This paper presents some aspects to provide interaction with virtual human crowds. We describe some interaction paradigms present in ViCrowd, a system to model and generate virtual crowds with various degrees of autonomy. In addition, a Client/Server architecture is discussed in order to provide interface to guide and communicate with virtual crowds.

In this paper, we propose a new method for designing rich internet applications. The design process uses results from an object-oriented analysis and employs interaction spaces as the basic abstraction mechanism. State diagrams are employed as refinements of interaction spaces and task models to specify synchronization events and follow up actions on the client and server side. The notation is ...

We report on a property-based approach to feature interaction analysis for a client-server email system. The model is based upon Hall’s email model [12] presented at FIW’00 [3], but the implementation is at a lower level of abstraction, employing non-determinism and asynchronous communication; it is a challenge to avoid deadlock and race conditions. Our analysis differs in two ways: interaction...

We find that there are serious problems in Cloud application development such as complex architecture and WS API, highly running cost, poor UI and interaction and so on, and that these problems stem from not fully utilized RIA’s (Rich Internet Application) advantages and inappropriate functionality segmentation between clientside and server-side. That is, Web services, application logic and tra...

BACKGROUND We currently lack insight into the predictive processes of Motivational Interviewing (MI) in smoking cessation treatment. More knowledge is necessary to be able to further enhance the treatment effect in smoking cessation interventions. OBJECTIVES To examine certain hypothesized active components of MI in smoking cessation treatment delivered in an ordinary clinical setting. METH...

This study provides both survey and experimental evidence to consider how the interaction between staff-level auditors and client management may affect the auditors’ perceptions and influence their decisions regarding the collection of audit evidence. During fieldwork, staff-level auditors have extensive interaction with client management. Survey evidence suggests that these staff-level auditor...

ClpB/Hsp100 is an ATP-dependent disaggregase that solubilizes and reactivates protein aggregates in cooperation with the DnaK/Hsp70 chaperone system. The ClpB-substrate interaction is mediated by conserved tyrosine residues located in flexible loops in nucleotide-binding domain-1 that extend into the ClpB central pore. In addition to the tyrosines, the ClpB N-terminal domain (NTD) was suggested...

In this work we study the relationship between a WLAN owner acting as a wireless access provider and a paying client. We model the interaction as a dynamic game in which the players have asymmetric information – the client knows more about her utility function than the access provider knows. We find that if a client has what we call a web browser utility function, it is a Nash equilibrium for t...

A theory-led narrative approach was used to unpack the complexities of the factors that enable successful client adherence following one-to-one health interventions. Understanding this could prepare the provider to anticipate different adherence behaviours by clients, allowing them to tailor their interventions to increase the likelihood of adherence. The review was done in two stages. A theore...