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The focus of traditional workflow management systems is on control flow within one process definition, that describes how a single case (i.e., work-flow instance) is handled in isolation. For many applications this paradigm is inadequate. Interaction between cases is at least as important. This paper introduces and advocates the use of interacting proclets, i.e., light-weight workflow processes. By...
This article describes a pilot study in which children with autism alternated between playing a co-operative, dyadic video game with an adult human and playing the same game with an autonomous humanoid robot. The purpose of the study was to determine whether the children, all of whom had difficulties communicating and engaging in social play with others, would display more collaborative behaviours...
We propose a system to solve a multi-class produce categorization problem. For that, we use statistical color, texture, and structural appearance descriptors (bag-of-features). As the best combination setup is not known for our problem, we combine several individual features from the state-of-the-art in many different ways to assess how they interact to improve the overall accuracy of the system....
ST-Guide is a computer-interpretable clinical guidelines development, verification, and implementation project focused on primary care to chronic disease patients. It can be used to implement guides in different modes: authoritarian, apprentice, specialist, and auditor. Only specialist and authoritarian modes are functional in this release. This paper presents the projectpsilas web services module,...
In health care settings, interactions between providers are uncommon. This study shows that electronic medical records currently available do not favor interactive work and thus a model of design rationale applied to health care is proposed. This model works as an extension to electronic medical records and intends to promote collaborative work among health care providers.
Modeling forces applied to scissors during cutting of biological materials is useful for surgical simulation. Previous approaches to haptic display of scissor cutting are based on recording and replaying measured data. This paper presents an analytical model based on the concepts of contact mechanics and fracture mechanics to calculate forces applied to scissors during cutting of a slab of material...
In this work, we further test the hypothesis that physical embodiment has a measurable effect on performance and impression of social interactions. Support for this hypothesis would suggest fundamental differences between virtual agents and robots from a social standpoint and would have significant implications for human-robot interaction. We have refined our task-based metrics to give a measurement,...
Human blood platelets function in wound healing, inflammation, and clot formation. Despite significant progress molecular mechanisms of megakaryocyte maturation remain poorly characterized. We have applied a customized, platelet-specific oligonucleotide gene chip to dissect the molecular events of megakaryopoiesis. CD34 hematopoietic stem cells obtained from 2 distinct adult human donors were differentiated...
Autonomous robots are agents with physical bodies that share our environment. In this work, we test the hypothesis that physical embodiment has a measurable effect on performance and perception of social interactions. Support of this hypothesis would suggest fundamental differences between virtual agents and robots from a social standpoint and have significant implications for human-robot interaction...
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