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Many organizations are not utilizing business process automation technologies to their fullest potential, with less than 20% scaling across the entire company. While robotic process automation (RPA) is the most widely used automation technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is estimated to have the potential to add $1 trillion in annual value to the global banking industry.

Human-centred automation is the future of work. It is not something that will happen in the future, it has arguably been with us since the first industrial revolution. However, with advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning and increasing interconnectivity of systems and data, the idea has taken on new meanings.

Welcome to 2025, where the most successful global enterprises have seamlessly augmented human workers with Digital Workers, who are even less distinguishable from their human counterparts in their capability to make judgement, learn from mistakes and create value. Welcome to the age of the cyborg enterprise.

Natural human-computer interaction and audio-visual human behaviour sensing systems, which would achieve robust performance in-the-wild are more needed than ever as digital devices are becoming indispensable part of our life more and more. Accurately annotated real-world data are the crux in devising such systems. However, existing databases usually consider controlled settings, low demographic variability, and a single task. In this paper, we introduce the SEWA database of more than 2000… Show more

Natural human-computer interaction and audio-visual human behaviour sensing systems, which would achieve robust performance in-the-wild are more needed than ever as digital devices are becoming indispensable part of our life more and more. Accurately annotated real-world data are the crux in devising such systems. However, existing databases usually consider controlled settings, low demographic variability, and a single task. In this paper, we introduce the SEWA database of more than 2000 minutes of audio-visual data of 398 people coming from six cultures, 50% female, and uniformly spanning the age range of 18 to 65 years old. Subjects were recorded in two different contexts: while watching adverts and while discussing adverts in a video chat. The database includes rich annotations of the recordings in terms of facial landmarks, facial action units (FAU), various vocalisations, mirroring, Show less

Community Policing (CP) is gaining popularity with police and governments as well as citizens, aiming to improve crime prevention and safety. Multiple ICT tools for CP have emerged to ease citizens’ engagement with CP activities. Most of them are, however, tailor-made to the specific needs of their direct users in a city or country or provide fragmented functions focusing, for instance, on citizens’ tools or police-related work.

The design of serious games requires developers to tackle pedagogical challenges calling for advanced solutions that the entertainment industry might deem too risky to pursue. One such challenge is the creation of autonomous socially intelligent characters with whom players can practice different social skills. Although there are several architectures in the field of virtual agents that are designed specifically to enable more human-like interactions, they are still not widely adopted by game… Show more

The design of serious games requires developers to tackle pedagogical challenges calling for advanced solutions that the entertainment industry might deem too risky to pursue. One such challenge is the creation of autonomous socially intelligent characters with whom players can practice different social skills. Although there are several architectures in the field of virtual agents that are designed specifically to enable more human-like interactions, they are still not widely adopted by game studios that develop serious games, in particular for learning. In this paper, we present a virtual agent toolkit that was specifically developed with the intent of making agent-based solutions more accessible and reliable to game developers. Show less

With the wide use of the Internet and digital data sources, there has been a recent emergence of easy access to student data within learning management systems (LMS), grade data through student information systems (SIS) and broader sector data through benchmarking metrics and standards. Learning analytics on top of this data has introduced greater capabilities for improving student performance through immediate feedback. Current literature considers the role of dashboards for student… Show more

With the wide use of the Internet and digital data sources, there has been a recent emergence of easy access to student data within learning management systems (LMS), grade data through student information systems (SIS) and broader sector data through benchmarking metrics and standards. Learning analytics on top of this data has introduced greater capabilities for improving student performance through immediate feedback. Current literature considers the role of dashboards for student performance and feedback, but few papers consider the efficacy of fast feedback to students or other ways that information can be fed back to learners. Show less

The use of computational intelligence for leveraging social creativity is a relatively new approach that allows organizations to find creative solutions to complex problems in which the interaction between stakeholders is crucial. The creative solutions that come from joint thinking-from the combined knowledge and abilities of people with diverse perspectives-contrast with traditional views of creativity that focus primarily on the individual as the main contributor of creativity.

Gamification is defined as the use of game techniques in a non-game context and has demonstrated potential impact in a wide range of subjects. Informed by the design and processes of digital gaming, gamification often exploits competition to motivate, personified by points, badges and leader boards. Success, however, seems to go beyond these basic features and rely on a concrete acknowledgement of the motivational model of the user, taking into account concepts such as situational relevance and… Show more

Gamification is defined as the use of game techniques in a non-game context and has demonstrated potential impact in a wide range of subjects. Informed by the design and processes of digital gaming, gamification often exploits competition to motivate, personified by points, badges and leader boards. Success, however, seems to go beyond these basic features and rely on a concrete acknowledgement of the motivational model of the user, taking into account concepts such as situational relevance and situated motivational affordance, which can be framed under competition and/or collaboration. Show less

A prosocial game design methodology, targeting game developers with guidelines and a practical toolkit on how to design and develop prosocial games to achieve desired learning outcomes. The scientifically grounded game design methodology is augmented with the pedagogical considerations required to ensure learning of skills take place. The practical toolkit is presented as a prosocial game design canvas, similar to business design canvas, and further enhanced by a set of flash cards covering… Show more

A prosocial game design methodology, targeting game developers with guidelines and a practical toolkit on how to design and develop prosocial games to achieve desired learning outcomes. The scientifically grounded game design methodology is augmented with the pedagogical considerations required to ensure learning of skills take place. The practical toolkit is presented as a prosocial game design canvas, similar to business design canvas, and further enhanced by a set of flash cards covering prosocial skills, patterns for game mechanics, patterns for preparations, patterns for debriefing and reflection and patterns for generalisation. Show less

A system designed with the aim to facilitate the social creativity processes underlying creative research. It provides asynchronous and synchronous facilities for multi-user interaction while leveraging creativity with computational tools for inspirational search, inspirational clue generation and problem solving advice. Initial evaluation with a small group of users indicated that the software is in-line with the creative research approach where users work together with concept developers… Show more

A system designed with the aim to facilitate the social creativity processes underlying creative research. It provides asynchronous and synchronous facilities for multi-user interaction while leveraging creativity with computational tools for inspirational search, inspirational clue generation and problem solving advice. Initial evaluation with a small group of users indicated that the software is in-line with the creative research approach where users work together with concept developers taking on multiple roles throughout the design process. Show less

Because of their seemingly universal appeal, game elements such as points, goals and leaderboards, are increasingly being incorporated into non-entertainment situations with the aim of increasing user performance. This process is referred to as gamification. However, little empirical research exists on gamification’s effectiveness in enhancing performance, particularly with respect to moderating influence of user personality traits. Social gamification that involves more than one participant… Show more

Because of their seemingly universal appeal, game elements such as points, goals and leaderboards, are increasingly being incorporated into non-entertainment situations with the aim of increasing user performance. This process is referred to as gamification. However, little empirical research exists on gamification’s effectiveness in enhancing performance, particularly with respect to moderating influence of user personality traits. Social gamification that involves more than one participant incorporates social interdependence, which takes form as negative interdependence (competitive in nature) or positive interdependence (cooperative in nature). Based on the hypothesis that the interdependence type underlying a gamification system would appeal to differing personality traits, this study reports a quasi-experiment involving a platform designed to manipulate participant interdependence structure among cooperation, competition, and neutrality, with the latter acting as the control condition. These three interdependence structures functioned as the experiment’s independent variable, with measures of participant performance as dependent variables, together with the participant personality traits assessed using the five factor model of personality acting as moderating variables. 294 undergraduate participants worked with the platform on a voluntary basis over an eight-week period, spending 38,180 minutes and performing 3,275 actions. At the conclusion of the experiment, the data collected were analysed using Kruskal-Wallis, ANOVAs, multilevel mixed method regression models, and a generalised estimating equation. Show less

Games that are fun to play may also be used to carry out useful activity, for example in solving scientific problems. In this paper we review four so called games with purpose, games whose primarily objective for the designers are for carrying out tasks that would be difficult for automated algorithms as well as a game as a learning tool with the ability to generate useful metadata as a side benefit. Design elements which have demonstrated contribution to the effectiveness of the games are… Show more

Games that are fun to play may also be used to carry out useful activity, for example in solving scientific problems. In this paper we review four so called games with purpose, games whose primarily objective for the designers are for carrying out tasks that would be difficult for automated algorithms as well as a game as a learning tool with the ability to generate useful metadata as a side benefit. Design elements which have demonstrated contribution to the effectiveness of the games are highlighted. Additionally an objective method for evaluating the performance of the games are discussed. Show less

In recent years, alternate reality games have entered the mainstream as a new form
of entertainment. The Living Stories project is the first alternate reality game in the UK, which
addresses environmental issues. Living Stories combines social networking sites such as
Face book and Twitter with Second Life, to create a platform, which allows social networking
to feed into content creation within a virtual world, and facilitate and encourage real-world
behaviour through… Show more

In recent years, alternate reality games have entered the mainstream as a new form
of entertainment. The Living Stories project is the first alternate reality game in the UK, which
addresses environmental issues. Living Stories combines social networking sites such as
Face book and Twitter with Second Life, to create a platform, which allows social networking
to feed into content creation within a virtual world, and facilitate and encourage real-world
behaviour through virtual rewards. Show less

Choices and Voices is an interactive simulation encouraging young people to explore and discuss the underlying issues and adverse influences, which can lead to divisions and tensions in communities. In various scenarios the player faces a number of moral dilemmas in which their decisions define their own outcomes, as well as those of their friends and family. Although the game offers the same range of choices to start with, each player makes a different set of decisions that substantially alter… Show more

Choices and Voices is an interactive simulation encouraging young people to explore and discuss the underlying issues and adverse influences, which can lead to divisions and tensions in communities. In various scenarios the player faces a number of moral dilemmas in which their decisions define their own outcomes, as well as those of their friends and family. Although the game offers the same range of choices to start with, each player makes a different set of decisions that substantially alter the outcome of their game. The structured group discussions in response to the game further emphasise how real life decisions can have significant consequences. Show less

This paper presents the RAGE marketplace portal ( gamecomponents.eu ), which is intended as a hot spot and neutral single point of access for serious game technologies. The portal aims at fostering collaborations and the exchange of technical artefacts and associated knowledge and resources between different stakeholders in the field of serious gaming (e.g. educators, developers, researchers, publishers, policy makers and end-users).