According to a recent definition by Dey and Abowd context is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, place or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and the application themselves. A system is context-aware if it uses context to provide relevant information and/or ser...

In this paper different interaction schemes which are currently implemented by major automotive manufacturers have been identified and analyzed. Complete overviews on all in-vehicle user-interface concepts are rarely spread. This paper gives a deeper insight in interaction schemes and userinterface concepts which are implemented in current cars. Additionally an expert review with 7 experts was ...

We consider several empirical estimators for probabilistic context-free grammars, and show that the estimated grammars have the so-called consistency property, under the most general conditions. Our estimators include the widely applied expectation maximization method, used to estimate probabilistic context-free grammars on the basis of unannotated corpora. This solves a problem left open in th...

We present relativistic many-body calculations of atomic and molecular Schiff-moment interaction constants including interelectron correlation effects using Gaussian basis sets specifically optimized for the Schiff interaction. Our best results employing a nuclear density function are $\alpha_{\text{SM}} = (0.364 \pm 0.025) \times 10^{-17} \frac{e \text{cm}}{e \text{fm}^3}$ $^{129}$Xe, (-2.40 0...

Text messaging has become wildly popular in the United States, and it has some unique characteristics that may impact interpersonal communication such as deception. Here we report how deception detection operates in text messaging, specifically exploring the roles of context, relationship closeness, message content, and one’s liar type on deception detection. We addressed these questions using ...

Using sentence templates and a stochastic context-free grammar a large corpus has been created, where prosodic phrase boundaries are labeled in the sentences automatically during sentence generation. 10,000 sentences of this corpus were recorded and used for our experiments. With perception experiments on 500 utterances we veriied that 92% of the automatically marked boundaries were perceived a...

ext communication is often perceived as lacking some components of communication that are essential in sustaining interaction or conversation. This interaction incoherency tends to make text communication plastic. It is traditionally devoid of intonation, pitch, gesture, facial expression and visual or auditory cues. Nevertheless, Instant Messaging (IM), a form of text communication is on the u...