This article presents a contrastive analysis between reading time and syntactic/semantic categories in Japanese. We overlaid the reading time annotation of BCCWJ-EyeTrack and a syntactic/semantic category information annotation on the ‘Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese’. Statistical analysis based on a mixed linear model showed that verbal phrases tend to have shorter reading tim...

The debate on effectiveness of virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR) tools for training professionals and operators is long-running with prominent contributions arguing that there are several shortfalls of experimental approaches and assessment criteria reported within the literature. In the automotive context, although car-makers were pioneers in the use of VR/MR tools for supporting designers, re...

In a recent paper ((3)) a fitting procedure for the Neyman-Scott rectangular pulses (NSRP) spatial-temporal model of rainfall was developed. In that paper, the NSRP third moment function was fitted to the equivalent sample value taken at one-hour time intervals. In this paper, the fitting and modelling procedure are extended to ensure a close fit is obtained to further sample properties over a ...

Our new meeting room, the MR Square, was built as a testing ground of a variety of multimedia user interfaces and applications. The MR Square features mixed-reality technologies such as wide-area trackers and tens of head mount displays, as well as one 200-inch and two 150-inch screens. Participants sit and collaborate in fully wired, retractable seats. The MR Square illustrates how state of th...

1 Abstract In this paper realization aspects of borders in a mixed-mode CNN with the grid size smaller than the input data are evaluated. Ways of fractioning the input data into blocks are overviewed. Implications of the partitioning to hardware realization of borders of CNN are discussed. Also, a border cell design is shown with boundaries between blocks virtually connected to each other so th...

Creative and technical considerations in building a musical instrument to traverse acoustical space and network space. Conceiving a musical instrument for heterogeneous space and democratic use requires implementation of diverse modes and techniques satisfying needs of tactile local presence, and tangible telepresence. The result is an artistic project destined for multi-site gallery installati...

Transfiction is a system allowing the exploration and the realisation of concepts involving multiple places, both physical and virtual, and multiple media channels (visual, audio...) for enhancing the human-to-human communication. The human variable is back in the loop of complex Mixed Reality systems design and is positioned at the core of the narrative through the participation of users as “i...

The generation of leveled production schedules is of high importance for mixed-model assembly lines whose parts and materials are supplied just-in-time by multi-level production processes. The Output Rate Variaton problem is the standard mathematical representation of this complex level scheduling problem and has been extensively studied by research thus far. This work identi es novel symmetrie...

Exercise is vital to maintaining good health, but many people neglect to work out regularly or often enough. One reason is the lack of will to take part in physical activities. We believe that interactive technologies can play a role in providing entertaining and implicitly educational mechanisms that will help people pursue healthy physical activities. As an example to our approach we present ...

The purpose of this paper is to study the adoption of a new technology by a firm when the competitor comes into play at a random date that can be seen as her birth date. The presence of a competitor is thus only revealed when she invests. We show that there exists a unique Bayesian equilibrium that can be split into three stages. No firm will invest before a threshold T ∗ 1 even if she is born ...