Technische Hochschule Augsburg

State of development of regional hospice and palliative care networks in Germany and a descriptive comparison of the role of coordination: results of an online survey using a maturity model

Abstract Background Regional hospice and palliative care networks (RHPCNs) aim to establish frameworks for care-management level collaboration between end-of-life care providers within specific regions. Since 2022, political support for RHPCNs in Germany has been bolstered by a n...

Explainable Autonomous Robots: Taxonomy, State, and Trends — An Implementation-driven Mapping Study

As autonomous robots increasingly operate in dynamic environments shared with humans, explaining their decisions and behaviors is essential for trust, transparency, and effective human-robot interaction. Although eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has received substantial...

Agents Through the Ages

Abstract Over several decades, research on socially interactive agents has transformed human–machine interaction, evolving from early script-based systems to today’s generative, multimodal agents. Tracing this development through the ages, this article reflects on major conceptua...

What constitutes successful collaborative conjecturing-and-proving processes? Relations between beginning undergraduates’ resources, conjecturing-and-proving processes, and performance

Abstract Students’ difficulties with mathematical argumentation, conjecturing, and proving, as well as with collaborating effectively, have long been documented in the literature. While there is some research on what constitutes successful proving processes, systematic investigat...