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HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
An Agent-Based Framework for Context-Aware Services
Abstract. A major challenge of Ambient Intelligence lies in building middleware that can ease service implementation through allowing the application developer to emphasize only th...
Axel Bürkle, Wilmuth Müller, Uwe Pfirrma...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Situation Models for Providing Context-Aware Services
Oliver Brdiczka, James L. Crowley, Patrick Reignie...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
An RFID-Based Point-and-Listen Interface Providing Library Access for the Visually Impaired
Abstract. We present the AudioIndex prototype, a light-weight mobile RFIDbased point-and-listen interface that allows visually impaired to browse and search for audio books within ...
Daniel Fallman, Kent Lindbergh, Oskar Fjellstrom, ...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Auditory Accessibility of Metadata in Books: A Design for All Approach
There are two issues that are challenging in the life-cycle of Digital Talking Books (DTB): the automatic labeling of text formatting meta-data in documents and the multimodal repr...
Dimitrios Tsonos, Gerasimos Xydas, Georgios Kourou...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
New Type of Auditory Progress Bar: Exploration, Design and Evaluation
In this paper, we focus on the method to explore a different type of auditory progress bar by analyzing the characteristics of the visual progress bar and contexts of auditory appl...
Shuo Hsiu Hsu, Cécile Le Prado, Stép...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Detailed Monitoring of User's Gaze and Interaction to Improve Future E-Learning
In this paper, we investigate how to use future interaction technologies to enhance learning technologies. We examine in detail how tracking the mouse pointer and observing the use...
Heiko Drewes, Richard Atterer, Albrecht Schmidt
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Gaze as a Supplementary Modality for Interacting with Ambient Intelligence Environments
We present our current research on the implementation of gaze as an efficient and usable pointing modality supplementary to speech, for interacting with augmented objects in our da...
Daniel Gepner, Jérôme Simonin, No&eum...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
The BIC Model: A Blueprint for the Communicator
In this paper, we outline a cognitive architecture for communicators, called the BIC model. The model consist of three main components. First, a (B)iological component, in which th...
Jan Peter de Ruiter, Nicholas J. Enfield
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A New Gaze-Based Interface for Environmental Control
This paper describes a new control system interface which utilises the user’s eye gaze to enable severely disabled individuals control electronic devices easily. The system is ba...
Fangmin Shi, Alastair G. Gale, Kevin J. Purdy
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Integrating Language, Vision and Action for Human Robot Dialog Systems
Developing a robot system that can interact directly with a human instructor in a natural way requires not only highly-skilled sensorimotor coordination and action planning on the ...
Markus Rickert, Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani...