This study investigates neural processes underlying audiovisual perception of a non-native vowel contrast using fMRI. Eight native Japanese and eight native English speakers participated in the study. The two-alternative forced choice task was to identify which vowel was present in the CVC English word presented under audiovisual (AV) and audio only (AO) conditions. Three sessions were conducte...

Elder care poses an increasingly demanding issue that every aging society has to address. The notion of Ambient Assisted Living aims to solve the issue by promoting the idea of ageing at home through innovative ICT technology. The core technology relies on the real-time identification of occupant’s status and prompt notification to supporting service providers before pertinent measures can be t...

An Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology which provides the user with a real time 3D enhanced perception of a physical environment with addition virtual elements—either virtual scenery, information regarding surroundings, other contextual information—and is also capable of hiding or replacing real structures. With Augmented Reality applications becoming more advanced, the ways the technology c...

Trading is widely recognized as a stressful profession. Taking decisions under stress negatively affects both, the finances and the health of the trader. Providing support to increase the awareness of traders on their real levels of stress could significantly improve their performance and well-being. This paper surveys technology available that can be considered to provide such level of support...

This paper tackles on ethical issues that are relevant when designing new technological service systems for the assisted living. In this paper we present our preliminary ethical guidelines that are built on six ethical principles that are selected based on the ethical assessment of MINAmI (Micro-Nano integrated platform for transverse Ambient Intelligence applications), FP 6 Eu – project, scena...

Let P be a simple polygon with N vertices, each assigned a weight c (0<i<N) with c€{0 , l } . We define the weight C of P as the added weight of its vertices, i.e., C = c 1 +. . . + c A r Making the assumption that the vertices of P have been sorted along some axis -which can be done in 0(Mog AO time-, we prove that it is possible, in O(N) time, to find two vertices a,b in P, such that the segm...

It is an important task for a law professor to educate law students in the skill of legal reasoning. A legal expert system is a computer system,, which entails legal knowledge of lawyers as legal experts in its knowledge base. The legal knowledge involves not only written, explicit knowledge like conventions, statutes, cases, commentaries etc., but also implicit legal knowledge which a lawyer u...

The paper summarizes a project to increase the sense of presence within a driving simulator while interacting with autonomous trafŽc. The project sought to model natural variations in ambient trafŽc to emulate identiŽable driving styles for different categories of driver. Probability distributions combined with decision histories were employed to characterize speed choice while providing a mech...

Experimental observations show that the presence of small tabs on the edge of a hot, compressible jet exiting into a slower moving, colder ambient ow can increase the rate of spreading of the jet. This suggests that the rate of mixing of the jet and the ambient uid is also increased. In order to elucidate the physical mechanism responsible for the increased spreading rate a set of calculations ...