Experiencing Food, Designing Dialogues

Experiencing Food, Designing Dialogues

Author: Ricardo Bonacho

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1351271946

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FOOD and interdisciplinary research are the central focus of the 1st International Conference on Food Design and Food Studies: Experiencing Food, Designing Dialogues, reflecting upon approaches evidencing how interdisciplinarity is not limited to the design of objects or services, but seeks awareness towards new lifestyles and innovative ways of dealing with food. This book encompasses a wide range of perspectives on the state of the art and research in the fields of Food and Design, making a significant contribution to further development of these fields. Accordingly, it covers a broad variety of topics from Designing for/with Food, Educating People on Food, Experiencing Food and other Food for Thought.


North-South Dialog

North-South Dialog

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments

Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments

Author: Wolfgang Minker

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-02-08

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9781402030734

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This book is based on publications from the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments held at Kloster Irsee, Germany, in 2002. The workshop covered various aspects of devel- ment and evaluation of spoken multimodal dialogue systems and components with particular emphasis on mobile environments, and discussed the state-- the-art within this area. On the development side the major aspects addressed include speech recognition, dialogue management, multimodal output gene- tion, system architectures, full applications, and user interface issues. On the evaluation side primarily usability evaluation was addressed. A number of high quality papers from the workshop were selected to form the basis of this book. The volume is divided into three major parts which group together the ov- all aspects covered by the workshop. The selected papers have all been - tended, reviewed and improved after the workshop to form the backbone of the book. In addition, we have supplemented each of the three parts by an invited contribution intended to serve as an overview chapter.


9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology

9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology

Author: Luis Fernando D'Haro

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-09-24

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 9811394431

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This book presents the outcomes of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), “Towards creating more human-like conversational agent technologies”. It compiles and provides a synopsis of current global research to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances in the context of the classical problems of language understanding, dialogue management and language generation, as well as cognitive topics related to the human nature of conversational phenomena, such as humor, empathy and social context understanding and awareness.


Grocery Story

Grocery Story

Author: Jon Steinman

Publisher: New Society Publishers

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1550927000

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Hungry for change? Put the power of food co-ops on your plate and grow your local food economy. Food has become ground-zero in our efforts to increase awareness of how our choices impact the world. Yet while we have begun to transform our communities and dinner plates, the most authoritative strand of the food web has received surprisingly little attention: the grocery store—the epicenter of our food-gathering ritual. Through penetrating analysis and inspiring stories and examples of American and Canadian food co-ops, Grocery Story makes a compelling case for the transformation of the grocery store aisles as the emerging frontier in the local and good food movements. Author Jon Steinman: Deconstructs the food retail sector and the shadows cast by corporate giants Makes the case for food co-ops as an alternative Shows how co-ops spur the creation of local food-based economies and enhance low-income food access. Grocery Story is for everyone who eats. Whether you strive to eat more local and sustainable food, or are in support of community economic development, Grocery Story will leave you hungry to join the food co-op movement in your own community.


The Economics of Food Price Volatility

The Economics of Food Price Volatility

Author: Jean-Paul Chavas

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 022612892X

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"The conference was organized by the three editors of this book and took place on August 15-16, 2012 in Seattle."--Preface.


ESL Conversation Dialogues Scripts 81-90 Volume 9: General English Conversations Phrasal Verbs IV

ESL Conversation Dialogues Scripts 81-90 Volume 9: General English Conversations Phrasal Verbs IV

Author: Jason Hogan

Publisher: Maldek House

Published:

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13:

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ESL Conversation Dialogues Scripts 81-90 Volume 9: General English Conversations Phrasal Verbs IV features some common phrases and sayings as well as difficult vocabulary thrown in to challenge the student. While intermediate level and above is recommended, these dialogues can also be used to challenge beginners into improving their reading and pronunciation skills. This series of dialogues and conversations has been released to fulfill a demand in the ESL industry for more mature style conversations for use in private tuition as well as pair or group work in the adult classroom. These have been reformatted for use on a Kindle so that ESL Kindle users can practice reading the dialogues out loud and discuss the language used with their tutor or with each other. These eBooks contain just dialogues. It is up to the tutor to create their own lessons around these dialogues. Some suggestions include: a) Library lend the file to other Kindle uses and create a play in the classroom b) Create listening test questions and use the text-to-speech function on Kindle c) Create a discussion about some of the phrases used For ESL tutors, the ideas are endless. As a tutor I've always found dialogues to be useful in vocabulary acquisition, pronunciation practice, confidence building, and more besides. Students regularly comment on how useful the dialogues are and always request more, which is why there are more dialogues on the way.