Personal Assistants: Emerging Computational Technologies

Part I. Introduction

1. A Survey of Cognitive Assistants
Angelo Costa, Paulo Novais, Vicente Julian

Part II. Reasoning

2. Argumentation-Based Personal Assistants for Ambient Assisted Living
Stella Heras, Javier Palanca, Carlos Iván Chesñevar

3. Kidney Care—A Personal Assistant Assessment
Bia Martins, Joao Rei, Miguel Braga, Antonio Abelha, Henrique Vicente, Joao Neves, Jose Neves

Part III. Health

4. Visual Working Memory Training of the Elderly in VIRTRAEL Personalized Assistant
Miguel J. Hornos, Sandra Rute-Pérez, Carlos Rodríguez-Domínguez, María Luisa Rodríguez-Almendros, María José Rodríguez-Fórtiz, Alfonso Caracuel

5. Personal Robot Assistants for Elderly Care: An Overview
Ester Martinez-Martin, Angel P. del Pobil

Part IV. Personalization

6. Personalized Visual Recognition via Wearables: A First Step Toward Personal Perception Enhancement
Hosub Lee, Cameron Upright, Steven Eliuk, Alfred Kobsa

7. Intelligent Personal Assistant for Educational Material Recommendation Based on CBR
Néstor Darío Duque Méndez, Paula Andrea Rodríguez Marín, Demetrio Arturo Ovalle Carranza

Part V. Robotics

8. Characterize a Human-Robot Interaction: Robot Personal Assistance
Dalila Durães, Javier Bajo, Paulo Novais

9. Collaboration Between a Physical Robot and a Virtual Human Through a Unified Platform for Personal Assistance to Humans
S. M. Mizanoor Rahman

10. Emotion Detection and Regulation from Personal Assistant Robot in Smart Environment
José Carlos Castillo, Álvaro Castro-González, Fernándo Alonso-Martín, Antonio Fernández-Caballero, Miguel Ángel Salichs

Part VI. Ethic and Social Issues

11. EDI for Consumers, Personal Assistants and Ambient Intelligence—The Right to Be Forgotten
Francisco Pacheco Andrade, Teresa Coelho Moreira, Mikhail Bundin, Aleksei Martynov

12. Personal Assistants: Civil Liability and Dispute Resolution
Marco Carvalho Gonçalves

Keywords: Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)