A5108032271- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
- Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies
- Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
- Neural Networks and Applications
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation
- Canadian Policy and Governance
- Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis
- Maritime Ports and Logistics
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Space exploration and regulation
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
- Risk and Safety Analysis
- Transport Systems and Technology
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Semiconductor materials and devices
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- International Development and Aid
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
2017-2024
University of Maine
2012-2024
Sandia National Laboratories California
2024
Sandia National Laboratories
2023-2024
Harvard University
2017-2023
Medical College of Wisconsin
2023
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
2023
Medical Education Institute
2023
Froedtert Hospital
2023
University of British Columbia
2023
Many developers wish to capitalize on touch-screen technology for developing aids the blind, particularly by incorporating vibrotactile stimulation convey patterns their surfaces, which otherwise are featureless. Our belief is that they will need take into account basic research haptic perception in designing these graphics interfaces. We point out constraints and limitations processing affect use of devices. also suggest ways sound augment information from touch, we include evaluation data...
Cerebral visual impairment (CVI) is a brain-based disorder associated with the maldevelopment of central pathways. Individuals CVI often report difficulties daily search tasks such as finding favorite toy or familiar person in cluttered and crowded scenes. We developed two novel virtual reality (VR)-based combined eye tracking to objectively assess higher order processing abilities CVI. The first (virtual toybox) simulates static object search, while second hallway) represents dynamic human...
Previous research has established the importance of gender boundaries as a normative aspect development in middle childhood. Here, nature and an individual differences construct was explored. Ratings boundary violation maintenance were made 47 10-11-year-old children participating series summer day camps. These ratings supported by videotape-based behavior codings violating behaviors live observations sheer number associations with members opposite gender. In addition, considerable external...
Recent work has demonstrated that Bayesian neural networks (BNN's) trained with mean field variational inference (MFVI) can be implemented in analog hardware, promising orders of magnitude energy savings compared to the standard digital implementations. However, while Gaussians are typically used as distribution MFVI, it is difficult precisely control shape noise distributions produced by sampling devices. This paper introduces a method for MFVI training using real device distribution....
Abstract A computational procedure is presented for solving complex variably saturated flows in porous media, that may easily be implemented into existing conventional finite‐volume‐based fluid dynamics codes, so their functionality might geared upon to readily enable the modelling of a suite interacting fluid, thermal and chemical reaction process physics. This has been integrated within multi‐physics finite volume unstructured mesh framework, allowing arbitrarily three‐dimensional...
Virtual reality (VR) can provide robust assessment of cognitive spatial processing skills in individuals with visual impairment. VR combined objective measures behavioral performance (i.e., eye tracking) affords a high degree experimental control, task flexibility, participant engagement, and enhanced data capture. Individuals impairment typically have difficulties identifying people crowded environments; these may differ depending on the origin Specifically, cortical/cerebral (CVI) show...
Noma, or cancrum oris, is a debilitating necrotizing ulcerative stomatitis that destroys the mouth and face. It usually starts in early childhood associated with severe poverty, malnutrition, infections. most frequently described from sub-Saharan Africa but under-reported. There have been very few reports Asia. We describe clinical social features of series 12 patients noma remote poor villages rural Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos). Noma an ominous stigma poverty description this...
Daily activities require the constant searching and tracking of visual targets in dynamic complex scenes. Classic work assessing search performance has been dominated by use simple geometric shapes, patterns, static backgrounds. Recently, there a shift toward investigating more naturalistic scenes using virtual reality (VR)-based paradigms. In this direction, we have developed first-person perspective VR environment combined with eye for capture variety objective measures. Participants were...
Abstract The growing demand for construction materials in S outh T arawa, a remote atoll the P acific, provides an example of environmental and social challenges associated with use non‐renewable resources context small island countries threatened by coastal erosion climate change. In many acific countries, availability is limited, majority mined from beaches reefs unsustainable manner. Growing aggregates resulting more widespread sand mining communities along vulnerable sections exposed...