About AI, UXD and other topics

The eyes are the windows of the soul, and apparently, your whole identity. This first paper discusses a great topic: “how much does your gaze reviews about you?”. In the latest “Arctic AI Days” at Oulu University, there was a company sharing their research findings on early Alzheimer detection based on an ocular test. Only one lens in each eye, minimal data background, and ...

About Cicada 301, CS and Social Sciences and Robotic Telepresence

The first topic for this analysis is Cicada 3301. A mix of scavenger hunt, viral post online and a very unsatisfying ending (out of the media) makes me think this group were radical activist recruiting people to make a stance, sort of “anonymous” style. It will explain how they managed to create social controversy, but at the same closes the activity when something ...

About Wisdom of the Crowd, Algorithms and Machine Learning

The first topic for this analysis is “Crowdsourced Detection of Emotionally Manipulative Language”, as I have a particular interest on emotion understanding and human behavior, and goes on to distinguish emotional manipulative language (EML, language that induces a particular emotion in the reading to get a result on their benefit) from intrinsically ...

About IoT, Group Projects and Raspberry Pi

I had mixed feelings when the IoT course started. On one side, Dinesh was nice enough to answer my email and letting me know that full remote implementation was possible. On the other hand, the course came with a warning: "Good programming skills in a system programming language are required (C/C++/Rust, any one of these)". I have used both C and C++ during ...