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Learning robotic eye–arm–hand coordination from human demonstration: a coupled dynamical systems approach

Aude Billard, Luka Lukic, José Santos-Victor

We investigate the role of obstacle avoidance in visually guided reaching and grasping movements. We report on a human study in which subjects performed prehensile motion with obstacle avoidance where the position of the obstacle was systematically varied ...

Springer2014

Watching MOOCs together: investigating co-located MOOC study groups

Pierre Dillenbourg, Guillaume Zufferey, Nan Li, Himanshu Verma, Afroditi Skevi

Research suggests that massive open online course (MOOC) students prefer to study in groups, and that social facilitation within the study groups may render the learning of difficult concepts a pleasing experience. We report on a longitudinal study that in ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2014

Using semi-open questions to integrate perceptions in choice models

Michel Bierlaire, Aurélie Glerum, Bilge Atasoy

This research investigates the measurement of perceptions by means of adjectives freely reported by respondents in semi-open questions. It involved the use of semi-open responses of 1'763 Swiss individuals to develop indicators for a latent variable repres ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2014

Influence of air entrainment on rock scour development and block stability in plunge pools

Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

Rock scour occurring near dam foundations due to high-velocity jets of spillways impinging into the plunge pool is a major concern regarding dam safety. Scour in fractured rock resulting from high-velocity jet impact is a complex phenomenon, which involves ...

EPFL - LCH2014

A Wearable System for Multi-Segment Foot Kinetics Measurement

Kamiar Aminian, Julien Favre, Xavier Crevoisier, Hossein Rouhani

This study aims to design a wearable system for kinetics measurement of multi-segment foot joints in long-distance walking and to investigate its suitability for clinical evaluations. The wearable system consisted of inertial sensors (3D gyroscopes and 3D ...

Elsevier2014

Towards Whole Body Fatigue Assessment of Human Movement: A Fatigue-Tracking System Based on Combined sEMG and Accelerometer Signals

Nadia Barbara Figueroa Fernandez

This paper proposes a method to assess the overall fatigue of human body movement. First of all, according to previous research regarding localized muscular fatigue, a linear relation is assumed between the mean frequency and the muscular working time when ...

Mdpi Ag2014

Experimental parametric study of energy dissipater design in natural rivers

Nicolas Andreini

Water retention in river plains is a common measure for flood routing. Discharge control is easily achieved by structures combining openings and weirs. Energy dissipation at the outlet is required to ensure the transition from supercritical to subcritical ...

Crc Press-Taylor & Francis Group2014

Total hip replacement with a collarless polished cemented anatomic stem: Clinical and gait analysis results at ten years follow-up

Kamiar Aminian, Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli

The aim of this study was to determine outcomes of total hip replacement (THR) with the Lemania cemented femoral stem. A total of 78 THR patients were followed and compared to 17 "fit", healthy, elderly and 72 "frail" elderly subjects without THR, using cl ...

Springer Verlag2014

A Novel Approach to Reducing Number of Sensing Units for Wearable Gait Analysis Systems

Kamiar Aminian, Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli, Arash Salarian

Gait analysis methods to estimate spatiotemporal measures, based on two, three or four gyroscopes attached on lower limbs have been discussed in the literature. The most common approach to reduce the number of sensing units is to simplify the underlying bi ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Hi YouTube! Personality Impressions and Verbal Content in Social Video

Daniel Gatica-Perez, John David Scott Dines, Joan Isaac Biel Tres

Despite the evidence that social video conveys rich human personality information, research investigating the automatic prediction of personality impressions in vlogging has shown that, amongst the Big-Five traits, automatic nonverbal be- havioral cues are ...

2013

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