Discrete Event Simulation of manufacturing systems has become widely accepted as an important tool to aid the design of such systems. Often, however, it is applied by practitioners in a manner which largely ignores an important element of industry; namely, the workforce. Workers are usually represented as simple resources, often with deterministic performance values. This approach ignores the p...

The ability to drive and increase human performance is greatly sought after. Reaching high levels of performance, in many areas has seen the use of technology to maximize efficiency of a variety of tasks. This paper will look at the more recent research in the field of Augmented Reality (AR) in relation to sport, focusing on how it is being used to improve human performance. It will investigate...

How people represent space is a central issue in spatial cognition research and has profound implications on human performance in spatial tasks. In this article, we describe a theory of human spatial representations, which claims that space is represented in the brain and in the mind not once but multiple times, each being a map of salience with a distinctive frame of reference, and that human ...

Educators are interested in essay evaluation systems that include feedback about writing features that can facilitate the essay revision process. For instance, if the thesis statement of a student’s essay could be automatically identified, the student could then use this information to reflect on the thesis statement with regard to its quality, and its relationship to other discourse elements i...

We present a cross-lingual method for determining NP structures. More specifically, we try to determine whether the semantics of tripartite noun compounds in context requires a left or right branching interpretation. The system exploits the difference in word position between languages as found in parallel corpora. We achieve a bracketing accuracy of 94.6%, significantly outperforming all syste...

Although studies of categorization have been a staple of psychological research for decades, there continues to be substantial disagreement about how unique classes of objects are represented in the brain. We present a neural architecture for categorizing visual stimuli based on the Neural Engineering Framework and the manipulation of semantic pointers. The model accounts for how the visual sys...

Hyper-instruments extend traditional acoustic instruments with sensing technologies that capture digitally subtle and sophisticated aspects of human performance. They leverage the long training and skills of performers while simultaneously providing rich possibilities for digital control. Many existing hyper-instruments suffer from being one of a kind instruments that require invasive modificat...

A suite of missing-word tests based on text extracts selected randomly from two different text corpora provided a metric which was used in an evaluation of human performance, an evaluation of language model performance and a cross-comparison of the performances. The effects of providing different sizes of context for the missing word (ranging from two words to three sentences) were examined and...

This article explores the impact of the Human Rights Act (HRA) 1998 on the police service of England and Wales. It draws upon qualitative data produced during interviews with police personnel to provide the first empirical study of the influence of the HRA on the police service at an organizational level and on the day-to-day working practices of police officers. Whilst the fundamental aim of t...

We present RACE, a new dataset for benchmark evaluation of methods in the reading comprehension task. Collected from the English exams for middle and high school Chinese students in the age range between 12 to 18, RACE consists of near 28,000 passages and near 100,000 questions generated by human experts (English instructors), and covers a variety of topics which are carefully designed for eval...