The primary aim of this paper is to present the implementation of adaptive dialogue management in the NIMITEK prototype spoken dialogue system for supporting users while they solve problems in a graphics system (e.g., the Tower-of-Hanoi puzzle). The central idea is that the system dynamically refines a dialogue strategy according to the current state of the interaction. We analyze a recorded di...

The unit sphere, centered at the origin in R, has a dense set of points with rational coordinates. We give an elementary proof of this fact that includes explicit bounds on the complexity of the coordinates: for every point v on the unit sphere in R, and every > 0, there is a point r = (r1, r2, . . . , rn) such that: • ||r− v||∞ < . • r is also a point on the unit sphere; P r i = 1. • r has rat...

Qualitative inductive methods are widely used in CSCW and HCI research for their ability to generatively discover deep contextualized insights, but these inherently manual human-resource-intensive processes often infeasible analyzing large corpora. Researchers have been increasingly interested ways apply qualitative "big" data problems, hoping achieve more generalizable results from larger amou...

A comparative study on regional traditional healing and community wellness provision in collaboration with traditional healers was conducted in three distinct ecological regions in the southern Western Ghats, India. The study led to the collection of data, from fourteen healers, on their healing systems, local afflictions and modes of treatment, community roles of healers, and adaptations of th...

Let X be a smooth double cover of a geometrically ruled surface defined over a separably closed field of characteristic different from 2. The main result of this paper is a finite presentation of the 2-torsion in the Brauer group of X with generators given by central simple algebras over the function field of X and relations coming from the NéronSeveri group of X. In particular, the result give...

Invasive procedures, such as surgery and acupuncture, are likely better than the others in terms of eliciting placebo analgesia. Understanding how invasive procedures can elicit enhanced placebo responses may provide new insights into mechanisms underlying placebo analgesia. In this essay, it is argued that sensory, cognitive and emotional factors are major determinants of the magnitude of plac...