... 0.05 Since we were interested in the effects of the viewing media on movement performance, significant interactions involving the viewing media were primarily considered For significant interactions, ... options for brain-machine interfaces J Neurosci Meth 2008, 167:2-14 11 Ustinova KI, Perkins J, Szostakowski L, Tamkei LS, Leonard WA: Effect of viewing angle on arm reaching while standing in a virtual ... [19] Thus, reduction in vertical FOV may have affected the accuracy of the pointing movements In a previous study involving healthy and stroke subjects making pointing movements in a HMD-viewed VE...
... Streaming in NVEs of online users scales up In addition, they not provide a 3D aural experience forusers that matches their visuals in NVEs, since the mono audio contains no spatial information ... detailed in Chapter 32 Intra-AoI Approach for P2P 3D Audio Streaming In this chapter, I will introduce a straightforward approach for P2P 3D audio streaming over NVEs This is the starting point of ... one-to-one mapping between usersin the physical space and avatarsin the virtual space The term node is referred to both a user in the physical space and an avatar in the virtual space In the rest...
... exiting forms of interactions, modern virtualenvironments have lot of room for creativity Gaming, virtual universities, virtual conferences and virtual shopping are among utilities of virtualenvironments ... important components invirtualenvironments that bring beauty and realism into virtualenvironments The material and color information of virtual objects are represented using textures Textures ... using 3D objects Users are represented using graphical objects called avatarsUsers are allowed to control their avatars to interact with other avatars and virtual objects Avatar activities include...
... of social interactionincollaborativelearning 2.2.1 Theoretical foundations forcollaborativelearning Studying social interactionincollaborativelearning has become a key issue in the research ... promising role in mediating social interaction to build mutual understanding of meaning incollaborativelearning Within the setting of collaborative science learning, shared visual information ... developing mutual understanding of knowledge incollaborative learning; identifying opportunities and challenges for motivating joint efforts in social interaction of collaborativelearning is...
... situation in which interaction naturally blossoms and in which students can use for actual communication what they have been learningin a more formal fashion In this way, they are already engaging in ... important for L2 acquisition There is no learning without teaching So as a tool in implementing teaching plans and achieving teaching goals, teacher talk plays a vital role in language learning Nunan ... successful language learningin numerous studies on classroom interaction Wilga Rivers (1987) emphasized the importance of interaction as follows “Through interaction, students can increase their...
... people engage in reciprocal action There are three main types of interactionin classroom setting, including teacher-learner interaction, learner–content interaction and learner-learner interaction ... peer interactionin their learning With the second question, we will know how students find peer interaction activities in class, for example, interesting or boring Question is used to examine ... magazines and the Internet which refer to peer interactionin language teaching and learning • Conduct a survey to get information about the real situation of English learning and teaching with...
... instances for training as in supervised learning, active learning repeatedly asks a supervisor to label what it considers as the most critical instances and performs training with the labelled instances ... TFIDF for Text Categorization In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Machine Learning D Lewis and W Gale, 1994 A Sequential Algorithm for Training Text Classifiers In Proceedings ... or a special symbol ⊥ denoting ‘no decision’ Co-training and bilingual bootstrapping are two examples of collaborative bootstrapping In co-training, the two collaborating classifiers are assumed...
... Dialog act modeling for conversational speech AAAI Spring Symposium on Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing Richmond H Thomason and Jerry R Hobbs 1997 Interrelating interpretation ... values for each vari is not known at the outset since this information must be exchanged during the interaction If S supplies appropriate values for vari but does not know what H has available for ... future action DR/distinguishes between S merely laying out options for H's future action (Open-Option), and S trying to get H to perform a certain action (see Figure 1) InfeR°quest includes all actions...
... programming time on the 3D graphics (based on the free jMonkeyEngine library) and the networking code We could have reduced the effort required for these programming tasks by building upon an existing ... evaluation in more detail at a later time, first results seem encouraging A Stent, M Marge, and M Singhai 2005 Evaluating evaluation methods for generation in the presence of variation In Proceedings ... allowing the user to speak as well as act in the world; running the challenge in a continuous world rather than a world that only allows discrete movements; or making it multimodal by allowing...
... and Regina Barzilay 2009 Reinforcement learningfor mapping instructions to actions In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference ... proportion; the first 80% of data collected in each virtual world was used for training, while the remaining 20% was used for testing For each pair (uk , ck ) in the testing set, we used our algorithm to ... Gargett, Konstantina Garoufi, Alexander Koller, and Kristina Striegnitz 2010 The GIVE-2 corpus of giving instructions invirtualenvironmentsIn Proceedings of the 7th Conference on International...
... expressed a desire for a richer learning experience involving less interaction with the academics and more interaction with peers: The lack of student interaction and peer learning is a big portion ... (2004) Collaborative online learning: Interaction patterns and limiting factors Open Learning, 19(2), 135-149 Hatch, S (2002) The online university: The students’ perspective In Winds of change in ... building of knowledge incollaborativelearningenvironmentsIn T S Roberts (Ed.), Computer-supported collaborativelearningin higher education (pp 70-99) Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing O'Reilly,...
... Arguing about planning alternatives In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 906-910 Rachel Reichman 1981 Modeling informal debates In Proceedings ... 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics Bonnie Webber and Atavind Joshi 1982 Taking the initiative in natural language data base interactions: Justifying why In Proceedings ... evidence against it When an agent does not have sufficient information to determine the acceptance of a proposal, she should initiate an information-sharing subdialogue to share information with...
... default interpretation is o v e r r i d d e n T h e p a r s e r is therefore agnostic concerning which channel might provide the relevant information; for example, analysing fore the King rides ... of effort has gone into specifying global scheduling heuristics f o r maintaining an agenda of knowledge sourcc activation records m blackboard system~, and this has sometimes led to treating ... t e r a c t m n b e t w e e n individual c o m p o n e n t s in a SUS INTERACTIVE DETERMINISM: A THEORY OF NON-SERIAL INTERACTIONIn this section, w e concentrate on the study of NSI b e t w...
... Advertising, Journal of Interactive Marketing, and in the impending books Advances in Electronic Marketing and Marketing Communication: Emerging Trends and Developments, among others Before joining ... His research interests include the influence of information technology on marketing, international marketing, new product development, and marketing models He also has interests in the role of ... greater insight into the processes underlying consumer behavior in online environments The book begins with a section on Community One advantage of the Internet is the ability to bring like-minded individuals...
... store”, a kind of database which is specifically built for storing and querying RDF data It provides a forwardchaining inference engine which evaluates the domain definitions when loading the knowledge ... The input analyzer is responsible for the linguistic analysis of the user’s textual input including preprocessing such as string cleaning, part-ofspeech tagging, named entity recognition, parsing ... (Bertomeu and Benz, 2009) In these experiments, 18 users spent one hour each on furnishing a virtual living room in a Twinity apartment by talking to a human wizard controlling the virtual sales agent...
... describes our model for tracking initiative using cues identified from the user's utterances Our model maintains, for each agent, a task initiative index and a dialogue initiative index which measure ... derlying model for inferring the accumulated effect of multiple cues on determining the initiative indices The Dempster-Shafer theory is a mathematical theory for reasoning under uncertainty ... actual initiative shift differs from the norm, i.e., speaker retaining initiative for evaluation questions and hearer taking over initiative for domain questions, the system's performance worsens In...
... code for pDC3 the resulting tuples into the order of the input string Now, Lines 9–11 use the input string and the result of the recursion to build 5-tuples and 4-tuples that contain all the information ... challenges in model checking lies in the ease of modeling constructs in the target domain using modeling primitives in the modeling 34 S Pervez et al language.) The complete Promela code used in our ... the mixing of the message-passing programming model with multithreading on a single multicore chip or SMP node is becoming increasingly important The MPI-2 Standard has clearly defined the interaction...
... two main parts, the informative part that is the navigation of the course and the interactive part that is the navigation of the learning platform, which includes the informative part Since the ... achieved using a Finnish electronic ID card, a FINEID card (FINEID, 2002) Anyone permanently living in Finland can apply for a FINEID card Any granted web server can look up the access information ... School, Virtual Polytechnic and Virtual University Briefly the strategy and goals for the Finnish Figure The Finnish educational system 191 Teaching Network Security in a VirtualLearning Environment...
... background, in addition to the information about the history of the preceding discourse, which has been used in previous machine learning- based approaches, we integrate extralinguistic information into ... referring expression and its referent need to be taken into account Finally, more investigation is needed for considering other extra-linguistic information, such as eye-gaze, for exploring what kinds ... corpus of collaborative work dialogue For investigating dialogue from the multi-modal perspective, researchers have developed data sets including extra-linguistic information, bridging objects in the...
... Here % means anything in the same word class, "that arrived after", for instance, is equivalent to "since" for this purpose In the example, the Syntax slot defines the input syntax for a message; ... significant advantages in the parsing of correct input as well These points are covered in detail in [2] Syntax: A further advantage is related to language definition Since, our initial flexible parser, ... procedure must be performed in its entirety before any input parsing can be undertaken While this approach to language definition was successful in freeing the language designer from having to know details...