Sports and physical activities allow people with disabilities to have better quality of life. The proposed work aimed to develop a multimodal interaction platform of robotic devices in a simulated environment for users to train different interface options. The suggested scenarios allow a user to interact with an Intelligent Wheelchair (IW) and with an Intelligent Robotic Ramp (IRR) performing different tasks in...
There is growing recognition that decarbonisation of existing uses of electricity is only 'part of the story' and that closer attention needs to be given to demand for energy in heating or cooling and in transport, and to all the energy vectors and infrastructures that supply the end-use demand. In this respect, concepts such as 'multi-energy systems' (MES) have been put forward and are gaining increasing momen...
Practical programming competencies are critical to the success in computer science (CS) education and goto-market of fresh graduates. Acquiring the required level of skills is a long journey of discovery, trial and error, and optimization seeking through a broad range of programming activities that learners must perform themselves. It is not reasonable to consider that teachers could evaluate all attempts that ...
Modern search engines are evolving beyond ad hoc document retrieval. Nowadays, the information needs of the users can be directly satisfied through entity-oriented search, by ranking the entities or attributes that better relate to the query, as opposed to the documents that contain the best matching terms. One of the challenges in entity-oriented search is efficient query interpretation. In particular, the tas...
In this work we present a system that estimates and manipulates rhythmic structures from audio loops in realtime to perform syncopation transformations. The core of our system is a technique for the manipulation of syncopation in symbolic representations of rhythm. In order to apply this technique to audio signals we must first segment the audio loop into musical events using onset detection. Then, we use the s...