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IJVR
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
Employing Virtual Lecturers' Facial Expressions in Virtual Educational Environments
This research began with a preliminary exploratory study that observed the relationship between the facial expressions of three human lecturers in a real academic lecture theatre a...
G. Theonas, D. Hobbs, D. Rigas
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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14 years 10 months ago
Towards One Shot Learning by imitation for humanoid robots
— Teaching a robot to learn new knowledge is a repetitive and tedious process. In order to accelerate the process, we propose a novel template-based approach for robot arm moveme...
Yan Wu, Yiannis Demiris
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SPEECH
2010
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14 years 6 months ago
Predicting the phonetic realizations of word-final consonants in context - A challenge for French grapheme-to-phoneme converters
One of the main problems in developing a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesizer for French lies in grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. Automatic converters produce still too many errors in ...
Josafá de Jesus Aguiar Pontes, Sadaoki Furu...
HAPTICS
2011
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Toward haptic/aural touchscreen display of graphical mathematics for the education of blind students
We propose the use of a haptic touchscreen to convey graphical and mathematical concepts through aural and/or vibratory tactile feedback. We hypothesize that an important applicat...
Jenna L. Toennies, Jessica Burgner, Thomas J. With...
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Feasibility of a primarily digital research library
This position paper explores the issues related to the feasibility of having a primarily digital research library support the teaching and research needs of a university. The Asia...
Geneva L. Henry, Lisa M. Spiro