This paper presents the Hyper-Agenda project whose main aim is to model a system in order to help the organisation and realisation of Tasks which can be applied in an office environment. Two tools that translate the main functionalities of our system are defined: the Agenda tool which permits the organisation of Tasks in the Hyper-Agenda environment, the Interpretation tool which helps users to...

this paper reports on the findings of a study designed to investigate the cultural and social complexities governing the compliment responses among the persian native speakers. 200 persian respondents took a 24-item discourse completion task (dct) while 15 native field workers were also set responsible for collecting the examples of complimenting exchanges they either observed or participated i...

abstracttask-based language teaching is considered an effective way to achieve a harmony between grammar and communication. the present study investigates two different ways of teaching modal verbs: task-based versus traditional approaches. to this purpose, an oxford placement test was administered to select 40 homogeneous participants out of a larger population who took this test. the selected...

wireless sensor networks(wsn) have unique properties that distinguished them from other wireless networks and have special challenges. not-chargeable, not-changeable and limited power supplies of sensor nodes is the most important challenge of this networks, and if the power supply of node expired, a part of data maybe lost. because of the importance of covers in wireless sensors, in this work ...

Automated ECG interpretation systems are supposed to follow human expert reasoning. Despite well-established standards, the visual interpretation strategy of the human is still undisclosed today. This paper presents a new approach to the interpretation process research based on eyetrack features captured from a human expert during biosignal visual inspection. This approach required a set of vis...

The creation of large, richly annotated, multimodal corpora of human interactions is an expensive and time consuming task. Support from annotation tools that make the annotation process more efficient is required, especially if the annotation effort involves really large amounts of data. Therefore we investigated how different properties of specific annotation tasks can have an impact on the de...

In this study, we test whether children whose culture lacks counting words and counting practices, use a spatial strategy to support enumeration tasks. Children from two indigenous communities in Australia whose native and only language (Warlpiri or Anindilyakwa) lacked counting words, were tested on classical number development tasks, and the results compared with children reared in an English...

The amount of labeled training data required for image interpretation tasks is a major drawback of current methods. How can we use the gigantic collection of unlabeled images available on the web to aid these tasks? In this paper, we present a simple approach based on the notion of patch-based context to extract useful priors for regions within a query image from a large collection of (6 millio...

The abstract deontic selection task was developed with the aim of demonstrating abstract rule use in a specific domain (i.e., deontic rules). Yet, the solution rate, while being substantially higher than with abstract non-deontic tasks, did not reach the level obtained with concrete deontic tasks. What are the reasons for this—difficulties with abstract rule use? A task analysis based on deonti...