Keeping students alert and responsive during lectures is a challenge even for experienced teachers in small group settings. Research has shown the importance of student participat...
In this paper, we discuss scripting tools that aim at facilitating the design of web-based interactions with animated characters capable of affective communication. Specifically, ...
Helmut Prendinger, Sylvain Descamps, Mitsuru Ishiz...
Aphasia is a cognitive disorder that impairs speech and language. From interviews with aphasic individuals, their caregivers, and speech-language pathologists, the need was identi...
Karyn Moffatt, Joanna McGrenere, Barbara Purves, M...
Prior knowledge is a critical resource for design, especially when designers are striving to generate new ideas for complex problems. Systems that improve access to relevant prior...
Moushumi Sharmin, Brian P. Bailey, Cole Coats, Kev...
A new system for interactive streaming of high-resolution 360? panoramic views over the Internet is presented. The scene is represented very efficiently using MPEG-4 BIFS and disp...