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This research presents novel knowledge assessment analysis methods. We add a new parameter, which is the cognitive skill level, to the knowledge assessment. The cognitive skill levels refer to levels such as whether a student has acquired the concept at the level of understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, or creating. Identifying the cognitive skill level parameter of the concept in a knowledge...
Computing systems increasingly comprise large numbers of heterogeneous subsystems, each with their own local perspective and goals, connected in dynamic networks, and interacting with each other and humans in ways which are difficult to predict. Nevertheless, users engaging with different parts of the system still expect high performance, reliability, security and other qualities, provided in a way...
The Visual Arts Industry in Taiwan, including both production and services segments, like other cultural and creative industries in Taiwan, lack a consistent method in conducting statistical analysis. Thus, the estimated output value is not convincible nor conducive to be used as a reference during the formation of public policies. We are studying the output estimates of the Visual Arts Industry in...
Our society is in the trends of changing. As the changing increases, people's stress also increases. In recent year, many research reports found people can focus on drawing pictures and has an effect of mitigating stress when they drawing. The research utilized a survey questionnaire to explore students subjective preferences about the pictures. And use the wearable EEG equipment to detect the brainwave...
Visualization of goods package has become an important factor in communicating goods characteristics to consumers and plays a critical role in influencing consumers' purchase decision. This phenomenon is particularly apparent in the case of mature consumer goods such as perfume products, chocolate, daily commodity, and so on. To construct a design support model for assisting package designers to create...
In this study, we investigate the factors influencing the playability of a music rhythm game, and then design a game with a higher level of playability. Three categories were used to investigate playability. They were functionality, structural, and audiovisual. Four popular games are used to carry out the comparison of playability. They include ‘Don't Tap The White Tile V2’, ‘Deemo’, ‘Cytus’, and...
The earlier result of his research showed that most Taiwanese SME designers were frustrated in innovations since it takes hard evidences to persuade their managements, but they are in lack of resources. Thus, this research proposed the SSFD model with ready templates to help them. This paper focused on the third stage of the SSFD Model, i.e. "The Stage of Strategy Formulation". It will help...
The visual comfort of human being has been gradually considered in high performance building since the higher living quality and lower energy use requirements. Good lighting layout is more and more important, especially in classroom for the students' vision. The number and location of light sources are traditionally determined by the experimented engineer or technician. However, un-precise results...
The purpose of present study was to examine the intelligence system for evaluation the multi-dimension abilities for occupational bus drivers. Intelligence system involved the cognition abilities test, visual pursuit abilities test, and tachistoscopic traffic responses test. Results of stidy showed that gender and age had significant relationships to cognitive responses and visual tracking capabilities...
Most of the township level administration buildings of Taiwan are out-aged or fail to meet the needs of residents due to population pressure. Some of the township administration buildings were rebuilt or relocated once those were aged or overcrowded. This research is thus aimed to understand the factors that affected the satisfaction of the users and staffs of a township. As well the Delphi method,...
Drought stress is one of the most significant environmental stress in agriculture worldwide and is even expected to become more and more severe in many regions of the globe. In this context, the concept of ideotypes (plant with ideal traits that is expected to yield a greater quantity or quality of product when developed as a cultivar) opens new avenues for breeding as shown by the results of plant...
Computer simulation of tree development can provide important insight into real world tree behavior. Numerous models have been developed ranging from simple equations to complicated 3D geometrical models that allow for simulation of acquisition and allocation of carbohydrates. We introduce IMapple (Interactively Modeled Apple), a functional structural apple tree model that builds on the source-sink...
Plant growth models able to simulate phenotypic plasticity are increasingly required because (i) they should enable better predictions of the observed variations in crop morphology and production, and (ii) their parameters are expected to have a more robust genetic basis compared to conventional crop models, with possible implications for selection of quantitative traits such as interplant competition...
There is a visual novel which is a game combined with visual interaction and novel texts. We have challenged making an EPUB-type visual novel, because we can easily make it. The EPUB format is based on HTML5. In addition, We can get an easy way to make a visual novel with equations. Our visual novel gives us happy math.
Spatial visualization (SV) skills are both learnable and linked to student success in engineering. Our work was motivated by previous research revealing a gender gap in SV skills that favors male engineering students. A multi-modal SV workshop intervention was incorporated into a first-year engineering projects course with the goal of fostering SV skills for all students. An analysis of SV skills,...
Privacy violation cases are repeatedly reported by users of various photo sharing services. To avoid violating other's privacy unintentionally, visual abstraction techniques could be applied to blur photogenic persons at sufficient level so that they cannot be identified. From the result of our online survey conducted among 5,000 samples and Price Sensitive Measurement analysis, we succeeded in finding...
The widespread use of handwritten signatures for idnetity authentication has resulted in a need for automated verification systems that make use of modern electronic devices (e.g., scanners, cameras, and digitizing tablets). However, there is still significant room for improvement in the performance of these automated systems when compared with that of human analysis, particularly that of forensic...
A decision-level fusion (DLF)-based team tactics estimation method in soccer videos is newly presented. In our method, tactics estimation based on audio-visual and formation features is newly adopted since the tactics of the soccer game are closely related to the audio-visual sequences and player positions. Therefore, by using these features, we classify the tactics via Support Vector Machine (SVM)...
Even today "beeps" are mostly used in consumer electronics (CE) as user interface (UI) sounds. Though this has not changed for at least 10 years, we think UI sounds could be designed more useful and fascinated. This time we investigated what kinds of sound are used on recent CE UIs, and how users use and what they think of these sounds. As a result, users mostly understand the message when...
This paper proposes a novel approach to develop super quality software(s) using workflows that improves the software code quality by reducing occurrence of software maintenance problems to minimum. It motivates the software development companies to use a static code analysis tool with our proposed modifications. Therefore, the static code analysis (SCA) exposes critical areas at early stages to be...
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