This paper describes a prototype aircraft that can fly slowly, safely and transmit wireless video for tasks like reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition. The aircraft is designed to fly in closed quarters like forests, buildings, caves and tunnels which are often spacious but GPS reception is poor. Envisioned is that a small, safe and slow flying vehicle can assist in performing dul...

The authors used a predictable, externally cued task-switching paradigm to investigate executive control in a severe closed-head injury (CHI) population. Eighteen individuals with severe CHI and 18 controls switched between classifying whether a digit was odd or even and whether a letter was a consonant or vowel on every 4th trial. The target stimuli appeared in a circle divided into 8 equivale...

In this paper, we present effective and efficient gesture recognition algorithms for building a system to support remote collaborative physical tasks using tablet PCs. We discuss problems of gesture recognition in detail. We use a variable window to extract curvature changes to form invariant local features. We then employ a hierarchical classifier that consists of hidden Markov model (HMM) and...

A triaxial accelerometer is placed at the back of the subject at the height of the center of mass. Force plate data are collected simultaneously. Subjects stand in a comfortable position with eyes open, eyes closed and doing cognitive tasks; and with feet together with eyes open and closed. The cognitive tasks are: mathematical, auditory Stroop and memory. The force plate data are processed to ...

Orccad (Open Robot Controller Computer Aided Design), is a development environment for robotic controllers which provides veriication and simulation tools along with a graphical Human-Machine Interface (HMI), in order to bridge the gap between control laws as understood by the control systems community, and realtime computing as understood by the computer science community. In this paper, we in...

Patients who sustained closed-head injury (CHI) have been shown to have impaired memory for temporal order when measured under intentional, but not incidental, retrieval conditions. A group of 26 patients who sustained CHI and a matched control group of 26 individuals were tested on a declarative sequence learning task--"Chain Making" (CM), and a nondeclarative sequence learning task--Tower of ...

the purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of pairwise f-closedness in bitopological spaces. this space contains both of pairwise strongcompactness and pairwise s-closedness and contained in pairwise quasi h-closedness. the characteristics and relationships concerning this new class ofspaces with other corresponding types are established. moreover, several ofits basic and important p...

We investigated the effects of rapid assessment tasks and different adaptive restudy prompts in multimedia learning. The adaptivity was based on rapid assessment tasks that were interspersed throughout a multimedia learning environment. In Experiment 1 (N = 52 university students), we analyzed to which extent rapid assessment tasks were reactive (i.e., whether these tasks change what should be ...