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A Simulink-based robotic toolkit for simulation and control of the PUMA 560 robot manipulator

In this paper, a Simulink Robotic Toolkit (SRTK) for the Puma 560 robot manipulator is developed on the MATLAB/SIMULINK-based platform. Through the use of the Real-Time Linux Target and the Real-Time Windows Target, the SRTK can be executed on the Linux or Win32-based operating systems (e.g., Windows 95/98/NT) in real-time. Moreover, the graphical user-friendly nature of Simulink allows the SRT...

A spoken language interface to an electronic programme guide

This paper describes research into the development of personalised spoken language interfaces to an electronic programme guide A substantial data collection exercise has been conducted, resulting in a corpus of nearly 10,000 spoken queries to an electronic programme guide by a total of 64 subjects. A substantial part of the corpus comprises recordings of many queries from a small number of ‘cor...

PUMA: An Operating System for Massively Parallel Systems

This paper presents an overview of PUMA, (Performanceoriented, User-managed Messaging Architecture), a message passing kernel. Message passing in PUMA is based on portals—an opening in the address space of an application process. Once an application process has established a portal, other processes can write values into the portal using a simple send operation. Because messages are written dire...

PUMA PRACTICAL USER MODELLING APPLICATIONS The question of abstraction and complexity in user modelling

Users as rational interacting agents: formalising assumptions about cognition and interaction

One way of assessing the usability of a computer system is to make reasonable assumptions about users' cognition and to analyse how they can be expected to work with the system, using their knowledge and information from the display to achieve their goals. This is the approach taken in Programmable User Modelling Analysis, a technique for predictive usability evaluation of interactive systems. ...