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ASSETS
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Improving public transit usability for blind and deaf-blind people by connecting a braille display to a smartphone
We conducted interviews with blind and deaf-blind people to understand how they use the public transit system. In this paper, we discuss key challenges our participants faced and ...
Shiri Azenkot, Emily Fortuna
EMNLP
2009
15 years 2 months ago
The role of named entities in Web People Search
The ambiguity of person names in the Web has become a new area of interest for NLP researchers. This challenging problem has been formulated as the task of clustering Web search r...
Javier Artiles, Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzal...
AIED
2011
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Learning by Teaching SimStudent - An Initial Classroom Baseline Study Comparing with Cognitive Tutor
: This paper describes an application of a machine-learning agent, SimStudent, as a teachable peer learner that allows a student to learn by teaching. SimStudent has been integrate...
Noboru Matsuda, Evelyn Yarzebinski, Victoria Keise...
COSIT
2009
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
SeaTouch: A Haptic and Auditory Maritime Environment for Non Visual Cognitive Mapping of Blind Sailors
Abstract. Navigating consists of coordinating egocentric and allocentric spatial frames of reference. Virtual environments have afforded researchers in the spatial community with ...
Mathieu Simonnet, Dan Jacobson, Stephane Vieillede...
APGV
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Updating orientation in large virtual environments using scaled translational gain
Navigating through large virtual environments using a headmounted display (HMD) is difficult due to the spatial limitations of the tracking system. We conducted two experiments t...
Betsy Williams, Gayathri Narasimham, Timothy P. Mc...