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When deictic gestures in a robot can harm child-robot collaboration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Elmira Yadollahi, Ana Paiva

This paper describes research aimed at supporting children's reading practices using a robot designed to interact with children as their reading companion. We use a learning by teaching scenario in which the robot has a similar or lower reading level compa ...

ACM2018

BUILDING HORIZONTALITY? The Impact of Road Design Regulations on Urban Ecosystems

Antoine Vialle

Based on a corpus of specific regulations, this paper seeks to investigate the processes by which modern roads are conceived and realized. Such critical reading can not only contribute to identify some of the main spatial characteristics of contemporary ur ...

Springer Verlag GmbH2018

Narrative Recomposition in the Context of Digital Reading

Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet

In any creative process, the tools one uses have an immediate influence on the shape of the final artwork. However, while the digital revolution has redefined core values in most creative domains over the last few decades, its impact on literature remains ...

EPFL2017

Reading and writing single-atom magnets

Donat Fabian Natterer

The single-atom bit represents the ultimate limit of the classical approach to high-density magnetic storage media. So far, the smallest individually addressable bistable magnetic bits have consisted of 3-12 atoms(1-3). Long magnetic relaxation times have ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Left neglect dyslexia: Perseveration and reading error types

Roberta Ronchi, Giuseppe Vallar

Right-brain-damaged patients may show a reading disorder termed neglect dyslexia. Patients with left neglect dyslexia omit letters on the left-hand-side (the beginning, when reading left-to-right) part of the letter string, substitute them with other lette ...

Elsevier2016

Circulation of Opinions in Visualization Reading

Dario Rodighiero

Visualizations need interpretation as a way to grasp the meaning of visual representation. They are complex, and often the process of creation is hidden to the public. Because of this, the following text illustrates a way to read the visual representation ...

CEUR.WS.org2016

Southern echoes in a Swedish Wanderer. The urban complex Stockholm Town hall-Committee building of Ragnar Östberg (1909-1940)

Chiara Monterumisi

Towards the end of the 19th century travels were still marking a rite de passage in the education and self- development of architects’ idiom, especially for Norden countries. Albeit manifesting significant German influences, their condition of a seemingly ...

2016

Intact crowding and temporal masking in dyslexia

Michael Herzog, Mauro Manassi

Phonological deficits in dyslexia are well documented. However, there is an ongoing discussion about whether visual deficits limit the reading skills of people with dyslexia. Here, we investigated visual crowding and backward masking. We presented a Vernie ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2015

Attentional Processes in Natural Reading: the Effect of Margin Annotations on Reading Behaviour and Comprehension

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Andrea Mazzei, Tabea Koll

We present an eye tracking study to investigate how natural reading behavior and reading comprehension are influenced by in-context annotations. In a lab experiment, three groups of participants were asked to read a text and answer comprehension questions: ...

2014

Robust and Efficient 3D Model of an Electromagnetic Induction (EMI) Sensor

Yves Perriard, Chafic Abu Antoun

Eddy current induction is used in a wide range of electronic devices, for example in detection sensors. Due to the advances in computer hardware and software, the need for 3D computation and system comprehension is a requirement to develop and optimize suc ...

2014

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