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Tsunehiro Munakata
A STUDY ON MEASUREMENT OF CHARACTERISTICS OF HANDWRITING LETTERS WITH THE MOUSE DEVICE FOR MALE AND FEMALE DEXTEROUS STUDENTS

It may be the figure of the human handwriting as one of the most interesting outputs. By research on the figure of handwriting, characteristics or behaviors of the human are analyzed and cleared. The purpose of this paper is to report results on the comparison of data (the characteristics data by this measurement method) and the evaluation given by pattern differences of handwriting capital letters: B and D; U and V having constructive similarities. By using the divergence as one of statistics method, figures drawn by the dominant or non-dominant hand of examinees who are selected 40 persons of male and female dexterous students in total. Experiment for data collection is done based on the procedure of the author, and it is done by book-size personal computer display and the mouse device and by the recognition function of the computer. The following results are obtained: 1) average vector on pattern elements of t= (t1, t2, …, t7 or t8) 2) variance and covariance matrix on pattern elements of t = (t1, t2, …, t7 or t8) 3) value of divergence: DBD(t), DUV(t) etc. And, the conclusion of this paper on figures of handwring for male and female dexterous students analyzed by the statistics methods given in chapter 4 are shown.

Shigeru Takayama, Takahiro Iwata, Hideto Nishikado, Komyo Kariya
EVALUATION OF PEDESTRIAN FLOWS BY TIME TRANSITION OF TRAFFIC LINE DISTRIBUTION

This paper describes the system to take traffic lines of pedestrian flows outdoors and the investigation of dynamic characteristics by using the density, direction and velocity distribution of them. These characteristics express the congestion and latent dangerousness of field. Also the arrangement of structures and public facilities will be evaluated.

Charlotte Sennersten, CraigLindley
EVALUATION OF REAL-TIME EYE GAZE LOGGING BY A 3D GAME ENGINE

Human Computer Interaction studies of visual attention in dynamic 3D computer gameplay can be greatly facilitated by automated gaze object logging implemented by integration of eye gaze tracking systems with game engines. This verification study reports the spatial and temporal accuracy of such an integrated system.

Alessandro Puiatti, Paola Binda, Marco Cicchini, Silvia Giordano, Maria Concetta Morrone
A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS PLATFORM FOR MODELLING SPACE PERCEPTION DURING SACCADIC EYE-MOVEMENTS

Gaze shifts pose serious problems to the human visual system, causing transient spatial distortions. We simulate these distortions by assuming an undersampling of spatial information. We propose that such process helps maintaining stable space representations across sensors shifts, a strategy that may be useful also for wireless sensor networks.

Bruno Andò, Salvatore Baglio, Nicola Pitrone
A CONTACTLESS HAPTIC CANE FOR BLIND PEOPLE

Mobility is a big deal for visually impaired people and many of the devices already available on the market suffer for poor degree and form of the information provided to the user. In this paper a new way of codifying the information to the blind end user is suggested.The proposed strategy is aimed to move the focus of the electronic aids from an artificial way to codify the information to a natural form. In particular, the developed contactless haptic cane exploits smart signal processing paradigms and an actuator matrix to produce on the user hand palm a stimulus miming the sensation given by a conventional white cane bumping into a obstacle in the user path.

Keishi Fukuyama, Yohsuke Mizukami, Hideyuki Sawada
A NOVEL MICRO-VIBRATION ACTUATOR AND THE PRESENTATION OF TACTILE SENSATIONS

A novel micro-vibration actuator using a shape-memory alloy for the presentation of various tactile sensations to a human skin is introduced in this paper. The authors paid attention to the characteristics of a shape-memory alloy formed into a thread, which changes its length according to its temperature, and developed a vibration-generating actuator electrically driven by periodic signals generated by current control circuits. For the tactile information transmission to a human body, the human higher-level perception such as the phantom sensation and the apparent movement of the tactility is employed in consideration of presenting novel tactile sensations. By coupling the actuators as a pair, an information transmission is realized for presenting novel tactile sensations to a user. The information transmission was tested by changing various conditions of electric signals to drive actuators, and was evaluated by questionnaires. Several users reported that they perceived a novel rubbing sensation given by the apparent movement, and we further experimented the presentation of the sensation in detail to be used as a tactile display for the information transmission through our body.

Yuri Machekhin
UNCERTAINTY MEASUREMENT AND DYNAMIC SYSTEM CHAOTICAL BEHAVIOUR

Chaotic behaviour of nonlinear dynamic system as a mechanism of influence on uncertainty measurement are discussed. Based on the logistic equation as a mathematical model, measeurement uncertainty investigated. In the case when dynamic chaos take place in the system, uncertainty measurement has anormal distribution.

David Burget, Olga Tumová, Václav Ctvrtník
BOOTSTRAPPING TECHNIQUE AND CONFIDENCE INTERVALS

This article evaluates methods of computing confidence intervals and values of descriptive statistics, capability and performance indexes with the help of conventional procedures, statistical SW, and the method of generating random subgroups. Comparison of different methods has shown that there are differences between the results obtained by SW and those obtained by manual computing. Alternative estimation of values and confidence intervals by means of bootstrapping technique is discussed.

J. Dobiliene, E. Raudiene, R. P. Žilinskas
UNCERTAINTY OF SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS

The main purpose of this paper is to present the uncertainty of spectrometric analysis considering peculiarities of chemical measurements. Qualitative evaluation of chemical–physical transformation and impact on uncertainty in spectrometric analysis is presented. Spectrophotometric method is used to show experimentally the influence of analysis conditions on the measurement result.

Michal K. Urbanski, Adam Bzowski
ERROR ANALYSIS USING FUZZY ARITHMETIC BASED ON T-NORM

The presented algorithm for uncertainty evaluation has three steps: determining the membership function from series of measurements, evaluation of membership function of average value using fuzzy arithmetic based on a t-norm, and addition of systematic errors (based on expert analysis). The parameters of the t-norm are determined by a minimization procedure for a proposed error function.

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