| We present two methods of rapidly (less than 1 ms.) identifying contact formations from force sensor patterns, including friction and measurement uncertainty. Both principally use force signals instead of positions and detailed geometric models. First, fuzzy sets are used to model patterns and sensor uncertainty; membership functions are generated automatically from training data. Second, a n...

Main goal of the German Collaborative Research Center (GCRC) is to build an anthropomorphic robot which is able to cooperate with humans. It addresses scientific problems in four different fields: humanoid mechatronics, multimodal interfaces, man-machinecooperation and machine-learning. Among those, natural, multimodal interaction is a key issue of humanoid robots since a human-like appearance ...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of visual aids on elementary Iranian EFL learners’ vocabulary learning. To achieve the aim of the study, 60 elementary EFL learners were selected based on their performance on proficiency test. After administering the pretest, the participants of the experimental group received vocabulary visually. The teacher used different kinds of strategies such as...

A pairwise balanced design is an ordered pair S,B , denoted PBD S,B , where S is a finite set of symbols, and B is a collection of subsets of S called blocks, such that each pair of distinct elements of S occurs together in exactly one block of B. Here |S| v is called the order of the PBD. Note that there is no condition on the size of the blocks in B. If all blocks are of the same size k, then...

Many iterative tasks in direct manipulation interfaces cannot be automated with standard application tools, forcing users to repeat the same interface actions again and again. We describe a domain-independent programming by demonstration system that learns iterative tasks in a range of widely-used applications on a popular computer platform. An evaluation showed that users are capable of using ...