Recent research in relational learning has suggested that simple training instances may lead to better generalization than complex training instances. We examined the perceptual-encoding mechanisms that might undergird this "simple advantage" by testing category and perceptual learning in adults with simplified and traditional (more complex) Chinese scripts. In Experiment 1, participants learne...

YES is a simplified stroke-based method for sorting Chinese characters. It is free from stroke counting and grouping, and thus much faster and more accurate than the traditional method. This paper presents a collation element table built in YES for a large joint Chinese character set covering (a) all 20,902 characters of Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs, (b) all 11,408 characters in the Complete ...

Drawing from ideas in both traditional animation and modern philosophy, we present a methodology for designing synthetic characters. The goal of our approach is to construct intentional characters that are both compelling, in the sense that people can empathize with them, and understandable, in that their actions can be seen as attempts to satisfy their desires given their beliefs. We also pres...

Various forms of art and entertainment involve many different characters, and advances in human interfaces have necessitated physical interactions in order to develop an improved sense of reality. In this paper we propose a method for generating the motions of characters using multidimensional keyframe animation in parallel with real-time physical simulation. The method generates characters cap...

A new method is described for preparing slide mounts of whole bodies of microlepidoptera to facilitate comparative morphological studies. This me­ thod conserves traditional characters of wing pattern while revealing wing venation and other morpholo­ gical structures of the denuded body. Examples of new characters revealed on slide mounts of whole bodies and photographed with a Confocal Laser S...

In this paper we present a novel method to classify machine printed Chinese characters by matching the code strings generated from pseudo skeleton features. In our approach, the pseudo skeletons of Chinese characters are extracted rather than using skeletons extracted by traditional thinning algorithms. The features of the pseudo skeletons of both input and template characters are then encoded ...

Interactive virtual environments (IVEs) are now seen as an engaging new way by which children learn experimental sciences and other disciplines. These environments are populated by synthetic characters that guide and stimulate the children activities. In order to build such environments, one needs to address the problem of how achieve believable and empathic characters that act autonomously. In...