Small, body-mounted video cameras enable a different style of wearable computing interface. As processing power increases, a wearable computer can spend more time observing its user to provide serendipitous information, manage interruptions and tasks, and predict future needs without being directly commanded by the user. This paper introduces an assistant for playing the real-space game Patrol....

Negative expressions are common in natural language text and play a critical role in information extraction. However, the performances of current systems are far from satisfaction, largely due to its focus on intrasentence information and its failure to consider inter-sentence information. In this paper, we propose a graph model to enrich intrasentence features with inter-sentence features from...

Research on auditory graphs has investigated mappings, scalings, and polarities (Walker, 2002), as well as the addition of some contextual design features (Bonebright, Nees, Connerley, & McCain, 2001; Flowers, Buhman, & Turnage, 1997), in order to improve performance. However, little has been done to quantify the performance effects of such features, or to investigate effects of training in spe...

This study aims to better understand the effect of practice schedule and feedback providing types. In two separate experiments the contextual interference effect in bandwidth and self-control feedback conditions on relative and absolute timing learning was examined. In experiment I, the effect of contextual interference using bandwidth and self-control feedback on absolute timing learning (para...

recently, researches on motor learning have illustrated that learning with effortless process supports learning under psychological stress. also, contextual interference and practice specificity theories are among those theories which investigate desired practice conditions. the current study aimed at identifying cognitive effort and effortless process based on contextual interference and pract...

This paper presents two new evaluation methods for edge detectors. First is non-contextual and concerns the evaluation of edge detector performance in terms of detection errors. The second contextual method evaluates the performance of edge detectors in the context of image reconstruction. Both methods study the in ̄uence of image characteristics and edge detector properties on detector performa...

The purpose of this study was to clarify the relationship between collective efficacy and contextual performance among university athletes in Japan. We carried out 305 university athletes (201 males, 104 females) from 14 teams in various geographic areas in Japan. The average age of the participants was 19.91 years (SD = 1.01). The kinds of sports were soccer, basketball, baseball, volleyball, ...

In this study, it is aimed to develop a "Job Performance Scale" in order measure the job performance of employees with measurement tool high validity and reliability based on scientific methods. The study was conducted data obtained from three different sample groups, including universities, health industry sectors. As collection tool, draft scale consisting 12 items prepared by focus working g...

To determine the developmental trajectory of hippocampal function in rats, we examined 24-h changes in extracellular acetylcholine (ACh) levels and contextual learning performance. Extracellular ACh significantly correlated with spontaneous behavior, exhibiting a 24-h rhythm in juvenile (4-week-old), pubertal (6-week-old), and adult (9- to 12-week-old) rats. Although juveniles of both sexes exh...