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2025, Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Movement is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the physical and virtual world. Analysing movement can reveal interesting trends and patterns. In the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) domain, eye and mouse movements reveal the interests and intentions of users. By identifying common HCI patterns in the spatial domain, profiles containing the spatial interests of users can be generated. These profiles can be used to address the spatial information overload problem through map personalisation. This paper presents the analysis and findings of a case study of users performing spatial tasks on a campus map. Mouse movement was recorded and analysed as users performed specific spatial tasks. The tasks correspond to the mouse trajectories produced while interacting with the Web map. When multiple users conduct similar and dissimilar spatial tasks, it becomes interesting to observe the behaviour patterns of these users. Clustering and geovisual analysis help to understand large movement datasets such as mouse movements. The knowledge gained through this analysis can be used to strengthen map personalisation techniques. In this work, we apply OPTICS clustering algorithm to a set of map user trajectories. We focus on two similarity measures and compare the results obtained with both when applied to particular saptial tasks carried out by multiple users. In particular, we show how route-based similarity, an advanced distance measure, performs better for spatial tasks involving scanning of the map area.

2025, Proceedings of The International Conference on Applied Research in Education

The increasing global and local demands to improve citizen's English proficiency has augmented the significance of English education across the entire paradigm. In fact, in Thailand, improving Thai university graduates' English has been one of the burgeoning challenges. Given the significance of academic research articles in the field of engineering and the paramount importance of English, this study focuses on Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) implementation in a research methodology course offered to engineering students in a university in Thailand. The objectives of the current study are to estimate the CLIL impact in enhancing the engineering students' expertise in reading English research articles and enlarging the students' academic vocabulary repertoire. Throughout CLIL, the language university teachers were in close collaboration with the non-language engineering teachers, including designing the course materials focusing on engineering research articles, developing language tasks and activities, and constructing testing instruments. To compensate for the Thai learners' relatively limited exposure to the English language, supporting systems like online English lessons on grammar and academic vocabulary were provided. Two sets of similar pre-tests and post-tests in research article reading and vocabulary were administered in Week 1 and Week 8, respectively. The analysis of the test scores congruently yielded positive and significantly enhanced output in the both the content subject and the English language. This study demonstrates that, to achieve full optimization of the potential benefits of CLIL, scaffolding needs to be supplemented to accommodate individual learning contexts.

2025

The increasing global and local demands to improve citizen’s English proficiency has augmented the significance of English education across the entire paradigm. In fact, in Thailand, improving Thai university graduates’ English has been one of the burgeoning challenges. Given the significance of academic research articles in the field of engineering and the paramount importance of English, this study focuses on Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) implementation in a research methodology course offered to engineering students in a university in Thailand. The objectives of the current study are to estimate the CLIL impact in enhancing the engineering students’ expertise in reading English research articles and enlarging the students’ academic vocabulary repertoire. Throughout CLIL, the language university teachers were in close collaboration with the non-language engineering teachers, including designing the course materials focusing on engineering research articles, developin...

2025

International audiencePurpose: In the face of empiricism prevailing to set an ideal position in cycling, the present study aims to find whether interlimb coordination and muscular activation patterns would provide relevant parameters to characterise an optimal saddle height.Methods: Eighteen experimented bikers were asked to pedal at a rate of 90 rpm under three randomized experimental conditions: Usual Saddle Height (USH), Saddle Height plus (SHP) (leg fully extended, pedal down, ankle in a neutral position) and Saddle Height minus (SHM) (same saddle height difference applied inversely). From the 3D coordinates, the kinematics of ankle, knee and hip were computed and the relative phase between the joints periodic motion was assessed through a Continuous Relative Phase (CRP) algorithm. Muscular activity was recorded through a surface EMG system.Results: While the hip, the knee, and the ankle range of motion were affected by saddle height changes, CRP highlights modifications in inte...

2025

This study compared body position on the bicycle using manual and automatically determined body segments during stationary cycling. High speed video (120 fps) was obtained from 14 cyclists using their own bikes on a stationary cycle trainer in a single session. Torso, hip, knee and ankle angles were measured in two positions of the crank (3 o'clock and 6 o'clock-dynamically) to determine body position on the bicycle. Significant differences (3-12°, d=0.38-1.92) were observed for all joints between the manual and automated method for both crank positions (except for the ankle at the 6 o'clock). Overall, the automated method overestimated torso and knee flexions and underestimated hip flexion and ankle dorsiflexion. Even though changes in angles were deemed meaningful, implications in terms of bicycle fitting are to be fully determined.

2025, ISBS Proceedings Archive

2025, Languages, culture, and translation in modern linguistics: comparative approaches

The rapid advancements in science and technology within the digital era have highlighted the limitations of traditional, teacher-centered language teaching models in addressing the evolving linguistic demands of learners. These models often fall short in equipping students with the necessary skills for effective communication in various professional fields such as business, engineering, medicine, hospitality, and education. The growing recognition of these gaps has drawn significant attention to English for Specific Purposes (ESP), a specialized approach to language teaching designed to meet the specific needs of learners in particular domains. ESP focuses on teaching English as a second or foreign language by tailoring course content and methodologies to the learners' professional or academic goals (Ahmed, 2014; Otilia, 2015). Hutchinson and Waters (1987) described ESP as an approach where all decisions regarding content and methods are driven by the learners' motivations and requirements for learning.

2025, International journal of measurement technologies and instrumentation engineering

Learning theories and algorithms for both supervised and unsupervised Neural Networks (NNs) have already been accepted as relevant tools to cope with difficult problems based on the processing of experimental electromagnetic data. These kinds of problems are typically formulated as inverse problems. In this paper, in particular, the electrical signals under An auto-associative NN that exploits wavelet coefficients as an input vector is also used as simple detector of non-stationarity based on a measure of reconstruction error. The proposed approach not only yields encouraging results to the problem at hand, but suggests a general approach to solve similar relevant problems in some other experimental electromagnetics applications.

2025, International Journal of Measurement Technologies and Instrumentation Engineering

Learning theories and algorithms for both supervised and unsupervised Neural Networks (NNs) have already been accepted as relevant tools to cope with difficult problems based on the processing of experimental electromagnetic data. These kinds of problems are typically formulated as inverse problems. In this paper, in particular, the electrical signals under investigations derive from experimental electromyogram interference patterns measured on human subjects by means of non-invasive sensors (ElectroMyoGraphic, sEMS surface data). The monitoring and the analysis of dynamic sEMG data reveal important information on muscles activity and can be used by clinicians for both preventing dramatic illness evolution and improving athletes performances. The paper proposes the use of the Independent Component Analysis (ICA), an unsupervised learning technique, in order to process raw sEMG data by reducing the typical “cross-talk” effect on the electric interference pattern measured by the surfa...

2025, Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

2025

How are dancers and musicians dealing with style? How do they perform music and dance styles that are so associated with their culture, community and time? Music and dance cultures evolved from entangled trans- formation vectors into styles that mark a culture. The styles reflect gender roles, socio-economic (and geo- graphic) differences, but they also reflect aspects of the bodies that express the movements, and aspects of the musical structures that support their functioning in the social context. Style is idiomatic. In this paper we study idiomatic expressions of style by mapping them into a universe of Afro-Brazilian dances and music styles. We collected the trajectories of 30 samba dances using motion-tracking technologies and analyzed the periodic structure of the gesture' trajectories. The information from the shape of the gesture was used to trace comparisons and generate a dissimilarity map. From this map we used data visualization methods (MDS) in order to test how th...

2025, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing

Research has focused on improvement of the qua/ity of fife of stroke patients. Gait detection, kinematics and kinetics analysis, home-based rehabilitation and telerehabilitation are the areas where there has been increasing research interest. The paper reviews position-sensing technologies and their application for human movement tracking and stroke rehabilitation. The review suggests that it is feasible to build a home-based telerehabilitation system for sensing and tracking the motion of stroke patients.

2025, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

This paper explores playfulness between grandparents and grandchildren, especially when they are separated by distance, and investigates ideas to bridge this separation. We present the result of a three stage investigation; the first an observational study of co-located intergenerational play groups, the second a cultural probes study of distributed intergenerational playfulness, and finally a technology probe study of a system for mediating intergenerational play across distance. In each case we discuss the nature of intergenerational play, the methodological issues, and explore opportunities for technological innovation through the 'Collage'. We argue that existing knowledge concerning the nature of or support for the young-or-older users engaged in instrumental activities are inadequate when we wish to build understanding of and design for young-and-older users, engaged in collective playfulness.

2025, American Journal of Dance Therapy

Dance/movement therapy (DMT) in Latin America has a growing number of practitioners, strong training programs, and a steady trajectory of contributions to the field in both research and practice. With the objective of finding spaces of professional solidarity, discussion and support, a group of Latinx practitioners from 13 countries gathered during the pandemic, forming RED DMT LATINX (Latinx DMT Network). This commentary article exposes the process and aims of the network and delineates some of the challenges and opportunities for DMT in Latin America, and for Latinx dance/movement therapists worldwide. The article analyzes issues related to professional visibility, highlights the lack of access to resources in Spanish and Portuguese, and calls for more spaces for peer and organizational support. It presents current evidence regarding efforts of legitimizing DMT within regulatory bodies and higher education, and recent digital initiatives in Latinx dissemination of current practice. Future areas of research include: the cultural recognition of Latin American dance forms and their applications within DMT, and the further inclusion of Latinx discourses in DMT platforms across the world. The article contributes key themes to the wider field of DMT, which will enrich future discussions, collaborations and research on multicultural exchanges and diversity.

2025, Brain and Development

Background: Early identification of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is recognized as a critical aspect of their medical management and treatment. Movement disorders are considered one of the first signs which probably precede social or linguistic abnormalities. Objectives: to verify, through observational methods, the possibility of distinguishing infants with ASD from infants with typical development or with mental retardation by movement. Methods: The Eshkol-Wachman movement analysis system, which analyses static symmetry (SS) and dynamic symmetry (DS) during lying, was applied to retrospective home videos regarding the first 5 months of life of children with ASD (n = 18), typical development (n = 18), or developmental delay (n = 12). Results: Significant differences between ASD and the two control groups were found for both SS (p < .001) and DS (p < .01). Within ASD two groups of infants could be differentiated on the basis of the higher (HLS) or the lower (LLS) levels of symmetry. Early onset ASD are more likely to belong to the LLS group. Conclusion: We suggest that motor functioning may define specific subgroups of early ASD which are related to different pathways to the syndrome. LLS could be used as an early indicator of potential autism since the first months of life.

2025

The rapid advancements in science and technology within the digital era have highlighted the limitations of traditional, teacher-centered language teaching models in addressing the evolving linguistic demands of learners. These models often fall short in equipping students with the necessary skills for effective communication in various professional fields such as business, engineering, medicine, hospitality, and education. The growing recognition of these gaps has drawn significant attention to English for Specific Purposes (ESP), a specialized approach to language teaching designed to meet the specific needs of learners in particular domains. ESP focuses on teaching English as a second or foreign language by tailoring course content and methodologies to the learners' professional or academic goals . described ESP as an approach where all decisions regarding content and methods are driven by the learners' motivations and requirements for learning.

2025, Book of Proceedings. Vol. 4 / International Multidisciplinary Conference "Challenges of Contemporary Higher Education" - CCHE 2024

Rapid changes in the applied linguistics and general pressure on education systems and teachers to focus on the learner gave rise to the new branches of English Language Teaching (ELT), one of them being English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This paper gives an overview of relevant definitions in the field, with special emphasis on the role of teachers, the student perspective, and a quick glance at future developments. The case of ESP is presented through the analysis of the Research Is Back project, teaching students about academic writing and giving them the tools to tackle research tasks, in the English language. Given the fact that one of the goals of the project, 'to shift the attitude of students toward academic writing', was also used as a hypothesis in this research, student responses, therefore, provide a better insight into their needs, as learners, and help ESP practitioners understand their importance in professional development of university graduates.

2025, Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Posture and gesture analysis and body kinematics monitoring is a field of increasing interest in bioengineering and several connected disciplines. We propose wearable systems able to read and record posture and movements of a subject wearing them. We used strain gage sensors, deposited directly onto textile fibers realizing, in contrast with different strategies, truly wearable and unintrusive systems.

2025, Comptes Rendus Geoscience

At the northern part of the Dead Sea fault zone (DSFZ), in the continuity with the Red Sea, Syria has a long record of active seismisity and recent volcanism. Field observations, physical effects on ancient building structures and movement analysis show that tectonics is still active at present time. A seismicity map has been established, based on the analysis of historic and recent seismicity, seismic parameters and laboratory oedometric experiments. The movement rate along the Syrian rift is estimated at less than 1 to 2.7-3.3 mm/year, with a seismic acceleration coefficient (Z) of 0-0.25 cm/S 2 .The whole Syria territory is divided into five seismic zones of decreasing intensity, from 1 to 5, respectively. Earthquakes may occur in the whole country, but most epicenters, with the highest magnitude, are located within the first two seismic zones, including the Syrian rift and associated volcanism. A closer comparison with structural-petrological data shows, however, this recent volcanic activity, issued from a shallower mantle source, tends to distantiate from the rift zone. Major seisms appear to be related either to ancient, extinct volcanoes (Cretaceous age) or to superficial deformation of the sedimentary cover. Their intensity has significantly decreased during the last millennium.

2025, Proceedings of mobile ubiquitous and …

We discuss a user-centered approach to incorporating affective expressions in interactive applications, and argue for a design that addresses both body and mind. In particular, we have studied the problem of finding a set of affective gestures. Based on previous work in movement analysis and emotion theory [Davies, Laban and Lawrence, Russell], and a study of an actor expressing emotional states in body movements, we have identified three underlying dimensions of movements and emotions: shape, effort and valence. From these dimensions we have created a new affective interaction model, which we name the affective gestural plane model. We applied this model to the design of gestural affective input to a mobile service for affective messages.

2025, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

shown how the characteristics of the movements of the users can have consequences on their interaction performances, according to the different situations of use of touchscreen devices . We surveyed research studies about the users' movements during interaction with touchscreen and we found that a joint assessment of performances and movements of older aged users remained to be done. We believe this analysis should provide information for helping to understand the different performances between older and younger users. For the aging societies, improving the ergonomics of touchscreen devices is particularly important to prevent older aged adults to be digitally excluded. Therefore, we have implemented a study associating the analysis of the movements to the analysis of the interaction data registered by the interactive system on touchscreen. Our main goal is to understand the differences in performances between older and younger adults during interaction. The main contribution of our study is to have identified differences in the characteristics of movements of the users' wrists between these two groups of participants. The results we obtained open up new perspectives for the evaluation of the ergonomics of interaction with technologies. The remaining of this paper is organized as follows. First, the analysis of the state of the art aims to define the specifications for the experimental protocol. Then, we describe the experiment, the data analysis and the results we obtained. Finally, we discuss the usability of tactile interaction from an ergonomic point of view and the challenges of the implementation of this multidisciplinary experiment. We surveyed research studies on movement analysis of tactile interaction. We have selected thirteen studies evaluating postures and movements of human adult users during interaction with touchscreen devices . These studies have been published between 2011 and 2017 in journals and conferences from different research fields, including Ergonomics, Modelling of Human Movement, Accessibility and Human Computer-Interaction (HCI). Older aged adults are a heterogeneous group of users. The changes related to the aging in cognitive, motor and

2025, Proceedings of the XVI Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems

2025, Electronics

Parkinson's disease (PD) is responsible for a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms, including relevant motor impairments generally rated by clinical experts. In recent years, motor measurements gathered by technology-based systems have been used more and more to provide objective data. In particular, wearable devices have been adopted to evidence differences in the gait capabilities between PD patients and healthy people. Within this frame, despite the key role that the upper limbs' swing plays during walking, no studies have been focused on their harmonic content, to which this work is devoted. To this end, we measured, by means of IMU sensors, the walking capabilities of groups of PD patients (both de novo and under-chronic-dopaminergic-treatment patients when in an off-therapy state) and their healthy counterparts. The collected data were FFT transformed, and the frequency content was analyzed. According to the results obtained, PD determines upper limb rigidity objectively evidenced and correlated to lower harmonic contents.

2025, Journal of Physics: Conference Series

2025, International Computer Music Conference

We present a new coordination language for audio processing applications, designed for the dynamic dataflow capabilities of the Marsyas C++ framework. We refer to the language as Marsyas Script. It is a declarative coordination language that enables intuitive and quick composition of dataflow networks and reactive processing control. It separates the tasks of dataflow coordination and computation, while increasing the expressivity of the coordination level. This allows more dynamic dataflow behavior and more powerful interaction with other multimedia applications and the physical world. It also increases code portability and allows multiple tools to operate on the same network definition with the purpose of real-time or nonreal-time execution, network visualization, operational inspection and debugging, etc. This naturally enhances and extends the functionality within the domain of the Marsyas framework and makes it more accessible to users of other audio software frameworks and languages. 1 ChucK is unique in operating on the single-sample dataflow level.

2025

L’objectiu de l’estudi va ser comparar l’amplitud de l’electromiografia (EMG) i la forma en que van ser coactivats els musculs abdominals durant l’execucio de l’exercici d’encorbament del tronc i dos jocs motors tradicionals: el carreto i l’hula-hop. Per fer-ho, es va enregistrar l’EMG dels musculs recte, oblic extern i oblic intern de l’abdomen, durant l’execucio de cada una de les tasques. A l’estudi hi van participar nou voluntaris sans, sense antecedents de cirurgia abdominal, lesions raquidies o sindrome de dolor lumbar. L’amplitud de l’EMG va ser amitjanada i normalitzada respecte a la contraccio voluntaria maxima. Es va realitzar un ANOVA de dos factors (muscul/tasca) i un post hoc Tukey per examinar les diferencies en l’activitat electrica de cada muscul entre les tasques i en cada tasca entre els musculs. Els jocs analitzats van produir nivells d’activitat electrica superiors als generats per l’encorbament del tronc, i en consequencia, han de ser considerats com un compleme...

2025, Textual Criticism of Persian Literature

This study tried to explore how a competent speaker chooses a special arrangement for his/her text with his/her presupposed knowledge of the audience in his/her social and cultural contexts and how the structure of the text or, in other words, arrangement of its components plays an important role in the meanings received by the audience. With this purpose in mind, several stretches of speech with the topic of "request" were extracted out of the Shāhnāmeh to see what Ferdowsi's textual tactics were for arranging the structures of different types of requests with regard to the topic of "request", as well as the interlocutors involved. The results showed that such versified requests followed different types of patterns of arrangement. The following sequences of moves were found: "praise" (to God and the audience), "introduction" (variable), "the very request" (a story and a request), and "closing" (variable). These moves with minor variable arrangements and/or omissions showed that Ferdowsi paid attention to the cultural and social contexts of his own time. Therefore, the move patterns of "request" texts in the Shāhnāmeh were predictable, leading to a better understanding of the text by the audience. The moves of "introduction" and "closing", including different steps (sub-moves) with varied arrangements according to the subject and the context, played an important role in persuading the audience and providing the rhetoric of the request too.

2025, Gait & Posture

The experiment was performed during a 6-month space flight and focused on the quantitative three-dimensional description of the Neutral Body Posture (NBP) and of subjects' spine anthropometry in Erect Posture (EP). The NBP joint angles' configuration is described along the long-term microgravity exposure and compared with respect to previous in-flight collected data. Observed spinal length modification during EP in-flight is related to on-ground investigations focused on circadian anthropometrical fluctuations. The flattening of the spinal lumbar lordosis and thoracic kyphosis is also described. Even though only two subjects were studied, this analysis points out the maturity of the opto-electronic technology for the quantitative analysis of posture in microgravity and confirms the need of enriching the anthropometrical database of human postures in weightlessness for the design optimization of permanently inhabited space modules.

2025

Fenichel, Emily, Ed. [Dance/Movement Therapy.] Zero to Three/National Center for Clinical Infant Programs, Arlington, VA. American Express Foundation, New York, NY.

2025, Clinical Social Work Journal

This paper describes the use of a multisensory psychotherapeutic treatment approach that supports the primary attachment relationship. This program, called Ways of Seeing, is based on dance/movement therapy principles that incorporate dance, movement, music, creative expression, and Laban nonverbal movement analysis to facilitate healing and change. This method is discussed within the context of attachment system theory and research, trauma, and painful early childhood experiences. Implicit knowledge, intersubjective motivations, early infancy memory, embodied attunement, and dyadic nonverbal therapeutic video-analysis support the psychotherapeutic approach. The Ways of Seeing method is exemplified through the presentation of a videotaped mother-infant dyad involving a preverbal and newly verbal child who has experienced a series of innate environmental stressors. These stressors include medical intervention in the NICU at birth, a mother who suffered from post partum depression, and complex extended family dynamics.

2025

Guitar-related machine listening research involves tasks like timbre transfer, performance generation, and automatic transcription. However, small datasets often limit model robustness due to insufficient acoustic diversity and musical content. To address these issues, we introduce Guitar-TECHS, a comprehensive dataset featuring a variety of guitar techniques, musical excerpts, chords, and scales. These elements are performed by diverse musicians across various recording settings. Guitar-TECHS incorporates recordings from two stereo microphones: an egocentric microphone positioned on the performer's head and an exocentric microphone placed in front of the performer. It also includes direct input recordings and microphoned amplifier outputs, offering a wide spectrum of audio inputs and recording qualities. All signals and MIDI labels are properly synchronized. Its multi-perspective and multi-modal content makes Guitar-TECHS a valuable resource for advancing data-driven guitar research, and to develop robust guitar listening algorithms. We provide empirical data to demonstrate the dataset's effectiveness in training robust models for Guitar Tablature Transcription.

2025, Proceedings 1st Mediterranean Conference on Measurement

Human Movement Analysis is generally performed through the exploitation of stereophotogrammetric systems that rely on the use of markers [3]. With these systems, it is possible to reconstruct the trajectories of reflecting objects allocated on specific points of the human body and it is possible to reconstruct limb kinematics through the calibration parameters. In order to reduce measuring errors and artefacts dedicated algorithms are used. The performance of these systems are evaluated through the accuracy of kinematics ...

2025, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

The objective of this study was to determine the level of agreement between face-to-face hamstring flexibility measurements and free software video analysis in adolescents. Reduced hamstring flexibility is common in adolescents (75% of boys and 35% of girls aged 10). The length of the hamstring muscle has an important role in both the effectiveness and the efficiency of basic human movements, and reduced hamstring flexibility is related to various musculoskeletal conditions. There are various approaches to measuring hamstring flexibility with high reliability; the most commonly used approaches in the scientific literature are the sit-and-reach test, hip joint angle (HJA), and active knee extension. The assessment of hamstring flexibility using video analysis could help with adolescent flexibility follow-up. Fifty-four adolescents from a local school participated in a descriptive study of repeated measures using a crossover design. Active knee extension and HJA were measured with an inclinometer and were simultaneously recorded with a video camera. Each video was downloaded to a computer and subsequently analyzed using Kinovea 0.8.15, a free software application for movement analysis. All outcome measures showed reliability estimates with a . 0.90. The lowest reliability was obtained for HJA (a = 0.91). The preliminary findings support the use of a free software tool for assessing hamstring flexibility, offering health professionals a useful tool for adolescent flexibility follow-up.

2025, Intelligence and Security Informatics

This paper presents a multi-perspective vision-based analysis of people and vehicle activities for the enhancement of situational aware- ness. Multiple perspectives provide a useful invariant feature of object in image, i.e., the footage area on the ground. Moving objects are detected in image domain, and tracking results of the objects are represented in projection domain using planar homography. Spatio-temporal relation-

2025, 2007 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WAC V '07)

This paper presents an new framework for homographybased analysis of pedestrian-vehicle activity in crowded scenes. Planar homography constraint is exploited to extract view-invariant object features including footage area and velocity of objects on the ground plane. Spatiotemporal relationships between people-and vehicle-tracks are represented by a semantic event. Context awareness of the situation is achieved by the estimated density distribution of objects and the anticipation of possible directions of near-future tracks using piecewise velocity history. Singleview and multi-view based homography mapping options are compared. Our framework can be used to enhance situational awareness for disaster prevention, human interactions in structured environments, and crowd movement analysis at wide regions.

2025, SIMTech: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies

We introduce a multi-location interactive touch screen based system (Collage), which enables the sharing of digital images and textual content between distributed intergenerational familial homes. We further explore the significance and... more

2025, Materials

In this paper, a smart office chair with movable textile sensors to monitor sitting position during the workday is presented. The system consists of a presence textile capacitive sensor with different levels of activation with a signal conditioning device. The proposed system was integrated into an office chair to detect postures that could provoke musculoskeletal disorders or discomfort. The microcontroller measured the capacitance by means of a cycle count method and provided the position information in real time. The information could be analysed to set up warnings to prevent incorrect postures or the necessity to move. Five participants assumed a series of postures, and the results showed the workability of the proposed smart chair. The chair can be provided as a new tool for companies, hospitals, or other institutions to detect incorrect postures and monitor the postures of people with reduced mobility. This tool can optimise control procedures or prevent occupational risks.

2025

Mastery of the art of crafting online reviews and responses is essential as a valuable additional tool for enhancing learners' English proficiency in specialised contexts. This study aims to: 1) Examine the formality levels in crafting reviews and responses; 2) Explore face-threatening acts utilised in reviews and politeness strategies employed in responses; and 3) Uncover moves and steps in composing reviews and responses. Data was collected from the Top 25 Hotels in the World in 2022 according to Tripadvisor.com. Six distinct corpora were formed, comprising positive, negative, and mixed reviews, along with corresponding responses, resulting in 87,973 tokens. Findings show reviewers leaned towards casual language (85.87%), while respondents used a consultative style (82.67%) in their responses. The shift from casual to consultative occurred most frequently (70.67%). For politeness, admiration (73.07%) and expressions of complaints/reprimands (64.53%) were common in reviews. In responses, strategies like offering, promising, or giving gifts (72.00%) and apologising and begging for forgiveness (50.40%) were prevalent. Reviews used three moves and ten steps, while responses employed six moves and 16 steps. These insights can be integrated into ESP classrooms to enhance review and response writing skills effectively.

2025, Frontiers in Marine Science

Animal telemetry is a powerful tool for observing marine animals and the physical environments that they inhabit, from coastal and continental shelf ecosystems to polar seas and open oceans. Satellite-linked biologgers and networks of acoustic receivers allow animals to be reliably monitored over scales of tens of meters to thousands of kilometers, giving insight into their habitat use, home range size, the phenology of migratory patterns and the biotic and abiotic factors that drive their distributions. Furthermore, physical environmental variables can be collected using animals as autonomous sampling platforms, increasing spatial and temporal coverage of global oceanographic observation systems. The use of animal telemetry, therefore, has the capacity to provide measures from a suite of essential ocean variables (EOVs) for improved monitoring of Earth's oceans. Here we outline the design features of animal telemetry systems, describe current applications and their benefits and challenges, and discuss future directions. We describe new analytical techniques that improve our ability to not only quantify animal movements but to also provide a powerful framework for comparative studies across taxa. We discuss the application of animal telemetry and its capacity to collect biotic and abiotic data, how the data collected can be incorporated into ocean observing systems, and the role these data can play in improved ocean management.

2024

The role of the arts as conduits to build peace in a myriad of multicultural and multiethnic contexts is being acknowledged today: for creating opportunities for positive interactions, encouraging reconciliation in conflict-affected societies, contributing to greater social cohesion in communities, and cultivating empathy and a sense of global citizenship. For conflict-affected communities, the arts offer spaces for dialogue, healing, nonverbal engagement, nonviolent expressions, creating shared narratives, and envisioning a shared future. The nonlinear, generative, and expressive nature of the arts, as well as their close proximity to people and culture make them great channels for building peace. There are numerous arts programs, collaborations, and organizations in Northern Ireland engaging in peacebuilding work that continues after the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, which halted the thirty years of violent conflict referred to as ‘The Troubles’. The Troubles encompassed conflicts between groups that are referred to as the unionist Protestant majority and the nationalist Catholic minority, though it was more so a political and territorial conflict rather than a religious one. As national identity and belonging were at the heart of the development of the conflict, the peacebuilding work that continues must involve efforts towards shared narratives for the future and nonviolent expressions of their cultural identities. Many of the arts programs in Northern Ireland today are participatory, community-based, and include the themes of tolerance, developing positive relations, and reimagining their civic and cultural identities.

2024, Canadian Woman Studies

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2024, Brain

Adenoviral (AdV) vectors encoding neurotrophin-3 (AdV-NT-3) or the bacterial marker enzyme b-galactosidase (LacZ gene) were used to transduce olfactory ensheathing glia (OEG) cultures. AdV vector-transduced OEG expressed high levels of recombinant neurotrophin as shown by in situ hybridization and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay techniques. The biological activity of vector-derived NT-3 was determined in a dorsal root ganglia neurite outgrowth assay. Engineered cell suspensions were then injected into adult Fischer 344 rat spinal cord immediately after unilateral cervical (C4) corticospinal tract (CST) transection. Transplanted animals received a total of 200 000 cells; either nontransduced OEG or OEG transduced with AdV vectors encoding NT-3 or LacZ, respectively. At 3 months after injury, lesion volumes were significantly smaller in all OEG-transplanted rats when compared with control (medium-injected) rats. Anterograde tracing of the lesioned CST projection, originating from the contralateral sensorimotor cortex, showed a significantly greater number of distal CST axons only in OEG-NT-3transplanted rats. Behavioural analysis was performed on all rats using open field locomotion scoring, and a forelimb reaching task with Eshkol-Wachman movement notation. Analysis of behavioural tests revealed no significant differences in recovery between experimental groups, although movement analysis indicated that possible compensatory mechanisms were occurring after OEG implantation. The results demonstrate that OEG transplantation per se can promote tissue sparing after injury, but, after appropriate genetic modification, these olfactory-derived cells become far more effective in promoting long-distance maintenance/regeneration of lesioned adult CST axons.

2024, Psycholinguistics@York Nov 2022 Inauguration

A'-binding asymmetry and ambiguity in comprehending Mandarin resumptive relatives: contrasting scenarios between object versus subject strings under prosodic manipulations

2024, Cambridge University Press

Increasingly we have come to live in our heads, leaving our bodies behind. The consequences have been far-reaching, of which cognitive theory has warned us, advocating a 'return to the body.' This book employs several case studies-kings performing in ballets, sea captains dancing with natives, nationalists engaged in gymnastics exercises-to demonstrate what has been lost and what could be gained by a more embodied approach to living, to history. These curious movements were ways to be, to think, to know, to imagine, and to will. They highlight the limits of historical explanations focusing on cultural factors and question currently fashionable 'cultural' and 'post-modern' perspectives. Bodies, cognitive theory tells us, are the same regardless of historical context, and they engage in the same intentional activities. Returning to our bodies and their movements enables us not only to explain historical actions anew, but also to understand ourselves better.

2024

It is necessary to understand the difficulties older aged users find for executing the gestures of tactile interaction in order to avoid their digital exclusion. We have studied the differences in performances between older and younger adult users through a biomechanical analysis of their movements. In this paper, we present the analysis of the postures of the users' wrist during interaction with their fingers on a tablet, horizontally placed on a desk. Results show a greater angular amplitude for older participants which could explain the longer times and the increased number of errors for this group of users. The main contribution of our study is to bring new perspectives for the design and evaluation of interaction with touchscreen. CCS CONCEPTS • CCS → Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI) → HCI design and evaluation methods → Laboratory experiments

2024, International Journal of Human Movement and Sports Sciences

The kinematics of soccer throw-in skills has gained increased attention, but the Kinematic Release parameters in various throw-in types remain insufficiently established. This study assessed and compared four types of soccer throw-ins performed in a field environment. Twelve junior soccer players (mean age 13.6±0.6 years, height 1.61±0.21 m, weight 44.42±2.78 kg, and training history 2.14±0.89 years) participated in. The four throw-in skills included two approaches with two feet apart (AFA), feet side by side (AFS), and two standing types (standing with two feet apart-SFA, standing with feet side by side-SFS). Three-dimensional cameras (4K@60 fps) and SkillSpector (version 1.3.2) were used for recording and analysis. Release speed, angle, height, swipe times, and range were evaluated, with correlations assessed from three sets or trials of every player in a total of 144 throw-ins. Results showed higher release speed and average range in approaching and/or stepping types compared to stationary and/or aligned leg types. The average range for (AFA) and (AFS) surpassed (SFS) and (SFA). Release angle (RA) was approximately 33.5° in (AFS), (AFA), and (SFA), while (SFS) exhibited lower values. A predictive equation for ball ranges was developed based on release parameters, including released speed, angle, height, and backwards and forward arm swing times (BAST and FAST).

2024, Proceedings of the sixth …

This paper reports the results of the first study comparing subjects' responses to robotic emotional facial displays and human emotional facial displays. It describes step by step the building of believable emotional expressions in a... more

2024

https://www.youtube.com/user/Rffsentret www.folkedansporten.no This paper will describe current work and challenges concerning safeguarding archival material through digitization of analogue audio‐visual formats at the Norwegian Centre for Traditional Music and Dance. Digitized material, which is cleared for publishing, is uploaded to the Centre’s YouTube channel1. However, most of the archival material cannot be published in this way due to intellectual property laws and ethical issues. The archive is therefore accessible to researchers and the public who are visiting the Centre, as well as via an online, on‐request streaming solution called Folkedansporten.2 There has been absence of an authorized national body with responsibility for coordinating audio‐visual archives in Norway. In addition, no national protection plan exists, and a governmental white paper describing the challenges of archives does not even mention audio‐visual material (St.m. 7 2012/13).3 Reorganizations, put i...