Publications by authors named "Merel M Jung"
Touching a friend to comfort or be comforted is a common prosocial behaviour, firmly based in mutual trust. Emphasising the interactive nature of trust and touch, we suggest that vulnerability, reciprocity and individual differences shape trust and perceptions of touch. We further investigate whether these elements also apply to companion robots.
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- Predicting trauma recovery helps patients understand their future health and guides treatment choices.
- Multiple unsupervised techniques were used to group patients based on their recovery patterns, which were then validated by medical experts.
- The study found that specific clustering methods, particularly a Bayesian approach and Deep Gaussian Mixture models, produced the most clinically relevant patient groups, while focusing on both physical and psychological factors yielded better recovery insights.