B.A.R.I.C.A. is an acronym standing for "Beautiful ARtificial Intelligence Cognitive Agent" designed to act as a platform for various AI related applications including but not limited to autonomous vehicles, virtual assistants and gamified cognitive agents. Playing with acronyms is fun, but really Barica is a traditional name from Hrvatsko Zagorje, a northern part of Croatia where our Faculty resides.

Since 2019. B.A.R.I.C.A. is developed through funding from the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, the Croatian Science Foundation and EEAGrants.

This work has been supported in part by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project number IP-2019-04-5824.

This work has been supported in part by the Full STEAM Ahead! project (EEAGrants). The Full STEAM Ahead! project is funded under the call “Strengthening STEM skills in primary schools and developing regional science centers for primary education in the STEM field” (European Economic Area Financial Mechanism 2014–2021). Projekt Full STEAM Ahead! je financiran u okviru poziva "Jačanje STEM vještina u osnovnim školama i razvoj regionalnih znanstvenih centara za osnovnoškolski odgoj i obrazovanje u STEM području" (Financijski mehanizam Europskog gospodarskog prostora 2014.-2021.). Cognitive agents created during the Full STEAM Ahead! project are co-authored by Marinela Schatten. Face images of these agents have been created by students of the 2nd Primary School Varaždin, whileas the questions and answers have been prepared by their teachers (Natalija Lončar, Martina Dugonjić, Goran Kreminski, Željka Kopić, Ernest Habek, Denis Bais, Mirjana Halusek, Marta Cepanec, Ksenija Pintarić).

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