Christopher A. Miller

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive study of English loanword usage in five diverse francophone neighborhoods in the national capital region of Canada is presented, where 20,000 loan tokens extracted from informal conversations with 120 speakers are analyzed for degree oflinguistic integration into French and social assimilation by the francophone community.

TL;DR: It is argued that delegation requires a shared hierarchical task model between supervisor and subordinates, used to delegate tasks at various levels, and offer instruction on performing them, and an architecture for machine-based delegation systems based on the metaphor of a sports team's “playbook” is developed.

TL;DR: This section discusses human-computer etiquette in traditional social interactions involving the use of computers that explicitly strive to elicit a perception of “personhood” from the human participant, and focuses on computers that occupy more traditional roles as complex and largely unpersonified machines involved in high-criticality working relationships with humans.

TL;DR: In this paper, an automated system and method for monitoring and supporting and actor in an environment, such as a daily living environment, is presented, where the system includes at least one sensor, one effector and a controller adapted to provide monitoring, situation assessment, response planning, and plan execution functions.

TL;DR: Initial empirical evidence for the efficacy of delegation-type interfaces in human supervision of a team of multiple autonomous robots is provided, with results that closely paralleled the empirical data on changes in workload across interface type.