Embodying the Writer in the Multimodal Classroom through Disability Studies

This essay explores whether multimodal composition can compel the academy to revise its vision of writing as an exclusively intellectual practice, a vision that limits the authority students can claim in their academic writing. I argue that without theorizing the embodiment of composition, multimodal composition will ultimately do little to alter the ideal of the academic writer engaged in intellectual rather than material production. The essay advocates the pedagogical possibilities of disability theory as one approach to emphasizing the physical nature of writing and meaning-making in the multimodal composition classroom.     

Proposals for creative uses of computer graphics in architectural design

Computer graphics are used by architects mainly for presentation purposes. However, the rapid pace of the development of computer technology enables more creative applications. This research proposes the use of dynamically simulated computer graphics as an evaluation tool for architectural design. Since buildings are living entities, whole life cycles of buildings should be dynamically simulated in highly visualised virtual environments to evaluate the future performance of prospective designs. Two areas that seem especially promising for near future (evaluation of user-building interaction and visualisation of environmental factors) are mentioned and some proposals are presented for the future use of dynamic simulations in virtual environments.     

Intelligent computer assisted blog writing system

In this paper, we designed and implemented an intelligent computer assisted blog writing system. The system includes concept expansion module, text generation module and content replacement module. The concept expansion is employed to expand the concept provided by the user and these expanded concepts can provide the system more semantic information. The text generation model is based on keyword generation model and text segment generation model of which the important keywords are extracted from system corpus to serve as the backbone of the template. Meanwhile, the text segments between keywords will make up the content of the template and candidate text segments are retrieved from the corpus based on statistical analysis. The content replacement module employs Google to retrieve content from the Web and ranks the content based on term and POS tagging similarities. The prototype system has shown that it could work well on blog writing application domain and the concept of this research could be extended to other domains easily.     

Learning new visuo-motor gains at early and late working age

Modern workplaces often require adaptation to novel visuo-motor transformations. Findings on age-related variations of such adaptation are rather inconsistent, suggesting that whether or not age-related impairments do occur depends on boundary conditions. This paper examined the hypotheses that age-related variations affect primarily strategic adjustments to novel transformations and can be found for complex (non-linear) transformations, but not for simple (linear) ones. After a practice period with linear and non-linear visuo-motor transformations, open-loop performance, after-effects and explicit knowledge were examined. Consistent with previous findings, older participants had longer movement times and shorter open-loop amplitudes, more so for long than for short target amplitudes. However, the study did not find any age-related variation of adaptation to a novel visuo-motor gain. Regarding adaptation to a non-linear transformation, the findings suggest slightly superior explicit knowledge of younger adults and the development of slightly more efficient closed-loop processes in the course of practice.     

“Growing Smarter Over Time”: An Emergence Model for Administrating a New Media Writing Studio

This article reports on efforts to create an administrative structure for learning and teaching multimodal composing that depends not on the leadership of a new media writing expert but on the collaboration of relative novices organized according to principles of emergent learning. Based on four years’ experience in a grant-funded program that supports new media composing in multiple disciplines, I report on the benefits of a bottom-up, emergent approach while raising questions about the long-term sustainability of such an approach. I conclude by describing efforts to create more top-down support for new media composing, while remaining committed to serving the teachers and students who are the real agents of change.     

Integrated reproduction of human motion components by motion copying system

Currently, the development of leading‐edge technology for recording and loading human motion on the basis of haptic information is required in the fields of manufacturing and human support. Human movement is an assembly of motion components. Since human movements should be supported by a robot in real time, it is necessary to integrate the motion components that were saved earlier. Once such motion integration is realized, future technology for use in daily human life can be developed. This paper proposes the integrated reproduction of the decomposed components of human motion by using a motion copying system. This system is the key technology for the realization of the acquisition, saving, and reproduction of real‐world haptic information. By using the proposed method, it is possible not only to achieve expert skill acquisition, skill transfer to robots, and power assist for each motion component, but also to open up new areas of applications. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 181(1): 28–35, 2012; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI 10.1002/eej.21263     

网络互动教学在煤炭院校大学英语写作中的应用

网络互动为现阶段的大学英语教学和发展提供了条件。文章基于对互动教学在煤炭类学校大学英语写作课堂中的应用研究,基于网络多媒体平台的教学研究、调查、分析和应用,旨在尝试新模式在写作课程的应用探索。     

Transferring human grasping synergies to a robot

In this paper, a system for transferring human grasping skills to a robot is presented. In order to reduce the dimensionality of the grasp postures, we extracted three synergies from data on human grasping experiments and trained a neural network with the features of the objects and the coefficients of the synergies. Then, the trained neural network was employed to control robot grasping via an individually optimized mapping between the human hand and the robot hand. As force control was unavailable on our robot hand, we designed a simple strategy for the robot to grasp and hold the objects by exploiting tactile feedback at the fingers. Experimental results demonstrated that the system can generalize the transferred skills to grasp new objects.     

基于汽车技能大赛高职技能型人才培养的研究

把汽车技能大赛的培训及相关的考核方法应用于高职汽车检测与维修技术专业的技能型人才培养中,能够激发学生的学习兴趣,并且学生的就业技能有了很大的提高,考核方式的多样化也体现了考核评价的客观性。     

激光直写法制备仿刚毛微纳阵列的研究

提出一种采用激光直写技术制备微纳阵列的新方法来制备仿壁虎刚毛二级结构微阵列。该制备过程由计算机控制完成。实验制备出具有不同几何尺寸的一级结构阵列,并在此基础上探索制备二级结构微阵列的三种方案,其中,“自上而下”的方案通过对曝光时间和显影时间的控制使第二级结构扎根于第一级结构中,有效提高了两级结构间的连接强度。制备实验的同时,分析了曝光时间、显影时间等参数对阵列制备的影响。激光直写制备微纳阵列的方法具有高效率、低成本的优点。