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2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
SceneMaker: Multimodal Visualisation of Natural Language Film Scripts
Abstract. Producing plays, films or animations is a complex and expensive process involving various professionals and media. Our proposed software system, SceneMaker, aims to faci...
Eva Hanser, Paul McKevitt, Tom Lunney, Joan Condel...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Enhancing independence and safety for blind and deaf-blind public transit riders
Blind and deaf-blind people often rely on public transit for everyday mobility, but using transit can be challenging for them. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 13 blin...
Shiri Azenkot, Sanjana Prasain, Alan Borning, Emil...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Blobby: how to guide a blind person
For the majority of blind people, walking in unknown places is a very difficult, or even impossible, task to perform, when without help. The adoption of the white cane is the main...
Hugo Nicolau, Joaquim A. Jorge, Tiago João ...
IWCMC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Effect of feedback prediction on OFDMA system throughput
In wireless communication systems, adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) is used to improve the downlink (DL) spectral efficiency by exploiting the underlying channel condition. Ho...
Mohammad Abdul Awal, Lila Boukhatem
AMIRE
2005
Springer
198views Robotics» more  AMIRE 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Extending the Temporal Horizon of Autonomous Robots
Abstract. We introduce mathematically rigorous metrics on agent experiences having various temporal horizons. Sensorimotor variables accessible to the agent are treated as informat...
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Naeem Assif Mirza, Kerstin...