The Problem: Robot tasking addresses how a user can induce a mechanically general-purpose robot to perform a particular operation. It is crucial for the success of tasking that the robot can acquire a sufficient characterization of the context of the task from the user to avoid having to fall back on unconstrained object recognition and segmentation, which are currently difficult to apply in pr...

System of systems engineering seeks to analyze, design and deploy collections that together can flexibly address an array complex tasks. In the Complex Adaptive Composition Design Environment program, we developed "network operads" as a tool for designing tasking systems, applied them domains including maritime search rescue. The network operad formalism offers new ways handle changing levels a...

Future piloted space exploration missions will focus more on science than engineering, a change which will challenge existing concepts for flight crew tasking and demand that participants with contrasting skills, values, and backgrounds learn to cooperate as equals. In terrestrial space flight analogs such as Desert Research And Technology Studies, engineers, pilots, and scientists can practice...

Collaborative problem-solving is often not a sequential process; instead, it can involve tasking switching or dual tasking (i.e., multitasking) activities in that the collaborators need to shift their attention between the targeted problems and the conversations they carry on with their collaborators. It is not known to what extent the multitasking activities increase or decrease collaborators’...

Peripheral displays may require higher attention allocation compared to centered displays. This study investigated how cognitive load with peripheral dual-tasking affected gait variability in healthy young adults dual-tasking. Eleven (23.8±1.25 years) participated the experiment. Participants performed three trials of different tests while walking on treadmill. The tasks were randomly assigned ...

Purposeful, safe locomotion requires higher-level cortical processes, to meet the real-life demands of walking while performing concurrent cognitive tasks (e.g. recalling a shopping list or attending to a conversation). The assessment of walking and a secondary cognitive task under these 'dual tasking' conditions may represent a more valid outcome measure in multiple sclerosis (MS), by examinin...

In this paper, we study how to task camera sensor nodes to reason about the occupancy of the area around them. Occupancy information is valuable because it can be used to answer many other queries such as determining object tracks or the count of the number of people in an area. Camera sensors are challenging to include in a wireless sensor network (WSN) because they are high data rate devices....

Citation: Kirchner EA and Kim SK (2018) Multi-Tasking and Choice of Training Data Influencing Parietal ERP Expression and Single-Trial Detection—Relevance for Neuroscience and Clinical Applications. Front. Neurosci. 12:188. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00188 Multi-Tasking and Choice of Training Data Influencing Parietal ERP Expression and Single-Trial Detection—Relevance for Neuroscience and Clinica...

Tasking in OpenMP 3.0 allows irregular parallelism to be expressed much more easily and it is expected to be a major step towards the widespread adoption of OpenMP for multicore programming. We discuss the issues encountered in providing monitoring support for tasking in an existing OpenMP profiling tool with respect to instrumentation, measurement, and result presentation.