Author name: Somayeh Nosrati

Somayeh Nosrati was born in 1982 in Tehran. She holds a Master's degree in artificial intelligence from Khatam University of Tehran.

Point Me In the Right Direction: Understanding User Behaviour with As-The-Crow-Flies Navigation

Point Me In the Right Direction: Understanding User Behaviour with As-The-Crow-Flies Navigation

ABSTRACT Visual as-the-crow-flies (ATCF)  methods are an increasingly popular alternative to existing turn-by-turn (TBT) navigation for cyclists. To better understand how people use them in everyday navigation and how they […]

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A Framework of Touchscreen Interaction Design Recommendations for Children (TIDRC): Characterizing the Gap between Research Evidence and Design Practice

A Framework of Touchscreen Interaction Design Recommendations for Children (TIDRC): Characterizing the Gap between Research Evidence and Design Practice

ABSTRACT HCI researchers have established a number of evidence-based design recommendations for children’s touchscreen interfaces based on developmental appropriateness. Yet, these recommendations are scattered within the academic literature and lack

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Learning Through Exploration: How Children, Adults, and Older Adults Interact with a New Feature-Rich Application

Learning Through Exploration: How Children, Adults, and Older Adults Interact with a New Feature-Rich Application

ABSTRACT Feature-rich applications such as word processors and spreadsheets are not only being used by adults but increasingly by children and older adults as well. Learning these applications is challenging

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Classification of Grape Leaves using KNN and SVM Classifiers

Classification of Grape Leaves using KNN and SVM Classifiers

Abstract As it is known, in today’s world gross domestic product (GDP) determines the prosperity of a nation. Agriculture directly adds to the GDP, subsequently, incredible endeavors are to be

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Diagnosing Rotating Machines With Weakly Supervised Data Using Deep Transfer Learning

Diagnosing Rotating Machines With Weakly Supervised Data Using Deep Transfer Learning

Abstract Rotating machinery fault diagnosis problems have been well-addressed when sufficient supervised data of the tested machine are available using the latest data-driven methods. However, it is still challenging to

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Sustainable Curriculum Planning for Artificial Intelligence Education: A Self-determination Theory Perspective

Sustainable Curriculum Planning for Artificial Intelligence Education: A Self-determination Theory Perspective

Abstract The teaching of artificial intelligence (AI) topics in school curricula is an important global strategic initiative in educating the next generation. As AI technologies are new to K-12 schools,

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Machine Learning Security: Threats, Countermeasures, and Evaluations

Machine Learning Security: Threats, Countermeasures, and Evaluations

Abstract Machine learning has been pervasively used in a wide range of applications due to its technical breakthroughs in recent years. It has demonstrated significant success in dealing with various

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Teaching and learning with children: Impact of reciprocal peer learning with a social robot on children’s learning and emotive engagement

Teaching and learning with children: Impact of reciprocal peer learning with a social robot on children’s learning and emotive engagement

Abstract Pedagogical agents are typically designed to take on a single role: either as a tutor who guides and instructs the student or as a tutee that learns from the

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The impact of artificial intelligence in medicine on the future role of the physician

The impact of artificial intelligence in medicine on the future role of the physician

Abstract The practice of medicine is changing with the development of new Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods of machine learning. Coupled with rapid improvements in computer processing, these AI-based systems are

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Extending MLP ANN hyper-parameters Optimization by using Genetic Algorithm

Extending MLP ANN hyper-parameters Optimization by using Genetic Algorithm

Abstract Optimizing the hyper-parameters of a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) artificial neural network (ANN) is not a trivial task, and even today the trial-and-error approach is widely used. Many works have

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