Away in Night

Dancing the night away: controlling a virtual karaoke dancer by multimodal expressive cues

In this article, we propose an approach of nonverbal interaction with virtual agents to control agents’ behavioral expressivity by extracting and combining acoustic and gestural features. The goal for this approach is twofold, (i) expressing individual features like situated arousal and personal style and (ii) transmitting this information in an immersive 3D environment by suitable means.

Night sweats

Although night sweating is a common outpatient complaint medical, literature on this subject is scarce. Tuberculosis, brucellosis and lymphoma are diseases in which night sweating is a dominant symptom, but these are infrequently found to be the cause of night sweats in modern practice. While these diseases remain important diagnostic considerations in patients with night sweats, other diagnosi...

Five Years Ago Two of Us Whiled Away a Cloudy Night on the Summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii

Wasting away.

The United States' waste stream is the most visible example of popular society's disregard for the earth. The environmental movement focused on curbing the array of crises we now face has been steadily growing since the 70's, however; the extent of its progress in many areas is questionable. Specific to mitigating the amount of garbage that plagues our communities and landfills, recycling progr...

Put Away

this book received such publicity at the time of its publication that there must be few who do not know what it is about. Briefly, it is the result of a four years study by a research team, headed by Dr. Pauline Morris, principal lecturer in Sociology at the Borough Polytechnic, London, of the physical, psychological and sociological environment which institutions provide for the mentally handi...