Robot assistants will only reach a mass consumer market when they are easy to use. This applies especially to the way a user programs it’s robot system. The only approach that enables a non expert robot user to teach a system complex tasks is programming by demonstration. This paper explains the basic concepts for mapping typical human actions performed in a household to a robot system: the rec...

Programming by demonstration techniques have been investigated to facilitate and speed up the setup of new robot tasks. Kinesthetic teaching (KT), i.e., teaching by physically guiding a robot in the execution of a motion, has been adopted in industrial scenarios for its ease of use. In the work described here, we analyse and discuss limits and drawbacks of KT and suggest the adoption of a set o...

-Rewriting systems are popular in end-user prcgramming because complex behavior can be described with few or no abstractions or variables. However, rewriting systems have been limited t o manipulating non-rotatable objects on a grid, such as in Agentsheets or Stageeast Creator. Systems that allow free-form movement of objects must use other techniques, such as the sequential programming by demo...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is an important instrument to boost the performance of business processes. In this paper, the Product-Based Design (PBD) method is presented that is especially suitable to reengineer processes that support information-intensive products such as bonds, mortgages, and loans. Aside from the treatment of its theoretical properties and the differences with prevai...

Learning practical nursing skills is an important part of the baccalaureate in nursing. However, many newly qualified nurses lack practical skill proficiency required to ensure safe patient care. The invasive skill peripheral vein cannulation (PVC) is particularly challenging to learn and perform. This study explored conditions influencing nursing students' learning and performance of the techn...

Our goal is to make combinatorial problem-solving technology available to users who have no formal training in AI or OR. To achieve this aim, we have built a system, VICSS (Visual Constraint Specification System) that enables users to specify problems graphically. To simplify the specification process, VICSS relles heavily on progra~nming-by-demonstration (PBD) techniques. We believe, however, ...

AIM This preliminary study was devised to ascertain whether students considered that they had an adequate view of demonstrated procedures, while observing these directly at the workbench, or indirectly on a remote plasma screen. In addition, this study sought to identify whether the students observing remotely believed that they had been disadvantaged by the inability to question the demonstrat...

Abstract Autonomous PV systems offer a substitute for or safety net against the transmission and distribution companies’ rising expanding electricity delivery fees. Across world, fees have climbed by about 3% annually while cost of energy supply has only gone up 5% over past 15 years. In this paper, drawbacks system integration are highlighted introducing unique autonomous system. The is also c...