Lexical tone perception was investigated in elderly Thais with Normal Hearing (NH), or Hearing Impairment (HI), the latter with and without Hearing Aids. Auditory-visual (AV), auditory-only (AO), and visual-only (VO) discrimination of Thai tones was investigated. Both groups performed poorly in VO. In AV and AO, the NH performed better than the HI group, and Hearing Aids facilitated tone discri...

In ambient intelligence systems, it is necessary to represent and reason about dynamic spatial scenes and configurations. Primarily, the ability to perform predictive and explanatory analyses on the basis of available sensory data is crucial toward serving a useful intelligent function within such environments. In this paper, we present a qualitative model for representing the relevant aspects ...

We introduce an active imaging method to measure scene illumination. The system implementation is divided into four steps. First, the system acquires two images: one is an ordinary image of the scene under ambient light and the other is a corresponding image in which light from the camera flash is added to the scene. Second, the image pair is analyzed to obtain an image that represents the scen...

We examine an approach in technology-enhanced learning that avoids deviation from existing pedagogical practices as these are often reluctant to change. This is accomplished by designing technology to augment learning activities that are already in common practice. We implemented two ambient awareness tools, Lantern and Reflect, in line with this approach. The former is tailored for recitation ...

In order for personal assistant agents in an ambient intelligence context to provide good recommendations, or pro-actively support humans in task allocation, a good model of what the human prefers is essential. One aspect that can be considered to tailor this support to the preferences of humans is trust. This measurement of trust should incorporate the notion of relativeness since a personal a...

New learning methods are emerging in order to improve and facilitate the use of communication and informatics technologies both by students and professors. This paper describes an Ambient Intelligence application scenario based on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning and MANET in order to create creative and flexible e-learning environments where students can use wireless technologies for ...

In this paper we relate the Fefferman–Graham ambient metric construction for conformal manifolds to the approach to conformal geometry via the canonical Cartan connection. We show that from any ambient metric that satisfies a weakening of the usual normalisation condition, one can construct the conformal standard tractor bundle and the normal standard tractor connection, which are equivalent to...

This study investigated if familiarity with a language that an emotion is expressed in, affects how information from the different sensory modalities are weighed in auditory-visual (AV) processing. The rationale for this study is that visual information may drive multisensory perception of emotion when a person is unfamiliar with a language, and this visual dominance effect may be reduced when ...

The n-skeleton of the canonical cubulation C of R into unit cubes is called the canonical scaffolding S. In this paper, we prove that any smooth knot can be continuously isotoped by an ambient isotopy of R to a knot contained in S.