Abstract Consumers are increasingly demanding products that closely match their individual preferences, and advances in manufacturing and information technologies have made it poss...
As robots become a mass consumer product, they will need to learn new skills by interacting with typical human users. Past approaches have adapted reinforcement learning (RL) to a...
This paper describes preliminary work in the use of a virtual environment to derive just noticeable differences (JNDs) for force. Specifically, we look for thresholds of force sen...
Effective group meetings are important for the productivity of corporations. Various types of meeting facilitators have been developed over the past couple of years. We present a ...
Ying Zhang, Marshall W. Bern, Juan Liu, Kurt Partr...
Weblogs and message boards provide online forums for discussion that record the voice of the public. Woven into this mass of discussion is a wide range of opinion and commentary a...
Natalie S. Glance, Matthew Hurst, Kamal Nigam, Mat...