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HCI
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Sign Language Recognition: Working with Limited Corpora
The availability of video format sign language corpora limited. This leads to a desire for techniques which do not rely on large, fully-labelled datasets. This paper covers various...
Helen Cooper, Richard Bowden
HCI
2009
13 years 3 months ago
The Usability of Web Accessibility Guidelines: An Approach for Evaluation
This paper aims at contributing to the evaluation of web accessibility and thus promoting design for all, considering the design process as an iterative process containing evaluati...
Maria Kapsi, Evangelos Vlachogiannis, Jenny S. Dar...
HCI
2009
13 years 3 months ago
The Evolution of a Web Accessibility Testing Protocol
In early 2007, the California State University (CSU) system initiated a program to make all information technology accessible to persons with disabilities; the authors were appoint...
Tom Jewett, Wayne Dick
HCI
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Computer-Assisted Lip Reading Recognition for Hearing Impaired
Within the communication process of human beings, the speaker's facial expression and lip-shape movement contains extremely rich language information. The hearing impaired, a...
Yun-Long Lay, Hui-Jen Yang, Chern-Sheng Lin
HCI
2009
13 years 3 months ago
A Modality Replacement Framework for the Communication between Blind and Hearing Impaired People
This paper presents a multimodal framework for the communication between blind and hearing impaired people. The algorithms that are developed are based on the concept of modality r...
Konstantinos Moustakas, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Laila ...
HCI
2009
13 years 3 months ago
A Similarity Measure for Vision-Based Sign Recognition
When we encounter an English word that we do not understand, we can look it up in a dictionary. However, when an American Sign Language (ASL) user encounters an unknown sign, looki...
Haijing Wang, Alexandra Stefan, Vassilis Athitsos
HCI
2009
13 years 3 months ago
DocEmoX: A System for the Typography-Derived Emotional Annotation of Documents
This work presents the design and implementation of the DocEmoX system for the automated typography-derived emotional extraction and annotation of printed and electronic documents....
Georgios Kouroupetroglou, Dimitrios Tsonos, Eugeni...
HCI
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Automatically Structuring Text for Audio Learning
In recent years podcasting has been in great demand as a recreation and a learning tool. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a system for automatically conve...
Barbara Leporini, Maria Claudia Buzzi, Marina Buzz...