This paper introduces PigWorld, a tool for teaching Java to novice programmers, via the objects-early style. Three design guidelines forobject-early assignments are discussed: (1)...
This paper describes the OWL ontology explorer OntoXpl. It is available as a web server based on the tomcat architecture. Standard HTML browsers can be used to interact with OntoX...
In this paper we report on a study of implicit feedback models for unobtrusively tracking the information needs of searchers. Such models use relevance information gathered from se...
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, C. J. van Rijsberge...
We investigate the verbal and nonverbal means for grounding, and propose a design for embodied conversational agents that relies on both kinds of signals to establish common groun...
Yukiko I. Nakano, Gabe Reinstein, Tom Stocky, Just...
We describe an approach for building and testing software for ubiquitous computing. The approach provides application-level emulators of ubiquitous devices. Since each emulator is...