The Independent LifeStyle Assistant (I.L.S.A.) is an agentbased monitoring and support system to help elderly people to live longer in their homes by reducing caregiver burden. I.L.S.A. is a multiagent system that incorporates a unified sensing model, situation assessments, response planning, real-time responses and machine learning. This paper describes the some of the lessons we learned durin...

In this paper, we describe our approaches that we used for the NTCIR-8 Community QA Pilot task and report on its results. Specifically in the pilot task, we mainly focused on discovering effective features for evaluating quality of answers, for example, features on relevance of an answer to a question, authority of an answerer, or informativeness of an answer. Also, we examined two different st...

BACKGROUND Feldenkrais Method balance classes have been found to be effective in improving balance in recent studies, but there has been little research into possible mechanisms behind the effectiveness of these classes. Indeed, there has been little research into the content of any balance training classes. OBJECTIVES To analyse the content of a series of Feldenkrais Method balance classes t...

EuroSDR (former OEEPE) has embarked on distance education. Short courses related to three of its recent research projects were offered in 2002 and will be run again in 2004 together with a forth course. ITC has contributed a course on active sensor technology for digital terrain relief modelling. The paper reports on course design and gained experiences.

BACKGROUND Blended learning (BL) in a cell biology course of the premedical program at the Kasturba Medical College International Centre, Manipal, India, commenced in 2006. The program provides training in basic sciences to students, especially from the United States and Canada. The approach to the study was phenomenographic, with a qualitative study design using an open-ended questionnaire, fo...

José Henrique Brito12 [email protected] Christopher Zach4 [email protected] Kevin Köser3 [email protected] Manuel João Ferreira2 [email protected] Marc Pollefeys3 [email protected] 1 Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave Barcelos, Portugal 2 Universidade do Minho Guimarães, Portugal 3 Computer Vision and Geometry Group ETH Zurich, Switzerland 4 Machine Learning and Perc...

This paper explores the relationship between inspection and research through eyes of a person with experience these practices. It is an account individual’s attempt to understand prescriptive nature change in education since 1988; locate place within that process try influence those factors are changeable minimize not. Examples drawn from writer’s combining roles first instance as teacher-resea...