This paper presents an emerging application of multimodal interface research to distributed applications. We have developed the QuickSet prototype, a pen/voice system running on a hand-held PC, communicating via wireless LAN through an agent architecture to a number of systems, including NRaD’s LeatherNet system, a distributed interactive training simulator built for the US Marine Corps. The pa...

A discourse strategy is a strategy for communicating with another agent. Designing eeec-tive dialogue systems requires designing agents that can choose among discourse strategies. We claim that the design of eeective strategies must take cognitive factors into account, propose a new method for testing the hypothesized factors, and present experimental results on an eeective strategy for support...

ITE JOURNAL ON THE WEB / MAY 1999 OVER THE PAST DECADES traffic volumes have been steadily increasing throughout the United States causing more congestion and compromising safety. Highway incidents can cause significant disruption to traffic flows, and their adverse effects are usually widespread. The long delays usually experienced as a result of these incidents reduce productivity and increas...

Enzymes are biological catalysts vital to life processes and have attracted century-long investigation. The classic Michaelis-Menten mechanism provides a highly satisfactory description of catalytic activities for large ensembles of enzyme molecules. Here we tested the Michaelis-Menten equation at the single-molecule level. We monitored long time traces of enzymatic turnovers for individual b-g...

spinal cord injury (sci) actuate to complex cellular and molecular interactions within the central nervous system in a heave to repair the initial tissue damage. the pathophysiology of acute spinal cord injury (sci) involves primary and secondary mechanisms. neuroinflammation is an important secondary injury process in sci. the local inflammatory microenvironment within the injured spinal cord ...