The influence of stance width on frontal plane postural dynamics and coordination in human bipedal stance was studied. We tested the hypothesis that when subjects adopt a narrow stance width, they will rely heavily on nonlinear control strategies and coordinated counter-phase upper and lower body motion to limit center-of-mass (CoM) deviations from upright; as stance increases, the use of these...

23 The influence of stance width on frontal plane postural dynamics and 24 coordination in human bipedal stance was investigated. We tested the hypothesis that 25 when subjects adopt a narrow stance width, they will rely heavily on nonlinear control 26 strategies and coordinated counter-phase upper and lower body motion to limit center-of27 mass (CoM) deviations from upright; but as stance incr...

We present a new approach to the automated classification of document-level argument stance, a relatively underresearched sub-task of Sentiment Analysis. In place of the noisy online debate data currently used in stance classification research, a corpus of student essays annotated for essaylevel stance is constructed for use in a series of classification experiments. A novel set of features des...

Sentiment analysis is a wide area with great potential and many research directions. One direction is stance detection, which is somewhat similar to sentiment analysis. We supplement stance detection dataset with sentiment annotation and explore the similarities of these tasks. We show that stance detection and sentiment analysis can be mutually beneficial by using gold label for one task as fe...

Walking is often modeled as an inverted pendulum system in which the center of mass vaults over the rigid stance limb. Running is modeled as a simple spring-mass system in which the center of mass bounces along on the compliant stance limb. In these models, differences in stance-limb behavior lead to nearly opposite patterns of vertical movements of the center of mass in the two gaits. Our goal...

The relations among swing, stance and step durations for the fore and hind limbs were investigated. Registration of the swing and stance phases was performed by the opening and closing of an electrical circuit as the cat moved along the conductive pathway. In the walking animal, longer swing and shorter stance durations for hind limbs, in comparison with the fore limbs, were observed. However, ...

Building believable conversational virtual characters that can play the role of a suspect in police interrogations requires a lot of information on human behaviour. In this paper, we try to describe the way in which the stance of a suspect in a police interrogation changes and is decided. We base our stance modelling on Leary’s interpersonal stance theory and add influences from social attitude...