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CE
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Reusable, lifelike virtual humans for mentoring and role-playing
Lifelike, interactive digital characters, serving as mentors and role-playing actors, have been shown to significantly improve learner motivation and retention. However, the cost...
Edward M. Sims
EJC
2009
13 years 4 months ago
From Word Form Surfaces to Communication
The starting point of this paper is the external surface of a word form, for example the agent-external acoustic perturbations constituting a language sign in speech or the dots o...
Roland Hausser
ITNG
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
VoIP Based Telehomecare Application Kiosk
—Healthcare services and systems throughout the world are in trouble and the proportion of expenditures devoted to healthcare is increasing rapidly. In addition to that, an incre...
Christian Menkens, Werner Kurschl
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A context-aware experience sampling tool
A new software tool for user-interface development and assessment of ubiquitous computing applications is available for CHI researchers. The software permits researchers to use co...
Stephen S. Intille, John Rondoni, Chuck Kukla, Isa...
ECSCW
1993
13 years 7 months ago
Do Categories Have Politics? The Language/Action Perspective Reconsidered
: Drawing on writings within the CSCW community and on recent social theory, this paper proposes that the adoption of speech act theory as a foundation for system design carries wi...
Lucy A. Suchman