The paper describes a study of how Japanese and Sinhala naive viewers use modifiers to describe differences in color tones. Three sequences of color tone stimuli were created for three hues, red, green and blue by varying just two parameters, saturation and value. Two methods were employed to study how naive viewers use modifiers to describe differences in their perceptions and modifiers of color tones. A preliminary elicitation employed the methods of selection description, in which Japanese and Sinhala modifiers meaning - pale, bright, vivid, strong, dull, dark - constituted a high proportion of responses. These modifiers were employed in a triadic comparison. Dissimilarities of all pair wise comparisons of stimuli were submitted to MDS analysis in order to derive a multidimensional perceptual structure for the stimuli. A semantic differential structure was derived applying PCA for modifier responses provided for the same set of stimuli. The results revealed that Japanese and Sinhala native speakers perceptually discriminate the six color tone stimulus into six categories. Furthermore, the semantic structures for each hue were different from one a another. And it was observed that the semantic structures related differently to the dimensions of the perceptual structures.

The paradigm of animated pedagogical agent has been developed in recent years. These lifelike autonomous characters inhabit leaning environments and make rich, face-to-face learning interactions possible. Children seem to develop an immediate and deep affinity to such characters: the agents abilities open up new possibilities, e.g. agents can demonstrate complex tasks, employ locomotion and gestures, focus children's attention on the most important aspects of a task at hand, and convey emotional responses to the game. This create a comfortable environment with the ability to both engage and motivate children. The pedagogical agent uses emotion, intensity of emotion, and game states in order to create rules for adapting the system according to child behavior. Results showed that an affective gesture recognition model was able to recognize a child's emotion with a considerably high rate of over 82.5%, and the social agent (estimate intensity of emotion) had a strong relationship with observers' feedback, except in low intensity levels.

This paper suggests a further improvement to ISCC-NBS naming system for determining exact boundary color tone between color modifiers that associated each region on the Munsell color space. Three sequences of color tone stimuli were created for three fundamental hues red, green and blue by varying just two parameters, saturation and value. Two experiments were executed to investigate the consensual use of modifiers in describing perceptual variations of color tones by Japanese and Sinhala (Language of Sri Lanka) naive viewers. One was a triadic comparison method in which the color modifiers meaning - pale, bright, vivid, strong, dull, and dark - were employed. Results revealed that these modifiers were used in a consistent manner for all three hues. Second was a two-alternative forced-choice experiments that was executed to determined the boundary color tone at which modifier labels switch from bright to strong, and from vivid to dull.

The authors demonstrate a prototype toolkit called ITSE (Integrated Translation Support Environment), for interoperation and migration of heterogeneous database systems.

Resolving different levels of heterogeneity present in heterogeneous database environments is a subject that has been addressed in a number of research projects. Graphical user interfaces are becoming the de-facto form of user interface in many application areas, including database management systems. The use of a popular visualisation notation to present schemas at an abstract level and to permit direct user manipulation of this visualisation in formulating queries is one of the most widespread approaches to providing database graphical user interfaces. The existence of a variety of visualisation notations (which are in common use to visualise schemas) introduces additional heterogeneity to a distributed system, in visual representation at the end-user interface level. This paper describes the use of meta-programming techniques which are applied to resolve this visual model heterogeneity on existing databases, by allowing a user to select a preferred visualisation notation, both to view the schema and to query the database.