Innovation in neuronal cell culture: from adhesion to maturation, chitosan promotes developing nervous system

The extracellular matrix plays a pivotal role during nervous system development, offering adhesion points for neuronal growth and differentiation, as well as for nervous tissue formation. For that reason, neuronal functional and morphological in vitro studies have been performed functionalizing culture supports by extracellular matrix components or synthetic biopolymers. In this study, chitosan was validated as an alternative adhesion. Primary neurons and neurons differentiated from human i...

A cloud-based mobile platform to monitor and counteract cognitive decline

Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) are receiving increasing attention as a risk factor for incident dementia. Cognitive training has been reported to delay and/or counteract cognitive decline. During the last years, software applications have been increasingly used to support cognitive training. Here we describe a mobile platform for cognitive training: a mobile application that stores all data of the exergames played by subjects on a cloud database. The ap...

A psychological framework for robotic personality

This study introduces a novel approach to enhance human-robot interaction through robotic personalities. Based on the Big Five factor model, a taxonomy model is presented to synthesize personalities. The core of this framework leverages a Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model, enabling tailored behaviors for each person- ality trait. Empirical validation uses a pilot experiment with participants interacting with a robot that embodies different per...

Application of working memory adapted navigation for human robot interaction in an industrial context