Volume 15 Issue 1 (2022)


Contents:

Evaluating the ethical nature of utterances generated by a conversational agent
Ovidiu Constantin Gheorghe, Ştefan Trăuşan-Matu
1-12
SmartMeal: A scalable catering application
Mohamed-Ata-Radu Abu Ras, Paul Stefan Popescu, Mihai Mocanu, Marian Cristian Mihăescu
13-22


Abstracts:

Evaluating the ethical nature of utterances generated by a conversational agent

Ovidiu Constantin Gheorghe1, Ştefan Trăuşan-Matu1,2,3

1 University Politehnica of Bucharest
   313 Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest, Romania

2 Institutul de Cercetări în Inteligenţa Artificială
   Calea 13 Septembrie nr. 13, Bucureşti

3 Academy of Romanian Scientists
   Splaiul Indpendentei 54, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract. The ethical evaluation of utterances in a chat using artificial intelligence (AI) is not an easy task and a decision cannot be drawn as easily as for hate speech or other types of offensive behavior. This paper aims to scratch the surface of “ethical evaluation” tasks, making use of a piece of AI, a software technology that nowadays is used in almost everything. Using deep neural networks, three experiments were performed trying to evaluate the ethical nature of utterances generated by an AI conversation agent. The approach focuses on classifying utterances as being ethical or not. The corpus used for the experiments is “ETHICS”, which was developed by Hendricks et al. (2021). The results of the experiments were compared to those presented in the above-mentioned paper.

Keywords: Ethical behavior, Ethics; Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, Conversational Agents

Cite this paper as:
Gheorghe, O. C., Trăuşan-Matu, S. Evaluating the ethical nature of utterances generated by a conversational agent. International Journal of User-System Interaction 15(1), 1-12, 2022.

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SmartMeal: A scalable catering application

Mohamed-Ata-Radu Abu Ras, Paul Stefan Popescu, Mihai Mocanu, Marian Cristian Mihăescu

University of Craiova, Department of Computers and Information Technology
Blvd. Decebal nr. 107, RO-200440, Craiova, Romania

Abstract. In this paper, we present the design and development and a demo of SmartMeal, an application designed for an I.T. company that allows employees to order their meals for lunch. The application's audience is not limited and can be easily used by any company that regularly demands meals. This application uses a mix of frameworks, programming languages, and technologies to provide all the required functionalities and run on desktop computers and mobile devices. Another benefit of this application is that it was designed and implemented to be scalable for more users. The interface of the application was designed to be easy to use and let users order meals fast and efficiently.

Keywords: User interface, User Experience, Application design

Cite this paper as:
Abu Ras, M.-A.-R., Popescu, P. S., Mocanu, M., Mihăescu, M. C. SmartMeal: A scalable catering application. International Journal of User-System Interaction 15(1), 13-22, 2022.

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