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ASSETS
2009
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Instant tactile-audio map: enabling access to digital maps for people with visual impairment
In this paper, we propose an automatic approach, complete with a prototype system, for supporting instant access to maps for local navigation by people with visual impairment. The...
Zheshen Wang, Baoxin Li, Terri Hedgpeth, Teresa Ha...
ICCS
2005
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Games of Inquiry for Collaborative Concept Structuring
Google’s project to digitize five of the world's greatest libraries will dramatically extend their search engine reach in the future. Current search-engine philosophy, which...
Mary A. Keeler, Heather D. Pfeiffer
ISWC
1997
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
The Digital Doctor: An Experiment in Wearable Telemedicine
Consultation with various specialists and review of medical literature are key elements in superior, modern medical care. Because this information can be expensive and inconvenien...
Alex Pentland, M. Petrazzuoli, A. Gerega, Thad Sta...
DL
2000
Springer
173views Digital Library» more  DL 2000»
13 years 10 months ago
Content-based book recommending using learning for text categorization
Recommender systems improve access to relevant products and information by making personalized suggestions based on previous examples of a user's likes and dislikes. Most exi...
Raymond J. Mooney, Loriene Roy
DL
1999
Springer
181views Digital Library» more  DL 1999»
13 years 10 months ago
Quality of OCR for Degraded Text Images
Commercial OCR packages work best with highquality scanned images. They often produce poor results when the image is degraded, either because the original itself was poor quality,...
Roger T. Hartley, Kathleen Crumpton