Syndetic Modelling:

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Syndesis n. (pl. ~ es). [mod, L, f. Gk SYNdesis} binding together (sundeo bind together)]. —The Concise Oxford Dictionary, Seventh Edition, 1986. User and system models are typically viewed as independent representations that provide complementary insights into aspects of human-computer interaction. Within system development it is usual to see the two activities as separate, or at best loosely ...

Syndetic Modelling: Computer Science Meets Cognitive Psychology

This paper discusses an approach to combining user and system models within a common mathematical framework, to yield an integrated view of human-system interaction. Aspects of systems that affect usability can be described and reasoned about in terms of the conjoint behaviour of user and computer. The paper outlines the basic ideas behind the approach through a case study. The paper then revie...

Thick, syndetic, and piecewise syndetic subsets of Fräıssé structures

We define and undertake a systematic study of thick, syndetic, and piecewise syndetic subsets of a Fräıssé structure. Each of these collections forms a family in the sense of Akin and Glasner [AG], and we define and study ultrafilters on each of these families, paying special attention to ultrafilters on the thick sets. In the process, we generalize many results of Bergelson, Hindman, and McCut...

SN̈AP: SyNdetic Assistance Processes

Activity recognition in intelligent environments could play a key role for supporting people in their activities of daily life. Partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) models have been used successfully, for example, to assist people with dementia when carrying out small multi-step tasks such as hand washing. POMDP models are a powerful, yet flexible framework for modeling assistan...

A Syndetic Approach To Referring Phenomena In Multimodal Interaction