Introduction This report contains an analysis of MERBoard use primarily during the nominal and extended Mars Exploration Rover missions. It incorporates data based on open-ended interviews and conversations with 14 mission scientists and engineers on the Spirit and Opportunity, as well as seven researchers and designers involved in the development of the MERBoard itself. Conceived largely as an...

This paper explores the use of a physics-based sound model of continuous contact for auditory display in interactive settings. An audio-visual interactive display is developed in which the sound model is controlled by the user’s gestures. The display is used to investigate to what extent audition can substitute for haptic feedback in conveying perception of inertial properties of a manipulated ...

This thesis proposes several new perceptually-motivated techniques to synthesize, edit and enhance depiction of three-dimensional virtual scenes. Finding algorithms that fit the perceptually economic middle ground between artistic depiction and full physical simulation is the challenge taken in this work. First, we will present three interactive global illumination rendering approaches that are...

During the past few decades, linguists have been striving to investigate language-specific phenomena in addition to their efforts to construct a model of language processing in general. Psycholinguistic studies have been following the same trends by employing a comparative perspective in research on spoken-language processing by human listeners. The aim of this practice is to provide a unified ...

Previous studies have failed to demonstrate lexically induced delays in phoneme recognition, casting doubt on interactive models of speech perception. We present TRACE simulations that explain these failures: previously tested conditions failed to produce lexically induced delay effects because the input was too unambiguous and the control condition was conflated with lexical status and neighbo...

This study proposes a holistic approach for determining critical attributes in e-learning measurements. There is an abundance of literature pertaining to the e-learning framework, but there is a shortage of literature on how to properly implement the framework in uncertainty with variance and interactive relationships. This paper also considers the nature of fuzziness in human perception and av...

I. INTRODUCTION Object recognition is a key component of service robots for finding and handling objects. Current state-of-the-art object recognition systems recognize objects based on static images [7, 8]. However, these systems prove limited in cases when objects are in ambiguous orientations or distinctive features are hidden, e.g., due to the pose of the object. A popular approach to tackle...

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