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PRESENCE
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Pilot Evaluation Study of a Virtual Paracentesis Simulator for Skill Training and Assessment: The Beneficial Effect of Haptic Di
Effective, real-time training of health care professionals in invasive procedures is a challenging task. Furthermore, assessing in practice the acquisition of the dexterity and sk...
Costas S. Tzafestas, Kostas Birbas, Yiannis Koumpo...
JNCA
2006
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Cards-to-presentation on the web: generating multimedia contents featuring agent animations
With the goal of supporting the knowledge circulation and creation process in a society, we have studied story-based communication in a network community. On the basis of this res...
Yukiko I. Nakano, Toshihiro Murayama, Masashi Okam...
JOT
2008
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Adapting the User Interface of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for Novice Users
The usability of a user interface is often neglected in the design and development of software applications. An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is prone to poor usability...
Ying Zou, Michael Lerner, Alex Leung, Scott Moriss...
ICCD
2000
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Source-Level Transformations for Improved Formal Verification
A major obstacle to widespread acceptance of formal verification is the difficulty in using the tools effectively. Although learning the basic syntax and operation of a formal ver...
Brian D. Winters, Alan J. Hu
CIVR
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Mining Novice User Activity with TRECVID Interactive Retrieval Tasks
Abstract. This paper investigates the applicability of Informedia shot-based interface features for video retrieval in the hands of novice users, noted in past work as being too re...
Michael G. Christel, Ronald M. Conescu
SG
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Art 101: Learning to Draw through Sketch Recognition
iCanDraw is a drawing tool that can assist novice users to draw. The goal behind the system is to enable the users to perceive objects beyond what they know and improve their spati...
Tracy Hammond, Manoj Prasad, Daniel Dixon