2,332 research outputs found
Foundations of Human-Aware Planning -- A Tale of Three Models
abstract: A critical challenge in the design of AI systems that operate with humans in the loop is to be able to model the intentions and capabilities of the humans, as well as their beliefs and expectations of the AI system itself. This allows the AI system to be "human- aware" -- i.e. the human task model enables it to envisage desired roles of the human in joint action, while the human mental model allows it to anticipate how its own actions are perceived from the point of view of the human. In my research, I explore how these concepts of human-awareness manifest themselves in the scope of planning or sequential decision making with humans in the loop. To this end, I will show (1) how the AI agent can leverage the human task model to generate symbiotic behavior; and (2) how the introduction of the human mental model in the deliberative process of the AI agent allows it to generate explanations for a plan or resort to explicable plans when explanations are not desired. The latter is in addition to traditional notions of human-aware planning which typically use the human task model alone and thus enables a new suite of capabilities of a human-aware AI agent. Finally, I will explore how the AI agent can leverage emerging mixed-reality interfaces to realize effective channels of communication with the human in the loop.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Computer Science 201
Sacred Civics
Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature. The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a range of backgrounds to question assumptions that are fused deep into the code of how societies operate, and to draw on extraordinary wisdom from ancient Indigenous traditions; to social and political movements like Black Lives Matter, the commons, and wellbeing economies; to technologies for participatory futures where people collaborate to reimagine and change culture. Looking at cities and human settlements as the sites of transformation, the book focuses on values, commons, and wisdom to demonstrate that how we choose to live together, to recognize interdependencies, to build, grow, create, and love—matters. Using multiple methodologies to integrate varied knowledge forms and practices, this truly ground-breaking volume includes contributions from renowned and rising voices. Sacred Civics is a must-read for anyone interested in intersectional discussions on social justice, inclusivity, participatory design, healthy communities, and future cities
The screen as boundary object in the realm of imagination
As an object at the boundary between virtual and physical reality, the screen exists both as a displayer and as a thing displayed, thus functioning as a mediator. The screen's virtual imagery produces a sense of immersion in its viewer, yet at the same time the materiality of the screen produces a sense of rejection from the viewer's complete involvement in the virtual world. The experience of the screen is thus an oscillation between these two states of immersion and rejection.
Nowadays, as interactivity becomes a central component of the relationship between viewers and many artworks, the viewer experience of the screen is changing. Unlike the screen experience in non-interactive artworks, such as the traditional static screen of painting or the moving screen of video art in the 1970s, interactive media screen experiences can provide viewers with a more immersive, immediate, and therefore, more intense experience. For example, many digital media artworks provide an interactive experience for viewers by capturing their face or body though real-time computer vision techniques. In this situation, as the camera and the monitor in the artwork encapsulate the interactor's body in an instant feedback loop, the interactor becomes a part of the interface mechanism and responds to the artwork as the system leads or even provokes them. This thesis claims that this kind of direct mirroring in interactive screen-based media artworks does not allow the viewer the critical distance or time needed for self-reflection.
The thesis examines the previous aesthetics of spatial and temporal perception, such as presentness and instantaneousness, and the notions of passage and of psychological perception such as reflection, reflexiveness and auratic experience, looking at how these aesthetics can be integrated into new media screen experiences. Based on this theoretical research, the thesis claims that interactive screen spaces can act as a site for expression and representation, both through a doubling effect between the physical and virtual worlds, and through manifold spatial and temporal mappings with the screen experience. These claims are further supported through exploration of screen-based media installations created by the author since 2003.Ph.D.Committee Chair: Mazalek, Ali; Committee Member: Bolter, Jay David; Committee Member: Do, Ellen Yi-Luen; Committee Member: Nitsche, Michael; Committee Member: Winegarden, Claudia R
Benefits of Using Augmented Reality in Planning, Construction and Post-Construction Phases in Specialty Contracting
abstract: The construction industry has been growing over the past few years, but it is facing numerous challenges, related to craft labor availability and declining productivity. At the same time, the industry has benefited from computational advancements by leveraging the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) to create information rich 3D models to enhance the planning, designing, and construction of projects. Augmented Reality (AR) is one technology that could further leverage BIM, especially on the construction site. This research looks at the human performance attributes enabled using AR as the main information delivery tool in the various stages of construction. The results suggest that using AR for information delivery can enhance labor productivity and enable untrained personnel to complete key construction tasks. However, its usability decreases when higher accuracy levels are required. This work contributes to the body of knowledge by empirically testing and validating the performance effects of using AR during construction tasks and highlights the limitations of current generation AR technology related to the construction industry. This work serves as foundation of future industry-based AR applications and research into potential AR implementations.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering 201
Sacred Civics
Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature. The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a range of backgrounds to question assumptions that are fused deep into the code of how societies operate, and to draw on extraordinary wisdom from ancient Indigenous traditions; to social and political movements like Black Lives Matter, the commons, and wellbeing economies; to technologies for participatory futures where people collaborate to reimagine and change culture. Looking at cities and human settlements as the sites of transformation, the book focuses on values, commons, and wisdom to demonstrate that how we choose to live together, to recognize interdependencies, to build, grow, create, and love—matters. Using multiple methodologies to integrate varied knowledge forms and practices, this truly ground-breaking volume includes contributions from renowned and rising voices. Sacred Civics is a must-read for anyone interested in intersectional discussions on social justice, inclusivity, participatory design, healthy communities, and future cities
Great Plains Research, Volume 22, Number 2, Fall 2012 (complete issue)
Reconsidering National Park Interpretation of the Great Plains and TransMississippi West • Robert Pahre
Evaluating the Role of Latinidad and the Latino Threat in the State of Missouri • Joel Jennings and J.S. Onesimo Sandoval
The Right Call: Baseball Coaches\u27 Attempts to Influence Umpires • Kevin Warneke and Dave Ogden
Documenting Change at Upper Hamburg Bend: Nebraska\u27s First SideChannel Restoration • Brandon L. Eder and Gerald E. Mestl
Initial Changes in Species Cover Following Savanna Restoration Treatments in Western Iowa • David A. McKenzie, Thomas B. Bragg, and David M. Sutherland
Monitoring Standing Herbage of the Sands and Choppy Sands Ecological Vegetation Types in the Nebraska Sandhills • Daniel W. Uresk
Review of Conspecific Attraction and Area Sensitivity of Grassland Birds • David R. W. Bruinsma and Nicola Koper
New Distributional Records of Great Plains Pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) • Paul O. Cooney and James A. Kalisch
REVIEW ESSAY: An Atlas to Be Read from Cover to Cover • A review of Atlas of the Great Plains • Harm J. de Blij
BOOK REVIEWS
Hockensmith, John S. • Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West: Return of the Horse • Reviewed by Karen Dalke
Brown, Mary Bomberger, Stephen J. Dinsmore, and Charles R. Brown • Birds of Southwestern Nebraska: An Annotated Check-List of Species in the North and South Platte River Valleys and at Lake McConaughy • Reviewed by Wayne J. Mollhoff
Adelman, Charlotte, and Bernard L. Schwartz • The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants, An Illustrated Guide • Reviewed by Stephen L. Young
Marchildon, Gregory P., ed. • Agricultural History: History of the Prairie West Series, Volume 3 • Reviewed by Bradford Rennie
Freeman, David M.; Foreword by Robert Ward • Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons • Reviewed by Mary Bomberger Brown
Bower, Shannon Stunden; Foreword by Graeme Wynn • Wet Prairie: People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba • Reviewed by Sterling Evans
Waters, Michael R., Charlotte D. Pevny, David L. Carlson, et al.; Foreword by Michael B. Collins • Clovis Lithic Technology: Investigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, Texas • Reviewed by Heather M. Rockwell.
Arnn, John Wesley, III; Foreword by Tom D. Dillehay • Land of the Tejas: Native American Identity and Interaction in Texas, A.D. 1300 to 1700 • Reviewed by Robert Cast
Clark, Bonnie J. • On the Edge of Purgatory: An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado • Reviewed by Jason M. LaBelle
Barker, Joanne • Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity • Reviewed by Jo Carrillo
Regan, Paulette • Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada • Reviewed by Robyn Green
Prussing, Erica • White Man\u27s Water: The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community • Reviewed by Paul Spicer
Lehr, John, and David McDowell • Trailblazers: The Lives and Times of Michael Ewanchuk and Muriel (Smith) Ewanchuk • Reviewed by Denis Hlynka
Pachirat, Timothy • Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight •Reviewed by Donald D. Stull.
Pawley, Howard; Foreword by Paul Moist • Keep True: A Life in Politics • Reviewed by Kelly Saunders
Sinner, George A Bud, and Bob Jansen; Foreword by Clay S. Jenkinson • Turning Points: A Memoir • Reviewed by Stephen W. King
Daum, Courtenay W., Robert J. Duffy, and John A Straayer, eds. • State of Change: Colorado Politics in the Twenty-First Century • Reviewed by Robert R. Preuhs
Hiler, Edward A, and Steven L. Bosserman • Together We Can: Pathways to Collective Leadership in Agriculture at Texas A&M • Reviewed by Theodore R. Alter
NEWS AND NOTES
ANNUAL INDE
Great Plains Research, Volume 22, Number 2, Fall 2012 (complete issue)
Reconsidering National Park Interpretation of the Great Plains and TransMississippi West • Robert Pahre
Evaluating the Role of Latinidad and the Latino Threat in the State of Missouri • Joel Jennings and J.S. Onesimo Sandoval
The Right Call: Baseball Coaches\u27 Attempts to Influence Umpires • Kevin Warneke and Dave Ogden
Documenting Change at Upper Hamburg Bend: Nebraska\u27s First SideChannel Restoration • Brandon L. Eder and Gerald E. Mestl
Initial Changes in Species Cover Following Savanna Restoration Treatments in Western Iowa • David A. McKenzie, Thomas B. Bragg, and David M. Sutherland
Monitoring Standing Herbage of the Sands and Choppy Sands Ecological Vegetation Types in the Nebraska Sandhills • Daniel W. Uresk
Review of Conspecific Attraction and Area Sensitivity of Grassland Birds • David R. W. Bruinsma and Nicola Koper
New Distributional Records of Great Plains Pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) • Paul O. Cooney and James A. Kalisch
REVIEW ESSAY: An Atlas to Be Read from Cover to Cover • A review of Atlas of the Great Plains • Harm J. de Blij
BOOK REVIEWS
Hockensmith, John S. • Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West: Return of the Horse • Reviewed by Karen Dalke
Brown, Mary Bomberger, Stephen J. Dinsmore, and Charles R. Brown • Birds of Southwestern Nebraska: An Annotated Check-List of Species in the North and South Platte River Valleys and at Lake McConaughy • Reviewed by Wayne J. Mollhoff
Adelman, Charlotte, and Bernard L. Schwartz • The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants, An Illustrated Guide • Reviewed by Stephen L. Young
Marchildon, Gregory P., ed. • Agricultural History: History of the Prairie West Series, Volume 3 • Reviewed by Bradford Rennie
Freeman, David M.; Foreword by Robert Ward • Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons • Reviewed by Mary Bomberger Brown
Bower, Shannon Stunden; Foreword by Graeme Wynn • Wet Prairie: People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba • Reviewed by Sterling Evans
Waters, Michael R., Charlotte D. Pevny, David L. Carlson, et al.; Foreword by Michael B. Collins • Clovis Lithic Technology: Investigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, Texas • Reviewed by Heather M. Rockwell.
Arnn, John Wesley, III; Foreword by Tom D. Dillehay • Land of the Tejas: Native American Identity and Interaction in Texas, A.D. 1300 to 1700 • Reviewed by Robert Cast
Clark, Bonnie J. • On the Edge of Purgatory: An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado • Reviewed by Jason M. LaBelle
Barker, Joanne • Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity • Reviewed by Jo Carrillo
Regan, Paulette • Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada • Reviewed by Robyn Green
Prussing, Erica • White Man\u27s Water: The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community • Reviewed by Paul Spicer
Lehr, John, and David McDowell • Trailblazers: The Lives and Times of Michael Ewanchuk and Muriel (Smith) Ewanchuk • Reviewed by Denis Hlynka
Pachirat, Timothy • Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight •Reviewed by Donald D. Stull.
Pawley, Howard; Foreword by Paul Moist • Keep True: A Life in Politics • Reviewed by Kelly Saunders
Sinner, George A Bud, and Bob Jansen; Foreword by Clay S. Jenkinson • Turning Points: A Memoir • Reviewed by Stephen W. King
Daum, Courtenay W., Robert J. Duffy, and John A Straayer, eds. • State of Change: Colorado Politics in the Twenty-First Century • Reviewed by Robert R. Preuhs
Hiler, Edward A, and Steven L. Bosserman • Together We Can: Pathways to Collective Leadership in Agriculture at Texas A&M • Reviewed by Theodore R. Alter
NEWS AND NOTES
ANNUAL INDE
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