The requirements for funding for HCI research are changing globally. In this SIG meeting, we will review with panel members and high-level grant decision makers from different continents and countries how the requirem...
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Online communities are increasingly important to organizations and the general public, but there is little theoretically based research on what makes some online communities more successful than others. In this articl...
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In this work, we present a neurocomputational model for auditory-cue fear acquisition. Computational fear conditioning has experienced a growing interest over the last few years, on the one hand, because it is a robus...
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In this work, we present a neurocomputational model for auditory-cue fear acquisition. Computational fear conditioning has experienced a growing interest over the last few years, on the one hand, because it is a robust and quick learning paradigm that can contribute to the development of more versatile robots, and on the other hand, because it can help in the understanding of fear conditioning and dysfunctions in animals. Fear learning involves sensory and motor aspects [1] and it is essential for adaptive self-protective systems. We argue that a deeper study of the mechanisms underlying fear circuits in the brain will contribute not only to the development of safer robots but eventually also to a better conceptual understanding of neural fear processing in general. Towards the development of a robotic adaptive self-protective system, we have designed a neural model of fear conditioning based on LeDoux's dual-route hypothesis of fear [2] and also dopamine modulated Pavlovian conditioning [3]. Our hybrid approach is capable of learning the temporal relationship between auditory sensory cues and an aversive or appetitive stimulus. The model was tested as a neural network simulation but it was designed to be used with minor modifications on a robotic platform.
Activity recognition is a core aspect of ubiquitous computing applications. In order to deploy activity recognition systems in the real world, we need simple sensing systems with lightweight computational modules to a...
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Activity recognition is a core aspect of ubiquitous computing applications. In order to deploy activity recognition systems in the real world, we need simple sensing systems with lightweight computational modules to accurately analyze sensed data. In this paper, we propose a simple method to recognize human activities using simple object information involved in activities. We apply activity theory for representing complex human activities and propose a penalized naive Bayes classifier for performing activity recognition. Our results show that our method reduces computation up to an order of magnitude in both learning and inference without penalizing accuracy, when compared to hidden Markov models and conditional random fields.
HCI professionals have developed design principles, guidelines, and standards dealing with consistency, informative feedback, error prevention, shortcuts for experts, and user control. Micro-HCI researchers can take c...
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HCI professionals have developed design principles, guidelines, and standards dealing with consistency, informative feedback, error prevention, shortcuts for experts, and user control. Micro-HCI researchers can take comfort in dealing with wellstated requirements, clear benchmark tasks, established measures of human performance, and effective predictive models, such as Fitts' Law. Macro-HCI researchers and developers design and build interfaces in expanding areas, such as affective experience, aesthetics, motivation, social participation, trust, empathy, responsibility, and privacy. Although micro-HCI and macro-HCI have healthy overlaps, they attract different types of researchers, practitioners, and activists, thereby further broadening the scope and impact of HCI in general. Since commercial, social, legal, and ethical considerations play an increasing role in all areas of HCI, educational curricula and professional practices need to be updated regularly;midcareer continuing education for HCI professionals will help keep them current.
Cine MRI is an imaging technique for visualizing the left ventricle wall motion in a heart beating cycle. The paper proposed a method to semi-automatically segment the left ventricle (LV) boundaries from a stack of ci...
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Cine MRI is an imaging technique for visualizing the left ventricle wall motion in a heart beating cycle. The paper proposed a method to semi-automatically segment the left ventricle (LV) boundaries from a stack of cine MRI and build a LV mesh. The different intensities in the MRI are modeled with the mixture of Gaussian method. The thresholds between them are semi-automatically determined by K-means initialization and the expectation maximization (EM) method. The spatial constrain is added into the model with active contour models, which fit explicit contours on the boundary of the area of interest. We propose a marching cube alike initialization method of the active contour models. A 3D mesh is built from a stack of contours and smoothed afterwards. Stroke volume, myocardium mass and ejection function can be estimated from the LV boundary mesh and the endocardium mesh.
Several steps that need to be followed to ensure better reporting and tracking of medical errors are presented. One of steps is to use improved electronic health records (EHR) user-interface designs that offer healthc...
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Several steps that need to be followed to ensure better reporting and tracking of medical errors are presented. One of steps is to use improved electronic health records (EHR) user-interface designs that offer healthcare providers shorter learn-times, faster performance, and lower interface error rates. A second step should be agreements on user interface consistency and data interoperability among the 100-plus developers of EHR. Such guidelines for consistency and data sharing, common in other industries, would allow healthcare professionals who work at more than one location to do their jobs more efficiently and safely. Guidelines for user interfaces and public reporting of usability testing for errors would lay the foundation for changes in the way data is handled. The independent oversight panels, convened by healthcare providers, professional organizations, and government agencies, would specify improvements in information technologies and processes for software developers, hospitals, and labs.
Application Programming Interface (API) documents are a typical way of describing legal usage of reusable software libraries, thus facilitating software reuse. However, even with such documents, developers often overl...
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(纸本)9781467310673
Application Programming Interface (API) documents are a typical way of describing legal usage of reusable software libraries, thus facilitating software reuse. However, even with such documents, developers often overlook some documents and build software systems that are inconsistent with the legal usage of those libraries. Existing software verification tools require formal specifications (such as code contracts), and therefore cannot directly verify the legal usage described in natural language text in API documents against code using that library. However, in practice, most libraries do not come with formal specifications, thus hindering tool-based verification. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach to infer formal specifications from natural language text of API documents. Our evaluation results show that our approach achieves an average of 92% precision and 93% recall in identifying sentences that describe code contracts from more than 2500 sentences of API documents. Furthermore, our results show that our approach has an average 83% accuracy in inferring specifications from over 1600 sentences describing code contracts.
While journalists often portray discovery as the thrilling insight of a brilliant individual, many discoveries require years of work by competing and collaborating teams. Often large amounts of foundational work are n...
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(纸本)9781450308205
While journalists often portray discovery as the thrilling insight of a brilliant individual, many discoveries require years of work by competing and collaborating teams. Often large amounts of foundational work are necessary and dialogs among participants help clarify goals. The Social Discovery Framework suggests that (1) there are important processes in building capacity and then seeking solutions and (2) those that initiate requests are often as important as those who seek solutions. The implications of the Social Discovery Framework are that improved social tools to build capacity, initiate requests, and support dialog would accelerate the discovery process as much as the more visible tools for individuals seeking solutions. Copyright 2011 ACM.
A growing number of projects are solving complex computational and scientific tasks by soliciting human feedback through games. Many games with a purpose focus on generating textual tags for images. In contrast, we in...
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