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HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Media Service Mediation Supporting Resident's Collaboration in ubiTV
Abstract. A smart home is an intelligent and shared space, where various services coexist and multiple residents with different preferences and habits share these services most of ...
Choonsung Shin, Hyoseok Yoon, Woontack Woo
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Watch, Press, and Catch - Impact of Divided Attention on Requirements of Audiovisual Quality
Many of today’s audiovisual application systems offer some kind of interactivity. Yet, quality assessments of these systems are often performed without taking into account the po...
Ulrich Reiter, Satu Jumisko-Pyykkö
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Static and Dynamic Hand-Gesture Recognition for Augmented Reality Applications
This contribution presents our approach for an instrumented automatic gesture recognition system for use in Augmented Reality, which is able to differentiate static and dynamic ges...
Stefan Reifinger, Frank Wallhoff, Markus Abla&szli...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
GART: The Gesture and Activity Recognition Toolkit
The Gesture and Activity Recognition Toolit (GART) is a user interface toolkit designed to enable the development of gestureplications. GART provides an abstraction to machine lear...
Kent Lyons, Helene Brashear, Tracy L. Westeyn, Jun...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Visual Foraging of Highlighted Text: An Eye-Tracking Study
The wide availability of digital reading material online is causing a major shift in everyday reading activities. Readers are skimming instead of reading in depth [Nielson 1997]. H...
Ed Huai-hsin Chi, Michelle Gumbrecht, Lichan Hong
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A New Method for Multi-finger Detection Using a Regular Diffuser
In this paper, we developed a fingertip finding algorithm working with a regular diffuser. The proposed algorithm works on images captured by infra-red cameras, settled on one side...
Li-Wei Chan, Yi-Fan Chuang, Yi-Wei Chia, Yi-Ping H...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Emotionally Expressive Avatars for Chatting, Learning and Therapeutic Intervention
We present our work on emotionally expressive avatars, animated virtual characters that can express emotions via facial expressions. Because these avatars are highly distinctive an...
Marc Fabri, Salima Y. Awad Elzouki, David J. Moore
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
An Empirical Study on Users' Acceptance of Speech Recognition Errors in Text-Messaging
Although speech recognition technology and voice synthesis systems have become readily available, recognition accuracy remain a serious problem in the design and implementation of ...
Shuang Xu, Santosh Basapur, Mark Ahlenius, Deborah...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Character Agents in E-Learning Interface Using Multimodal Real-Time Interaction
This paper describes an e-learning interface with multiple tutoring character agents. The character agents use eye movement information to facilitate empathy-relevant reasoning and...
Hua Wang, Jie Yang, Mark H. Chignell, Mitsuru Ishi...