The Problem: To build workspaces that effectively support people in everyday work situations, one needs to focus on both the technology and the physical environment in which work takes place. Much progress has been made in recent years in developing technology: Research in intelligent spaces—those spaces in which technology has been embedded in support of people’s tasks—has focused on such issu...

The present study chiefly aimed to compare two forms of dynamic assessment and standard assessment of EFL learners’ listening comprehension. 59 Iranian EFL learners were randomly assigned to three test administration groups and assessed on listening for main and supporting information in listening tasks. The first model of dynamic assessment was a form of scaffolding in which for any incorrect ...

Task-modality has been found to constrain the production of LREs in adults and children. However, there are no studies with young learners that have offered a comprehensive analysis LREs. To this end, paper will examine effect task-modality on features targeted them, as well their level engagement/elaboration during primary-school learners’ performance task containing both an oral written compo...

Multi-robot task allocation research has focused on sequential single-item auctions and various extensions as quick methods for allocating tasks to robots with small overall team costs. In this paper we outline the benefits of grouping tasks with positive synergies together and auctioning clusters of tasks rather than individual tasks. We show that with task-clustering the winner determination ...

This paper describes a demonstrative research of daily assistive robots. Several tasks related to cleaning and tidying up rooms are focused on, a real robot performs these tasks. A software system combining environment recognition with motion generation provides functions of finding failures and planning retry behaviors, the robot can do the given tasks with recovering the failures in some case...

Cross-frequency coupling (CFC) between slow and fast brain rhythms, in the form of phase-amplitude coupling (PAC), is proposed to enable the coordination of neural oscillatory activity required for cognitive processing. PAC has been identified in the neocortex and mesial temporal regions, varying according to the cognitive task being performed and also at rest. PAC has also been observed in the...

Sensorimotor adaptation tasks have been used to characterize processes responsible for calibrating the mapping between desired outcomes and motor commands. Research has focused on how this form of error-based learning takes place in an implicit and automatic manner. However, recent work has revealed the operation of multiple learning processes, even in this simple form of learning. This review ...

This study investigated the effectiveness of individual and collaborative outputbasedfocus-on-form instructional tasks on the acquisition of English inversionstructures by EFL learners. Moreover, it explored the developmental trend oflearners’ inversion acquisition. To this end, 60 homogeneous EFL learners wereassigned to individual and collaborative output groups. They were exposed to textsenc...