Figures in digital documents contain important information. Current digital libraries do not summarize and index information available within figures for document retrieval. We pr...
Xiaonan Lu, James Ze Wang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee...
User interfaces for digital libraries tend to focus on retrieval: users retrieve documents online, but then print them out and work with them on paper. One reason for printing doc...
Gene Golovchinsky, Morgan N. Price, Bill N. Schili...
Existing e-book readers do not do a good job supporting many reading tasks that people perform, as ethnographers report that when reading, people frequently read from multiple dis...
We present DiTaBBu, Digital Talking Books Builder, a framework for automatic production of time-based hypermedia for the Web, focusing on the Digital Talking Books domain. Deliver...
The amount of scientific material available electronically is forever increasing. This makes reading the published literature, whether to stay up-to-date on a topic or to get up ...