The Problem: Increasingly, more and more people are living and working separated from their family and coworkers. As telecommuting starts to become the norm, and families separate across the country and the world, systems that bring people together in a spontaneous way will be needed. We envision these systems to co-exist with people in their current spaces. These devices work to convey presenc...

The present study will focus on the perception by the native speakers of elided high vowels in Japanese and of deleted sounds in spontaneous speech. Study of mother tongues perception of the said phenomenon may serve as a capstone toward the acceptance of elided vowels in Japanese. It is a common belief among scholars that vowel elision may interfere with words comprehension, for the missing vo...

In our search for perceptually relevant cues in speech we have taken special interest in pa r t s of the acoustic signal displaying rapid changes and short durations. In "tape splicing" e-xperiments with natural voiceless stops we have found a greater amount of absolute identity of the esplosion than might be expected from ear l ie r studies. This finding ~hou.ld. be taken into accou;lt in spee...

the problem which has been the focus of city constructors and architectures since the beginning of citizenship life is the issue of the nature of environmental quality. this study, with a review of explaining paradigms of environmental quality and by reliance on basic works, has assumed the question of nature of environmental quality an interdisciplinary concept (civic construction, sociology, ...

Ideological health education of college students is very important to their healthy growth and psychological development. The main problems in the ideological health education of college students are the three aspects including delinquent students, psychological problems and fragility/incapacity. Our analytical result suggested that the three problems are very similar to the three especial diff...

Polarizing discussions on political and social issues are common in mass and user-generated media. However, computer-based understanding of ideological discourse has been considered too difficult to undertake. In this paper we propose a statistical model for ideology discourse. By ideology we mean “a set of general beliefs socially shared by a group of people.” For example, Democratic and Repub...

Ideology and its function in digital games has received considerable scholarly interest in the field of game studies, though only more recently has criticism interested itself with the ideological implications of game mechanics in conjunction with a game's representational content. Relying on an Althusserian definition of ideology, this paper builds upon the existing methodology of procedural r...

Four studies investigated a goal regulation view of anxious uncertainty threat (Gray & McNaughton, 2000) and ideological defense. Participants (N = 444) were randomly assigned to have achievement or relationship goals implicitly primed. The implicit goal primes were followed by randomly assigned achievement or relationship threats that have reliably caused generalized, reactive approach motivat...