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Depth camera based dataset of hand gestures
2022
The dataset contains RGB and depth version video frames of various hand movements captured with the Intel RealSense Depth Camera D435. The camera has two channels for collecting both RGB and depth frames at the same time. A large dataset is created for accurate classification of hand gestures under complex backgrounds. The dataset is made up of 29718 frames from RGB and depth versions corresponding to various hand gestures from different people collected at different time instances with complex backgrounds. Hand movements corresponding to scroll-right, scroll-left, scroll-up, scroll-down, zoom-in, and zoom-out are included in the data. Each sequence has data of 40 frames, and there is a tot…
Investigating the User Experience of Virtual Reality Rehabilitation Solution for Biomechatronics Laboratory and Home Environment
2021
Virtual reality (VR) technology is a promising tool in physical rehabilitation. Research indicates that VR-supported rehabilitation is beneficial for task-specific training, multi-sensory feedback, diversified rehabilitation tasks, and patient motivation. Our first goal was to create a biomechatronics laboratory with a VR setup for increasing immersion and a motion platform to provide realistic feedback to patients. The second goal was to investigate possibilities to replicate features of the biomechatronics laboratory in a home-based training system using commercially available components. The laboratory comprises of a motion platform with 6-degrees-of-freedom (Rexroth eMotion), fitted wit…
Jauna iepakojuma dizaina ieviešana tirgū.
2019
Bakalaura darba tēma – „ Jauna iepakojuma dizaina ieviešana tirgū”. Bakalaura darba mērķis – balstoties uz dažādam aptaujām un pētījumu rezultātiem par dizaina iepakojuma izveidošanu, noskaidrot, kāda dizaina iepakojums, veicinās labākus pārdošanas rezultātus. Ka arī izstrādāt jaunu Lakto jogurta iepakojuma dizaina izskatu. Darbs sastāv no 3 daļām un secinājumiem. Darbā tiek izmantoti 40 literatūras avoti un 1 pielikums. Darba apjoms ir 64 lapaspuses. Pirmajā daļā tiek analizēts jauns iepakojuma dizaina ieviešanas process. Pētijuma ietvāros tika apskatīti vissvarīgākie jaunā iepakojuma ieviešanas faktori un posmi, pamatojoties uz vairākiem pētniecisku darbu rezultātiem. Otra daļa ir veltīta…
SPECIĀLO NOZARU ANGĻU VALODAS APGUVĒJU PRAGMATISKĀS KOMPETENCES PILNVEIDE TIEŠSAISTES VALODAS KURSA IETVAROS
2022
Pragmatiskā kompetence ir būtiska mutiskās un rakstveida saziņas sastāvdaļa speciālo nozaru angļu valodā. Tādēļ šī darba mērķis bija izpētīt speciālo nozaru angļu valodas apguvēju pragmatiskās kompetences pilnveidi darba autores piedāvātā kursa modeļa ietvaros, kas balstījās uz runas aktu paradigmu. Lai pierādītu pragmatiskās kompetences pilnveides paņēmienu un līdzekļu lietderību tiešsaistes vidē, tika veikta piecu individuālu speciālo nozaru angļu valodas apguvēju kvalitatīva gadījuma izpēte, izmantojot tādus izpētes instrumentus kā datorizētus pragmatiskās kompetences testus pirms un pēc kursu apguves. Izstrādātā valodas funkcijās balstītā valodas mācību programma, kursa plāns un izmanto…
Designing Ethical AI in the Shadow of Hume’s Guillotine
2020
Artificially intelligent systems can collect knowledge regarding epistemic information, but can they be used to derive new values? Epistemic information concerns facts, including how things are in the world, and ethical values concern how actions should be taken. The operation of artificial intelligence (AI) is based on facts, but it require values. A critical question here regards Hume’s Guillotine, which claims that one cannot derive values from facts. Hume’s Guillotine appears to divide AI systems into two ethical categories: weak and strong. Ethically weak AI systems can be applied only within given value rules, but ethically strong AI systems may be able to generate new values from fac…
Decentralization in Ukraine and Bottom-Up European Integration
2020
Decentralization is one of the most profound reforms undertaken in Ukraine. It includes the voluntary merging of previously independent villages and towns into larger Amalgamated Territorial Communities (ATCs). The European Union strongly supports the reform but does not make Ukraine’s further European integration conditional upon it. In order to study whether decentralization can, nevertheless, contribute to the country’s European integration, this chapter adopts a sociological perspective. It asks whether decentralization has led to an increase in community twinning and participation of Ukrainian communities in transnational municipal networks. It is based on a survey conducted among the …
Comparative Analysis of Mega Road Construction Projects in Term of Innovation
2020
Purpose This paper examines, using critical realism, the causes and mechanisms of innovation in three civil road construction projects. Its focus is to examine how value can be created within the design process through innovation. Emphasis is placed on Best Value Procurement (BVP) as a procurement strategy where the preferred contractor is considered the expert, as it is the first case of its use in Norwegian road construction projects. Data was collected through surveys and interviews. Findings indicate that procurement using early involvement is innovative in the design process yet must be adapted, to allow for early planning of innovative ideas that help, to foster innovative solutions. …
Conflict as it happens
2018
PurposeAlthough emotions are relevant for conflicted interactions, the role of emotions in organizational conflicts has remained understudied. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to this by looking at the role of nonverbal affective elements in conversations.Design/methodology/approachBringing together organizational “becoming” and embodiment approaches, the study focused on a conflict which emerged during a multi-actor consulting conversation. The episode in question was analyzed via a detailed, micro-level discursive method which focused specifically on the participants’ use of prosodic and nonverbal behaviors.FindingsChanges in prosody were found to have an important role in how t…
Attraction factors of shopping centers: Effects of design and eco-natural environment on intention to visit
2017
Purpose People visit malls not only to buy a product they need but also to enjoy the atmosphere or environment of the shopping center. Based on design and eco-natural environment, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the attraction factors of shopping centers. Design/methodology/approach The sample comprised 449 consumers from 25 different shopping centers in Bogota. The structural equation model (AMOS) enables the authors to discuss the influence of the design of green and natural spaces in the commercial management of shopping centers, given its positive and significant effect on the intention to visit. Findings Shopping centers are, by definition, spaces with a high level of design o…
Re-build landscape. Design for the reuse of abandoned quarries
2021
Looking at the history of our geological and mining heritage, we can see the evolution of the role played by underground mining sites over the centuries. However, if the activity of quarrying stones is as old as the presence of humans on earth, the issue of the territorial regeneration, based on the recovery and re-functionalization of abandoned quarries, is one of the central arguments of the contemporary debate. The extractive activity that on one hand constitutes an important economic resource for numerous territories, on the other hand requires particular attention to the environmental impact it causes. The theme is that of the so-called drosscapes, soils and residual spaces, once margi…