chapter 8  robotics and natural user interfaces

... material, to understand fully our vision for natural user interfaces and our guidance for how to achieve them Introduction Figure 1.1 Our framework for the creation of natural user interfaces (NUIs) ... that feels truly natural to the user means taking full advantage of the user s bandwidth, a device that behaves as a sort of appendage By designing and building natural user interfaces, taking ... him, standing on the mound, choosing the pitch, and throwing it are natural, ” that is, they feel natural and his behavior is natural The challenge of the NUI is to move users from clumsy and self-conscious...

Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2014, 23:29

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 12:15

... gain more insight, depth, and specific examples by downloading and reading those articles February 2003 8-3 Chapter 8: Measurement and Metrics Condensed GSAM Handbook and books listed in 8.5 Resources ... GSAM Handbook − Chapter 8: Measurement and Metrics “Software Metrics and Reliability”: http://satc.gsfc.nasa.gov/support/ISSRE_NOV98/software_metrics _and_ reliability.html Practical Software and ... distance and time to destination and from origin, and inside air temperatures for eight different locations in the car There are instruments to count how many cars pass, vibration levels, and sound...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 16:20

... Orientation Helps New Employees Feel Welcome and At Ease Understand the Organization © 2008 Prentice Hall, Inc All rights reserved Know What Is Expected in Work and Behavior Begin the Socialization Process ... training process Describe and illustrate how you would go about identifying training requirements Explain how to distinguish between problems you can fix with training and those you can’t Explain ... Company Organization and Operations Employee Benefit Information Personnel Policies Employee Orientation Daily Routine © 2008 Prentice Hall, Inc All rights reserved Safety Measures and Regulations...

Ngày tải lên: 02/08/2014, 08:21

... • ASP may have better security and controls than a small company • Bandwidth/response time: Telecommunications channel between ASP and company must be able to handle volume of transactions • ... negotiations • Contracts are completed faster between buyers and sellers • Buyers and sellers can gain access to new worldwide markets and trading partners • Instant market information is available ... Second Edition Internet Auctions and Reverse Auctions • Companies can use standard auctions to sell products or obsolete equipment • Reverse auctions, with one buyer and many sellers, can be used...

Ngày tải lên: 14/04/2016, 12:38

... context including user location, user interests and colleagues, the notes that users take, interest level of users in their activity, time, and activity in the space around the user A separate ... with the user s user aggregator, the user aggregators belonging to each colleague and the local presentation aggregator It subscribes to the user s user aggregator for changes in location and interests ... the building of user interfaces, there is tension between evaluating the infrastructure independently of the interfaces and applications it supports, and evaluating the interfaces and applications...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:21

... Flocculation in Natural and Engineered Environmental Systems 172 bacteria have a high affinity for fine grained sediment particles and thereby promotes flocculation by increasing the surface area and bonding ... laminar and turbulent fluid shear, inertia, and differential settling, and subsequently, a certain amount of such collisions result in the formation of flocs because of the electrochemical and bacterial ... interaction and flocculation On the other hand, when the bed shear stress was increased Copyright 2005 by CRC Press “L1615_C008” — 2004/11/19 — 02:48 — page 175 — #5 Flocculation in Natural and Engineered...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... Caliente Complex and is overlain by Mesozoic marine and continental sequences (Fig 1) Massive platform carbonates of the Morelos Formation and thin-bedded calcareous shales, sandstones and conglomerates ... fetching by hand An alternate source of water called Los Sabinos is located km northeast of Tlama (Fig 2) Water is collected and pumped uphill through three pump -and- hold stations and held in ... is dominated by Ca, Mg, and HCO3, as expected for waters interacting with carbonate rocks and/ or calcium-rich soils High concentrations of Cl, K, Na, NO3-N, and SO4, and high electrical conductivity...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:20

... power losses in the gears and bearings and from windage and churning of lubricant gear power: A gear’s load and speed capacity, determined by gear dimensions and type Helical and helical-type gears ... motor comparable in size and power to those used in standard reel-to-reel recorders, and a large bi-peripheral flywheel and sturdy capstan that reduces wow and flutter and drives the tape A patent ... manufacturing and alignment and (2) thermal and vibrational changes in the sizes and positions of the meshing components One of the benefits is a reduction of gear-toothcontact noise and vibration...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2012, 14:26

... transitions and animation, HTML export, and templates Its drawing tools let you draw lines, curves, and shapes, and perform other operations, such as rotations and fills Presents can also import and ... includes a spelling checker and supports document templates, tables, multimedia, and live links to Applixware and third-party documents Moreover, it lets you import and export a variety of document ... functions Spreadsheets can import and export a variety of document types, including Lotus 1-2-3 (WKS, WK1, WK3, and WK4 files) and Microsoft Excel 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 7.0/95, and 97 Figure 8.5: The Spreadsheets...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 13:15

... Q is quantity demanded, and A and B are positive constants The total revenue associated with this demand curve is given by 11 Chapter Consumer Choice and Demand in Traditional and Network Markets ... the short-term demand curve 16 Chapter Consumer Choice and Demand in Traditional and Network Markets Changes in Demand The determinants of the elasticity of demand are fewer and easier to identify ... goods and services, from gasoline and public parks to medical services and salt What people usually mean by such statements is that a price Chapter Consumer Choice and Demand in Traditional and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 15:18

... Basic, yet useful index of resources and sites for the UK PR industry Agencyworld (www.agencyworld.co.uk) UK-centric resource for “in-house and agency PR and marketing technology decision-makers” ... providing research resources for journalists, updated daily and allowing them to find people and companies, check facts, subscribe to news alerts and plan training PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.co.uk) ... deliver better, faster and less-expensive online PR” UK Press (www.ukpress.org) Online forum for members of the press and PR people who wish to discuss topics of interest and make useful contacts...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 00:15

... energy and vice versa Frictional and drag forces on the other hand are called “non-conservative” for reasons that are explained below Consider a system that consists of a block of mass m and the ... back and forth between kinetic energy K of the bob and potential energy U of the bob-earth system We assume that U is zero at the lowest point of the pendulum orbit K is maximum in frame a, and ... example at x2 , x3 and x4 the slope of the U(x) vs x curve is zero, thus F = The slope dU/dx between x3 and x4 is negative; Thus F > for the this interval The slope dU/dx between x2 and x3 is positive;...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 00:16

... saw such capacity, and taste, and application, and elegance, as you describe united.’ Mrs Hurst and Miss Bingley both cried out against the injustice of her implied doubt, and were both protesting ... dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, ... leave her very little attention for her book; and soon laying it wholly aside, she drew near the card-table, and stationed herself between Mr Bingley and his eldest sister, to observe the game ‘Is...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 14:20

... task as simplifying the general problem and where, on the other hand, transportability (and the way in which database systems typically structure information and view the world) makes things more ... can be defined in terms of a count operator and the domain entities that are to be counted), and they present similar problems for transportability and database access (see section 5) The question ... handle than the more general case AGGREGATES It is useful to separate problems involving aggregates into two categories: (I) those t!mt involve mapping from natural- language to logical form, and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... factors of are 1,2,4,8 and of 15 are 1,3,5,15 and is the only common factor conversely can determine the greatest common divisor by comparing their prime factorizations and using least powers ... Fermat's Theorem  ap-1  = (mod p) where p is prime and gcd(a,p)=1  also known as Fermat’s Little Theorem  also ap = p (mod p)  useful in public key and primality testing Euler Totient Function ø(n) ... lemmas—" —The Mathematical Magpie, Clifton Fadiman Prime Numbers  prime numbers only have divisors of and self      they cannot be written as a product of other numbers note: is prime, but is generally...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... record of all interactions The user wassituated at one terminal and was told he or she was communicating with a real natural language interface to an operating system (and an accompanying intelligent ... to be the natural language program replied with a standard error message I recorded some verbal responses as well (with users telling a secretary at the terminal what she should type), and, contrary ... incorporating a model of the user' s task and knowledge state that should provide useful information to both parser and generator At first, we intend to focus on stereotypical users such as a salesperson,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... Introduction to Data Mining Applications of Cluster Analysis Understanding – Group related documents for browsing, group genes and proteins that have similar functionality, or group stocks with ... from other regions of high density – Used when the clusters are irregular or intertwined, and when noise and outliers are present density-based clusters © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data ... problem to a different domain and solve a related problem in that domain – Proximity matrix defines a weighted graph, where the nodes are the points being clustered, and the weighted edges represent...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... between 2h-1 and (2h -1) • Complete tree: n = 2h -1 when last level is full • Nearly complete: All nodes in the last level are on the left • h = |log2 n| + • Can be represented in an array and no pointers ... position of the root, and ReheapDown is called for that position 14 Delete minimum element from min-heap 31 The element in the last position is put to the position of the root, and ReheapDown is ... BuildHeap 19 Build heap Algorithm BuildHeap2 () Builds a heap from an array of random data Pre Array of count random data Post Array of data becames a heap Uses Recursive function ReheapDown...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 17:20

... leaflets, summaries of product characteristics and European Pharmacopia entries) and three languages (English, French and German) The ontology and lexicons include concepts extracted automatically ... main components, a set of JAVA classes providing the user interface and API, and a PROLOG subsystem providing the knowledge-base management and NLG functionality The application developer provides ... programming credits are Chris Douce, Paul Piwek and Neil Tipper, and for grammar and domain development, Anja Belz, Nadjet Bouayad-Agha, Lynne Cahill and Paul Piwek WYSIWYM has been developed in...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20