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AAAI
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Collective Construction Using Lego Robots
hibition: Extended Abstract Social insects, such as ants and termites, collectively build large and complex structures, with many individuals following simple rules and no centrali...
Crystal Schuil, Matthew Valente, Justin Werfel, Ra...
DEBU
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Issues in Building Practical Provenance Systems
The importance of maintaining provenance has been widely recognized, particularly with respect to highly-manipulated data. However, there are few deployed databases that provide p...
Adriane Chapman, H. V. Jagadish
ACL
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Simulating the Behaviour of Older versus Younger Users when Interacting with Spoken Dialogue Systems
In this paper we build user simulations of older and younger adults using a corpus of interactions with a Wizard-of-Oz appointment scheduling system. We measure the quality of the...
Kallirroi Georgila, Maria Wolters, Johanna D. Moor...
ACMDIS
2004
ACM
14 years 5 days ago
Easing the wait in the emergency room: building a theory of public information systems
In this paper we discuss a real world problem encountered during recent fieldwork: that of providing information in public settings when the information has both public and privat...
Eamonn O'Neill, Dawn Woodgate, Vassilis Kostakos
ERCIMDL
2001
Springer
205views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2001»
13 years 11 months ago
Building and Indexing a Distributed Multimedia Presentation Archive Using SMIL
This paper proposes an approach to the problem of generating metadata for composite mixed-media digital objects by appropriately combining and exploiting existing knowledge or met...
Jane Hunter, Suzanne Little