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Ventriloquism is one of the most exciting phenomena in multimodal perception. It refers to a percept when an auditory and a visual stimulus coincide but has different spatial origin, and the latter attracts the location of the sound on the perceptual level. A huge number of studies revealed how and when certain properties of the constituting modalities interact during the processing of multimodal...
Empirical investigation in the European aerospace industry has shown major drawbacks in the way design teams share information about the value contribution of a solution during early design stages. Across functions and organizations, design teams collaborate mainly using the contractual requirements as a basis, lacking of recording and communicating the contextual knowledge and the overall intent...
The main goal of human-machine interface development is to produce an intelligent human-oriented, reliable and feature-full interaction module. The development is always constrained by several factors like technical or methodological constraints. Despite the difficulties, we can witness a huge increase of functionality of this technology. The interface module is based on the cooperation of several...
We are in front of an evolution from traditional human-computer interactions to a kind of intense exchange between the human user and new generation of artificial systems. These systems can be virtual, Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs), or real systems robots. We call these systems “artificial companions” that is to say systems with which the user wants to build a kind of life-long relationship.
In this paper, we illustrate how historical data can be capitalised for future virtual visualization applications. We will demonstrate our proposition thanks to a research and development project started in 2008 about a mock-up of Nantes (french city) harbour. This mock-up is an historic and geographic witness of the country it represents. The amount of available knowledge with such a historic witness...
This paper provides a first analysis of the Slovak word [no] that is extremely ambiguous in terms of pragmatic and discourse functions and can correspond to ‘okay’, ‘yes’, ‘well’, ‘mhm’, ‘so’, and others. We report that the function of backchannel/continuer is the most easily disambiguated by the pitch contour, duration, and other features. Other functions, while also frequent in our corpus, require...
We introduce a novel approach for saliency detection where we fuse perceptional saliency with machine saliency in a statistical approach. The improvement of our fused algorithm against other methods is presented. Human saliency is recorded from human eye movement during free view training. The transition movements caused by the saccades are evaluated to generate transition probability tables. This...
We examined the effect of therapeutic riding on the development of blind children. Examination of walking is appropriate for assessing the coordination of movement and for following the changes. In our view we found therapeutic riding should be considered as a new form of habilitation. 34 pupils (19 boys and 15 girls) of an auxiliary school participated in therapeutic riding. We compared children...
Goethe Gait Lab is dealing with biomechanical measurements. Its main purpose is to study human movement with respect to normal anatomical and physiological parameters. On the one hand, it strives to enable a more complete understanding of human movement. On the other hand, it works to make deviations of movement development and execution, which are diagnosed and investigated in healthcare, measurable...
Starting with a psychological definition of semantics, and a representation of semantic information by feature-value pairs, the basic operations decision and conjunction are studied. It is proved that a number of natural requirements concerning consistency with valuation and stability imply that homomorphic images of these operations yield the algebraic structure semiring. As semirings can serve as...
We examined the effect of therapeutic riding on the development of autistic children. Examination of walking is appropriate for assessing the coordination of movement and for following the changes. In our view we found therapeutic riding should be considered as a new form of habilitation. 26 pupils (12 boys and 14 girls) of an auxiliary school participated in therapeutic riding. We analyze walking...
In this paper, we propose an intelligent system architecture for teleoperators (e.g., planetary exploration rovers). Our proposed architecture offers advanced flexibility (variability), efficiency, scalability, and transparency. The architecture is composed of one hardware layer (bottom) and two software layers (middle and top). Because the software is divided into two layers, users are not required...
This paper proposes a vibrotactile glove interface that enabled users to perceive tactile sensations of virtual objects. The proposed vibrotactile interface was designed to be easy-to-use, easily portable, and lightweight. Active touch might also be useful to realize informative tactile communication. To provide tactile stimuli based on movement of the fingers, five bending sensors were installed...
Today, because of spread of large-scale indoor environment (e.g. shopping male, university and airport), personal vehicle to expand our mobility is needed. In this research, we especially focused on psychological status of driver and body sway to estimate driver's psychological status using body sway of drivers. In this paper, we investigate relationship between trans-velocity of vehicle and body...
This paper proposes an intuitive teleoperation scheme by using human gesture in conjunction with multimodal human-robot interface. Further, in order to deal with the complication of dynamic daily environment, the authors apply haptic point cloud rendering and the virtual collaboration to the system. all these functions are achieved by a portable hardware that is proposed by authors newly, which is...
The HuComTech project at the University of Debrecen aims at studying and better understanding the multimodal properties of human-human communication both in order to build more user-friendly human-machine interaction systems and to assist a more successful communication between humans as well. A 60 hour multimodal corpus of two types of dialogues serves as the basis for a database of video, audio...
The number of People who have trouble with social skills and communication is now greater than ever for a variety of reasons. Autism spectrum conditions are an extreme example of these traits. Our objective is to measure these autistic traits automatically, and enable people with social and communication difficulties to improve social and communication skills for use in the real world. This paper...
The present paper studies the notions of turn management and topic orientation, and more specifically, a group of pragmatic elements, so-called discourse markers (DMs) which indicate the act of next speaker selection, turn-keeping, topic elaboration and digression. After definitions of discourse marker, turn, floor control types/turn segments, topical units and actions are provided, a list of verbal...
In industry today, many different tools and methods using 3D technology are used to create virtual prototypes or products. These tools are excellent for their purpose and offer great possibilities. However, even using these tools, some things are hard to transfer and examine within them. This paper gives you two examples of cases where organic objects are used as an original and then transferred into...
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