this workshop aims to further the understanding of the challenges relating to the evaluation methods of usability and user experience that are specific to Reality-Based Interaction (RBI), and to identify effective pra...
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(纸本)9781605582474
this workshop aims to further the understanding of the challenges relating to the evaluation methods of usability and user experience that are specific to Reality-Based Interaction (RBI), and to identify effective practical responses to these challenges. the emergence of Post-WIMP interfaces has led to new ways of interacting with technologies. However, there are still no integrated ways of evaluating the usability and user experience of these interfaces. Developers and designers are left to discover their own metrics and evaluation methods. this approach presents problems, in that the metrics used in each case may provide results that are neither valid nor meaningful. For this reason, the time is ripe to integrate the methods that have been developed for evaluating interfaces that belong to the RBI umbrella. the measures and techniques will then be turned into a framework that enables designers of RBI interfaces to select appropriately existing methods and tools to evaluate systematically the usability and user experience of their prototypes and products. Reusing and adapting validated evaluation approaches can not only avoid reinventing the wheel and wasting time but also further improve and consolidate these approaches. Such a framework will also provide a basis for comparison between designs of RBI interfaces in different application contexts.
Poker games provide a useful testbed for modern Artificial Intelligence techniques. Unlike many classical game domains such as chess and checkers, poker includes elements of imperfect information, stochastic events, a...
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One of the central challenges of the User Experience discipline has always been how early in the development cycle it can exert any degree of influence. the challenge that our field is facing today more pronounced tha...
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(纸本)9781605582474
One of the central challenges of the User Experience discipline has always been how early in the development cycle it can exert any degree of influence. the challenge that our field is facing today more pronounced than ever is how to influence the decision makers that give directions guiding individual product development. And vice versa, this early decision making process can benefit from user experience approaches that help ground its direction in user research, and inform its decisions creatively through concepts and design thinking - see for example the concept of Business Design (as taught by the Rotman school of management, with similar approaches being the foundation of successes such as design consultancies like IDEO). the goal of the panel will be to draw together a community of experts and interested audience members in this topic and initiate a discourse on its key issues and opportunities.
In this panel, academic, non-profit, and industry professionals will discuss their global perspectives on mobile technologies for the world's children. Panelists will explore such issues concerning children's ...
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(纸本)9781605582474
In this panel, academic, non-profit, and industry professionals will discuss their global perspectives on mobile technologies for the world's children. Panelists will explore such issues concerning children's access to mobile devices, the decreasing age that children have access to these technologies, mobile innovations for learning, and challenges/opportunities in diverse countries. this interactive session will begin with each panelist giving a short summary of their work-to-date with children and various mobile applications. then the panelists will be asked questions by children from different countries via pre-recorded video. Audience members will be invited to offer their thoughts and comments as well as the panelists during the video question period. Audience members will also be able to ask further questions throughout the panel discussion.
there is an ever increasing need for database replication in dynamic web sites to improve availability. However, the main problem in replication is load balancing. this paper presents new load balance technique to inc...
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(纸本)9789604741274
there is an ever increasing need for database replication in dynamic web sites to improve availability. However, the main problem in replication is load balancing. this paper presents new load balance technique to increase the performance of database replication in dynamic web depending on the type and weight of database server queue. We attempt at evaluation various load distribution policies, taking in account their ability to achieve good load balancing by using LMB (Load Balance Metric), and also their impact on performance by measuring the throughput. the telecommunication benchmark is used to compare the different policies of load balancing. the telecommunication benchmark, a powerful benchmarking tool, is used to test up to fifty database replicas that will play a great role in the evaluation process which could be performed through measurements on a web site that follows the TPC-W specifications. the results show that the Queue weighting Load Balancing has maximum LMB and best throughput.
Today's Information Society demands complete access to available information, which is often heterogeneous and distributed. A key challenge in building the Semantic Web is integrating heterogeneous data sources. T...
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(纸本)9789898111814
Today's Information Society demands complete access to available information, which is often heterogeneous and distributed. A key challenge in building the Semantic Web is integrating heterogeneous data sources. this paper presents an incremental algorithm for maintaining integration in evolving ontologies. For example, an increased number of smaller, task oriented ontologies, are emerging across the Bioinformatics domain to represent domain knowledge;integrating these heterogeneous ontologies is crucial for applications utilizing multiple ontologies. Most ontologies share a core of common knowledge allowing them to communicate, but no single ontology contains complete domain knowledge. Recent papers examined integrating ontologies using bipartite graph matching techniques. However, they do not address the issue of incrementally maintaining the matching in evolving ontologics. In this paper we present an incremental algorithm, OntoMaintain, which incrementally calculates the perfect matching among evolving ontologies and simultaneously updates the labels of the concepts of ontologies. We show that our algorithm has a complexity of O(n(2)) compared to complexity O(n(3)) of traditional matching algorithms. Experimental results prove that our algorithm maintains the correctness of a 'brute force method' while significantly reducing the time needed to find a perfect matching in evolving ontologies.
In this paper we present a robust pedestrian detection algorithm in low resolution on-board monocular camera image sequences of cluttered scenes. At first a motion based object detection algorithm is developed to dete...
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the following topics are dealt with: multimedia; QoS; Internet services; Internet systems; Internet applications; emerging wireless technologies; optical networking; wireless communication; signal processing; pervasiv...
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the following topics are dealt with: multimedia; QoS; Internet services; Internet systems; Internet applications; emerging wireless technologies; optical networking; wireless communication; signal processing; pervasive computing; grid networking; network architecture; network protocols; wireless ad-hoc networks; wireless sensor networks; peer-to-peer networking; network algorithms; performance evaluation; network security; network privacy; multimedia computing; multimedia communications; telecommunication networks; cognitive networks; cyber-physical networks; nano molecular networks; and quantum information networks.
Extensive games can be used to model many scenarios in which multiple agents interact with an environment. there has been considerable recent research on finding strong strategies in very large, zero-sum extensive gam...
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We present a discrete kernel density matching energy for segmenting the left ventricle cavity in cardiac magnetic resonance sequences. the energy and its graph cut optimization based on an original first-order approxi...
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(纸本)9783642042706
We present a discrete kernel density matching energy for segmenting the left ventricle cavity in cardiac magnetic resonance sequences. the energy and its graph cut optimization based on an original first-order approximation of the Bhattacharyya measure have not been proposed previously, and yield competitive results in nearly real-time. the algorithm seeks a region within each frame by optimization of two priors, one geometric (distance-based) and the other photometric, each measuring a distribution similarity between the region and a model learned from the first frame. Based on global rather than pixelwise information, the proposed algorithm does not require complex training and optimization with respect to geometric trans formations. Unlike related active contour methods, it does not compute iterative updates of computationally expensive kernel densities. Furthermore, the proposed first-order analysis can be used for other intractable energies and, therefore, can lead to segmentation algorithms which share the flexibility of active contours and computational advantages of graph Cuts. Quantitative evaluations over 2280 images acquired from 20 Subjects demonstrated that the results correlate well with independent Manual segmentations by an expert.
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