A 4-K computer language for experimentation with human subjects

Subjects or objects? Prisoners and human experimentation.

D the 1950s, inmates at what was then called Holmesburg Prison, in Philadelphia, were inoculated with condyloma acuminatum, cutaneous moniliasis, and viruses causing warts, herpes simplex, and herpes zoster.1 For participating in this research, and in studies exposing them to dioxin and agents of chemical warfare, they were paid up to $1,500 a month. Between 1963 and 1971, researchers in Oregon...

The burgeoning law of medical experimentation involving human subjects.

Software Implementation and Experimentation with a New Genetic Algorithm for Layout Design

This paper discusses the development of a new GA for layout design. The GA was already designed and reported. However the implementation used in the earlier work was rudimentary and cumbersome, having no suitable Graphical User Interface, GUI. This paper discusses the intricacies of the algorithm and the GA operators used in previous work. It also reports on implementation of a new GA operator ...

Audiovisual Rhetoric: A Pattern Language for Human Computer Interaction

Today, not only the GUI itself, but the interaction between human and computer (HCI) is an important design task for all services and products. For telecommunication services in particular designers have to cope with complex functionality, multimodal input channels and different device properties. But how can we predict the quality perceived by the user? How can we provide systems that satisfy ...

A human-computer dialogue system for Māori language learning

In this paper we describe Te Kaitito, a bilingual human-machine dialogue system which supports conversational interactions in English and in Māori, the indigenous language of New Zealand. We concentrate in particular on an application of Te Kaitito in the field of computer-aided second language learning. The development of this tool has involved a group of researchers with very different backgr...