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IFIP
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
New Organizational Forms to Extend the Professional Active Life
A major challenge in effective active ageing support is to identify/design new organizational structures, approaches, and mechanisms so that on one hand older people do not feel ex...
Antonio del Cura, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Filipa ...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Improving Statistical Machine Translation Using Word Sense Disambiguation
We show for the first time that incorporating the predictions of a word sense disambiguation system within a typical phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) model cons...
Marine Carpuat, Dekai Wu
ISM
2006
IEEE
81views Multimedia» more  ISM 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Water Jets as Pixels: Water Fountains as Both Sensors and Displays
We propose a hydraulic user interface consisting of an array of spray jets and the appropriate fluid sensing and fluid flow control systems for each jet, so that the device fun...
Steve Mann, Michael Georgas, Ryan E. Janzen
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
A New Coupling Scheme for Haptic Rendering of Rigid Bodies Interactions Based on a Haptic Sub-world Using a Contact Graph
Interactions with virtual worlds using the sense of touch, called haptic rendering, have natural applications in many domains such as health or industry. For an accurate and realis...
Loeiz Glondu, Maud Marchal, Georges Dumont
IGARSS
2009
13 years 4 months ago
Developing a New Automated Tool for Detecting and Monitoring Dust and Sand Storms using MODIS and Meteosat SEVIRI-MSG Data
In the last three decades, significant advances have been made in mapping and monitoring environmental changes from Earth Observation satellites across a range of spatial and temp...
Hosni Ghedira, Adnan Al Rais