Recent advances in computing capability and approaches have underlined the need for user support in task execution. This is especially evident in dynamic, real-time systems where decision making is critical and errors are costly. Environments such as air traffic control centers leave little time for human operators to make critical decisions. Operators must contend with a significant amount of ...

The research questions posed for this work were as follows: • Can speech recognition and techniques for topic spotting be used to identify spoken intent in unconstrained natural speech? • Can gesture recognition systems based on statistical speech recognition techniques be used to bridge the gap between physical movements and recognition of gestural intent? • How can speech and gesture be combi...

Defining Simulation Intent involves capturing high level modelling and idealisation decisions in order to create an efficient and fit-for-purpose analysis. These decisions are recorded as attributes of the decomposed design space. An approach to defining Simulation Intent is described utilising three known technologies: Cellular Modelling, the subdivision of space into volumes of simulation sig...

Advances in digital imaging have made it possible to put cameras almost everywhere, from cellular phones to satellites. These cameras enable us to generate large numbers of pictures of almost anything in the world. Harnessing this imaging capability in applications, such as computer graphics, monitoring, or computer vision, will require flexible models of images and the scenes that generate the...

There are different ways of automating the assessment of the intent of a target. However, the most effective way is one that can offer the most accurate estimates compared to human-defined benchmarks. To allow various intent assessment technologies to be evaluated against the benchmarks, a reconfigurable simulation environment has been designed. In order to cope with future tests and different ...

COMBINING INTENT MODELING and visual user interfaces can help users discover novel information and dramatically improve their information-exploration performance. Current-generation search engines serve billions of requests each day, returning responses to search queries in fractions of a second. They are great tools for checking facts and looking up information for which users can easily creat...

Interaction between automated planners and intent inferencers is a difficult problem that is not always well understood. This problem can be framed in terms of a number of key issues: shared ontology, human interaction, and display of proposals. Shared ontology is a key issue from both practical and theoretical perspectives. Without sharing, intent inference outputs must be interpreted by the p...

Predicting the e cacy of a drug for a given individual, using highdimensional genomic measurements, is at the core of precision medicine. However, identifying features on which to base the predictions remains a challenge, especially when the sample size is small. Incorporating expert knowledge o↵ers a promising alternative to improve a prediction model, but collecting such knowledge is laboriou...

Many commentators have criticized current anti-discrimination law on the grounds that it does not adequately prohibit unconscious bias in employment decisions. That claim is wrong: Unconscious bias is fully actionable, and it can generally be proved by knowledgeable employment lawyers. The idea behind unconscious bias is that well-meaning employers and supervisors, who would likely consider the...