The Problem: Affect is inherently intertwined with several attributes that we associate with intelligent behavior, such as multimodal sensory-motor integration, attention, natural social interactions, and learning and development [1, 2]. The primary focus of this research is to investigate affect from a computational perspective by implementing models of affective processing on a variety of rob...

A review of current agent-based systems exemplifies that a Western perspective is predominant in the field. But as conversational agents focus on rich multimodal interactive behaviors that underlie face-to-face encounters, it is indispensable to incorporate cultural heuristics of such behaviors into the system. In this paper we examine some of the pitfalls that arise in developing such

This review explores the mechanisms that elephants may use to send and receive seismic signals from a physical, anatomical, behavioral, and physiological perspective. The implications of the use of the vibration sense as a multimodal signal will be discussed in light of the elephant's overall fitness and survival.

The world is multimodal.1 We sense our environments using inputs from multiple sensory modalities. Similarly, digital information is increasingly available through multiple media. In this extended abstract, we present a general computational framework for understanding multimodal learning and perception that builds on the analysis-by-synthesis approach [2, 3]. The analysis-by-synthesis approach...

background complications and postoperative pain are major care problems that can affect the quality of health care plan. objectives according to the use of multimodal therapy the current study aimed to compare the efficacy of gabapentin and celecoxib in pain management and complications after laminectomy at ilam university of medical sciences, ilam, iran, in 2015. patients and methods in this r...

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Film discourse is a typical of multimodal discourse which contains many semiotic modalities such as image, text, sound and music. Multimodal discourse analysis (MDA) focuses on how meaning is made through the use of multiple modes of communication as opposed to just language. The MDA assisted film discourse analysis helps understand films through the interaction among different modalities as we...

The creative processes of interaction design operate in terms we generally use for conceptualising human-computer interaction (HCI). Therefore the prevailing design paradigm provides a framework that essentially affects and guides the design process. We argue that the current mainstream design paradigm for multimodal user-interfaces takes human sensory-motor modalities and the related userinter...

In this paper, a statistically optimal solution to the Perspective-n-Point (PnP) problem is presented. Many solutions to the PnP problem are geometrically optimal, but do not consider the uncertainties of the observations. In addition, it would be desirable to have an internal estimation of the accuracy of the estimated rotation and translation parameters of the camera pose. Thus, we propose a ...