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The main purpose of this paper is to propose a content analysis approach in order to develop an ontology of university social responsibility (USR). The proposed approach comprises four main phases in which two content analyses software have been utilized to extract the main USR components and to identify the domain of this concept. To achieve the goal, the existing body of knowledge of USR definitions...
As the capacity of the mobile web continues to increase with the introduction of new web technologies, a growing number of "non-programming" developers are looking to web-based mobile applications (or "web apps") as an alternative means of creating and deploying content, without the need for code-based programming experience. This paper demonstrates just some of the capabilities...
Smiliemail is an existing web-based application that enhances online communication by enabling users to create and send affective, engaging messages. It uses a computer generated video avatar, which articulates a sender's message that has been tagged using an XML markup language. With the advent of smart phones, a new less complex screen by screen interface was required due to their reduced screen...
Introduction of user models (e.g. models of a user's belief, skill and familiarity to the system) is believed to increase flexibility of response of a dialogue system. Conventionally, the internal state is estimated based on linguistic information of the previous utterance, but this approach cannot applied to the user who did not make an input utterance in the first place. Thus, we are developing...
We investigated the effect of height of a robot on comfortableness of spoken dialog with the robot. We created a robot that could change the height continuously, and carried out dialog experiment with 18 subjects changing the robot's height. From the experimental result revealed the two observations: the "comfortable height" of a robot was lower than the eye height of a subject, and the...
As we move along the scale of adjustable autonomy for the control of robots from direct teleoperation at one extreme to full automation at the other, several opportunities for improvement in control quality, user feedback and machine learning suggest themselves. We describe three experiments, in telerobotics, the provision of situational awareness, and the acquisition of knowledge for automation from...
Local spatiotemporal detectors and descriptors have recently become very popular for video analysis in many applications. They do not require any preprocessing steps and are invariant to spatial and temporal scales. Despite their computational simplicity, they have not been evaluated and tested for video analysis of facial data. This paper considers two space-time detectors and four descriptors and...
This paper describes the problems involved with learning and understanding math for vision impaired students and developing a computer system approach for rendering mathematical formulae into audio form. Access to mathematics is an obstacle for blind students. The lack of easy access to mathematical resources is a barrier to higher education for many blind students and puts them at an unfair disadvantage...
The Boeing Commercial Aircraft Company's 787 is the first commercial airliner with a large number of its structural components made of composite material. The Airbus A350 will follow by 2013. Composite material has been incorporated in airliners for many years. Composites have great advantages as a material of construction for aircraft. It has a high strength to weight ratio and the resulting aircraft...
We have developed engaging virtual environments using haptic technology for the purpose of both understanding functional activity and restoring functionality to disabled individuals. To assess our virtual environments, we used 21 able-bodied subjects and examined their motor performance by comparing several metrics captured by the simulations to the completion time. We discovered that individuals...
The Disturbance Observer (DOB) is widely used in many robust control applications such as robotics and industrial automation due to its simplicity and efficiency. The DOB estimates and compensates the system disturbances by using an inner-feedback loop in the range of its bandwidth. It includes the inverse of the nominal system model and a low pass filter (LPF) which determines the bandwidth of the...
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