s: Index in order of presentations: Page Podium Session I: Learning, Adaptation & Compensation (SAT) 8:30-10:15 6 Podium Session II: Posture & Locomotion (SAT) 10:45-12:30 9 Podium Session III: Sensory-Motor Interactions (SUN) 9:00-10:45 11 Podium Session IV: The Vestibular System (SUN) 11:15-13:00 14 POSTER Abstracts (SAT & SUN) PM A Learning, Adaptation & Compensation 17 B – Posture & Locomot...

In recent years, we have witnessed many information security developmental trends. As a consequence, the dimensions of information security – once a single disciplinary area – have become multifaceted and convoluted. This paper aims to (1) recapitulate these key developments; (2) argue that the emergence of many complex information security dimensions are the result of ‘constant change agents’ ...

Based on the results of a Delphi survey conducted among a list of experts, the paper provides a guideline for both public and private parties in defining a list of significant risks in PPP motorway projects, preparing a practical risk allocation framework and identifying the most suitable mitigation strategies.

Cerebral Palsy (CP) leads to various clinical signs mainly induced by spasticity. Among these ones impaired balance and posture are very common. Traditional physical therapy exercise programs are focusing on this aspect but it is difficult to motivate patients to regularly perform these exercises. Specially developed serious games (SG) could therefore be an interesting option to motivate childr...

This paper presents a method of hand posture estimation from silhouette images taken by two cameras. First, we extract the silhouette contour for a pair of images. We construct an eigenspace from images of hands with various postures. For effective matching, we define a shape complexity for each image to see how well the shape feature is represented. For a pair of input images, the total matchi...

New methods of dissident surveillance employed by repressive nation-states increasingly involve socially engineering targets into unwitting cooperation (e.g., by convincing them to open a malicious attachment or link). While a fair amount is understood about the nature of these threat actors and the types of tools they use, there is comparatively little understood about targets’ perceptions of ...

In contrast to the variety of listening behaviors produced in humanto-human interaction, most virtual agents sit or stand passively when a user speaks. This is a reflection of the fact that although the correct responsive behavior of a listener during a conversation is often related to the semantics, the state of current speech understanding technology is such that semantic information is unava...

Detecting the needs of the learner is a challenging task for systems addressing issues related to either adaptivity or personalization. In this paper we present a student-driven learning and assessment tool along with a tool for detecting/calculating learning styles and affective states. The learning and assessment tool enables learning, while the detection/calculation tool detects learning sty...

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In this paper we consider a classical Gough platform with extensible legs whose platform is submitted to a given load. This load induces forces in the linear actuators of the legs, these forces being dependent upon the posture of the platform, and we want to determine the extremal values of the articular forces when the platform is translating in a given 3D workspace (the orientation of the pla...