a computational model for the generation of facial expressions associated with laughter and smiling in order to facilitate the synthesis of such facial expressions in virtual characters. In addition, a new method to reproduce these types of laughter is proposed and validated using databases of generic and specific facial smile expressions.

Using a Social Robot to Evaluate Facial Expressions in the Wild.

In this work an affective computing approach is used to study the human-robot interaction using a social robot to validate facial expressions in the wild. Our global goal is to evaluate that a social robot can be used to interact in a convincing manner with human users to recognize their potential emotions through facial expressions, contextual cues and bio-signals. In particular, this work is focused on analyzing facial expression.

Prediction of Human Activities Based on a New Structure of Skeleton Features and Deep Learning Model.

The recognition of human activities is usually considered to be a simple procedure. Problems occur in complex scenes involving high speeds. Activity prediction using Artificial Intelligence (AI) by numerical analysis has attracted the attention of several researchers.