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PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
CANDC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Musicomputation: teaching computer science to teenage musicians
While algorithms have existed in math, music and other fields for over one thousand years, the use of algorithms to solve problems has become easier than ever before due to the a...
Adam L. Meyers, Marilyn C. Cole, Evan Korth, Sam P...
PETRA
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Identifying people in camera networks using wearable accelerometers
We propose a system to identify people in a sensor network. The system fuses motion information measured from wearable accelerometer nodes with motion traces of each person detect...
Thiago Teixeira, Deokwoo Jung, Gershon Dublon, And...
PETRA
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Towards automated large vocabulary gesture search
This paper describes work towards designing a computer vision system for helping users look up the meaning of a sign. Sign lookup is treated as a video database retrieval problem....
Alexandra Stefan, Haijing Wang, Vassilis Athitsos
PETRA
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
A mobile rehabilitation application for the remote monitoring of cardiac patients after a heart attack or a coronary bypass surg
This paper describes a personalised rehabilitation application using a smart phone (PDA) and wireless (bio) sensors. It instructs and motivates patients to follow their exercise p...
Valérie Gay, Peter Leijdekkers, Edward Bari...