Interactive Narratives are systems that use automated narrative generation techniques to create multiple story variants which can be shown to an audience, as virtual narratives, using cinematic staging techniques. The focus of previous research has included aspects such as the quality of automatically generated narratives and the way in which audiences respond to them. However in this work we h...

Modelling is a key activity in conceptual design and system design. Through collaborative modelling, end-users, stakeholders, experts and entrepreneurs are able to create shared understanding about a system representation. This paper reports on a literature review to provide an overview of the commonalities and differences in collaborative modelling research. We develop a framework of analysis ...

Electronic Blocks are a new programming interface, designed for children aged between three and eight years. The Electronic Blocks programming environment includes sensor blocks, action blocks and logic blocks. By connecting these blocks children can program structures that interact with the environment. The Electronic Block programming interface design is based on principles of developmentally...

Introduction In the United States, surveillance of vaccine uptake for childhood infections is limited in scope and spatial resolution. The National Immunization Survey (NIS) the gold standard tool for monitoring vaccine uptake among children aged 19-35 months is typically constrained to producing coarse state-level estimates.1 In recent years, vaccine hesitancy (i.e., a desire to delay or refus...

Several varieties of clock drivers with 1ns or less skew from output-to-output are available from Motorola. Microprocessor-based systems are now running at 33MHz and beyond, and system clock distribution at these frequencies mandate the use of low skew clock drivers. Unfortunately, just plugging a high performance clock driver into a system does not guarantee trouble free operation. Only carefu...

1 I, INTRODUCTION 1 II. STAGING AND STABILIZATION 2 III. STAGED SCYLLAC. 5 IV. LARGE STAGED SCYLLAC (LSS) 5 V. STAGED SCYLLAC PROTOTYPE JUSTIFICATION AND OBJECTIVES 6 VI. ENGINEERING DESIGN OF PROTOTYPE A. General Considerations 10 B. Basic Prototype Configuration 11 C. System Operation 14 D. Prototype Systems Design 1. Implosion System 17 2. Staging System 20 3. Trigger System 27 4. Gap-Monito...

This paper discusses some of the requirements for the control architecture of an intelligent human-like agent with multiple independent dynamically changing motives in a dynamically changing only partly predictable world. The architecture proposed includes a combination of reactive, deliberative and meta-management mechanisms along with one or more global \alarm" systems. The engineering design...