As personal projection devices become more common they will be able to support a range of exciting and unexplored social applications. We present a novel system and method that enables playful social interactions between multiple projected characters. The prototype consists of two mobile projector-camera systems, with lightly modified existing hardware, and computer vision algorithms to support...

We demonstrate applications of psycholinguistic and sublexical information for learning Chinese characters. The knowledge about the grapheme-phoneme conversion (GPC) rules of languages has been shown to be highly correlated to the ability of reading alphabetic languages and Chinese. We build and will demo a game platform for strengthening the association of phonological components in Chinese ch...

We demonstrate applications of psycholinguistic and sublexical information for learning Chinese characters. The knowledge about the grapheme-phoneme conversion (GPC) rules of languages has been shown to be highly correlated to the ability of reading alphabetic languages and Chinese. We build and will demo a game platform for strengthening the association of phonological components in Chinese ch...

The current investigation presents an algorithm and software to detect and recognize character in an image. Three types of fonts were under investigation, namely, case (I): Verdana, case (II): Arial and case (III): Lucida Console. The font size will be within the range of 17–29 font size. These types were chosen because the characters have low variance and there is less redundancy in the single...

In the past, games development has been driven by the need to achieve more realistic graphics. This has resulted in a situation today with games set in visually stunning, and almost photo realistic worlds being the norm. As game developers seek something new to make their games stand out from the rest, artificial intelligence is playing a far more important role in game design than before. The ...

there remains a conviction that the torrent of publications and the financial outlay on leadership development will create managers with the skills and characters of perfect leaders, capable of guiding healthcare organisations through the challenges and crises of the 21st century. the focus of much attention continues to be the search for the (illusory) core set of heroic qualities, abilities o...

Imitation is ubiquitous in positive social interactions. For adult and child observers, it also supports inferences about the participants in such interactions and their social relationships, but the origins of these inferences are obscure. Do infants attach social significance to this form of interaction? Here we test 4- to 5.5-month-old infants' interpretation of imitation, asking if the imit...

The success of games such as The Sims (thesims.ea.com) and Black & White (www.bwgame.com) have shown that there is a demand for the personalities, moods, and relationships of Non Player Characters’ (NPCs) to be made the focus of game-play. In order for this shift of focus to take place, agent architectures used to create NPCs must be augmented with models of these aspects of a character’s perso...

It is not every day that a scholar stoops to defend legislatures. Oh sure, lots of political theorists rush to the defense of democracy in the abstract, but they often have little to say about actual democratic practice. By contrast, empirical political scientists (and “positive political theorists”) have lavished attention on the institutions of democratic governance such as legislatures (part...