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Television and children: developmentally harmful or educationally beneficial?
Includes bibliographical references
Inter-stimulus Interval Study for the Tactile Point-pressure Brain-computer Interface
The paper presents a study of an inter-stimulus interval (ISI) influence on a
tactile point-pressure stimulus-based brain-computer interface's (tpBCI)
classification accuracy. A novel tactile pressure generating tpBCI stimulator
is also discussed, which is based on a three-by-three pins' matrix prototype.
The six pin-linear patterns are presented to the user's palm during the online
tpBCI experiments in an oddball style paradigm allowing for "the aha-responses"
elucidation, within the event related potential (ERP). A subsequent
classification accuracies' comparison is discussed based on two ISI settings in
an online tpBCI application. A research hypothesis of classification
accuracies' non-significant differences with various ISIs is confirmed based on
the two settings of 120 ms and 300 ms, as well as with various numbers of ERP
response averaging scenarios.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, accepted for EMBC 2015, IEEE copyrigh
Young Children and the Arts: Making Creative Connections -- A Report of the Task Force on Children's Learning and the Arts: Birth to Age Eight
Provides guiding principles and recommendations to organizations to support the development of arts-based early childhood programs and resources
Egocentric Spatial Representation in Action and Perception
Neuropsychological findings used to motivate the “two visual systems” hypothesis have been taken to endanger a pair of widely accepted claims about spatial representation in visual experience. The first is the claim that visual experience represents 3-D space around the perceiver using an egocentric frame of reference. The second is the claim that there is a constitutive link between the spatial contents of visual experience and the perceiver’s bodily actions. In this paper, I carefully assess three main sources of evidence for the two visual systems hypothesis and argue that the best interpretation of the evidence is in fact consistent with both claims. I conclude with some brief remarks on the relation between visual consciousness and rational agency
Student Teaching and Research Laboratory Focusing on Brain-computer Interface Paradigms - A Creative Environment for Computer Science Students -
This paper presents an applied concept of a brain-computer interface (BCI)
student research laboratory (BCI-LAB) at the Life Science Center of TARA,
University of Tsukuba, Japan. Several successful case studies of the student
projects are reviewed together with the BCI Research Award 2014 winner case.
The BCI-LAB design and project-based teaching philosophy is also explained.
Future teaching and research directions summarize the review.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted for EMBC 2015, IEEE copyrigh
Automatic Music Composition using Answer Set Programming
Music composition used to be a pen and paper activity. These these days music
is often composed with the aid of computer software, even to the point where
the computer compose parts of the score autonomously. The composition of most
styles of music is governed by rules. We show that by approaching the
automation, analysis and verification of composition as a knowledge
representation task and formalising these rules in a suitable logical language,
powerful and expressive intelligent composition tools can be easily built. This
application paper describes the use of answer set programming to construct an
automated system, named ANTON, that can compose melodic, harmonic and rhythmic
music, diagnose errors in human compositions and serve as a computer-aided
composition tool. The combination of harmonic, rhythmic and melodic composition
in a single framework makes ANTON unique in the growing area of algorithmic
composition. With near real-time composition, ANTON reaches the point where it
can not only be used as a component in an interactive composition tool but also
has the potential for live performances and concerts or automatically generated
background music in a variety of applications. With the use of a fully
declarative language and an "off-the-shelf" reasoning engine, ANTON provides
the human composer a tool which is significantly simpler, more compact and more
versatile than other existing systems. This paper has been accepted for
publication in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP).Comment: 31 pages, 10 figures. Extended version of our ICLP2008 paper.
Formatted following TPLP guideline
Focal Spot, Winter 1983/84
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/focal_spot_archives/1036/thumbnail.jp
ROBOSIM, a simulator for robotic systems
ROBOSIM, a simulator for robotic systems, was developed by NASA to aid in the rapid prototyping of automation. ROBOSIM has allowed the development of improved robotic systems concepts for both earth-based and proposed on-orbit applications while significantly reducing development costs. In a cooperative effort with an area university, ROBOSIM was further developed for use in the classroom as a safe and cost-effective way of allowing students to study robotic systems. Students have used ROBOSIM to study existing robotic systems and systems which they have designed in the classroom. Since an advanced simulator/trainer of this type is beneficial not only to NASA projects and programs but industry and academia as well, NASA is in the process of developing this technology for wider public use. An update on the simulators's new application areas, the improvements made to the simulator's design, and current efforts to ensure the timely transfer of this technology are presented
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