Fast human walking includes a phase where the stance heel rises from the ground and the stance foot rotates about the stance toe. This phase where the biped becomes under-actuated is not present during the walk of humanoid robots. The objective of this study is to determine if this phase is useful to reduce the energy consumed in the walking. In order to study the efficiency of this phase, six ...

In The Uses of Literacy and in the many autobiographical works his later years, Richard Hoggart wrote about shops shopping. Taking a distance from adverse stance mid-century liter...

Effective stance-taking is considered as a crucial skill for successful academic writing and sustainable development of scholarship. However, student writers often encounter difficulties in this aspect. Scholars have thus called explicit instruction to develop students’ ability goal. Learning particularly relevant area intensive interest among scholars. Yet, few empirical studies been conducted...

How police officers approach and try to reason with civilians and offenders can determine how certain situations are resolved. Due to monetary and time costs, training of such social skills is currently not available to all police officers. To assist in the training curriculum of the Dutch police, we are developing a serious game prototype in which police officers interact with virtual agents t...

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in stance classification in online debates. Oftentimes, however, it is important to determine not only the stance expressed by an author in her debate posts, but also the reasons behind her supporting or opposing the issue under debate. We therefore examine the new task of reason classification in this paper. Given the close interplay between stance cl...