We present an empirical investigation of nonverbal behavior in long-term interaction spanning multiple conversations, in the context of a developing interpersonal relationship. Based on a longitudinal video corpus of human-human counseling conversation, we develop a model of the occurrence of posture shifts which incorporates changes that occur both within a single conversation and over multipl...

This position paper describes a vision of how Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) situation awareness and threat assessment [1], [2] can benefit from the use of Gesture-Directed Sensor-Information Fusion (GDSIF). It describes a concept of operations for the war fighter’s use of electronic wireless-communication gloves (eGloves) to communicate, plan, and react while wearing Missi...

INTRODUCTION Shoulder injuries are common in baseball players, which may be related to scapular malposition (Burkhart 2003). Although a few studies demonstrated scapular malposition in baseball players using clinical measurement (Laudner 2010, Thomas 2010), no data currently exist that demonstrated 3-dimentional (3D) scapular position and orientation using a technique that eliminates skin artif...

This paper presents a digital hand which is a type of model to mimic human hand operation in real time operation. Human hand performs various difficult tasks in daily life and shows dexterous operation to use tools or equipment, because it has numerous degree of freedom (DoFs) of finger joints and soft skin. To realize the mimic of human hand operation in real time operation to overcome the pro...

the yunis-varón syndrome represents a rare autosomal recessive syndrome of easy recognition characterized by defective growth of the cranial bone along with complete or partial absence of the clavicles (cleidocranial dysplasia), absence of thumbs and halluces, distal aphalangia, ectodermal anomalies, growth retardation and poor outcome. the molecular genetic basis is unknown. here, we report an...

one of the main constraints in aloe vera production is poor information about optimum nutrients that are helpful for growth and production. the objective of this study was to optimize nutrient solution for aloe vera cultivation in soilless culture. therefore, to determine the best nutrients the experiment was conducted in a greenhouse during 2011 in the agricultural faculty, university of guila...