Approximately one-fifth of Perth’s population is aged 60 or older. Projections suggest that this proportion will continue to increase as a result of the large number of children born after the World War II (1946– 1964). Access to and accessibility around train stations for the aging population is and will become a more important issue as the elderly population continues to grow. The aim of the ...

The Cyc system has a large knowledge base with detailed knowledge about its concepts. Cyc has axioms and rules for common-sense real-world knowledge embedded in a large taxonomy covering "everything". This is used with Cyc’s logical inference engine to cover medical subject matter in conceptual depth with machine-usable semantics. Cyc’s semantic definitions of relationships are more detailed th...

the widespread introduction of things and environments that see. However, reaping the benefits of ubiquitous perception will require consideration of human abilities and social needs as an integral part of system design. Research in human-computer interaction (HCI) has developed cognitive theories, design methods, and software tools for building useful and usable systems. Scientific results and...

Clinicians use general practice guidelines as a source of support for their intervention, but how much confidence should they place on these recommendations? How much confidence should patients place on these recommendations? Various instruments are available to assess the quality of evidence of research, such as the revised Wong scale (R-Wong) which examines the quality of research design, met...

Despite the importance of interlanguage pragmatic rating (ILP) in the second language teaching and learning context, scant attention has been devoted to it. This study aims to investigate native EFL teachers’ major criteria in assessing the speech act of complaint produced by Iranian EFL learners. To fulfill this end, two groups of experienced native raters, including American (n=47) and Britis...

Without knowing the speech act functions, it would be difficult to make correct requests in a language. Studies in pragmalinguistics have shown that conventionally direct and indirect requestive patterns are perceived differently in different speech communities. This study investigates the perception of the requestive speech acts by Persian native speakers to determine the socially appropriate ...

This study attempts to investigate the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic development of Iranian EFL learners cross-sectionally when making requests in different situations. To this end, 103 university students in three proficiency levels of pre-intermediate, upper-intermediate, and advanced were asked to write three discourse completion tests (DCTs) of requests in different situations...

Arm fatigue is an important factor affecting user experience in Virtual Reality (VR). In this work, we have proposed ProxyHand and StickHand, virtual hand techniques to address issue. Using or users can flexibly adjust the 3D-spatial offset between physical its representation. This will allow keep their arms a comfortable posture (vertically down) even when they manipulate objects locations tha...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the relative importance different employability skills for business graduates seeking initial employment. Method: Semi-structured survey questionnaires were administered human resources representatives from industry, lecturers, and graduating students gaps in perceptions between three stakeholder groups. Results: There some alignment moderat...

This paper compares the negotiation processes in different learning environments: systems where an artificial agent collaborate with the human learner, and systems where the computer supports collaboration between two human users. We argue that, in learning context, collaboration implies symmetry between agents at the design level and variable asymmetry at the interaction level. Negotiation is ...