the issue of relation, particularly that of human relation to god stands for one of the most significant concerns by all men of faith. to realize such a relation martin buber and rumi, two globally acclaimed thinkers, have appropriated independent existences for both god and man to make them eligible for having a relation to each other, and they have brought this relationship to the fore in the...

People are most likely to see something if their gaze is directed at it. Thus if they saw something they may be biased towards believing that they had been looking at it. In order to examine whether this is so we asked participants where a target that jumped to a new position every 250 ms had been at a moment indicated by a flash or a tone. The jumping introduced uncertainty about where the tar...

We discuss some ambiguities associated with the phrase \direct search method" and propose a formal deenition.

Recent growing interest in predicting and influencing consumer behavior has generated a parallel increase in research efforts on Recommender Systems. Many of the state-of-the-art Recommender Systems algorithms rely on obtaining user ratings in order to later predict unknown ratings. An underlying assumption in this approach is that the user ratings can be treated as ground truth of the user’s t...

Solar panels have been improving in efficiency and dropping in price, and are therefore becoming more common and economically viable. However, the performance of solar panels depends not only on the weather, but also on other external factors such as shadow, dirt, dust, etc. In this paper, we describe a simple and practical data-driven method for classifying anomalies in the power output of sol...

This paper proposes real-time interactive systems illuminating your shadows cast on the floor, which we name “Graphic Shadow.” They will make you experience an exciting space of interaction performing an illusion on your own shadow.