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Gone But Not Forgotten: Evaluating Performance and Scalability of Real-Time Mesoscopic Agents
(2020)
Telepresence robots allow people to participate in remote spaces, yet they can be difficult to manoeuvre with people and obstacles around. We designed a haptic-feedback system called “FeetBack," which users place their feet in when driving a telepresence robot. When the robot approaches people or obstacles, haptic proximity and collision feedback are provided on the respective sides of the feet, helping inform users about events that are hard to notice through the robot’s camera views. We conducted two studies: one to explore the usage of FeetBack in virtual environments, another focused on real environments.We found that FeetBack can increase spatial presence in simple virtual environments. Users valued the feedback to adjust their behaviour in both types of environments, though it was sometimes too frequent or unneeded for certain situations after a period of time. These results point to the value of foot-based haptic feedback for telepresence robot systems, while also the need to design context-sensitive haptic feedback.
Navigation of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) in unknown environments is an active area of research for mobile robotics. A main hindering factor for UGV navigation is the limited range of the on-board sensors that process only restricted areas of the environment at a time. In addition, most existing approaches process sensor information under the assumption of a static environment. This restrains the exploration capability of the UGV especially in time-critical applications such as search and rescue. The cooperation with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) can provide the UGV with an extended perspective of the environment which enables a better-suited path planning solution that can be adjusted on demand. In this work, we propose a UAV-UGV cooperative path planning approach for dynamic environments by performing semantic segmentation on images acquired from the UAV's view via a deep neural network. The approach is evaluated in a car park scenario, with the goal of providing a path plan to an empty parking space for a ground-based vehicle. The experiments were performed on a created dataset of real-world car park images located in Croatia and Germany, in addition to images from a simulated environment. The segmentation results demonstrate the viability of the proposed approach in producing maps of the dynamic environment on demand and accordingly generating path plans for ground-based vehicles.
Damage to grasslands is mainly caused by wild boar during foraging. Farmers in Germany thereby register yield losses and expenses for damage repair. This contribution analyzes the acquisition and processing of aerial images to orthomosaics and image segmentation to perform spatial measurements of damaged patches in grasslands. A sample set of manually annotated orthomosaics is analyzed. Preliminary classification results applying a convolutional neural network approach to segment damaged patches are presented. First results show the applicability of the applied methods in the detection of damage caused by wild boar and suggest that other damage causes (e.g., mole damage) should be considered to improve results.
This paper utilizes machine learning to investigate the classification of encryption applied to network traffic and the underlying activities. It is firstly motivated by the difficulty of traditional traffic classification caused by additional encryption as ports and headers are hidden. Secondly, the results also present the effectiveness of currently available privacy-enhancing technologies. A new dataset is created, containing Pure (without additional encryption), Tor, Tor with obfuscation, VPN and VPN+Tor network traffic. Additionally, there are five different activities performed during each kind of traffic recording, namely audio streaming, browsing, P2P/SFTP file transfers and video conferencing. The traffic is classified by extracting features based on flows calculated by ARGUS and CICFlowMeter, combining three classifiers with seven feature selection algorithms. The results for the classification of the encryption clearly indicate the possibility of using this detection system in a modified fashion within a practical application. For the detection of activities inside encrypted network traffic, the results show that the disguise is ineffective. Overall, this reveals the need to improve the resistance of commonly used techniques for the protection of network traffic against machine learning.
Graph drawing with spring embedders employs a V ×V computation phase over the graph’s vertex set to compute repulsive forces. Here, the efficacy of forces diminishes with distance: a vertex can effectively only influence other vertices in a certain radius around its position. Therefore, the algorithm lends itself to an implementation using search data structures to reduce the runtime complexity. NVIDIA RT cores implement hierarchical tree traversal in hardware. We show how to map the problem of finding graph layouts with force-directed methods to a ray tracing problem that can subsequently be implemented with dedicated ray tracing hardware. With that, we observe speedups of 4× to 13× over a CUDA software implementation.
Usability und User Experience (UX) haben als Design-Aspekte in der Produktentwicklung zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Daher ist es sinnvoll, die organisationale Kompetenz zur Ent-wicklung von Produkten mit einer positiven UX zu stärken. Ver-änderungen in Organisationen sind jedoch mit großem Aufwand verbunden. Deshalb müssen Organisationen entscheiden, welche Aktivitäten zur Veränderung der eigenen Kompetenz durchge-führt werden sollen und welche nicht. Die bisherige Forschung hat sich weitgehend auf die Anwendbarkeit bestimmter Metho-den im Projekt- und Produktkontext konzentriert. Um geeignete Aktivitäten zur Verbesserung der organisationalen UX-Kompetenz zu identifizieren, wurden 17 UX-Professionals be-fragt. Diese UX-Professionals haben mindestens zehn Jahre Er-fahrung durch die Arbeit in mehreren Unternehmen und durch die Übernahme einer Führungsrolle im Bereich UX gesammelt. Aus diesen Interviews wurden 13 mögliche Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der UX-Kompetenz von Organisationen abgeleitet. Dazu gehören beispielsweise die Erhöhung der Kompetenz ein-zelner Mitarbeiter, das Teilen von UX-Erfolgsgeschichten oder das Ermöglichen von User Research.
In 1991 the researchers at the center for the Learning Sciences of Carnegie Mellon University were confronted with the confusing question of “where is AI” from the users, who were interacting with AI but did not realize it. Three decades of research and we are still facing the same issue with the AItechnology users. In the lack of users’ awareness and mutual understanding of AI-enabled systems between designers and users, informal theories of the users about how a system works (“Folk theories”) become inevitable but can lead to misconceptions and ineffective interactions. To shape appropriate mental models of AI-based systems, explainable AI has been suggested by AI practitioners. However, a profound understanding of the current users’ perception of AI is still missing. In this study, we introduce the term “Perceived AI” as “AI defined from the perspective of its users”. We then present our preliminary results from deep-interviews with 50 AItechnology users, which provide a framework for our future research approach towards a better understanding of PAI and users’ folk theories.
Bei der sechsten Ausgabe des wissenschaftlichen Workshops ”Usable Security und Privacy” auf der Mensch und Computer 2020 werden wie in den vergangenen Jahren aktuelle Forschungs- und Praxisbeiträge präsentiert und anschließend mit allen Teilnehmenden diskutiert. Drei Beiträge befassen sich dieses Jahr mit dem Thema Privatsphäre, einer mit dem Thema Sicherheit. Mit dem Workshop wird ein etabliertes Forum fortgeführt und weiterentwickelt, in dem sich Expert*innen aus unterschiedlichen Domänen, z. B. dem Usability- und Security-Engineering, transdisziplinär austauschen können.
Efficient and comprehensive assessment of students knowledge is an imperative task in any learning process. Short answer grading is one of the most successful methods in assessing the knowledge of students. Many supervised learning and deep learning approaches have been used to automate the task of short answer grading in the past. We investigate why assistive grading with active learning would be the next logical step in this task as there is no absolute ground truth answer for any question and the task is very subjective in nature. We present a fast and easy method to harness the power of active learning and natural language processing in assisting the task of grading short answer questions. A webbased GUI is designed and implemented to incorporate an interactive short answer grading system. The experiments show that active learning saves the time and effort of graders in assessment and reaches the performance of supervised learning with less amount of graded answers for training.
Evaluation of a Multi-Layer 2.5D display in comparison to conventional 3D stereoscopic glasses
(2020)
In this paper we propose and evaluate a custom-build projection-based multilayer 2.5D display, consisting of three layers of images, and compare performance to a stereoscopic 3D display. Stereoscopic vision can increase the involvement and enhance game experience, however may induce possible side effects, e.g. motion sickness and simulator sickness. To overcome the disadvantage of multiple discrete depths, in our system perspective rendering and head-tracking is used. A study was performed to evaluate this display with 20 participants playing custom-designed games. The results indicated that the multi-layer display caused fewer side effects than the stereoscopic display and provided good usability. The participants also stated a better or equal spatial perception, while the cognitive load stayed the same.
Compliant manipulation is a crucial skill for robots when they are supposed to act as helping hands in everyday household tasks. Still, nowadays, those skills are hand-crafted by experts which frequently requires labor-intensive, manual parameter tuning. Moreover, some tasks are too complex to be specified fully using a task specification. Learning these skills, by contrast, requires a high number of costly and potentially unsafe interactions with the environment. We present a compliant manipulation approach using reinforcement learning guided by the Task Frame Formalism, a task specification method. This allows us to specify the easy to model knowledge about a task while the robot learns the unmodeled components by reinforcement learning. We evaluate the approach by performing a compliant manipulation task with a KUKA LWR 4+ manipulator. The robot was able to learn force control policies directly on the robot without using any simulation.
Long-term variability of solar irradiance and its implications for photovoltaic power in West Africa
(2020)
West Africa is one of the least developed regions in the world regarding the energy availability and energy security. Located close to the equator West Africa receives high amounts of global horizontal irradiance (GHI). Thus, solar power and especially photovoltaic (PV) systems seem to be a promising solution to provide electricity with low environmental impact. To plan and to dimension a PV power system climatological data for global horizontal irradiance (GHI) and its variability need to be taken into account. However, ground based measurements of irradiances are not available continuously and cover only a few discrete locations.
Incoming solar radiation is an important driver of our climate and weather. Several studies (see for instance Frank et al. 2018) have revealed discrepancies between ground-based irradiance measurements and the predictions of regional weather models. In the realm of electricity generation, accurate forecasts of solar photovoltaic (PV)energy yield are becoming indispensable for cost-effective grid operation: in Germany there are 1.6 million PVsystems installed, with a nominal power of 46 GW (Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft 2019). The proliferation of PV systems provides a unique opportunity to characterise global irradiance with unprecedented spatiotemporalresolution, which in turn will allow for highly resolved PV power forecasts.
Renewable energies play an increasingly important role for energy production in Europe. Unlike coal or gas powerplants, solar energy production is highly variable in space and time. This is due to the strong variability of cloudsand their influence on the surface solar irradiance. Especially in regions with large contribution from photovoltaicpower production, the intermittent energy feed-in to the power grid can be a risk for grid stability. Therefore goodforecasts of temporal and spatial variability of surface irradiance are necessary to be able to properly regulate thepower supply.
Due to the policy goals for sustainable energy production, renewable energy plants such as photovoltaics are increasingly in use. The energy production from solar radiation depends strongly on atmospheric conditions. As the weather mostly changes, electrical power generation fluctuates, making technical planning and control of power grids to a complex problem.
