Abstract The study presented in this article shows some aspects of how children between the ages three and five their educators perceive describe educational environment early childhood education Sweden. data is generated using pedagogical walk-throughs with camera tours together children. conducted as a case municipalities cases materiality, places relationships appear intersection educators’ ...

We present a trainable, visually-grounded, spoken language understanding system. The system acquires a grammar and vocabulary from a “show-and-tell” procedure in which visual scenes are paired with verbal descriptions. The system is embodied in a table-top mounted active vision platform. During training, a set of objects is placed in front of the vision system. Using a laser pointer, the system...

We present a newly crowd-sourced data set of natural language references to objects anchored in complex urban scenes (In short: The REAL Corpus – Referring Expressions Anchored Language). The REAL corpus contains a collection of images of real-world urban scenes together with verbal descriptions of target objects generated by humans, paired with data on how successful other people were able to ...

People’s memory for an event is known to be affected by their verbal descriptions prior to memory assessment. The present experiment investigated whether the computational difficulty of production itself, which is known to affect what people say, can shape descriptions and subsequent event memory. Participants viewed simple scenes and were asked to describe them using either speech or silent ge...

Non-canonical inflection (deponency, heteroclisis. . . ) is extensively studied in theoretical morphology. However, these studies often lack practical implementations associated with large-scale lexica. Yet these are precisely the requirements for objective comparative studies on the complexity of morphological descriptions. We show how parsli, our model of inflectional morphology, manages to r...

Sketching is integral to information systems design. Designers need to become fluent in translating verbal descriptions of systems to a variety of kinds of sketches, notably sequential and logical, and to translate among the kinds. Here, we investigated these cognitive skills in design students, asking them to design a system configuration starting from either a sequential diagram or a sequenti...

The modelling of landscape environment is a cognitive activity, that still requires novel kinds of spatial representations. This paper introduces a structural categorisation of a landscape view based on panoramic photographs that act a substitute of a given natural environment. Verbal descriptions of a landscape scene provide the modelling input of our approach. The structural-based representat...

We examined the role of spatial frames of reference in memory. Participants first verified verbal descriptions of visual scenes and spatial relations among objects. The intrinsic and relative frames of reference (FoR) were used in the descriptions with varying degrees of frequency (availability) and veridicality (reliability). Descriptions in the two reference frames could either be equally dis...

This study investigated the effectiveness of using antecedent persuasive stimulation and response-contingent praise, within a small discussion group context, to modify the rate of verbal participation of Ss in an independent, classroom situation. Ss were 96 male college students who were divided into 12 treatment subgroups and 4 control subgroups of 6 Ss each. 3 treatment conditions were employ...