Among other crucial functions such as emotional and numeric processing, the right hemisphere processes properties of space (Bartolomeo, 2006), of the body and of the sensory information related to it (Berlucchi and Aglioti, 2010). Being able to control the position of our arms and to coordinate our hands allows to perform reaching movements, precision grips, and other actions essential to inter...

Pedestrians adjust both speed and stride length when they navigate difficult situations such as tight corners or dense crowds. They do this with foresight reacting instantly when they encounter the difficulty. This has an impact on the movement of the whole crowd especially at bottlenecks where slower movement and smaller steps can be observed. State-of-the-art pedestrian motion models automati...

One of the main aims of research in the area of ubiquitous or pervasive computing is that of dealing with the rapidly growing number of sensors, devices and artefacts in the user‟s environment, which have an increasing amount of intelligence built in and which can communicate via wireless technologies. To assist in this the concept of Ambient Ecologies has been proposed as a metaphor for modell...

Ubiquitous computing is a promising paradigm to support health care outside traditional care institutes. Sensor-based systems may continuously collect data on a person's health status and context, and provide immediate feedback or contact a remote physician. This paper presents a novel programming model to facilitate the development of such systems. The model, which has been inspired by tuple s...

Architecture frames most of our intellectual activities. One particularly important aspect of such “framing” is the spaces devoted to personal work. These spaces are extensively featured in painting. Over the centuries, saints, hermits, and scholars were painted in their studies. The portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466–1536), possibly the most prominent Northern European scholar of his time,...

This article reviews space-time modem technology for mobile radio applications. We begin with motivations for the use of space-time modems and then brieey discuss the challenges posed by wireless propagation. Next, we develop a signal model for the wireless environment. Channel estimation, equalization , and ltering techniques for space-time modems in the forward and reverse links are then disc...

Maintaining an appropriate distance from others is important for establishing effective communication and good interpersonal relations. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder associated with social difficulties, and it is thus worth examining whether individuals with ASD maintain typical or atypical degrees of social distance. Any atypicality of social distancing may impact ...

Real-time simulation of dense crowds is finding increased use in event planning, congestion prediction, and threat assessment. Existing particle-based methods assume and aim for collision-free trajectories. That is an ideal -yet not overly realisticexpectation, as near-collisions increase in dense and rushed settings compared to typically sparse pedestrian scenarios. This paper presents a metho...

The ability to maintain an appropriate physical distance (i.e., interpersonal distance) from others is a critical aspect of social interaction and contributes importantly to real-life social functioning. In Study 1, using parent-report data that had been acquired on a large number of individuals (ages 4-18 years) for the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange and the Simons Simplex Collection, we fou...