Heads on Learning

Heads, Hearts, and Hands: the Research on K-12 Service-learning Definitions of Service-learning

If you were going on a weight loss diet, as so many of us have, you would ask a few hard questions about any program that a friend or physician asked you to try. First, you would want to know what the diet is (“Atkins? South Beach? What’s that?”) Next, you would want to know if it works (“How much weight have people lost on that diet? Really?!”) Finally, you might ask, what do I need to do to m...

Imitation Learning Based Talking Heads in Humanoid Robotics

The main goal of this Chapter is to describe a novel approach for the control of Talking Heads in Humanoid Robotics. In a preliminary section we will discuss the state of the art of the research in this area. In the following sections we will describe our research results while in the final part some experimental results of our approach are reported. With the goal of controlling talking heads i...

From Multisensory Integration to Talking Heads and Language Learning

Viewpoint-Invariant Learning and Detection of Human Heads

We present a method to learn models of human heads for the purpose of detection from different viewing angles. We focus on a model where objects are represented as constellations of rigid features (parts). Variability is represented by a joint probability density function (pdf) on the shape of the constellation. In a first stage, the method automatically identifies distinctive features in the t...

the role of vocabulary learning strategies on vocabulary retention and on language proficiency in iranian efl students

آموزش زبان دوم طی سالهای اخیر بدنبال روشهای بهتری برای تحقق بخشیدن به اهداف معلمین و دانش آموزان بوده است . در مورد معلمین این امر منجر به تحقیقاتی در مورد ساختار زبانی، محاوره ای و تعاملی گردیده است . در مورد دانش آموزان این امر به مطالعاتی درباره نگرش دانش آموزان نسبت به فراگیری در داخل کلاس و بیرون از آن و همچنین انواع مختلف روشهای پردازش ذهنی منجر شده است . هدف از این تحقیق یافتن روشهائی اس...