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Mixed service-oriented systems composed of human actors and software services build up complex interaction networks. Without any coordination, such systems may exhibit undesirable properties due to unexpected behavior. Also, communications and interactions in such networks are not preplanned by top-down composition models. Consequently, the management of service-oriented applications is difficult...
This paper presents an implemented approach of processing situated dialogue between a human and a robot. The focus is on task-oriented dialogue, set in the larger context of human-robot collaborative activity. The approach models understanding and production of dialogue to include intension (what is being talked about), intention (the goal of why something is being said), and attention (what is being...
When two distant persons establish cooperative interaction, how to share their motions and sensations and how to adjust or revise their motions are important for cooperation. In this paper, we propose an approach for sharing first-person perspectives to establish collaboration and to transmit a skill from one to another. We developed a view-sharing system to realize such interaction. To investigate...
A group of participants performed a collaborative conveyer task that needs to transfer objects to designated positions by vehicles in a virtual space. All utterances were transcribed and questioning utterances were specified based on rising intonation patterns and content of the speech. Then we classified these utterances into four types: planning (ask whole transporting strategy in task), partner's...
The purpose of this work is to develop information support for human-robot collaboration in cellular manufacturing based on human-centered approach to improve the human adaptability of the support system. In this paper, six main developments are presented to illustrate the human-centered approach. Before the human-robot collaboration system can be developed, a human-human collaboration experiment...
Because of the critical role that communication plays in a team's ability to coordinate action, the measurement and analysis of online transcripts in order to predict team performance is becoming increasingly important in domains such as global software development. Current approaches rely on human experts to classify and compare groups according to some prescribed categories, resulting in a laborious...
One of the technical challenges in the knowledge society is to build a situated intelligent agent that can join our knowledge process to learn and exploit tacit knowledge in a situated fashion. Social intelligence design sheds light on the social context in which agents might take part in our knowledge process where tacit knowledge comes into play. We aim at building a computational framework for...
The promotion of innovation is considered a kind of important advantage of cluster of enterprises, which is a unique industrial organization form. But the existing literatures care little about the integration innovation between various organizations inside the cluster.. Based on evolution of the product innovation theories, this paper firstly puts forward that the competitive advantage of enterprise...
Under the condition of global economy integration and rapid development of information technique, the customer has become the most important resource of the enterprise. If we can effectively use the customer knowledge, we then can make the customer relationship management to correctly match the customer's needs, and make the enterprise's development to well accord with the market needs. So there are...
One of the most important objects in IT is to enhance the convenience of human-beings. The ubiquitous computing environment, where user can access any networks without time and space restriction, is a result of aggregation of the latest technologies to provide human-beings various capabilities. In this paper, the dynamic community composing model is proposed. The role of this model is to compose a...
Collaborator's competencies play an import role in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). Referring two existed learner metadata, we, from a human-centered viewpoint, create a new one which consists of two kinds of elements: automatic elements and manual elements. Then by analyzing characters of learner in the collaboration, we believe that the learners in the system form a P2P network...
This paper presents a collaborative mobile learning system: Mobile Virtual Campus (MVC) powered by the loction-based dynamic grouping algorithm. The MVC system has been developed to provide an innovative and interactive platform for online mobile learners by utilizing the location awareness and other built-in sensory compoments in mobile devices. On the platform, the mobile learners can learn collaboratively...
Layered sensing brings multiple heterogeneous sensors together for exploitation and analysis in a variety of ways. Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) architectures can collect the output of layered sensing systems, but threaten to overwhelm analysts with massive amounts of information. Modern reasoning systems for the semantic web such as Jena can assist analysts by performing lower level concrete reasoning...
The development in this work is to evaluate analytically human-robot system for collaboration based on performance requirements in cellular manufacturing system. This work continues from a previous task modeling study to further evaluate quantitatively the collaboration planning of the human-robot system. The analysis study is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach. Four criteria (productivity,...
Summary form only given. Cellphones have been adopted faster than any other technology in human history. As of 2010, the number of cellphone subscribers exceeds 4.5 billion. Recently cellphones (more accurately smartphones) have attracted the attention of networking and ubiquitous computing research communities due to their potential for acting as sensor nodes for city-wide sensing applications. In...
Combining the intelligent and situation dependent decision making capabilities of a human with the accuracy and power of a robot, performance of many tasks can be improved. The human-robot collaboration scenarios are increasing. Human-robot interaction is not only restricted to the humanoid robots interacting with the humans or to the mobile service robots providing different services but also industrial...
This paper aims to provide a theoretical-methodological foundation for the understanding of social implications of emerging technologies. It argues that such an understanding requires a dialogical interaction between computer science and social theory. The argument is grounded within a critical analysis of the computer science discourse on ICTs-mediated collaboration in relation to the model of collaboration...
External shocks, negative conjuncture, periods of crisis are known to often constitute turning points for enterprises. On the one hand, managers urge to revise their business model, in order to adapt it to the changes of the external environment and of the competitive scenario. On the other hand, exogenous shocks usually affect collaboration with other players on the market. Such strategies as outsourcing,...
When robots leave industrial settings, they have to be designed allowing intuitive communication with the humans they interact with. The current paper focuses on collaboration in kinesthetic tasks. Herein, we investigate decision situations. This way, the need of communication between partners can be addressed. The current paper introduces for the first time an experimental paradigm which allows studying...
This work presents a new approach to shared control to assist wheelchair driving. Rather than swapping control from human to robot either by request or on a need basis, the system estimates how much help is needed in a reactive fashion and continuously produces an emergent motory command in combination with human input. To provide time stability and integration, instant commands are modulated by a...
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