In response to disparate advances in delivering spatial information to support agricultural extension activities, the Extension Activity Support System (EASY) project was established to develop a vision statement and conceptual design for such a system based on a national needs assessment. Personnel from across Australia were consulted and a review of existing farm information/management softwa...

I n order to study the human being locomotion system, a multi-degrees of freedom (DOFs) biped prototype equipped with flexible feet, which is named as ROBIAN, is developed. I n this paper, the conceptual design of the biped prototype R O B I A N is discussed. The features of the R O B I A N are: (a) parallel mechanism at the hip and the ankle, (b) modular design and (c) 1DOF active/passive join...

This paper describes a study conducted to determine the feasibility of using a spoken questionnaire to collect information for the Year 2000 Census in the USA. To reene the dialogue and to train recognizers, we collected complete protocols from over 4000 callers. For the responses labeled (about half), over 99 percent of the answers contain the desired information. The recognizers trained so fa...

We present the design and evaluation of a tactile editor, TactiPEd for the rapid and easy prototyping of vibrotactile patterns. It is based on the graphical metaphor of the shape of the device, which is used for the tuning of the main tactile characteristics, including amplitude, frequency and duration of tactile sequences. The editor includes file systems functionalities using the XML format a...

This paper describes research that aims to develop an argument visualization tool and associated method for supporting eParticipation and online deliberation. Based on the state-of-theart in the field of computer-supported argument visualization, the tool will support the work of relevant eParticipation actors by enabling them to navigate through arguments contained in relevant consultation and...

This position paper explains that knowledge is generated through three related yet distinct methodologies, each codified within standard practices recognized by trained professionals. The outputs from each methodology are embodied in three different states much like the traditional states of matter: gas, liquid, solid. Effective Information Sharing (IS) and Knowledge Management both require a c...

From Wall Street to the streets of Baghdad, information drives action. Confounding this edict for the military is not only the unprecedented increase in the types and amount of information available, but the ability to separate the important information from the routine. Termed the value of information (VOI), the modern military commander and his staff require improved methodologies for assessi...

We address the development of software devices that can be installed on groupware systems to help people stay attentive and be more productive during computer-mediated collaboration. We introduce a framework that derives attentive devices from groupware mediation modes to take into account attentional phenomena, and demonstrate the framework’s role in an attentive electronic brainstorming tool....