Essays about: "William Bäckström"

Found 2 essays containing the words William Bäckström.

1. 1. Don’t be unfair, Mr Bot! : An empirical study exploring the perception of fairness in non-work settings for human-agent interactions

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för informatik

   Author : August Bäckström; William Ekenberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Fairness; Anthropomorphism; Experiment study; Social interaction; Agents; Intelligent agents; User enactment; Wizard of Oz.; Experience prototyping; Focus group;

   Abstract : This study aimed to explore the implementation of fairness in intelligent agents to enhance their interactions in our social space. Two distinct investigations, an experiment, and a focus group, were conducted to examine the impact of unfair treatment by non-anthropomorphic and anthropomorphic agents, where we sought to answer the research question: How does experiencing unfair treatment from agents with different appearances influence individuals' perceptions, satisfaction, and trust? The experiment encompassed four experimental conditions combining fair and unfair behaviours with agents displaying human-like or non-human-like appearances. READ MORE

3. 2. Dating lake bottom sediment by searching for 210Pb using gamma-ray spectroscopy

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Tillämpad kärnfysik

   Author : William Bäckström; [2020]
   Keywords : sediment dating; dating; spectroscopy; gamma-ray; nuclear; lead; HPGe detector; sedimentation; sedimentation rate; attenuation; migration; limnologist; least squares;

   Abstract : In a collaboration with limnologists at Uppsala University a planar HPGe detector has been used to find 210Pb in lake bottom sediment in hopes of getting an estimation for the sedimentation rate. Using a least squares fit to the data, the sedimentation rate was calculated to 0.08 ± 0. READ MORE