This study examines the analysis of form and function directive speech acts in discourse ‘Mop’ humor Papuan society. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. collection technique this linguistic data instruments, namely listening techniques, note-taking proficient free-involvement techniques. Data consisted four stages, namely: (1) collection, (2) reduction, (3) presentation, (4) co...

Personal, inexpensive, easy-to-use, teleoperated, autonomous, mobile robots are starting to be a reality and are expected to be widespread within some few years. Fostering the development of these robots implies testing various hardware and software technologies. In this work we propose developing the communications with the robot through an IP wireless camera. The rational is that the required...

Abstract Commanding and managing a military formation is never easy, but it can be even more challenging when the commander has less professional experience than his subordinates. In such situation, very quickly, lose trust of subordinates, due to little uncertainty he feels at moment.

Our overall objective is to improve the productivity of Mars rovers by increasing the exibility and robustness of their autonomous behavior. To achieve this objective, we set out to increase the on-board autonomy of rovers and enable commanding at a higher level with a more exible command language. In February, 1999, we demonstrated some of our rover autonomy technologies as part of a Marsokhod...

This paper proposes a novel interaction model for human-robot cooperative task. The point of the interaction model is an introduction of CEA (Commands Embedded in Actions) by which a human work-load is reduced because it need less inputs and outputs of a user of a robot than that of using direct commanding methods in a conventional interaction model. We build a procedure of the design for the p...

Recent changes in the law and in patients' expectations have necessitated alterations to the way doctors maintain the medical confidentiality of their patients. This paper investigates the ethical and legal aspects of medical confidentiality in general, examines their relation to the military context and analyses the guidance offered. Military personnel give up some individual rights on enlistm...