Crustaceans is one of the most common causes of food allergies. Its persistency is life-threatening therefore, method to detect the presence of crustacean constituent in food products would be indispensable to ensure the safety. We have developed a simple and rapid method to detect the presence of crustacean residues in food products through the allergenic Pen gene. Detection method was based o...

We frequently take notes when attending class. The method of note-taking includes writing much information as a paper record. However, we cannot write such notes in a notebook if no visual feedback information exists. We propose a pen-based note-taking system, designated as the Pen-Talker, for a visually disabled person to use on an ultra-mobile PC. Using the Pen-Talker, a blind novice user wit...

Lifetime experiences shape people's attitudes toward sexual stimuli. Visual sexual stimulation (VSS), for instance, may be perceived as pleasurable by some, but as disgusting or ambiguous by others. VSS depicting explicit penile-vaginal penetration (PEN) is relevant in this respect, because the act of penetration is a core sexual activity. In this study, 20 women without sexual complaints parti...

In this paper, we performed an exploration on the design and evaluation of pen tail gesture, an interaction method that allows the use of pen tail movement to initiate interactions. Based on our interviews with some designers and researchers who regularly used pen-based tools, we conducted three experiments to establish baseline criteria to distinguish intentional pen tail gestures from inciden...

genus to an abstract essence one would vary several coloured objects and discover that colour belongs to all of them as a highly abstract moment. In 80 other words, one would discover that colour is not an independent, real object; it presupposes extension in order to exist. For Husserl, Lockean dependencies between general concepts and their variants merely serve as a vast playground, or netwo...