Study and analysis of the Leap Motion sensor and the Software Development Kit (SDK) for the implementation of visual Human Computer Interfaces

En este proyecto, se presenta un informe técnico sobre la cámara Leap Motion y el Software Development Kit correspondiente, el cual es un dispositivo con una cámara de profundidad orientada a interfaces hombre-máquina. Esto es realizado con el propósito de desarrollar una interfaz hombre-máquina basada en un sistema de reconocimiento de gestos de manos. Después de un exhaustivo estudio de la cámara Leap Motion, se han realizado diversos programas de ejemplo con la intención de verificar las capacidades descritas en el informe técnico, poniendo a prueba la Application Programming Interface y evaluando la precisión de las diferentes medidas obtenidas sobre los datos de la cámara. Finalmente, se desarrolla un prototipo de un sistema de reconocimiento de gestos. Los datos sobre la posición y orientación de la punta de los dedos obtenidos de la Leap Motion son usados para describir un gesto mediante un vector descriptor, el cual es enviado a una Máquina Vectores Soporte, utilizada como clasificador multi-clase.

Uso de Leap Motion en juegos didácticos para niños con necesidades educativas especiales

Este Trabajo de Fin de Grado (TFG) tiene el objetivo incorporar el dispositivo Leap Motion [1] en un juego educativo para niños con necesidades educativas especiales para permitirles aprender de una forma divertida mientras disfrutan con los mini juegos que ofrece nuestra aplicación. Está destinado al apoyo del sistema educativo para los niños con necesidades educativas especiales. Debido al público que tenemos como objetivo debemos de tener en cuenta que hay distintos tipos de usuarios según el tipo de discapacidad que tienen. Entre ellas tenemos discapacidad visual, auditiva, cognitiva y motriz. Tenemos distintos mini juegos para facilitar el aprendizaje de las letras y nuevas palabras, los nombres de colores y diferenciarlos y la asociación de conceptos mediante ejemplos sencillos como son ropa, juguetes y comida. Para hacer que la interacción sea más divertida tenemos distintos tipos de dispositivos de interacción: unos comunes como son el teclado y la pantalla táctil y otros más novedosos como son Kinect [2] y Leap Motion que es el que se introducirá en el desarrollo de este Trabajo de Fin de Grado. El otro objetivo de este proyecto es el estudio de los distintos dispositivos de interacción. Se quiere descubrir qué tipo de sistemas de interacción son más sencillos de aprender, cuáles son más intuitivos para los niños, los que les resultan más interesantes permitiendo captar mejor su atención y sus opuestos, es decir, los que son más difíciles de entender, los más monótonos y los más aburridos para ellos.---ABSTRACT---This Final Degree Project (TFG) aims to incorporate the Leap Motion device [1] in an educational game for children with special educational needs to enable them to learn in a funny way while enjoying the mini games that our application offered. It is intended to support the education system for children with special educational needs. Because the public that we have as objective we must take into account that there are different types of users depending on the type of disability they have. Among them we have visual, auditory, cognitive and motor disabilities. We have different mini games to make easier learning of letters and new words, names and distinguish colors and the association of concepts through simple examples such as clothing, toys and food. To make the interaction more fun we have different interaction devices: common such as the keyboard and the touch screen and other more innovative such as Kinect [2] and Leap Motion which is to be introduced in the development of this Final Degree Work. The other objective of this project is to study the various interaction devices. You want to find out what type of interaction systems are easier to learn, which are more intuitive for children, who are more interesting allowing better capture their attention and their opposites, that is, those that are more difficult to understand, the most monotonous and most boring for them.

The great leap. Turkey under Erdogan. OSW Point of View 51, 27 May 2015

Since the AKP took power in 2002, Turkey has seen a replacement of the state’s elites, a real change of the political system and a redefinition of the state identity. All this has been accompanied by economic development and rapid social transformation. The pro-democratic reforms and improved prosperity in the first decade of the AKP’s rule created the opportunity for Turkey to become part of the West in terms of legal and political standards, while maintaining its cultural distinctness. However, from the point of view of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the leader of a new Turkey, the political reforms turned out not to be a goal per se but a means to the end of achieving a monopoly on power. Once this goal was achieved, Erdogan began leading Turkey towards the status of an autocratic state focused on the Middle East and resentful towards the West. This trend is unlikely to be reversed under Erdogan’s rule. However, even if the government were to change, there would be no return to the Turkey from before the AKP era. In turn, the Turkish public will have to answer the questions regarding its civilisational identity and the vision of the political and social order.

A New Settlement for the UK: A “Leap in the Dark”. Bruges European Economic Policy Briefings 39/2016

This paper examines the outcome of the negotiations for a new settlement concerning the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union. It reviews the nature and possible consequences of the “substantial changes” that were demanded in the areas of economic governance, competitiveness, sovereignty, and immigration. We argue that the proposed arrangements do not amount to much and can prove harmful to the future of the EU. The paper is a follow-up to our analysis of the initial proposals, available under Bruges European Economic Policy Briefings, 38/2016.

Nanka's Leap Year venture; or, How she settled her bills. A comedietta in one act,

On cover: Ames' Publishing Co., W.H. Ames, Proprietor.

The Newtonian system of the world, the best model of government: an allegorical poem. With a plain and intelligible account of the system of the world, by way of annotations ... To which is added, Cambria's complaint against the intercalary day in the leap-year.

Tributes to George II and Queen Caroline.

Lake Education Assistance Program (LEAP) /

"December 2000"--P. [4]

The Montreal almanack, or, Lower Canada register for 1831 microform : being third after leap year.

Reproduction of original in: Public Archives of Canada. Library.

Look before you leap : an address to the people of Massachusetts, and of the county of Essex in particular /

Shaw & Shoemaker,

Alda's leap and other stories /

Alda's leap - Gabrielle of Zermatt - The history of Cicely Averell.

Look before you leap : or, Wooings and weddings : a comedy in five acts /

Mode of access: Internet.

Bannaker's Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina almanack and ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1796; being bissextile, or leap-year; the twentieth year of American independence, and eighth year of the federal government.

"The Anatomy of Man's Body" on page [3] is the only illustration.

Binomial leap methods for simulating stochastic chemical kinetics

This paper discusses efficient simulation methods for stochastic chemical kinetics. Based on the tau-leap and midpoint tau-leap methods of Gillespie [D. T. Gillespie, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 1716 (2001)], binomial random variables are used in these leap methods rather than Poisson random variables. The motivation for this approach is to improve the efficiency of the Poisson leap methods by using larger stepsizes. Unlike Poisson random variables whose range of sample values is from zero to infinity, binomial random variables have a finite range of sample values. This probabilistic property has been used to restrict possible reaction numbers and to avoid negative molecular numbers in stochastic simulations when larger stepsize is used. In this approach a binomial random variable is defined for a single reaction channel in order to keep the reaction number of this channel below the numbers of molecules that undergo this reaction channel. A sampling technique is also designed for the total reaction number of a reactant species that undergoes two or more reaction channels. Samples for the total reaction number are not greater than the molecular number of this species. In addition, probability properties of the binomial random variables provide stepsize conditions for restricting reaction numbers in a chosen time interval. These stepsize conditions are important properties of robust leap control strategies. Numerical results indicate that the proposed binomial leap methods can be applied to a wide range of chemical reaction systems with very good accuracy and significant improvement on efficiency over existing approaches. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.

The Australian insolvency regime revisited: a precis of the next leap forward

Australian corporate insolvency laws contained within Chapter 5 of the Corporations Act are currently being reviewed with respect to four principal areas identified by Australian Government Treasury. The four themes of review include employee ‘benefit’ enhancements; seeking to deter misconduct of company officers; rules around insolvency practitioner disclosure with respect to their remuneration and related independence issues; and some minor proposed changes to the voluntary administration procedure, widely regarded as requiring only minor adjustment. At this time, the draft legislation is not available for general release and is being discussed within the Australian Government appointed Insolvency Law Advisory Group. The next steps are public comment for review of draft legislation and then operation of the legislative change. These are expected to occur in 2007. This paper seeks to outline the likely issues associated with the expected reforms of the Australian insolvency regime.