Intention to use analytical Artificial Intelligence in services. The effect of technology readiness and awareness

Purpose: The automation of services is rapidly growing, led by sectors such as banking and financial investment. The growing number of investments managed by artificial intelligence (AI) suggests that this technology-based service will become increasingly popular. This study examines how customers’ technology readiness and service awareness affect their intention to use analytical-AI investment services. Design/methodology/approach: Hypotheses were tested with a data set of 404 North American-based potential customers of robo-advisors. In addition to technology readiness dimensions, the potential customers’ characteristics were included in the framework as moderating factors (age, gender and previous experience with financial investment services). A post-hoc analysis examined the roles of service awareness and the financial advisor’s name (i.e., robo-advisor vs. AI-advisor). Findings: The results indicated that customers’ technological optimism increases, and insecurity decreases, their intention to use robo-advisors. Surprisingly, feelings of technological discomfort positively influenced robo-advisor adoption. This interesting finding challenges previous insights into technology adoption and value co-creation, as analytical-AI puts customers into a very passive role and reduces barriers to technology adoption. The research also analyzes how consumers become aware of robo-advisors, and how this influences their acceptance. Originality: This is the first study to analyze the role of customers’ technology readiness in the adoption of analytical-AI. We link our findings to previous technology adoption and automated services’ literature and provide specific managerial implications and avenues for further research

Agent Programming in Ciao Prolog

The agent programming landscape has been revealed as a natural framework for developing “intelligence” in AI. This can be seen from the extensive use of the agent concept in presenting (and developing) AI systems, the proliferation of agent theories, and the evolution of concepts such as agent societies (social intelligence) and coordination

Inducing Illusory Ownership of a Virtual Body

We discuss three experiments that investigate how virtual limbs and bodies can come to feel like real limbs and bodies. The first experiment shows that an illusion of ownership of a virtual arm appearing to project out of a person's shoulder can be produced by tactile stimulation on a person's hidden real hand and synchronous stimulation on the seen virtual hand. The second shows that the illusion can be produced by synchronous movement of the person's hidden real hand and a virtual hand. The third shows that a weaker form of the illusion can be produced when a brain–computer interface is employed to move the virtual hand by means of motor imagery without any tactile stimulation. We discuss related studies that indicate that the ownership illusion may be generated for an entire body. This has important implications for the scientific understanding of body ownership and several practical applications

Simulating high-pressure surface reactions with molecular beams

Using a reactive molecular beam with high kinetic energy ($E_{kin}$) it is possible to speed gas-surface reactions involving high activation barriers ($E_{act}$), which would require elevated pressures ($P_0$) if a random gas with a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution is used. By simply computing the number of molecules that overcome the activation barrier in a random gas at $P_0$ and in a molecular beam at $E_{kin}$=$E_{act}$, we establish an $E_{kin}$-$P_0$ equivalence curve, through which we postulate that molecular beams are ideal tools to investigate gas-surface reactions that involve high activation energies. In particular, we foresee the use of molecular beams to simulate gas surface reactions within the industrial-range ($>$ 10 bar) using surface-sensitive Ultra-High Vacuum (UHV) techniques, such as X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS). To test this idea, we revisit the oxidation of the Cu(111) surface combining O$_2$ molecular beams and XPS experiments. By tuning the kinetic energy of the O$_2$ beam in the range 0.24-1 eV we achieve the same sequence of surface oxides obtained in Ambient Pressure Photoemission (AP-XPS) experiments, in which the Cu(111) surface was exposed to a random O$_2$ gas up to 1 mbar. We observe the same surface oxidation kinetics as in the random gas, but with a much lower dose, close to the expected value derived from the equivalence curve

Simulating high-pressure surface reactions with molecular beams

Using a reactive molecular beam with high kinetic energy (Ekin), it is possible to speed gas-surface reactions involving high activation barriers (Eact), which would require elevated pressures (P0) if a random gas with a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution is used. By simply computing the number of molecules that overcome the activation barrier in a random gas at P0 and in a molecular beam at Ekin = Eact, we establish an Ekin-P0 equivalence curve, through which we postulate that molecular beams are ideal tools to investigate gas-surface reactions that involve high activation energies. In particular, we foresee the use of molecular beams to simulate gas surface reactions within the industrial-range (>10 bar) using surface-sensitive ultra-high vacuum (UHV) techniques, such as X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS). To test this idea, we revisit the oxidation of the Cu(111) surface combining O2 molecular beams and XPS experiments. By tuning the kinetic energy of the O2 beam in the range of 0.24-1 eV, we achieve the same sequence of surface oxides obtained in ambient pressure photoemission (AP-XPS) experiments, in which the Cu(111) surface was exposed to a random O2 gas up to 1 mbar. We observe the same surface oxidation kinetics as in the random gas, but with a much lower dose, close to the expected value derived from the equivalence curveTED2021-130446B-I00, PID2020-116093RBC4

Turn-on fluorescent probes for nitric oxide sensing based on the the ortho-hydroxyamino structure showing no interference with dehydroascorbic acid

A new family of fluorescent synthetic molecular probes for nitric oxide sensing based on ortho-hydroxyamino-triarylpyrylium salts is presented

Trampeo como una herramienta básica hacia la identificación de <i>Copitarsia</i> sp. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) en la Sabana de Bogotá

Copitarsia sp. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), es plaga de cultivos comerciales de ornamentales de corte. En Colombia, el manejo tradicional se basa en el uso de insecticidas químicos, generando las conocidas consecuencias al ambiente y a la salud pública. El desarrollo de estrategias más amigables con el ambiente, como el uso de semioquímicos y enemigos naturales, requieren información concreta de la especie para ser implementados. Por esta razón se quiere determinar cuál(es) son la(s) especie(s) que están presentes en los cultivos de la sabana de Bogotá, llevando a cabo un ejercicio práctico de trampeo de insectos en el Campus UMNG, que acompañados con la identificación de caracteres taxonómicos de los machos de la especie, sirvan de herramienta a los futuros tecnólogos encargados del manejo de plagas y enfermedades de los cultivos. Y a largo plazo hagan parte de un manejo sostenible del sector floricultor. Este proyecto fue financiado por: Vicerrectoría de Investigaciones UMNG-CIAS 1570 Vig- 2015.Eje B1 Sistemas de producción de base agroecológica (Relatos de experiencias)Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestale

Trampeo como una herramienta básica hacia la identificación de <i>Copitarsia</i> sp. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) en la Sabana de Bogotá

Copitarsia sp. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), es plaga de cultivos comerciales de ornamentales de corte. En Colombia, el manejo tradicional se basa en el uso de insecticidas químicos, generando las conocidas consecuencias al ambiente y a la salud pública. El desarrollo de estrategias más amigables con el ambiente, como el uso de semioquímicos y enemigos naturales, requieren información concreta de la especie para ser implementados. Por esta razón se quiere determinar cuál(es) son la(s) especie(s) que están presentes en los cultivos de la sabana de Bogotá, llevando a cabo un ejercicio práctico de trampeo de insectos en el Campus UMNG, que acompañados con la identificación de caracteres taxonómicos de los machos de la especie, sirvan de herramienta a los futuros tecnólogos encargados del manejo de plagas y enfermedades de los cultivos. Y a largo plazo hagan parte de un manejo sostenible del sector floricultor. Este proyecto fue financiado por: Vicerrectoría de Investigaciones UMNG-CIAS 1570 Vig- 2015.Eje B1 Sistemas de producción de base agroecológica (Relatos de experiencias)Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestale

Trampeo como una herramienta básica hacia la identificación de <i>Copitarsia</i> sp. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) en la Sabana de Bogotá

Copitarsia sp. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), es plaga de cultivos comerciales de ornamentales de corte. En Colombia, el manejo tradicional se basa en el uso de insecticidas químicos, generando las conocidas consecuencias al ambiente y a la salud pública. El desarrollo de estrategias más amigables con el ambiente, como el uso de semioquímicos y enemigos naturales, requieren información concreta de la especie para ser implementados. Por esta razón se quiere determinar cuál(es) son la(s) especie(s) que están presentes en los cultivos de la sabana de Bogotá, llevando a cabo un ejercicio práctico de trampeo de insectos en el Campus UMNG, que acompañados con la identificación de caracteres taxonómicos de los machos de la especie, sirvan de herramienta a los futuros tecnólogos encargados del manejo de plagas y enfermedades de los cultivos. Y a largo plazo hagan parte de un manejo sostenible del sector floricultor. Este proyecto fue financiado por: Vicerrectoría de Investigaciones UMNG-CIAS 1570 Vig- 2015.Eje B1 Sistemas de producción de base agroecológica (Relatos de experiencias)Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestale