It may be argued that writing about contemporaneity risks being a mere description of what Braudel would term ‘episodic time’—the short-term perspective newspapers and chronicles. However, when political social events spread into literature, there is nuanced language presence (Barthes). By not bound to specific mode narration, the essay’s brevity incisiveness seems particularly suitable deciphe...

The paper presents an approach to support knowledge-intensive tasks with a context-sensitive task management system that is integrated into the user’s personal knowledge space represented in the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop. The context-sensitive assistance is based on the combination of user observation, agile task modelling, automatic task prediction, as well as elicitation and proactive delivery...

Interpersonal distance regulation is crucial for successful social interactions. We investigated personal space awareness in Williams syndrome (WS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared to typical development. Parents reported that individuals with WS and ASD were significantly more likely than those developing typically to invade the personal space of others. WS individuals were reported...

Come Closer describes a combined research and art installation using wearable technology and collaborative interaction to explore and challenge the sense of personal space and proximity to others. Participants become acutely aware of each other; aware of their presence in both physical and virtual space. They are encouraged to probe and investigate the boundaries that define personal space, to ...

In this paper, we propose a novel method for selecting personal favorite scenes using hierarchical eigenspace method based approach from broadcast soccer videos. In our method, we use physical parameters extracted from videos, such as image space frequency and time space frequency. We use these physical parameters as feature vectors, make an eigenspace of these vectors extracted from image slic...