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HCI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Discrimination and Perception of the Acoustic Rendition of Texts by Blind People
This paper reports on the results from a series of psychoacoustic experiments in the field of the auditory representation of texts via synthetic speech which comprise similar acous...
Vassilis Argyropoulos, Konstantinos Papadopoulos, ...
HCI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Providing Universal Accessibility Using Connecting Ontologies: A Holistic Approach
Accessibility implementation efforts are generally focused towards some typical user impairments and a few interaction devices for a particular user scenario. Whereas there are num...
Shuaib Karim, Khalid Latif, A. Min Tjoa
HCI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Sensor-Driven Adaptation of Web Document Presentation
The increasing variety of user device technologies has raised the necessity for ubiquitous content provision, which is characterized by “intelligent” content delivery to end us...
Spyros Nathanail, Vassileios Tsetsos, Stathes Hadj...
HCI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Conveying Browsing Context Through Audio on Digital Talking Books
This paper presents the results of a study comparing the use of auditory icons, earcons and speech in an audio only interface for a digital talking book player. The different techn...
Carlos Duarte, Luís Carriço
HCI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Web 2.0 Technology: Future Interfaces for Technology Enhanced Learning?
Web 2.0 is an emerging catch phrase and the applications associated with it shocked the traditional eLearning world. However, is this really all new and can it be considered suitab...
Martin Ebner, Andreas Holzinger, Hermann A. Maurer
HCI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
An Adaptive Vision System Toward Implicit Human Computer Interaction
In implicit human computer interaction, computers are required to understand users’ actions and intentions so as to provide proactive services. Visual processing has to detect an...
Peng Dai, Linmi Tao, Xiang Zhang, Ligeng Dong, Gua...
HCI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Enhancing Human-Computer Interaction with Embodied Conversational Agents
We survey recent research in which the impact of an embodied conversational agent on human-computer interaction has been assessed through a human evaluation. In some cases, the eva...
Mary Ellen Foster
HCI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Universal Design and Mobile Devices
The use of mobile technologies for self services, and the inclusion of elderly and cognitively disabled users in the self-service society can be improved by the application of appr...
Rita Hellman
HCI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Designers' Perceptions of Methods of Involving and Understanding Users
Numerous methods have been developed to help designers to understand and consider the needs and desires of end-users, but many have had limited uptake in design practice. In order ...
Joy Goodman, Susannah Clarke, Patrick Langdon, P. ...
HCI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Coupling Interaction Resources and Technical Support
Coupling is the action of binding two entities so that they can operate together to provide new functions. In this article, we propose a formal definition for coupling and present ...
Nicolas Barralon, Joëlle Coutaz, Christophe L...