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HCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluation and Usability of Back Translation for Intercultural Communication
When users communicate with each other via machine translation, it is important to improve the quality of the translations. The “Back Translation” technique can improve the tra...
Tomohiro Shigenobu
HCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Culturally Adaptive Software: Moving Beyond Internationalization
So far, culture has played a minor role in the design of software. Our experience with imbuto, a program designed for Rwandan agricultural advisors, has shown that cultural adaptat...
Katharina Reinecke, Abraham Bernstein
HCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Comparing User and Software Information Structures for Compatibility
Eastern and Western cultures differ quite systematically in how they group objects, functions and concepts into categories [1,2,3]. This has implications for how navigation feature...
Thomas Plocher, Torkil Clemmensen
HCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Cultural Difference and Its Effects on User Research Methodologies
Various researches have proved that cultural differences affect the process and results of user research, emphasizing that should cultural attention be given in order to obtain suf...
Jungjoo Lee, Thu-Trang Tran, Kun-Pyo Lee
HCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Towards Guidelines on Educational Podcasting Quality: Problems Arising from a Real World Experience
This paper presents an experience of educational podcasting set up at the University of Bergamo (Italy), and derives from that experience some remarks upon the quality of podcastin...
Marco Lazzari, Alberto Betella
HCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
OntoGen: Semi-automatic Ontology Editor
In this paper we present a semi-automatic ontology editor as implemented in a new version of OntoGen system. The system integrates machine learning and text mining algorithms into ...
Blaz Fortuna, Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenic
HCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Webcasting Made Interactive: Integrating Real-Time Videoconferencing in Distributed Learning Spaces
This paper presents an extension to the ePresence Interactive Media webcasting infrastructure to support real-time voice and video conferencing for a few attendees while concurrent...
Ronald Baecker, Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Rhys Causey, ...
HCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Webcasting Made Interactive: Persistent Chat for Text Dialogue During and About Learning Events
This paper presents a “persistent chat” extension to the ePresence Interactive Media webcasting infrastructure to support real-time commenting on and discussing of issues that ...
Ronald Baecker, David Fono, Lillian Blume, Christo...
HCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Experimental Comparison of Multimodal Meeting Browsers
This paper describes an experimental comparison of three variants of a meeting browser. This browser incorporates innovative, multimodal technologies to enable storage and smart re...
Wilfried Post, Erwin Elling, Anita H. M. Cremers, ...