A Review of “Dancing with Digital Natives: Staying in Step with the Generation That’s Transforming the Way Business is Done”

Abstract

A major initiative of the Sandia National Laboratories Technical Library is to provide desktop access to information for Sandia researchers. During 1995 the Library created a home page, with information about how to link to its client-server based OPAC. Through multiple access points Sandians can now search the catalog from their desks. A new and evolving initiative within Sandia Laboratories is to improve desktop access to Sandia-generated documents (full-text) by converting them to electronic form, placing them on Sandia's “internal Web,” and linking them to the OPAC bibliographic record, enabling desktop viewing and printing. This paper addresses the processes developed in the Library to accomplish the preceding activities. It also addresses procedures for cataloging these electronic reports, including identification of the bibliographic information and MARC tags to be used. Open issues and lessons learned are identified.     

In the Palm of Leonardo’s Hand: Modeling Polyhedra

George W. Hart presents three examples of new computer-based “3D printing” techniques for recreating the historically important polyhedral models of Leonardo da Vinci and Luca Pacioli. It is hoped that such models will inspire students and the public to appreciate the history and beauty of polyhedra for architectural and other applications.     

Evaluating recommender systems from the user’s perspective: survey of the state of the art

A recommender system is a Web technology that proactively suggests items of interest to users based on their objective behavior or explicitly stated preferences. Evaluations of recommender systems (RS) have traditionally focused on the performance of algorithms. However, many researchers have recently started investigating system effectiveness and evaluation criteria from users?? perspectives. In this paper, we survey the state of the art of user experience research in RS by examining how researchers have evaluated design methods that augment RS??s ability to help users find the information or product that they truly prefer, interact with ease with the system, and form trust with RS through system transparency, control and privacy preserving mechanisms finally, we examine how these system design features influence users?? adoption of the technology. We summarize existing work concerning three crucial interaction activities between the user and the system: the initial preference elicitation process, the preference refinement process, and the presentation of the system??s recommendation results. Additionally, we will also cover recent evaluation frameworks that measure a recommender system??s overall perceptive qualities and how these qualities influence users?? behavioral intentions. The key results are summarized in a set of design guidelines that can provide useful suggestions to scholars and practitioners concerning the design and development of effective recommender systems. The survey also lays groundwork for researchers to pursue future topics that have not been covered by existing methods.     

A note on the formula size of the “mod k” functions

We give an elegant construction of short formulas for some of the symmetric Boolean functions.     

Modeling the influence of the Chelyabinsk meteorite’s bow shock wave on the Earth’s surface

The influence of the Chelyabinsk meteorite’s bow shock wave on the Earth’s surface is modeled. For solving the problem, a 3D statement is considered for its gas-dynamic and seismic parts. The determining equations of a gas-dynamic model and a seismic model are Euler equations with respect to the radiation heat exchange and the equations of linear elasticity theory, respectively. Two parts of the problem are matched by the direct mechanism of the disturbance transmission. A model seismic signal is compared with the real data. Modeling a seismic effect makes it possible to specify the estimate of the typical parameters of the phenomenon (height of the explosion, and the density and characteristic sizes of the meteorite).     

This is the＂K＂ing!NVIDIA“Kepler”架构完测

＂史上最快、最有效率的GPU!＂＆“以最低的功耗代价换来最为极致的性能!”——NVlDIA凭借28nm先进工艺和全新的GCN架构，AMD的”南方群岛”家族在高端显卡市场上出尽风头。     

Modeling the patrol behavior of the Diacamma’s gamergate

The gamergate (generally called the “queen”) of the Diacamma sp. walks around in the nest and comes into contact with the workers. The gamergate informs the workers of its presence by physical contact. This behavior is called a “patrol.” In previous work, it was reported that the gamergate controls its patrolling time depending on the colony size. How does the gamergate know the colony size, and how does it control the patrolling time? In this article, we propose a simple dynamics to explain this behavior. We assume that the gamergate and the workers have internal states which interact by physical contacts. By numerical simulations, we confirm that the patrol time of the proposed model depends on the size of the colony.     

Enhancing the learning effect of virtual reality 3D modeling: a new model of learner’s design collaboration and a comparison of its field system usability

Universal Access in the Information Society - Knowledge of 3D modeling design is crucial for industrial designers. Therefore, 3D modeling learning is a crucial subject in industrial design...     

Proof Pearl: Mechanizing the Textbook Proof of Huffman’s Algorithm

Huffman’s algorithm is a procedure for constructing a binary tree with minimum weighted path length. Our Isabelle/HOL proof closely follows the sketches found in standard algorithms textbooks, uncovering a few snags in the process. Another distinguishing feature of our formalization is the use of custom induction rules to help Isabelle’s automatic tactics, leading to very short proofs for most of the lemmas. This work was supported by the DFG grant NI 491/11-1.     

On the order of convergence of Broyden’s method

Calcolo - We derive results on equivalence of piecewise polynomial approximations of a given function in the Sobolev space $${varvec{H}}{mathrm{(curl)}}$$ . We namely show that the global-best...     

Consensus of multiple Euler-Lagrange systems using one Euler-Lagrange System’s velocity measurements

International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems - This brief paper studies the stationary consensus of multiple Euler-Lagrange systems with nonlinear protocols. Two consensus protocols are...     

A Perspective Analysis of the Proportions of Palladio’s Villa Rotonda: Making the Invisible Visible

Because of differences between Palladio’s architecture as built and the ideal architecture represented in the Quattro libri, many analyses have been performed in order to bring to light the proportions that underlie the beauty of the architecture. This present paper proposes a method of analysis based on perspective grids laid out on photographs to reveal how perspective is used to heighten the spectator’s perception of the forms.     

“The cheque’s in the email!”

The roll-out by four major Canadian banks of the Email Money Transfers system (this issue, p.1) is a challenge to the dominance of PayPal in the person-to-person payments market.     

“Come on momma,let’s see the drummer”: movement-based interaction and the performance of personal style

Interaction forms are beginning to make more use of the way we move our bodies in the physical and social world. This paper aims to contribute to a new generation of personal computing by showing how the medium of everyday clothing and dress can bring valuable perspectives to the study of human embodiment and movement. The author refers to ideas from fashion theory and clothing design that can contribute to a richer understanding of the many influences that convene emotions of style and identity. In order to indicate the potential of personal style as a social medium with relevance to human computer interaction (HCI), some existing artefacts that entail interaction through movement are referenced, along with research outcomes from biomechanics, dance and performance. In conclusion design strategies are constructed for new movement-based interaction concepts that can have relevance to the changing meanings of identity in twenty-first century mass society.

Design of robotic arm’s action to imitate the mechanism of an animal’s consciousness

We are attempting to develop a system so that a user is able to let robots perform an intellectual action that has a healing and friendly feeling. Based on the development process of the actions and consciousness of animals, we constructed a structure model which connects consciousness and action hierarchically, built a valuation function for action selection, and developed software to control the action of a robot. This software is called Consciousness-Based Architecture (CBA). With it, our aim is to connect a user and robot as closely as possible and to allow smooth communications between them by developing an emotional system that takes notice of consciousness. In our system, the robotic arm’s finger is outfitted with a small Web camera, which allows the arm to recognize external information so that the robot can select various actions that comply with certain factors in the outside environment. Furthermore, by using the actuator of the robotic arm, the system we have built provides a correspondence between the robot’s internal states, such as the degree of rotation angle, and the outside temperature. In the present study, a motivation model which considers the outside environment and the internal states has been built into the CBA, and the behavior of the robotic arm has been verified.     

Situating the “music of” households and firemen in semi-open spaces: contribution to the analysis of collective activity’s spatio-temporal dynamics

Cognition, Technology & Work - Examining different team dynamics and understanding collective activities in home environments are two important challenges for ergonomics and its related fields....     

How the French bank card system was broken – one man’s mission

An almighty row has broken out in French banking circles and the dust has not settled yet. The much-vaunted security of the Cartes Bancaires system, which is built around the world’s first smart debit/credit card, has been cracked and the banks are still reeling under the shock.