Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolutio...
Steffen Olbrich, Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili,...
Personal assistants need to allow the user to interact with the system in a flexible and adaptive way such as through spoken language dialogue. In this research we focus on an ap...
In this paper, we present our open source, platform independent toolkit for developing 3D talking agents, namely Xface. It relies on MPEG-4 Face Animation (FA) standard. The toolk...
This paper describes our experience using dependency analysis and visualization as a tool to identify intervention points for migrating applications to environments where they can...
Dave McComb, Simon Robe, Simon Hoare, Stew Crawfor...
Abstract Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) offers possibilities for promising new IT-based health care services that are resulting in new challenges for its design process. We introduc...
Philipp Menschner, Andreas Prinz, Philip Koene, Fe...