In the past years a wealth of observations has unraveled the structural properties of the Dark and Luminous mass distribution in spirals. These have pointed out to an intriguing scenario not easily explained by present theories of galaxy formation. The investigation of individual and coadded objects has shown that the spiral rotation curves follow, from their centers out to their virial radii, ...

We present two user interfaces: one multimodal dialogue system and one task-based calendar which assist people with mild cognitive disabilities affecting their concentration and memory. A new middleware based upon a new open industrial standard—ISO/IEC 24752 Universal Remote Console (URC)—allows access to any network services or appliances as well as devices for home entertainment and household...

The Remote Objects Control Interface, or ROCI, is a framework used within the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Laboratory to manipulate a network of distributed sensory nodes. The objective of this project is to build interfaces for querying and controlling these nodes, and thusly the network that they compose. In particular, the goal is to bridge the MATLAB environment to ROCI. The end resul...

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) promises future environments that support the well-being of their inhabitants through comfort and assistive environments. For the elderly users, ambient assisted living (AAL) scenarios are targeting safe and independent living at home. Especially the integration of home automation components, such as intelligent light, window, and climate controls seem promising for s...

The 3D tele-immersive (3DTI) environments are emerging as the next generation technique for tele-communication. In this paper, we present a novel and generic interface for view control in 3D environments. The interface uses Wii Remote, a wireless controller for a video game console. It allows the user to manipulate the virtual camera and 3D objects intuitively with buttons and through motions (...

The observed strong dark-to-luminous matter coupling is described by a bias relation between visible and dark matter sources. We discuss the bias which emerges in the case where the topological structure of the Universe at very large distances does not match properly that of the Friedman space. With the use of such ”topological” bias, we construct the Universal Rotation Curve (URC) for spirals ...

We have carried out developing a robot which can access internet. This robot, URC (Ubiquitous Robot Companion), is able to get information on the internet and to narrate it in human language. This work was due to the technology of Semantic Web Services, because this technology makes it possible to automate many tasks for machine. This paper presents experience gained during implementation of ro...

In the current ΛCDM cosmological scenario, N -body simulations provide us with a Universal mass profile, and consequently a Universal equilibrium circular velocity of the virialized objects, as galaxies. In this paper we obtain, by combining kinematical data of their inner regions with global observational properties, the Universal Rotation Curve (URC) of disk galaxies and the corresponding mas...

For patients with chronic diseases, exercise is a key part of rehab to deal better with their illness. Some of them do rehabilitation at home with telemedicine systems. However, keeping to their exercising program is challenging and many abandon the rehabilitation. We postulate that information technologies for socializing and serious games can encourage patients to keep doing physical exercise...

This paper describes text-independent speaker recognition system which is basic and essential for interaction between users and the robot in Ubiquitous Robot Companion environment. For comfortable interaction between users and the robot, we implement an online speaker enrollment module which trains a GMM for each speaker model and text-independent speaker recognition module which consists of te...