by Marie Babel and Claudio Pacchierotti (Univ Rennes, CNRS, Inria, IRISA)

While technology helps people to compensate for a broad set of mobility impairments, visual perception and/or cognitive deficiencies still significantly affect their ability to move safely and easily. DORNELL proposes an innovative multisensory, multimodal, smart haptic handle that can be easily plugged onto a wide range of mobility aids. Specifically fabricated to fit the needs of a person, it provides a wide set of ungrounded tactile sensations in a portable and plug-and-play format – delivering haptics in assistive technologies. DORNELL is co-designed with users and therapists, ensuring that it meets their expectations and needs.

by Katerina Papantoniou, Panagiotis Papadakos and Dimitris Plexousakis (ICS-FORTH)

Automatic deception detection is a crucial and challenging task that has many critical applications both in direct physical and in computer-mediated human communication.  The necessity of automatic detection is imperative, since humans are notorious for their poor performance in spotting deception. This is further hindered when cultural differences are involved, in which case differences in social norms may lead to misjudgments, and consequently impede fair treatment and justice. Here, we describe our findings on the exploitation of natural language processing (NLP) techniques and tools for the task of automated text-based deception detection, and focus on the relevant cultural and language factors [1].

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by Dave Raggett (W3C/ERCIM) and Theodoros Rokkas, (inCITES)

The electrical power and energy system (EPES) is a critical infrastructure for society, and as such, an attractive target for cyber attackers. The SDN-microSENSE project has demonstrated robust, resilient, distributed cyber-defence capabilities, including the use of software defined networks (SDN) for self-healing, isolation and integration of honeypots to minimise disruptions. Many of the techniques are applicable to other sectors.

by Pierre-Antoine Champin (ERCIM/W3C)

RDF-star, an extension to the Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the next big thing in the field of linked data and knowledge graphs. The European H2020 project MOSAICrOWN was instrumental in its development towards a W3C standard.

by Francien G. Bossema (CWI), Marta Domínguez-Delmás (UvA) and Jan Dorscheid (Rijksmuseum)

A team of researchers from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), Rijksmuseum and Universiteit Leiden (UL) have been awarded the NWO Team Science Award 2021 for their research on the Hugo de Groot book chest, which was instigated by a Dutch TV programme in 2020. Using advanced imaging techniques and algorithms, the Computational Imaging group at CWI conceived a tailored X-ray imaging technique to provide X-ray CT images at CWI of the transverse section of the wooden planks for analysis of the tree rings.