The traditional view of animation is a medium-specific perspective: animation is a sequence of images on film. In contrast, we employ a wider, interdisciplinary theoretical lens, based on a phenomenological perspective of animation. We describe animation as the experience of artifacts imbued with apparent “animacy,” or “liveliness,” and identify a range of media artifacts where an account of an...

Based on specific linguistic landmarks in the speech signal, this study investigates pitch level and pitch span differences in English, German, Bulgarian and Polish. The analysis is based on 22 speakers per language (11 males and 11 females). Linear mixed models were computed that include various linguistic measures of pitch level and span, revealing characteristic differences across languages ...

This panel presentation will exhibit artwork developed in CAVEs and discuss how art methodologies enhance the science of VR through collaboration, interaction and aesthetics. Artists and scientists work alongside one another to expand scientific research and artistic expression and are motivated by exhibiting collaborative virtual environments. Looking towards the arts, such as painting and scu...

Signal processing techniques allow us not only to compensate for the acoustics of a listening environment, but also to add special musical effects such as delay, echo, and reverb, if desired. The most common example is the audio equalizer that allows us to enhance the bass or treble content of an audio signal. What a listener hears in a room depends not only on the acoustics characteristics of ...

The fourth generation technology of broadband wireless networks i.e. WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) became popular due to its features like high speed internet access, large coverage area and interoperability for different type of devices. Non-Line ofsight propagation with lower frequency improvement makes WiMAX vulnerable to various security threats. Hence, authenticat...

This paper introduces elements to facilitate crossing of the gap between analysis and design in the case of real-time applications relying on multitasking operating system. The chosen specification method is based on the use of Shaw’s CRSM Communicating Real-Time States Machines and our purpose is to put the basis of a method for an easier translation of a CRSM-based modelling of a system into ...

0140-3664/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2012.03.008 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (H. Wang). The deployment of 3-D image techniques is one of the most promising fields among the development of new applications for natural image scenes. Driven by urgent demands from industry and users, 3-D image technology has received sign...

The questions of to what extent and in which ways personality dimensions are associated with anxious and depressive psychopathology are still unresolved. Most research has focused on “neuroticism” and “extraversion,” or traits related to these personality dimensions. Neuroticism was originally described as reflecting emotional instability and anxiety proneness (Eysenck & Rachman, 1965). This tr...

Abstract This paper presents , a new practical and user-friendly framework for testing concurrent algorithms on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). provides simple declarative way to write tests: instead of describing how perform test, users specify what test by declaring all operations examine; automatically handles rest. As result, tests written with are concise easy understand. The generates set...

walking has always been the most natural, the oldest, and the most essential form of transportation and is still major form of moving, hence, it plays a vital rule in urban transportation. in fact, walking is the most important tool for seeing, being seen, observing city wide daily and social activities, discovering the values and hidden attractions in urban environment, and therefore, feeling ...