Background ICT is becoming increasingly used in schools and educational institutions, and established in professional and classroom practice. As a consequence, research activity looking at developing and established practices is increasing and becoming more diversified. However, although head teachers, LEAs, companies and policy makers continue to take increasing interest in the scope of this f...

This paper presents a design case study of a summer school that brought together a multidisciplinary group of early-career professionals to explore ideas relating to new technologies in an urban context. The organisers of the summer school took an explicitly designinformed approach to the event, specifically a ‘critical design’ approach. The aspiration of the organisers was that the school acti...

The aim of this pilot study was to characterize seasonal variation in the moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary behavior of Portuguese school youth, and understand the influence of activity choices and settings. The participants in this study were 24 students, aged 10-13 years. Accelerometers measured daily PA over 7 consecutive days, in different seasons May - June and Ja...

Kolodny and MacFarlane () have made a pioneering contribution to our understanding of how the interpretation of deontic modals can be sensitive to evidence and information. But integrating the discussion of informationsensitivity into the standard Kratzerian framework for modals suggests ways of capturing the relevant data without treating deontic modals as “informational modals” in their s...

This paper presents a series of new results on corpus derived semantic representations based on vectors of simple word co-occurrence statistics, with particular reference to word categorization performance as a function of window type and size, semantic vector dimension, and corpus size. A number of outstanding problems and difficulties with this approach are identified and discussed.

4 The Modal Logic S4 7 4.1 Kripke Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.2 Modal Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.3 Algebraic Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.4 Power-Set Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.5 Mappi...

We propose a new method to perform lexical disambiguation of Interaction Grammars. It deals with the order constraints on words. Actually, the soundness of the method is due to an invariant property of the parsing of an Interaction Grammar. We show how this invariant can be computed statically from the grammar.

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1 Jennifer Turns, Univ. of WA, Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching, 225 Engr Annex, Seattle, WA, 98195-2180, [email protected] 2 Cynthia J. Atman, Univ. of WA, Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching, 223 Engr Annex, Seattle, WA, 98195-2180, [email protected] 3 Fred Mannering, Univ. of Washington, Dept of Civil and Envr Engineering, 201C More Hall, Seattle, WA, 98...

The following list contains a survey of some important and recent research in modeling face-to-face conversation. The list below is a presented as a guide to the literature by topic and date; we include complete citations afterwards in alphabetical order. For brevity, research works are keyed by first author and date only (we use these keys on the slides as well as in this list). Of course, mos...