This paper describes a novel method by which a spoken dialogue system can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy from its experience interacting with human users. The method...
CAPTCHAs protect online resources and services from automated access. From an attacker’s point of view, they are typically perceived as an annoyance that prevents the mass creat...
Manuel Egele, Leyla Bilge, Engin Kirda, Christophe...
Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
Virtual environments (VEs) allow users to experience and interact with a rich sensory environment, but most virtual worlds contain only sensory information similar to that which w...
Doug A. Bowman, Chris North, Jian Chen, Nicholas F...
In the Special Moment project we prototype and evaluate the design of interfaces for casual sound recording devices. These devices are envisioned to be used by a casual user to ca...
Ivan Poupyrev, Haruo Oba, Takuo Ikeda, Eriko Iwabu...