My thesis aims to contribute towards building autonomous agents that are able to understand their surrounding environment through the use of both audio and visual information. To ...
Participants in a real-time groupware conference require a sense of awareness about other people's interactions within a large shared workspace. Fisheye views can afford this...
Awareness has now become a widely accepted central feature in groupware systems. In this context, providing an awareness support consists in delivering to users involved in a colla...
We present a method for testing subject’s performance in a realistic (end-to-end) information understanding task— rapid understanding of large document collections—and discu...