This work explains the development of a novel approach to beautify a face, merging an evolutionary approach and aesthetics graph drawing. The objective of this work is to build a beautify face seen against the input face. The aesthetics graph drawing algorithm works as the mutation operator. The approach of force-directed graph drawing which in turn is the solution to aesthetical graph drawing ...

Communication between healthcare professionals and patients as part of the therapeutic process is often restricted to short, episodic face-to-face encounters within healthcare institutions. The absence of a continuous communication process that extends the face-to-face encounter to include the therapeutic process outside the institution limits the support and guidance healthcare professionals c...

This experiment is the third in a series of empirical studies designed to explore the effectiveness of various modes of communication for groups working on determining software requirements. This study focuses on the effectiveness of matching communication media to stages of group work. Three modes of communication are compared: (1) face-to-face (2) Web-based asynchronous computer conferencing ...

The human turn-taking system regulates the smooth and precise exchange of speaking turns during face-to-face interaction. Recent studies investigated the processing of on-going turns during conversation by measuring the eye movements of non-involved observers. The findings suggest that humans shift their gaze in anticipation to the next speaker before the start of the next turn. Moreover, there...

This paper describes MushyPeek, a experiment framework that allows us to manipulate interaction control behaviour – including turn-taking – in a setting quite similar to face-to-face human-human dialogue. The setup connects two subjects to each other over a VoIP telephone connection and simultaneuously provides each of them with an avatar representing the other. The framework is exemplified wit...

Turn to turn fault is one of the major internal failures in the power transformers that if it is not quickly detected, can be extended and led to a complete transformer breakdown. So, the diagnosis and location of the turn to turn fault of the power transformer, as one of the most important equipment in the power system, is the main objective of this paper. For this purpose, a detailed model of...

We study turn-taking behaviour in non-cooperative dialogue for the development of believable characters in a serious game for conversational skill learning in the police interview context. We describe a perception study to see how participants perceive a suspect’s interpersonal stance, rapport, face, and deception when the turn-taking of the subject varies. We influence the perception of the su...

Analysis of student-tutor coaching dialogs suggest that good human tutors attend to and attempt to influence the motivational state of learners. Moreover, they are sensitive to the social face of the learner, and seek to mitigate the potential face threat of their comments. This paper describes a dialog generator for pedagogical agents that takes motivation and face threat factors into account....

Experimental turn by turn beam position measurements were performed in order to investigate the non-linear beam dynamics in Super-ACO. The aim of these experiments is to get a better understanding of the aperture limiting effects of non-linearities and to check the model used in tracking studies. The amplitudedependent tune shift measurements allow to highlight a strong octupolar-like component...