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Situated computer vision
… All these strategies are different variations of situated computer vision approaches. They become especially important if computer vision results need to be communicated to a human user. In this case, not all computer vision results matter, only some selective aspects of a scene are of interest. …
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Situated Evaluation of an Interorganizational Collaboration
… consortium's participants were documented using situated evaluation and participant observation approaches. The key findings of this exploratory, qualitative study revealed that political expediency by way of a compendium approach in developing the HelpSource website and the involvement of …
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Simulacrum : situated memory for architectural space
The immediacy and transportability of digital images has changed the spatial and temporal relationship between the viewer and the image. The malleability and large volume of these images affords us the ability to set up new such relationships. This thesis introduces a system that creates an …
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Grounded Situation Models for Situated Conversational Assistants
A Situated Conversational Assistant (SCA) is a system with sensing, acting and speech synthesis/recognition abilities, which engages in physically situated natural language conversation with human partners and assists them in carrying out tasks. This thesis addresses some prerequisites towards an …
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Views : situated learning experiences in the school community
Vossenkuhl, Angela D. This study focused on a situated learning experience with the stakeholders in the school community with the goal of gaining an understanding and perspective of the structures and culture of the school. Situated learning is the process of pre-service teachers gaining experience …
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Designing Future Interactions for Situated Extended Reality Maps
… the interaction and visualization of maps situated in Extended Reality (XR) environments, with a focus on innovative approaches to map navigation and manipulation suited to various domains, including cartography, geosciences, architecture, and building information management. In Chapter 3 I …
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PHISH-nets : planning heuristically in situated hybrid networks
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.
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Situated mappings : augmented-reality clay and adaptive interfacing
… of clay. This approach considers the subject's situated learning as the crucial factor in building coherent and immersive interfacing. Taking precedents from the domains of perceptual science and cognitive ecology, such as information-search, affordances and adaptive learning, I suggest that the …
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A taxonomy of situated language in natural contexts
… place. Speech with location attached is called situated language, and is represented here as spatial distributions, or two-dimensional histograms over locations in a home. These histograms are organized in the form of a taxonomy, where one can explore, compare, and contrast various slices along …
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Situated Cognition, Dynamicism, and Explanation in Cognitive Science
The majority of cognitive scientists today view the mind as a computer, instantiating some function mapping the inputs it gets from the environment to the gross behaviors of the organism. As a result, the emphasis in most ongoing research programmes is on finding that function, or some part of that …
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Hybrid Concept Formation Through Interaction with a Situated Reasoner
… of current computerized tools and the tacit and situated qualities inherent in design. Despite hesitancy in acknowledging the vulnerabilities of the designerly approach to human activities, the practice of design has succumbed to an efficiency-driven paradigm. This paradigm dismisses any social …
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Expressive individualism in a midwestern situated youth subculture group
1 PDF file (ix, 249 leaves : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm)
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Situated Objectivity: Ethical Judgment, Critique and Justification After Wittgenstein
The documentary film Mr. Death raises questions about a man's agency in denying the Holocaust. Although Korsgaard's defense of ethics provides an invaluable corrective on any reduction of forms of life to unrelenting patterns of social power, her position fails to address power at all. On the other …
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Situated Teaching: Personal, Cultural, and Contextual Early Childhood Schooling
… can prevent indoctrination. Greater awareness of situated notions about what constitutes good teaching makes implicit values more visible so that they may be examined and reformed. I argue that a search for essential characteristics of good teaching over-simplifies the complexity of teaching. …
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Situated technologies : a radical planning tool for popular economies
A massive expansion of social exclusion in cities, induced by neoliberal models, crystallized in Latin America through the privatization of the public sector, reduction of the welfare-state, financial speculation and abusive extraction of natural resources. The aspiration of solidarity economies …
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Reassembling Writing Technologies: Historical and Situated Studies of Rhetorical Activity
… writing software and hardware in the 1960s and situated studies of writers’ digital memory and invention work in the present, this dissertation considers the emergent uses of technologies surrounding disruptive moments. Combining Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory with theories of mediated …
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Situated Animals: A Critique of Social Constructivist Excesses in Political Theory
In this dissertation I explore the ramifications of political theory being freed from two opposed extremes of biologism and social constructivism because, ultimately, the human animal is both a biological creature and capable of becoming. While it has been highly significant for humanistic scholars …
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Interactive generation of effective discourse in situated context : a planning-based approach
… of controlling, adapting to, and monitoring the situated context. To this end, we develop a natural language generation system that plans how to manipulate the non-linguistic context of a scene in order to make it more favorable for references to task-related objects. This strategy distributes a …
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Empathy, mental state recognition, and violent behaviour: the influence of situated context
… perspective). Findings revealed the influence of situated context on social norms and expectations of behaviour; for example, individuals followed in-group values even if this meant not helping an individual in distress. Analysing the social construction of empathy during victim awareness …
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