SIMPSON, CLARENCE ADRIANO. A System for Generating DeviceSpecific Action Sequences. (Under the direction of Robert St. Amant) As computing devices become more varied and complex, it has been shown that it is useful, perhaps even essential, to begin describing elements of human-computer interaction in more abstract terms. Much of the literature has focused on specific cases of interaction involv...

SHAH, KUNAL DEEPAK. Image Processing for Cognitive Models in Dynamic Gaming Environments. (Under the direction of Dr. Robert St. Amant). Cognitive models have typically dealt with environments that are either artificial or real but too simplistic. This stems from the fact that the process of describing the environment to the cognitive model is a complex vision problem. In order to realize the f...

This paper analyses various simple interest rate rules using a vector error correction forecasting model of the Canadian economy that is anchored by long-run equilibrium relationships suggested by economic theory. Dynamic and stochastic simulations are performed using several interest rate rules, including money based rules and their properties are analysed. Among the class of rules we consider...

BOYCE, CURTIS WESLEY. Augmented Reality as a Perceptual Aid in Robot Teleoperation. (Under the direction of Dr. Robert St. Amant). Robots have reached a level of sophistication such that it is now productive to include robot-assisted search teams in urban search and rescue scenarios. The perceptual interface to the human operator is frequently a video display that relays images from a camera on...

Exploration often plays a central role in the early stages of scientific inquiry. One can rarely produce models of complex, unfamiliar phenomena on first contact with data. One must interpret suggestive features of the data, observe patterns these features indicate, and generate hypotheses to explain the patterns. Successive steps through the process can lead gradually to a better understanding...

This paper proposes a new test of financial contagion based on a nonparametric measure of the cross-market correlation. The test does not depend on the assumption that the data are drawn from a given probability distribution, therefore it allows for maximal flexibility in fitting into the data. Simulation studies show that our test has reasonable size and good power to detect financial contagio...

To analyze somatosensory neuron diversity in larval zebrafish, we identified several enhancers from the zebrafish and pufferfish genomes and used them to create five new reporter transgenes. Sequential deletions of three of these enhancers identified small sequence elements sufficient to drive expression in zebrafish trigeminal and Rohon-Beard (RB) neurons. One of these reporters, using the Fru...