This study examined the effect of simulation on nursing students' knowledge of advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), knowledge retention, and confidence in applying ACLS skills. An experimental, randomized controlled (pretest-posttest) design was used. The experimental group (n = 40) attended an ACLS simulation scenario, a 4-hour PowerPoint presentation, and demonstration on a static manikin, w...

The difficulty associated with programing existing robots is one of the main impediments to them finding application in domestic environments such as the home. A promising method for simplifying robot programing is Programing by Demonstration (PbD). Here, an end user can provide a demonstration of the task to be programed, with a PbD “interface” interpreting the demonstration in order to determ...

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This paper deals with programming-bydemonstration of robot manipulators, where a robot program is created automatically from human demonstrations despite morphological differences in the hand/arm structure. To find a correspondence between observed human motions and desired robot hand motions, we represent the task in hand state space. The hand state definition is perception-invariant and valid...

We trace the tragicomic courtship between programming by demonstration and machine learning, two fields that seem made for each other but have never quite got together. A long-term historical perspective illuminates the twin roles of interaction and sequence learning in programming by demonstration, and reveals the parallel growth of machine learning as a research area in its own right. A view ...

Traditional machine learning algorithms have failed to serve the needs of systems for Programming by Demonstration (PBD), which require interaction with a user (a teacher) and a task environment. We argue that traditional learning algorithms fail for two reasons: they do not cope with the ambiguous instructions that users provide in addition to examples; and their learning criterion requires on...

Programming by Demonstration (PbD) is an intuitive method to program a robot. The user, acting as a teacher or programmer, shows how a particular task can be performed. The demonstration is monitored using an interface device that allows the measurement and recording of both the applied commands as well as the data simultaneously perceived by robot's sensors. This paper considers the problems o...

We present an approach to learning procedural knowledge by demonstration called similarity-based alignment and generalization. Key to our approach is the ability to induce complex procedure structure (loops and conditional branches) by aligning multiple unannotated demonstrations of a procedure. We present an implemented instance of a similarity-based alignment and generalization algorithm that...

Currently, most demonstrationai systems are built from scratch, typically by individuals, and are all quite unique and distinct from each other. It is still desirable to build more such small-scale systems in the future. However, the key to a larger-scale, collaborative and interdisciplinary effort is in defining a common representation for user tasks, and in defining a common i put format for ...