268,479 research outputs found
J., C., G., C. , I., S. Kopp
No full textFreigang F, Klett S, Kopp S. Pragmatic multimodality: Effects of nonverbal cues of focus and certainty in a virtual human. In: Beskow J, Peters C, Castellano G, O'Sullivan C, Leite I, Kopp S, eds. The Seventeenth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2017). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol 10498. Springer International Publishing; 2017: 142-155
Kopp, Quentin: Moscone campaign for supervisor
No full textQuentin Kopp: George Moscone ran for Supervisor. In that period of time I lived in North Beach, I lived on Greenwich Street. I used to walk to work. I would see George out on the corner of Union and Columbus at 7:30 – 8 o’clock in the morning passing out flyers. George was working hard, and he had a terrific personality
Systematicity and Idiosyncrasy in Iconic Gesture Use: Empirical Analysis and Computational Modeling
No full textBergmann K, Kopp S. Systematicity and Idiosyncrasy in Iconic Gesture Use: Empirical Analysis and Computational Modeling. In: Kopp S, Wachsmuth I, eds. Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction. Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer; 2010: 182-194.Why an iconic gesture takes its particular form is a largely open question, given the variations one finds across both situations and speakers. We present results of an empirical study that analyzes correlations between contextual factors (referent features, discourse) and gesture features, and tests whether they are systematic (shared among speakers) or idiosyncratic (inter-individually different). Based on this, a computational model of gesture formation is presented that combines data-based, probabilistic and model-based decision making
Does the mid-Atlantic United States sea-level acceleration hot spot reflect ocean dynamic variability?
No full textTo test a hypothesized faster-than-global sea-level acceleration along the mid-Atlantic United States, I construct a Gaussian process model that decomposes tide gauge data into short-term variability and longer-term trends, and into globally-coherent, regionally-coherent and local components. While tide gauge records indicate a faster-than-global increase in the rate of mid-Atlantic U.S. sea-level rise beginning ~1975, this acceleration could reflect either the start of a long-term trend or ocean dynamic variability. The acceleration will need to continue for ~2 decades before the rate of increase of the sea-level difference between the mid- Atlantic and southeastern U.S. can be judged as very likely unprecedented by 20th century standards. However, the difference is correlated with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, and Gulf Stream North Wall indices, all of which are currently within the range of past variability.Peer reviewe
Data-based analysis of speech and gesture: the Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment corpus (SaGA) and its applications
No full textLücking A, Bergmann K, Hahn F, Kopp S, Rieser H. Data-based analysis of speech and gesture: the Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment corpus (SaGA) and its applications. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces. 2013;7(1-2):5-18.Communicating face-to-face, interlocutors frequently produce multimodal meaning packages consisting of speech and accompanying gestures. We discuss a systematically annotated speech and gesture corpus consisting of 25 route-and-landmark-description dialogues, the Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment corpus (SaGA), collected in experimental face-to-face settings. We first describe the primary and secondary data of the corpus and its reliability assessment. Then we go into some of the projects carried out using SaGA demonstrating the wide range of its usability: on the empirical side, there is work on gesture typology, individual and contextual parameters influencing gesture production and gestures’ functions for dialogue structure. Speech-gesture interfaces have been established extending unification-based grammars. In addition, the development of a computational model of speech-gesture alignment and its implementation constitutes a research line we focus on
Intelligent Agents Living in Social Virtual Environments – Bringing Max into Second Life
No full textWeitnauer E, Thomas N, Rabe F, Kopp S. Intelligent Agents Living in Social Virtual Environments – Bringing Max into Second Life. In: Proc. of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2008). LNAI, 5208. Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer; 2008: 552-553
Near-Term Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets
No full textAt the present time no widely accepted temporal emissions path for greenhouse gases has been developed and adopted at either a country or a global level. What does exist is a set of nearterm, country-level emissions targets associated with the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and a process for the determination of targets for subsequent commitment periods. However, the first commitment period targets specified by the protocol have been heavily criticized on the grounds that they are arbitrary and ad hoc. The purpose of this paper is to examine the conceptual foundations upon which one might base a domestic climate policy for the United States and to attempt to determine whether a near-term emissions target can indeed be derived from structured decisionmaking resting upon these conceptual foundations.U.S. climate policy, greenhouse gas target, cost-effectiveness analysis, costbenefit analysis
Die Bühnenleitung Aug. Klingemanns in Braunschweig : mit einem Anhang: Die Repertoire des Braunschweiger Nationaltheaters ; ein Beitrag zur deutschen Theatergeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts / von Heinrich Kopp
No full textDIE BÜHNENLEITUNG AUG. KLINGEMANNS IN BRAUNSCHWEIG : MIT EINEM ANHANG: DIE REPERTOIRE DES BRAUNSCHWEIGER NATIONALTHEATERS ; EIN BEITRAG ZUR DEUTSCHEN THEATERGESCHICHTE DES 19. JAHRHUNDERTS / VON HEINRICH KOPP
Die Bühnenleitung Aug. Klingemanns in Braunschweig : mit einem Anhang: Die Repertoire des Braunschweiger Nationaltheaters ; ein Beitrag zur deutschen Theatergeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts / von Heinrich Kopp (1)
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Inhalt (4)
1. Teil. Die Braunschweiger Bühne unter August Klingemann. (6)
Vorbemerkung. (8)
Einleitung. (10)
I. Klingemann als Mitdirektor der Waltherschen Gesellschaft. (12)
II. Das Braunschweiger Nationaltheater (1818 - 1826) (28)
III. Klingemann als Generaldirektor des Hoftheaters ... (46)
2. Teil. Klingemann als dramatischer Theoretiker. (64)
I. Über das Wesen des Dramas. (66)
II. Klingemann und die Schauspielkunst seiner Zeit. (78)
III. Inszenierungsgrundsätze. Klingemann als Vorläufer der "Meininger". (84)
Anhang. Die Repertoire des Braunschweiger Nationaltheaters. (96)
Lebenslauf. (111
Understanding How Well You Understood – Context-sensitive Interpretation of Multimodal User Feedback
No full textBuschmeier H, Kopp S. Understanding How Well You Understood – Context-sensitive Interpretation of Multimodal User Feedback. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Santa Cruz, CA; 2012: 517-519
Kopp, Quentin: Craft Workers Strike 1976
No full textQuentin Kopp: George Moscone was sworn in January 8, 1976. In the normal course of charter procedure, a recommendation was made for the compensation and working benefits for the carpenters, plumbers, electricians, laborers, all of the so-called building trades of employees of the city and county of San Francisco. And it followed the provisions of the charter amendment approved by the voters. It affected – as I recall – pension benefits, retirement benefits, and some other fringe benefits as the term was used in that era. They refused to accept it, and so they went on strike. And that meant all the people who worked landscaping, it meant the plumbers at the airport, at Golden Gate Park, at the Academy of Sciences, it meant the electricians every place. It meant the Hetch Hetchy system with all of its employees who were part of one craft or another. And then the Muni Railway employees went on strike as a show of loyalty and devotion to their labor brethren and sisters, although there weren’t many sisters in 1976 yet. That strike went on for thirty-eight days before it resolved with a compromised kind of agreement, which I didn’t like, but which had been engineered by Dianne Feinstein and I think George Moscone had a part of it. That was a difficult period for George Moscone because he was indebted politically to labor. He stood up! I was president of the Board, and I would preside under the law you could have closed meetings, and we would meet almost every day. By that time, we being the Board of Supervisors, had a labor negotiator. I think he was on the job maybe a year, but this was unprecedented in terms of its length. There had been city strikes when Alioto was mayor. As we know, the police and firemen strike before that in 1974. There was a short one of some carpenters as I recall, and before that in 1970 there was a short one. But this went on and on and on, and it was grinding. There were threats, for example, of damage to the Hetch Hetchy system. There were threats of blowing a hole in O’Shaughnessy Dam. It was serious, and it was scary. George stood the ground which we on the Board of Supervisors occupied. And again, except for one or two, it was solid unanimity. It was a sturdy group, and George was with it every day. Then finally at the end, it slipped away – I’ll use that expression – from me as the leader with conversations that resulted in a compromise that probably wasn’t too obnoxious. I wasn’t happy with it. Barbagelata was very unhappy with it, and vocal about being unhappy
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