In order to create a worker-friendly environment for institutional foodservice, facilities operating with a dry kitchen system have been recommended. This study was designed to compare the work safety and work environment of foodservice between wet and dry kitchen systems. Data were obtained using questionnaires with a target group of 303 staff at 57 foodservice operations. Dry kitchen faciliti...

In interactive drama, whether for entertainment or training purposes, there is a need to balance the enforcement of authorial intent with player autonomy. A promising approach to this problem is the incorporation of an intelligent Drama Manager (DM) into the simulated environment. The DM can intervene in the story as it progresses in order to (more or less gently) guide the player in an appropr...

In interactive storytelling systems and other story-based computer games, a drama manager is a background agent that aims to bring about an enjoyable and coherent experience for the players. In this paper, we present a personalized drama manager that increases a player’s expected enjoyment without removing player agency. Our personalized drama manager models a player’s preference using data-dri...

Substantial research effort has been put into creating a truly interactive drama that is not only entertaining but also gives the player a sense of coherency and that she is an active participant in the unfolding drama. A fully interactive drama has the potential of revolutionising entertainment, gaming, education, therapy and news coverage. If pre-authored stories are directly implemented into...

This study aims to design a new kind of interactive drama, where the user interacts in depth with the course of the narrative, while the dramatic intensity is retained. Based on various theoretical sources on narrative and drama, a model is put forward. This model is used to build a computer system of interactive drama.

This paper refers to the comparative study of the equipment used for cooking in commercial of kitchens restaurants that use the system of traditional cooking and those ones which use the system called smart cooking (combination oven). The study investigates the usability issues concerning to the two systems, analyzing comparatively the aspects related to anthropometry, dimensional variables, th...

We have developed a small, light, passive, inexpensive, datalogging particle monitor called the "UCB" (University of California Berkeley particle monitor). Following previously published laboratory assessments, we present here results of tests of its performance in field settings at high particle concentrations. We demonstrate the mass sensitivity of the UCB in relation to gravimetric filter-ba...

This paper provides a critical review of existing interactive drama systems. An interactive drama takes place within a virtual world in which the user has a high degree of freedom to physically and mentally interact with non-player characters and objects within a dramatically interesting experience which is different on every play, and adapts to the user’s interactions. Those criteria which sho...

The Internet and the Grid are changing the face of high performance computing. Rather than tightly-coupled SPMD-style components running in a single cluster, on a parallel machine, or even on the Internet programmed in MPI, applications are evolving into sets of cooperating components scattered across diverse computational elements. These components may run on diierent operating systems and har...