Interviews of twenty-six Industrial Engineering students and graduates were conducted during the first year of a three year study of the unexpected attainment of gender parity in the School of Industrial Engineering a...
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Interviews of twenty-six Industrial Engineering students and graduates were conducted during the first year of a three year study of the unexpected attainment of gender parity in the School of Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (OU). An analysis of the pattern of participant responses gives insight into industrial engineering (IE) student perceptions of IE. The perceptions were grouped into three broad themes: Career Profile, Discipline Profile, and Discipline Meta-Profile. The Career Profile includes the availability of multiple career paths and flexible careers in this discipline in addition to the potential for the attainment of status through entry into management. People-oriented, broad, and systems-oriented are terms that were used to describe the Discipline Profile. Discipline Meta-Profile is used to describe the participant's perception of other people's perceptions of industrial engineering (i.e. what IE students think other people think). These participants felt that other engineers think of IE as easy, or "imaginary" engineering. The participants also thought that the discipline is invisible, even to other engineers. While the meta-perception of IE might seem to be problematic for the discipline, many of the participants reject the meta-perception. Some participants recognized that IE's focus on people and systems is simply different than other engineering disciplines, not necessarily easier. Other participants felt the potential to enter into management outweighed the discipline meta-perception. One student summarized the response particularly well when he noted that IE is "inviteful" engineering.
We developed a voice guidance system that increases-mobility for visually impaired people. We use infrared communication technology called Compact Battery-less Information Terminals. The user-friendly information term...
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In a multimodal conversation, the way users communicate with a system depends on the available interaction channels and the situated context (e.g., conversation focus, visual feedback). These dependencies form a rich ...
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The present research focuses on the development of an intelligent, computer-based tutoring model for selecting problems in domains where multiple skills are needed to solve a problem and the reasons for errors are not...
The present research focuses on the development of an intelligent, computer-based tutoring model for selecting problems in domains where multiple skills are needed to solve a problem and the reasons for errors are not easily diagnosed. In this paper we report on the development and evaluation of the Mental Rotation Tutors and the intelligent models driving the problem selection engine or “domain reasoner”. The domain reasoner evaluated each student based upon seven different core skills and chose the next problem based upon the student's level of proficiency in all seven areas. Two versions of the tutor were developed. The first versions targeted improving the student's ability to infer what combination of rotations were required to go from one view to another. The second version targeted improving the student's ability to apply a provided set of rotations to an object and report the final orientation. The results of two successive experiments demonstrated that students with low spatial ability derived the most measurable benefit from interacting with the tutors. The tutors also successfully diagnosed students' skill levels and provided problems that were appropriate to each student's current level of proficiency.
We describe the design of a modular system for untethered real-time kinematic motion capture using sensors with inertial measuring units (IMU). Our system is comprised of a set of small and lightweight sensors. Each s...
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We describe the design of a modular system for untethered real-time kinematic motion capture using sensors with inertial measuring units (IMU). Our system is comprised of a set of small and lightweight sensors. Each sensor provides its own global orientation (3 degrees of freedom) and is physically and computationally independent, requiring only external communication. Orientation information from sensors is communicated via wireless to host computer for processing. We present results of the real-time usage of our untethered motion capture system for teleoperating the NASA Robonaut. We also discuss potential applications for untethered motion capture with respect to humanoid robotics.
We present the first known result for named entity recognition (NER) in realistic large-vocabulary spoken Chinese. We establish this result by applying a maximum entropy model, currently the single best known approach...
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Katia SycaraJohn MylopoulisRobotics Institute
School of Computer Science Human-Computer Interaction Institute Language Technologies Institute (LTI) Center for Advanced Learning and Discovery Carnegie Mellon University Newell-Simon Hall 1602D CMU Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto 40 St. George St. Bahen Building Rm. 7266 Toronto Ont. Canada M5S 2E4
After a basic theory on the passivity condition for the sampled-data system has been reviewed, passivity conditions on each subsystem of haptic simulation have been investigated. In addition, the virtual wall simulati...
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(纸本)0769521126
After a basic theory on the passivity condition for the sampled-data system has been reviewed, passivity conditions on each subsystem of haptic simulation have been investigated. In addition, the virtual wall simulation is analytically analyzed with the passivity conditions and derived the previously well known stability condition (b > KT/2 + B). Based on this, we propose a novel energy bounding algorithm for stable haptic interaction control. The proposed energy bounding algorithm restricts the energy that is generated by the zero-order hold within the energy consumable by the physical damping in a haptic device and makes the virtual environment and controller passive. This algorithm, therefore, guarantees the passivity condition of the haptic simulation. While the virtual coupling algorithm restricts the actuator force with respect to the penetration depth, the proposed energy bounding algorithm restricts the change of actuator force and eventually restricts generated energy by the zero-order hold. Therefore, much stiffer contact simulation can be implemented.
In this paper, low-complexity block-constrained trellis coded quantization (BC-TCQ) structures are introduced, and a predictive BC-TCQ encoding method is developed for quantization of line spectrum frequencies (LSF) p...
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In this paper, low-complexity block-constrained trellis coded quantization (BC-TCQ) structures are introduced, and a predictive BC-TCQ encoding method is developed for quantization of line spectrum frequencies (LSF) parameters for wideband speech coding applications. The performance is compared to the linear predictive coding (LPC) vector quantizers used in the AMR-WB (ITU-G.722.2) speech coding standard, demonstrating reduction in spectral distortion and significant reduction in encoding complexity.
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