Bodies That Cannot Listen

Agents and Robots that Can Listen to the User's Heart

Empathy is often seen as the capacity to perceive, understand and experience others emotions. This notion is often seen as one of the major elements in social interactions between humans. As such, when creating social agents that are believable and able to engage with users in social interactions, empathy needs to be addressed. For the past few years, many researchers have been looking at this ...

A Prototype Reading Coach that Listens: Summary of Project LISTEN

What: Project LISTEN is developing a novel weapon against illiteracy: an automated reading coach that displays a story on a computer screen, listens to a child read it aloud, and helps where 1. needed. The coach provides a combination of reading and listening, in which the child reads wherever possible, and the coach helps wherever necessary. We demonstrated a prototype of this coach at the ARP...

More Facts that Isomorphism Cannot Explain

We would like to thank Eva Dobler, Marc Garellek, Michelle St-Amour and Eva Sokol for their help in conducting the experiments. We also thank the children, administrators and parents at Children’s Corner, CPE McGill, Playskool, SSMU and YMCA Westmount daycares in Montreal and at the Scuola Materna S.Benedetto in Siena, where the experiments have been conducted. The research reported in this pap...

Aspherical manifolds that cannot be triangulated

Although Kirby and Siebenmann [13] showed that there are manifolds which do not admit PL structures, the possibility remained that all manifolds could be triangulated. In the late seventies Galewski and Stern [10] constructed a closed 5–manifold M 5 so that every n–manifold, with n 5, can be triangulated if and only if M 5 can be triangulated. Moreover, M 5 admits a triangulation if and only if...

Needle Variations that Cannot be Summed