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CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Mobile-izing health workers in rural India
Researchers have long been interested in the potential of ICTs to enable positive change in developing regions communities. In these environments, ICT interventions often fail bec...
Divya Ramachandran, John Canny, Prabhu Dutta Das, ...
JNCA
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Hands-free vision-based interface for computer accessibility
Physically disabled and mentally challenged people are an important part of our society that has not yet received the same opportunities as others in their inclusion in the Inform...
Javier Varona, Cristina Manresa-Yee, Francisco J. ...
CHI
2002
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Unremarkable computing
In this paper, we seek to contribute to the Ubiquitous Computing agenda by focusing on one of its earliest, but most difficult, design ambitions ? making technology "invisibl...
Peter Tolmie, James Pycock, Tim Diggins, Allan Mac...
LREC
2010
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14 years 11 months ago
The SignSpeak Project - Bridging the Gap Between Signers and Speakers
The SignSpeak project will be the first step to approach sign language recognition and translation at a scientific level already reached in similar research fields such as automat...
Philippe Dreuw, Hermann Ney, Gregorio Martinez, On...
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Home, habits, and energy: examining domestic interactions and energy consumption
This paper presents findings from a qualitative study of people’s everyday interactions with energy-consuming products and systems in the home. Initial results from a large onli...
James Pierce, Diane J. Schiano, Eric Paulos