Speech synthesis options on assistive communication devices are very limited and do not reflect the user’s vocal quality or personality. Previous work suggests that speakers wit...
Object identification is a crucial step in most information systems. Nowadays, we have many different ways to identify entities such as surrogates, keys and object identifiers. Ho...
The people in an image are generally not strangers, but instead often share social relationships such as husband-wife, siblings, grandparent-child, father-child, or mother-child. F...
Gang Wang, Andrew C. Gallagher, Jiebo Luo, David A...
This paper describes results from a large-scale survey to explore users’ comfort with different styles of avatars for workplace communication. Thirty-one avatars were evaluated ...
This paper reports on an ethnographic study of the technology-enabled behavior that took place amongst a citizen population living in a conflict zone. We interviewed 65 Iraqi citi...