We investigate disfluency distribution rates within different moves from an interactive task-oriented experiment to further explore the suggestion by Bortfeld et al. [1] and Nicholson [2] that different types of disfluencies may fulfill varying functions. We focus on disfluency types within moves, or speech turns, where a speaker initiates something compared to a response to such a move. We fin...

This study is concerned with pen-joint and interjoint coordination in handwriting. In particular, it focuses on the stability of coordination as a means to find the locus of coordination control in the arm-pen effector system. Twelve subjects generated loop sequences of varying length at various positions on the baseline of writing. Joint excursions and pen-tip displacements were recorded by me...

We show that if a polynomial filled Julia set has empty interior, then it is computable.

We present in this paper a new strategy of handwriting or hand drawing velocity modeling Based on the Beta theory. The introduced approach aims to improve the interpretability of the dynamic profile model, reduce the data redundancy, and ameliorate the features accuracy. Indeed, we showed that the curvilinear velocity of handwritten or hand drawn trajectory can be rebuilt by superposing two com...

Designing a building or a new urban space is collaborative work that involves several people with different backgrounds. To achieve consensus all participants in the process meet to discuss documents such as floor plans and sections. This paper reports on the progress of Space Pen, a new system to allow several users to draw on and annotate a three-dimensional representation of a building remot...

Syntactic and discourse boundaries are signalled by prosodic cues as well as linguistic cues in speech. We investigated whether there is a correspondence between prosodic or linguistic cues and the boundary strengths. We measured the rates of filled pauses (FPs) and conjunctions, and the durations of silent and filled pauses and conjunctions at four types of boundaries in casual presentations i...

Widely acknowledged as an archetypal design activity, sketching is typically carried out using little more than pen and paper. Today’s designed artifacts however, are often given qualities that are hard to capture with traditional means of sketching. While pen and paper sketching catches the character of a building, it may not equally well capture how that building changes with the seasons, how...

Young sows are subordinate and vulnerable in group-housing systems because they usually lose most fights and suffer more injuries than mature sows at mixing. This study was conducted to evaluate effects of sorting by parity on reducing aggression and associated stress with the aim to improve welfare and performance of first-parity sows in a group-housed system. Sows and gilts (n = 180) from 6 b...

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