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In designing socially interactive robots we have focused on robot movement and its role in multi-modal human-robot communication. In this chapter we describe design and evaluation of robot body movements supporting communication, investigating the idea of using speed and orientation adjustments as design elements in human-robot interaction. The scenario studied includes a robotic shopping trolley that offers products via speech and GUI to the user while both are moving in a supermarket-like environment. Our results show that if the robot slows down while making such offers, users are more prone to react upon them and to take the product. However, even from our early pre-study with mock-up robots we observed that users tended not to mention the robot's slow-down movements, even if these movements were shown several times to them during a video-based debriefing. This phenomenon, that users react implicitly on the robot's movements without being consciously aware of them, was confirmed during an experimental study with a fully integrated robot prototype. We discuss our results by reflecting on human-robot interaction design methods, and we draw implications from the lessons learned in the study of the design of robot behaviours. In particular, we list a whole set of challenges for HRI when both the user and the robot are moving.
We are observing that the current body of CSCW research is focusing either on stable workplaces with a single cooperative unit or on mobile work, with highly mobile professionals. We are attempting to fill the gap between workplace and mobile with a field study of student work, which we regard as exhibiting a high degree of nomadicity. After comparing student work with centres of coordination and mobility work, we unpack the notion of nomadicity as a work condition, constituted by a complex of discontinuities, leading to work partitioning and re-assembly. We draw design and methodological implications.
We report on a pilot study that is part of an ongoing project which investigates social awareness support for project groups made of students who may choose to work at the university, at home or at part-time job offices. The study involved the design and early evaluation of a prototype which augments a cooperative application with various sensorial and computational cues about co-worker presence. The sensing devices were installed and annotated by the users themselves. Based on this experience and inspired by "technomethodology", we suggest implications for design of awareness support and context-enabled devices.
Robotic telepresence, also known as telerobotics is a subfield of telepresence whose aim is to increase presence via embodiment in a robotic platform. In particular, robotic telepresence can be an effective tool to enhance social interaction suited to certain groups of users such as the elderly. The aim of this workshop is to address various aspects important for social robotic telepresence which include but are not limited to, (1) the mechanical design, (2) the user interface design, (3) the interaction between the remotely embodied person and the locally embodied person and (4) the perception of social robotic telepresence systems. Furthermore, we are interested in discovering the added value of spatial presence in the context of social telepresence and comparisons between robotic and non-robotic systems are of interest. We welcome contributions concerning results reached from the above mentioned areas of interest, user evaluation and methodologies, as well as reports from the deployment of social robotic solutions into real world contexts.
The importance of groupware tools in e-learning practice is increasing, because of their educational relevance and of the importance of group abilities in today's job activities. The paper addresses some critical issues of asynchronous collaborative tools hosted in Web-learning platforms. A model to capture user quality perceptions for these tools is presented, and an investigation conducted in three case studies where e-learning platforms were used to share and comment on written works is reported in detail. Quantitative and qualitative data are used in a complementary way to capture the complexity of educational collaborative activities. The impact of technologies on work organization, writing and peer-feedback activities is discussed. Users dedicated more time to feedback activities than they would have in real-life contexts, and paid more attention to the style and content of their writing. Communication was more focused and honest than in real life (even though more distant and at the risk of misunderstanding), and its indirectness encouraged shy and impaired people. Usability problems emerged from platform design, educators' choices and server-side settings; Web-based systems seem to pose specific usability issues when users are required a strong active role; compatibility issues highlight the need for a closer Web standard compliance.
Three different ways of evaluating a Swedish grammar checker are presented and discussed in this article. The first evaluationconcerns measuring the program's detection capacity on five text genres. The measures (precision and recall) are often used inevaluating grammar checkers. However, in order to test and improve the usability of grammar checking software, they need to becomplemented with user-oriented methods. Consequently, the second and the third evaluations presented in the article both involveusers. The second evaluation focuses on user reactions to grammar error presentations, especially with regard to false alarms anderroneous error identification. The third and last evaluation focuses on problems in supporting users' cognitive revision processes. Italso examines user motives behind choosing to correct or not to correct problems highlighted by the program. Advantages anddisadvantages of the different evaluation methods are discussed.
This paper describes the development of a fetch-and-carry robot to assist physically impaired people in an office environment. Different methods involving users are employed in the project, including the task analysis, Hi-Fi simulation trials and focus group sessions. Through an iterative design process, a prototype robot system has been developed, with an enhanced robot platform including a graphical user interface and natural language interface. The users' need for continuous feedback from the robot has led to the development of an animated character (CERO), which relates the two interface components and indicates the robot's current state by using simple gestures
In a future scenario where many devices can be controlled using the voice, easy and intuitive access will be crucial for avoiding cognitive overload when users are faced with many different systems and interaction models. We propose a model for interaction with spoken language interfaces applied to heterogeneous tasks for service robots, based on the idea of using a family of lifelike characters,, We argue that we can signal important features of the speech interface by using certain visual cues. The aim is to facilitate learning and transfer between interfaces. We discuss challenges for dialogue design affecting learnability in the light of the speech interface constructed for our full-scale robot prototype CERO.
We describe a user-centered approach to the process of designing spoken dialogues for commanding robots. Using scenarios and synthetic dialogues followed by simulated trials with real users we built a spoken language interface for commanding an office robot. Initial evaluation with the implemented system has brought interesting questions concerning the feedback necessary for interacting with a robot that has no screen. We are using a small life-like character placed upon the robot who is able of displaying conversational gestures. We have performed initial evaluations on video recorded material which have raised issues concerning low-level feedback, timing and sequencing of commands in dialogue
Natural language user interfaces for robots with cognitive capabilities should be designed to reduce the occurrence of miscommunication in order to be perceived as providing a smooth and intuitive interaction to its users. This paper describes how miscommunication analysis is integrated in the design process. Observations from 12 user sessions revealed that users misunderstand the robot's functionality; and that feedback sometimes is ill-timed with respect to the situation. We provide a set of design implications to prevent errors from occurring, to influence or adapt to users' behavior.
In the CommRob project1 we are investigating Robot Assisted Shopping. We are considering the effects on usability when allowing for mixed-initiative dialogue. It is noted that when adding a robotic assistant to a scenario that was previously involving only one agent, two new tasks are created: collaborative interaction, and learning an interface. Evaluation of mixed-initiative dialogue becomes complicated because it is not straightforward to separate the overall task performance from the attributes brought by mixed-initiative interaction.
This paper describes how the Wizard-of-Oz framework can be applied to a service robotics scenario. A scenario the Home Tour Scenario - involving a collaborative service discovery and configuration multimodal dialogue for the robot is described. The role of the wizard operators producing dialogue and robot movements is discussed as well as the specific simulation tools used: the Dialogue Production Tool and the Joystick Navigation Tool. Some attention will be paid to the pilot studies performed as a preparation for the unified Home Tour Scenario.
This paper describes the development process of a contextualized corpus for research on Human-Robot Communication. The data have been collected in two Wizard-of-Oz user studies performedwith 22 and 5 users respectively in a scenario that is called the HomeTour. In this scenario the users show the environment (a single room, or a whole floor) to the robot using a combination of speech and gestures. The corpus has been transcribed and annotated with respect to gestures and conversational acts, thus forming a core annotation. We have also annotated or linked other types of data, e.g., laser range finder readings, positioning analysis, questionnaire data and task descriptions that form the annotated context of the scenario. By providing a rich set of different annotated data, thecorpus is thus an important resource both for research on natural language speech interfaces for robots and for research on human-robot communication in general.
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Within the field of computer-supported cooperative work, there are a continuously growing number of studies of the use of electronic media in groups and organisations. Despite the existence of this impressive body of research, there have been comparatively few in-depth studies of how the computer as a medium of communication is integrated in specific professional practices. The present study examines the role of electronic mail in a medium-sized Swedish newspaper office (newsroom) environment. Using an ethnographic perspective, the study attempts to combine two approaches: it is both focused on the social and communicative processes that are affected by the use of email and oriented toward the messages as such, looking at what kind of interaction is produced through particular email exchanges. Data have been collected during repeated observations, interviews and study of documents and artefacts in the newsroom environment over a period of almost 3 years. The picture that has emerged suggests that it is not the medium as such, but its interaction with other contextual preconditions that is decisive for the effects of the introduction of email. Important factors are the physical localization of co-workers in the near and remote editorial environment as well as their organisational roles in the time-critical news production process. Together, these relationships create a significantly more complex picture than previous studies of what happens when a new communication technology is introduced.
Co-presence and embodied interaction are two fundamental characteristics of the command and control situation for service robots. This paper presents a study of spatial distances and orientation of a robot with respect to a human user in an experimental setting. Relevant concepts of spatiality from social interaction studies are introduced and related to Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). A Wizard-of-Oz study quantifies the observed spatial distances and spatial formations encountered. However, it is claimed that a simplistic parameterization and measurement of spatial interaction misses the dynamic character and might be counterproductive in the design of socially appropriate robots.
This paper describes the motivation, methodology, and findings of a long-term usage study of CERO, a service robot intended to assist partly motion-impaired people with the transportation of light objects in an office environment. We describe the user's experiences with utilizing the robot over a period of 3 months, and the overall process of adapting service robot usage as part of a work-group setting. The results of the study suggest the need for different modes of operation of a robot. We also question the view of service robots as personalized devices only, and point out the importance of providing transitions between remote- and close proximity control in the use of service robots.
In designing socially interactive robotswe have focused on robot movement and its role in multi-modal human-robot communication. In this paper we describe a user-centred design and evaluation process, investigating the idea of using speed and orientation adjustments as design elements in human-robot interaction. The scenario studied includes a robotic shopping trolley that offers products to the user while both are moving in a supermarket-like environment. Our results show that if the robot slows down while making such offers, users are more prone to react upon them. However, in an early pre-study, performed only with a robot mock-up, we observed that users tended not to notice the robot's slow-down movements while offers are made, even if these movements were shown several times to them during a video-based debriefing. This phenomenon, that users react implicitly on the robot'smovements without being consciously aware of them, was confirmed during an experimental study with a fully integrated robot prototype.We discuss our results by reflecting on human-robot interaction design methods, and we propose implications from the lessons learnt in the study of the design of robot behaviours.
This paper describes the experiences from the iterative design of a fetch-and-carry-robot, to be used by motion-impaired people in an office environment. A user-centered approach was chosen, involving several steps of information elicitation to inform the design. We describe the main elements of the design process, the communication and interaction components of the final prototype system, and an evaluation of the system in the form of a longitudinal study. Results from this study confirmed that continuous testing with users is extremely important in the design process for service robots. The trials have also revealed that interaction design for robots should not focus only on the individual user, but that other members in the environment can be seen "secondary users" or "bystanders" who tend to relate to the robot actively in various ways. We conclude that these social and collaborative issues should be studied in future research.
This paper reports an experimental study in which people who had never encountered our service robot before were requested to assist it with a task. We call these visiting users "bystanders" to differentiate them from people who belong to the social setting and group in which the robot is operated in and thus are familiar with the robot. In our study 32 subjects were exposed to our robot and requested by it to provide a cup of coffee as part of a delivery mission. We anticipated that people in general would help the robot, dependent upon whether they were busy or had received a demonstration of the robot as introduction. Our results indicate that the willingness of bystanders to help a robot not only is a consequence of the robot initiated interaction, but equally depends on the situation and state of occupation people are in when requested to interact with and assist the robot.
A mobile service robot performing a task for its user(s) might not be able to accomplish its mission without help from other people present in the shared environment. In previous research, collaborative control has been studied as an interactive mode of operation with a robot, compensating for its limitations in autonomy. However, few studies of robots requesting assistance by detecting potential collaborators, directing its attention to them, addressing them, and finally obtaining help from them, have previously been performed in real-world use contexts. This study focuses on a fetch-and-carry robot, Cero, which has been designed to operate in an office environment as an aid for motion-impaired users. During its missions, the robot sometimes needs help with loading or unloading an object. The main question for the study was: under what conditions are people willing to help when requested to do so by the robot? We were particularly interested in bystanders, i.e. people who happened to be in the environment but who did not have any official business with the robot (they neither knew anything about the robot, nor did they have access rights to the robot or its functions). To answer these questions and to provide a better understanding of human-robot help-seeking situations, we conducted an experimental study in which subjects who had not encountered our service robot before were requested to assist it with a task. The results of the study confirm that bystanders can to some degree be expected to help in robot missions, but that their willingness to help the robot depends on the situation and state of occupation that people are in when requested to interact with and assist the robot.
This paper presents an in-depth analysis from a Human Robot Interaction (HRI) study on spatial positioning and interaction episode transitions. Subjects showed a living room to a robot to teach it new places and objects. This joint task was analyzed with respect to organizing strategies for interaction episodes. Noticing the importance of transitions between interaction episodes, small adaptive movements in posturewere observed. This finding needs to be incorporated into HRI modules that plan and execute robots' spatial behavior in interaction, e.g., through dynamic adaptation of spatial formations and distances depending on interaction episode.
Special purpose service robots have already entered the market and their users homes. Also the idea of the general purpose service robot or personal robot companion is increasingly discussed and investigated. To probe human-robot interaction with a mobile robot in arbitrary domestic settings, we conducted a study in eight different homes. Based on previous results from laboratory studies we identified particular interaction situations which should be studied thoroughly in real home settings. Based upon the collected sensory data from the robot we found that the different environments influenced the spatial management observable during our subjects' interaction with the robot. We also validated empirically that the concept of spatial prompting can aid spatial management and communication, and assume this concept to be helpful for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) design. In this article we report on our exploratory field study and our findings regarding, in particular, the spatial management observed during show episodes and movement through narrow passages.
Change representation concerns how changes of text are presented in writing tools. Change representation in collaborative writing can play an important role for the collaborators' understanding of changes of text. We have conducted a laboratory study where 10 pairs of a writer and a reviewer produced argumentative letters by using the change representation functions. We have also set different conditions in the experimental task: (a) two ways of representing changes, indication and display, and (b) two collaboration models, the writer- and the reviewer-initiative models. A primary source of the data was obtained though interviews with the participants. The paper reports their experience of collaboration in writing with change representation tools, relevant design conclusions, and lessons learned from the study.
This paper presents a field study carried out with learners who used a grammar checker in real writing tasks in an advanced course at a Swedish university. The objective of the study was to investigate how students made use of the grammar checker in their writing while learning Swedish as a second language. Sixteen students with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds participated in the study. A judgment procedure was conducted by the learners on the alarms from the grammar checker. The students' texts were also collected in two versions; a version written before the session with the grammar checker, and a version after the session. This procedure made it possible to study to what extent the students followed the advice from the grammar checker, and how this was related to their judgments of its behavior. The results obtained demonstrated that although most of the alarms from the grammar checker were accurate, some alarms were very hard for the students to judge correctly.
The results also showed that providing the student with feedback on different aspects of their target language use; not only on their errors, and facilitating the processes of language exploration and reflection are important processes to be supported in second-language learning environments.
Based on these results, design principles were identified and integrated in the development of Grim, an interactive language-learning program for Swedish. We present the design of Grim, which is grounded in visualization of grammatical categories and examples of language use, providing tools for both focus on linguistic code features and language comprehension.
This chapter describes a computer-based technique for analysing revision and text production strategies, called S-notation. On the basis of a keystroke record, a representation is created of all revisions made in a text during a writing session, including their order and internal structure. The resulting representation is embedded in an interactive program, which enables both qualitative and quantitative analyses of revisions made during a writing session. The tools described also support automatic identification of connected episodes of revision, which are relevant for the study of individual and task-specific writing strategies. We present the methodological and theoretical rationale behind the development of the method, and the basic principles for the creation of the S-notation. Subsequently, we describe how the tools can be used to answer particular research questions, including a discussion of the limitations of a purely formal treatment of revision. A multi-level framework is outlined for how to gain knowledge of revision processes using different kinds of data. Finally, we summarize studies made by ourselves as well as other researchers using S-notation analysis
This article presents the results from a video-based evaluation study of a social robotic telepresence solution for elderly. The evaluated system is a mobile teleoperated robot called Giraff that allows caregivers to virtually enter a home and conduct a natural visit just as if they were physically there. The evaluation focuses on the perspectives from primary healthcare organizations and collects the feedback from different categories of health professionals. The evaluation included 150 participants and yielded unexpected results with respect to the acceptance of the Giraff system. In particular, greater exposure to technology did not necessarily increase acceptance and large variances occurred between the categories of health professionals. In addition to outlining the results, this study provides a number of indications with respect to increasing acceptance for technology for elderly.
Robotic telepresence offers a means to connect to a remote location via traditional telepresence with the added value of moving and actuating in that location. Recently, there has been a growing focus on the use of robotic telepresence to enhance social interaction among elderly. However for such technology to be accepted it is likely that the experienced presence when using such a system will be important. In this paper, we present results obtained from a training session with a robotic telepresence system when used for the first time by healthcare personnel. The study was quantitative and based on two standard questionnaires used for presence namely, the Temple Presence Inventory (TPI) and the Networked Minds Social Presence Intentory. The study showed that overall the sense of social richness as perceived by the users was high. The users also had a realistic feeling regarding their spatial presence.
This article presents a method for measuring the quality of interaction in social mobile robotic telepresence. The methodology is in part based on Adam Kendon's theory of F-formations. The theory is based on observations of how bodies naturally orient themselves during interaction between people in real life settings. In addition, two presence questionnaires (Temple Presence Inventory and Networked Minds Social Presence Inventory), designed to measure the users' perceptions of others and the environment when experienced through a communication medium are used. The perceived presence and ease of use are correlated to the spatial formations between the robot and an actor. The proposed methodology is validated experimentally on a dataset consisting of interactions between an elder (actor) and 21 different users being trained in piloting a mobile robotic telepresence unit. The evaluation has shown that these tools are suitable for evaluating mobile robotic telepresence and also that correlations between the tools used exist. Further, these results give important guidelines on how to improve the interface in order to increase the quality of interaction.
In this paper, we focus on spatial formations when interacting via mobile robotic telepresence (MRP) systems. Previous research has found that those who used a MRP system to make a remote visit (pilot users) tended to use different spatial formations from what is typical in human-human interaction. In this paper, we present the results of a study where a pilot user interacted with ten elderly via a MRP system. Intentional deviations from known accepted spatial formations were made in order to study their effect on interaction quality from the local user perspective. Using a retrospective interviews technique, the elderly commented on the interaction and confirmed the importance of adhering to acceptable spatial configurations. The results show that there is a mismatch between pilot user behaviour and local user preference and that it is important to evaluate a MRP system from two perspectives, the pilot user's and the local user's.
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research is here presented into social robots that have to be able to interact with inexperienced users. In the design of these robots many research findings of human-human interaction and human-computer interaction are adopted but the direct applicability of these theories is limited because a robot is different from both humans and computers. Therefore, new methods have to be developed in HRI in order to build robots that are suitable for inexperienced users. In this paper we present a video study we conducted employing our robot BIRON (BIelefeld RObot companioN) which is designed for use in domestic environments. Subjects watched the system during the interaction with a human and rated two different robot behaviours (extrovert and introvert). The behaviours differed regarding verbal output and person following of the robot. Aiming to improve human-robot interaction, participants' ratings of the behaviours were evaluated and compared.
This paper presents a study aimed at exploring the effects of different modality combinations on collaborative task performance and employed joint task-solving strategies in a shared interface. The modality combinations visual/haptic, visual/audio and visual/haptic/audio were compared in an experiment in which users solved a task together, working in pairs in adjacent rooms. The application used contained a flat surface in a 3D interface on which piles of cubes were randomly placed in a grid. The task involved scanning for empty cells and placing continuously falling cubes until all empty cells were filled. The cubes and the flat surface were designed in such a way that they could be felt and heard and thus could be recognized by different kinds of haptic and audio feedback cues. This made it possible to scan the environment and read both absolute and relative positions in the grid. A quantitative analysis of task performance and a qualitative analysis of video recordings and interview data were performed. Results showed that task completion times were significantly faster in the visual/haptic/audio condition compared with the other conditions and that there were also significantly fewer errors, result checks of one's own actions and double checks of the partner's actions in the visual/haptic/audio condition than in the other conditions. Qualitative results show that participants work simultaneously to a larger extent in the visual/haptic/audio condition and that less communication occurred in the visual/haptic/audio condition compared with the other conditions. We argue that more modalities improved the awareness of the environment resulting in the participants feeling more confident with their interaction in the environment in the visual/haptic/audio condition. This resulted in improved task performance. The visual/audio feedback was better suited for solving the task than the visual/haptic feedback even though haptic feedback gave a significant added value in the visual/haptic/audio condition.
In this study the use of audio and video and the support of common ground was investigated in the context of the planning stage in the writing process. The esearch question for this study was: "Compared to the use of an audio communication modality, how is common ground supported by a video communication modality when people are planning a document together with the use of a collaborative writing tool?" To study how common ground was supported by an audio and video communication modality, the following definition of common ground was used: For a conversation to be effective the communicators need to understand each other, that means they are noticing and hearing each other, they understand what was said and what was meant. In total 45 participants took part in this study. The task was to make an outline about Sweden. A questionnaire was used to measure the support for common ground, satisfaction with the interaction and satisfaction with the outcome. Task performance was measured with the quality of the outlines. The outlines were reviewed and sorted on quality. The results for this study show that common ground is well supported by both communication modalities, but differences in support for common ground do exist. It is argued that video supports the creation and maintenance of common ground better in complex situations, which demand intensive collaboration, especially for non-native speakers of English.
Robots are sometimes considered as candidates for being ideal helpers in various situations. As robot technology advances quickly it might be tempting to assume that robots will soon widely used in homes dealing with all sorts of tasks, from small assignments to more complex tasks. However, it is still not clear what people expect a robot to do in their homes. This paper describes the results from two studies that investigate the public opinion towards service robots, both as a general domestic worker, and as a support for people with special needs.
Sharing documents with others and getting comments on them are frequent activities for most authors. We present Col-lecci6;1A web-based asynchronous, groupware tool that supports sharing and annotation of documents in small or medium sized-groups. Eash document is associated with its own space for commenting, in which a text-based dialouge can be formed among the participants. A site in Col-lecci6 is called a domain, and consists of a collection of documents and a set of comments in connection with each document. Case studies of the use of the system have shown that a domain is often complex as a discourse enviroment, as the system supports several parallel document discussions. We present a visualization model, Domain Interactivity Diagram (DID), as an aid for analysing patterns of annotation and referncing in these dialouges. This model is especially adapted to document-centred discourse, and highlights the role of the author in communication about a document. One aim of the DID is to show the extent to which documents he/she has commented on. A more ambitious aim has been to support to coherence in the discourse developed within a domain.
This paper presents results from two case studies aiming at understanding nomadic work in the context of students' collaborative activities. By drawing on data collected by adopting ethnographic methods, we present and discuss a notion of nomadicity as characterized by discontinuities. Eventually, we explore some considerations for design that we address as relevant for the settings we have studied.
This paper describes how people make sense of and use constellations of technologies in a nomadic setting, and it illustrates how maintaining and orchestrating a variety of applications and devices becomes an essential part of nomadic practices. The data were collected over a period of 3 years at a technical university by means of two field studies. Particular attention is drawn to how the situated orchestration of devices and applications within a group's constellation reflects university students' concern to manage their projects at a number of locations, as well as issues of time and circulation of resources. The analysis brings into focus how constellations of technologies emerge and dissolve within collaborative ensembles that only exist for the duration of a project, and how this can cause appropriation issues within groups.
Motivation -- This paper explores the collaborative and spatial practices of university students engaged in project work. Regarding students as nomadic workers, we attempt to elucidate how their activities are shaped by the lack of a stable and fixed location where work can be carried out.
Research approach -- The data presented in this paper were collected by means of ethnographically-informed methods.
Findings/Design -- The results elucidate how students manage their collaborative activities at different locations and how they use artifacts and technology in order to do so.
Research limitations/Implications -- Only Swedish students participated in the field study discussed in this paper. Cultural attributes, related to privacy for instance, might contribute to the distinction between private and public places.
Originality/Value -- This work highlights the relationships between group activities and the places they are bound to, with a main focus on how these relationships are mediated by technological artifacts.
Take away message -- The nomadic work described suggests that design efforts should be oriented towards an integration of different applications and/or technological devices.
Haptic feedback in shared virtual environments can potentially make it easier for a visit ally impaired person to take part in and contribute to the process of group work. In this paper a task driven explorative evaluation is presented. of collaboration between visually impaired and sighted persons in three applications that provide haptic and visual feedback. The results show that all pairs could perform all the tasks in these applications even though a number of difficulties were identified. The conclusions made can inform design of applications for cooperation between visually impaired and sighted users.
In the study presented in this paper two haptic and visual prototypes for learning about geometrical concepts in group work in primary school have been designed and evaluated The aim was for the prototypes to support collaborative learning between sighted and visually impaired pupils. The first prototype was a 3D environment, that supported learning of spatial geometry. The second prototype was a flattened 3D environment that supported learning to distinguish between angles. The two prototypes were evaluated in four schools with small groups of pupils - two sighted and one visually impaired. The results showed that the support for the visually impaired user was good and that co-operation and learning are satisfactorily supported. However, a number of interesting problems were also discovered that need to be investigated further. A promising result was that the power of the touch-based haptic interface for supporting visually impaired people was made clear.
In the study presented here two software prototypes for learning about geometrical concepts in primary school were evaluated. Both prototypes have a combined haptic and visual user interface, so as to support visually impaired pupils in group work together with sighted classmates. The aim of the prototypes was to facilitate the visually impaired pupils' inclusion in school. The overall goal of the study was to evaluate the collaboration in a shared haptic environment regarding usability, interaction, learning and inclusion in a group work process with visually impaired and sighted pupils. The prototype and the evaluation are described in more detail in Moll (2006).


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Blur announce Parklive
Blur's recent performance at Hyde Park to mark the closing of the Olympic Games is being made available in a 5-disc CD/DVD set from 3rd December 2012 on Parlophone.
Parklive, the deluxe edition will comprise the whole show, with extras, presented in audio over 2 CDs with a DVD of the 12-camera shoot directed by Mathew Amos. Also included is an exclusive CD, Blur - Live At The 100 Club recorded at the London venue in August as part of Converse Represent, with a further CD of special live tracks recorded this summer, including 'Under The Westway' and 'The Puritan' performed live on Twitter from a London rooftop, and recordings from the Wolverhampton warm-up show and BBC Radio Maida Vale sessions. The discs are housed in a 60-page hardback book containing exclusive photographs from both Hyde Park and the 100 Club and is available from blur.co.uk
The Hyde Park show will also be available on DVD, double CD and digitally on December 3rd.

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|Latin name
|Bodianus diana - (Lacepède, 1801)
|Common name
|Red Diana Hogfish
|Labridae - Bodianus
|East Indian Ocean, West Indian Ocean, The Red Sea, Indonesia
|Max length
|17.0 cm (6.7")
As aquarium fish
This species can be extremely aggressive towards other fish.
Be careful when keeping these fish together with peaceful or docile species. Regular feeding, plenty of hiding places and a lot of space can alleviate aggressive behavior to some degree.
Searches through sand for food
This species searches through the sand for food, which can make the water cloudy and shakes up detritus.
In an aquarium their natural food source in the sand is quickly exhausted.
Eats worms, small mussels and crustaceans
This species likes to eat worms, small bivalves and small crustaceans.
Requires plenty of space for swimming.
This species revels in swimming and requires an aquarium with ample space.
This species can change gender from female to male.
When a male is needed, a female changes sex and takes on the role.
Hiding places
This species needs good hiding places, for example, between live rocks.
Genus description (Bodianus)
Hogfish (Bodianus) get their name from the way they look for food in the substrate using their snout. They can regularly be seen blowing water down into the sand and in their natural habitat they often follow other fish which have disturbed it.
Hogfish are quite hardy and in time eat all the most common available fish foods. They do however, demand plenty of space to swim and for concealment.
They can hide for long periods of time if kept with more aggressive species. Hogfish can also be aggressive towards more docile species or those that resembles themselves.
When fully grown they can become a threat to various invertebrates, e.g. worms, snails, small bivalves and crustaceans amongst others.
Family description (Labridae)
Wrasses are nearly always seen in reef aquaria, since many of the species are both attractive and useful in battling a range of unwanted invertebrates like i.e. flatworms, pyramide snails.
These fish live of everything from zooplankton to large crustaceans, sea urchins and the like.
The needs and behaviour of Wrasses vary greatly, so it is vital to familiarize oneself with the specific species before buying one.
|Aquarium trade
|Indian Ocean: East Africa (questionable in the Gulf of Aden and Somalia), east to the Nicobar Islands and Cocos-Keeling Islands (Ref. 75973). Replaced by Bodianus dictynna in the tropical Western Pacific and the the longer snouted Bodianus pro
|English common names
|Diana's hogfish, Diana's pigfish
|German common names
|Diana's Schweinsfisch
|French common names
References and further reading
Bob Fenner. The Wrasses We Call Hogfishes - Wet Web Media - (English)
Scott Michael. 2002. Aquarium Fish: The Hogfishes, Family Labridae - Advanced Aquarist - (English)
Scott W. Michael. 2009. Wrasses and Parrotfishes (Reef Fishes Series Book 5) - TFH Publications / Microcosm Ltd. - (English)
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2014. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version (08/2014).
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Global risk markets are likely to remain volatile in the short to medium term, on Britain's divorce from the EU and on the US-China trade war issue given unpredictability of the outcome, uncertainty of timing and higher risk premium for any fresh business investments. October did bring a measure of positive volatility on hopes of an interim trade deal between the US and China and on a delay in Brexit decision to January 31, 2020. An overtly dovish European Central Bank and a reluctantly dovish US Federal Reserve also helped. ECB leadership transitioned with the exit of Mario Draghi on October 31. But his parting comments set aggressive parameters for new round of quantitative easing to commence as Christine Lagarde assumes her leadership and will likely continue until core inflation rises significantly. The US Fed chair Jerome Powell has been proactive by acting swiftly and aggressively with three consecutive rate cuts of 25 bps each. However, the US Fed has endeavored continuously to dial back the odds of future rate cuts.
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The general scenario of my mock session was one taken from my place of employment working with adolescents. It can best be described as a sixteen year old female client who has been acting out in the group home in an uncharacteristic manner. As the clinician I had information from the school that the client was being bullied, but I allowed the client to disclose on their own. The session progressed to a point where the client then was able to agree to some things that the school was able to offer and it was established that I would follow up with the client at a later date.
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I am not sure what it is with May, but it seems to get away from me. I was about to title this post "Messy May" and then remembered this! Once again here is a little photo dump for the month so far.
Parker has been hit or miss with his drums lately. Something I think it's because he can't find the sticks. That didn't stop him a few weeks ago and he improvised with a plastic carrot!
Remember the baby shower I helped host in March? That baby finally made his debut! We got the chance to visit our friends Sarah, Torry, and their son Declan last week. He was so precious and pretty much slept the whole time (I miss that sometimes.)
Come on...I am in love with him...
We had a fun two day date night last week. Friday night we walked to the new Noodles for dinner, then to Target to grab ET on blu-ray for another throwback movie night
We went to see Avengers: Age of Ultron on Saturday morning, which was an awesome continuation of the Marvel saga!
Parker has been intrigued by my hair for the last several months. I find he uses it to calm down when he is upset or to relax. I am glad I finally got some pictures because I know I will miss it one day.
He has been quite the dancer as of late as well. His favorites are Owl City and this one by Taylor Swift!
In the funniest moment of the week... I got a text from Jimmy last night, "Parker locked me out." Haha! I walked out to the breezeway and found Jimmy trying to convince Parker to let him back in...
The weather is heating up after another late spring cold snap. Hopefully we will be spending a lot more time outside...
...letting the popsicles cool us off instead of the weather!
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But yep, this week's Friday Finds have actually been garnering lots of publicity, and I bet many of you have already read them.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Friday Finds [7]
But yep, this week's Friday Finds have actually been garnering lots of publicity, and I bet many of you have already read them.
7 shout-outs!:
- Darlyn said...
i never read any of those but will be like always, after everyone already read/reviewed it.haha. i sometime found out interesting books after everyone else have read/ reviewed it. i felt like i was so left behind *sob*
- April 23, 2010 at 10:23 PM
- Sarah (Book Reviews from Inside an Igloo) said...
I read The Dark Divine, and I really liked it!! I think some people are iffy about it. I know some people are skeptical about the whole religion aspect, but I didn't feel like it was making a mockery of it or anything. Her fathers a priest, but never was God or religion taking lightly (in my opinion). However to each's own I suppose.
- April 23, 2010 at 10:44 PM
- Amelia said...
That's interesting, Sarah. Actually, the reason this book interests me is because a lot of my (fellow) religious pals have spoken favorably of this book - any time religion is portrayed in a positive light, I'm there! Thanks for your shout-out :D
- April 23, 2010 at 10:49 PM
- Emily said...
I've read both of them and enjoyed both. I really liked Brightly Woven.
- April 23, 2010 at 11:09 PM
- Felicia the Geeky Blogger said...
Those look great!
I am with you I am finding so many books to put on TBR shelf (which should be renamed-I will never run out of books to read shelf) that many people have long ago read and loved. I actually kind of love that!
- April 24, 2010 at 7:05 AM
- DJ D. said...
Hey! Stopping by from the hop/your comment on my blog. Thanks for visiting and I'm loving your blog! I hope you enjoy the Dark Divine! It was a surprising book-in a good way. :)
- April 24, 2010 at 8:25 PM
- Tales of Whimsy said...
I ADORE the DD!
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I am getting so frustrated with the lack of options for my Note 5 with regards to cases. Let me be clear here, I love my Note 5. I've had Notes for many years now. I got the Galaxy Gear watch when it first came out then the 2nd. After Apple got with the program, everyone now asks me, " Is that an Apple phone?"
I mean, do people look at me on my white little tablet, writing notes with my built in stylus and feel sorry for me? Like they should donate their first generation IPhone to me like a coat drive at church?
I know as I type this there are die hard Apple lovers ready to capture me for heresy and present me to the Apple authorities. Now just put down your kool-aid, attempt to scrub that moustache off and listen for a second. You are brainwashed. You are essentially paying for the name when you can find just as good technology, if not better in other brands. How many times have you heard someone announce "I can only do Apple", as if it's some sort of sorority and the announcement of this puts you in a higher caste system. You can only do Apple? What? Are you allergic to the Galaxy charger or something?
There really isn't a point to this. I was just reading, thought of it and wanted to get it on paper. So are you team Apple or do you want to hop in my Amish buggie to the Samsung store to pick up the VR Gear?


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Chris has been the Head Coach and Owner of MSC since January 2014, but has been training athletes since 2005. Currently, he is also the Asst. Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Anaheim Ducks (NHL). Before taking the job with Anaheim, he was the Strength and Conditioning coach for the San Diego Gulls (AHL Affiliate of the Anaheim Ducks) during the 15/16 and 16/17 seasons.
Chris graduated with a BS in Kinesiology from Arizona State University in 2005 and is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). Chris thrives on developing athletes and young people through making a genuine connection with them. The goal of the programs offered, is to help athletes of all ages and abilities, grow and develop. This is done with a culture centered around character, respect, integrity, service and process.
PJ Musico | Strength Coach, Former Pro Athlete
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He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the NSCA and a Certified Youth Physical Literacy Specialist. During his Strength and Conditioning career, he has worked with a wide spectrum of athletes in various sports. Outside of hockey, he assisted with the eight time National Champion Penn State Women's Volleyball team, interned with USA Powerlifting, and was mentored by PSU Strength Coach, Cam Davidson. With all these experiences he developed a passion for wanting to help athletes reach their full potential. He wants to offer the quality of training that was not available to him when he was growing up in the Orange County area.
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Spiritual Study
One of the most enlightening disciplines is the I Ching. It can help you frame important events that are happening or may happen in the future. The Oracle helps the reader recognize his ego and take it out of the equation. If contemplated first thing in the morning, it can give a calming effect that may be helpful when mindfully reviewed during a stressful part of the day . It can be gazed upon daily, weekly or when needed . Today's I Ching passage was written by Stephen Mitchell:
"Fame or integrity: which is more important?
Money or happiness: which is more valuable?
Success or failure: which is more destructive?
If you look to others for fullfillment,
you will never truly be fulfilled.
If your happiness depends on money,
you will never be happy with yourself.
Be content with what you have;
rejoice the way things are.
When you realize nothing is lacking,
the whole world belongs to you!"


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Dorr Mountain climb began at the Otter Creek Rd parking lot Rt 3 on Mount Desert Island. Since we started out a little bit later this morning, not starting the climb till around noon I wasn't sure I was ready for the the Ladder trail to the left, so today we decided to climb heading up by the East Face Trail via the Kurt Diederich, Schiff and South Ridge trail to the summit. Dorr Mountain was named for George Dorr who came to MDI in 1868 on vacation with his parents. The remains of the family residence, Old Farm, at Compass Harbor in Bar Harbor, are part of Acadia National Park today. This will be a must see for me as well. George fell in love with the island and had a vision of creating a park from land he was able to purchase and then advocating from landowners on the island to give away their land for the cause, enough donated land to qualify for a National Park. His mission in life was to preserve as much land as he could on MDI. He wanted something to leave for future generations to enjoy. He was called the "Father of Acadia" by all who knew him. George devoted four decades of his life and all of his fortune to his cause. He was a conservationist, co-founder and first superintendent of Acadia National Park. The mountain we climb today graces his name. He inspires Dave and I, as he must so many others before us which includes Ronald Epp and wife who were tourists to MDI visiting the first time in 1985. He is a philanthropist excited to experience the wildness and beauty that Acadia holds, that same excitement that we feel and love. Ronald and his wife, through the years hiked most of Acadia and everywhere they went, conversations and acknowledgments, George Dorr's name came up. Ronald started looking for any information that he could about George, research that took fifteen years to complete. Ronald's accomplishment at age 73 was the completion of his publication "Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr," this book was released April 1, in time for the Acadia 2016 Centennial celebration. I read that because of the efforts of three men, Charles W. Eliot, John D. Rockefeller and George Dorr in 1916 — 100 years ago — President Woodrow Wilson accepted what today is the first parcel of Acadia National Park, the 5,000-acre Sieur de Monts Spring National Monument. I can't wait to spy this book in the quaint town of Bar Harbor, hoping the author will be available at some point to sign a copy for me. It will be a good read while relaxing at the campsite after a long day of hiking with my hunny.
Walking the mountain trail today all of these things that I have read about the history of George Dorr and this mountain ran through my head as we climbed the hundreds upon hundreds of stone granite steps to the summit and reflect on the physical hard back-breaking work that must have gone into the creation of the switch back trail to the top and how they were formed with the placement of step stones. As we climbed higher we were able to see Beachcroft, Huguenot Head, on the shoulder of Champlain Mountain. ( Beachcroft is the next mountain we will climb) We had a great view of the ocean, the porcupine islands, bar island, the Great Meadow and the Tarn below us. As a measuring tool we took pictures of Beachcroft Mountain which blocked the sea until we got closer to the top of Dorr. At one point we knew we were higher than Huguenot Head because the ocean was all the way across the horizon. I read that there are two "scramble" trails on Dorr Mountain that lead to the open summit, I wasn't sure what a scramble trail was but quickly found out once I found myself close to the summit. I was scrambling the rock surface at a steep pitch upward. I also read that anyone making the hike to the summit brings a rock to place on the rock pile at the top. After scrambling I was happy that the rock I chose was fairly small in size but Dave on the other hand, wanted his rock to make a big difference, but then he didn't have any problem hiking to the mountaintop either. My rock was just right size in my pocket as I ascended. It was in the shape of a heart. I was bringing it along...for the love of the climb, but after climbing the steep rock to the top, I thought I was going to have a heart attack. At times, the air became very thin and hard to breath, whether from the excitement and anticipation of reaching the top, the scrambling over the rock face or the thin air, when I placed that rock it would mean so much more to me. Dave and I talked about the many times through the years we drove up to Mt Cadillac got out of the truck and stood for a few minutes looking over the horizon then headed back down, but today, today it seems with our climb up standing there marveling at our accomplishments of making it to the top, we stood quietly and looked around, we felt the peacefulness and calm of being there. It was incredible, I looked at Dave and knew he felt it too. We felt we earned the right to breath in that fresh mountain air and looked to the beauty that was all around us as we stood in awe at the view and our efforts. I placed my rock on the top of the pile. I was here!
Looking around I noticed a wooden marker and noted that Dorr Mountain is 1270 feet to the top of the summit. The second highest peak in Acadia National Park second to Cadillac Mountain. While we were taking a picture of us on the summit of Dorr, we turned toward the ocean to see five people waving to us from Huguenot Head and turning toward Cadillac mountain two people were on that summit waving back. We gave them all a wave then took a few minutes to reflect our accomplishments for the day and started our descent. I noticed there are many types of trees on the trails Hardwood, Hemlock, Mixed Pine, Birch Grove, and Alpine. I think we saw them our trip up. Not very much foliage out yet anywhere but spring is here and it will be exceptional in a few weeks time. What there was though, was a whole lot of stone steps. One trail that we didn't have time to follow today was called the Hemlock trail. It is on the North Ridge trail. If we would have had more time today we could have gone .6 miles crossing over and down through the Gorge trail and back up the East side to the summit of Cadillac Mountain, where we recently waved to other hikers, but we will just have to keep it for another day. On the way down once we reached the Kurk Diederich trail turning right we chose to go straight on the Homan's Path which years ago was a lost path along with Emery trail due to rock slides in 2003/2007. Happy it was cleared a few years ago, this trail took us to the Sieur de Monts Spring ...the same one that in 1916 was the first parcel of Acadia National Park, the 5,000-acre Sieur de Monts Spring National Monument. Dave and I crossed onto the Jesup Path and headed back to our truck. This was the tallest mountain that Dave and I have hiked so far. Dorr Mountain at the moment is Dave's favorite hike on foot.
Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D.
6/18/2016 04:49:15 pm
Thank you Dave and Dotti for including my biography in this splendid verbal and visual essay on Dorr Mountain. More seasoned visitors of Acadia than Elizabeth and myself, you two are folks I'd very much like to meet if you are in the park this summer. Please contact me via
Dorothy Hazelton
6/23/2016 10:41:15 am
Thank you for your comment Dr. Epp! I feel honored. Actually Dave and I have just started enjoying these amazing trails. Why we waited so long to do so is beyond me. We have a lot of catching up to do so we try to spend every free moment we can in the Park. Our dilemma is choosing between which one to hike first. Hoping to meet you at some point this summer and purchase a copy or two of your new book.
Maureen Fournier
6/20/2016 04:36:06 am
A wonderful essay describing this most beautiful hike. Dorr Mt. Is also one of my favorite hikes, no matter which trail taken. I echo Ron's gratitude for mentioning his book, CANP, an important read for all Dorr lovers (mountain and man)!
Dorothy Hazelton
6/23/2016 10:24:30 am
Thank you for the kind words. We love hiking the trails and hope to get to MDI in a few weeks for some more sight seeing and trails...excited to be there...hoping to find Dr Epp's new book as well
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