"The dismantling of our health system: Strategies for the survival of psychological practice": A reply to Cummings.

Comments on the original article, The dismantling of our health system: Strategies for the survival of psychological practice by Nicholas A. Cummings (see record 1986-22651-001). In response to this article, the current author says "no, no, no!" He believes that "survival with this degree of compromise amounts to doing anything for a buck." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

An approach to automatic display layout using combinatorial optimization algorithms

The introduction of automatic display layout (ADL), i.e. the automatic placing and sizing of windows in a window-oriented graphical user interface, is a major contribution towards an improved user interface. Our approach to ADL is to treat this problem as a combinatorial optimization problem. In this article we describe the concepts we used for implementing an experimental system which controls the computer screen contents and its layout. We give two examples of different standard applications into which we included ADL successfully, namely hypertext for a window layout problem and graph-browser for a hierarchical graph layout problem within a particular window. The results show that automatic (and tool independent) display layout will be possible in the near future even in an interactive environment.     

Present it like it is here: Creating local presence to improve online product experiences

Advanced online product presentation technologies such as virtual mirrors enable consumers to experience products like they are actually present with them in the real world. This study is one of the first to address the mechanism underlying this phenomenon. Inspired by literature on media technology the concept of local presence is put forward and applied to the online consumer behavior domain. A key objective of this paper is to examine whether local presence adds to our understanding of how emerging product presentation formats influence online product experiences. To this end, a laboratory experiment (N = 366) was conducted with product presentation format as a three level (pictures, 360-spin rotation, and virtual mirror) independent variable, allowing for a comparison of the effectiveness of different presentation formats in creating perceptions of local presence. As a second objective, the influence of local presence on perceptions of product tangibility and product likability, two key facets of the online product experience, were assessed. The results, obtained with the use of analysis of variance and partial least squares modeling, show the superiority of the virtual mirror in creating local presence, and demonstrate that local presence is highly predictive of product tangibility and product likability. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.     

面向虚拟维修训练的自抓取虚拟手交互行为构建

针对当前维护训练模拟器（MTD）不能很好地向受训者展示飞机维修过程中的具体维修动作的问题,构建一种自抓取的虚拟手与相应的交互行为,以提高机务培训质量。通过分析维修的基本动作要素,定义与构建基于蒙皮骨骼的虚拟手动作库;在场景漫游阶段,实时获取视角位置来驱动虚拟手运动,减轻场景漫游下的虚拟手控制负荷;在具体维修操作阶段,利用所提的交互行为算法,将虚拟手的位置自调节与骨骼动画osgCal相结合,通过调取动作库中的相应动作,完成具体的维修任务。实验结果表明,所提出的方法能较好地展现具体的维修操作,对于虚拟维修训练具有良好可用性。     

Evaluating the Impact of User Characteristics and Different Layouts on an Interactive Visualization for Decision Making

There is increasing evidence that user characteristics can have a significant impact on visualization effectiveness, suggesting that visualizations could be designed to better fit each user's specific needs. Most studies to date, however, have looked at static visualizations. Studies considering interactive visualizations have only looked at a limited number of user characteristics, and consider either low‐level tasks (e.g., value retrieval), or high‐level tasks (in particular: discovery), but not both. This paper contributes to this line of work by looking at the impact of a large set of user characteristics on user performance with interactive visualizations, for both low and high‐level tasks. We focus on interactive visualizations that support decision making, exemplified by a visualization known as Value Charts. We include in the study two versions of ValueCharts that differ in terms of layout, to ascertain whether layout mediates the impact of individual differences and could be considered as a form of personalization. Our key findings are that (i) performance with low and high‐level tasks is affected by different user characteristics, and (ii) users with low visual working memory perform better with a horizontal layout. We discuss how these findings can inform the provision of personalized support to visualization processing.     

影响蜂窝状钢骨混凝土L形柱性能的参数分析

针对钢骨混凝土L形柱,提出了一种新型的钢骨形式.为了掌握该构件的受力特性,通过ANSYS软件,对腹板开洞率、配钢率、加载角、偏心距等影响因素进行理论分析.结果表明,在相对偏心距较大的情况下构件承载力会急剧下降,而且存在不利荷载角的问题;腹板开洞能有效地减少钢骨与混凝土之间的滑移,但对承载力的削弱有限,并就该构件的最佳配钢率提出建议.     

Fractal Beauty in Xinjiang Folk Art Patterns

Xinjiang folk art patterns and designs are the art treasures of Chinese cultural treasure-house as well as the precious humanistic resources of Western China. In the process of collecting, sorting out and studying Xinjiang folk art patterns, the elegant simplicity as well as the good taste stands out impressively, and the pattern shape as well as the layout composition shows a distinctive national trait and a strong local color. As ＂The Geometry of Nature＂, fractal geometry brings about a new performing method. Various fractal graphs are created by different generators. Their dynamic pictures contain visual information of great magnitude and their artistic effect is similar to Xinjiang folk art patterns, which fully proves the fractal beauty in Xinjiang folk art patterns.     

基于Matlab的数字散斑干涉图像处理

数字散斑干涉技术(DSPI)是一种高精度的光学测量技术,它适用于物体的形变及位移测量。因为其具有较高的测量精度,所以在航空航天、工业检测和生物医学等精度要求较高的领域都得到了广泛的应用。在数字散斑干涉技术中,条纹图像的处理是十分重要的。本文介绍了利用Matlab对散斑图像进行处理的各种方法和实际效果,包括令两幅图灰度值相减得到条纹图,图像的灰度增强处理,滤波处理,二值化处理和条纹的细化处理,最后提取出较清晰的条纹骨架线,为后续处理工作提供了基础。     

骨架密实型水泥稳定碎石基层抗裂性分析和应用

骨架密实级配水泥稳定碎石与常规级配相比,具有较高的密度,较小的含水量,嵌挤形成的强度大,并具有较好抗裂性能和力学性能,能预防沥青面层的缩裂,提高了路面的承载力和耐久性。因此骨架密实型水泥稳定碎石具有较好的发展前景。