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VideoKheti: Making Video Content Accessible to Low-Literate and Novice Users

Designing ICT systems for rural users in the developing world is difficult for a variety of reasons ranging from problems with infrastructure to financial constraints. But beyond these difficulties, there are serious challenges associated with the potentia ...

2013

TOUCH: In-Memory Spatial Join by Hierarchical Data-Oriented Partitioning

Anastasia Ailamaki, Thomas Heinis, Farhan Tauheed, Sadegh Heyrani Nobari

Efficient spatial joins are pivotal for many applications and particularly important for geographical information systems or for the simulation sciences where scientists work with spatial models. Past research has primarily focused on disk-based spatial jo ...

2013

EmbedIT – An Open Robotic Kit for Education

Robots have often been used as an educational tool in class to introduce kids to science and technology, disciplines that are affected by decreasing enrollments in universities. Consequently, many robotic kits are available off-the-shelf. Even though many ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2011

A Paper Interface for Code Exploration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Quentin Bonnard

We describe Paper Code Explorer, a paper based interface for code exploration. This augmented reality system is designed to offer active exploration tools for programmers confronted with the problem of getting familiar with a large codebase. We first prese ...

2010

Simulation of Squeeze Film Effect

Daniel Borer

Nowadays interfaces between user and machines are principally based on visual informations. They use primarily displays to transfer informations from the machine to the user. However humans have 5 senses and all of them are used to interact with the enviro ...

2010

An empirical evaluation of touch and tangible interfaces for tabletop displays

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Guillaume Zufferey, Aurélien Lucchi

Tabletop systems have become quite popular in recent years, during which there was considerable enthusiasm for the development of new interfaces. In this paper, we establish a comparison between touch and tangible interfaces. We set up an experiment involv ...

2010

An Empirical Evaluation of Touch and Tangible Interfaces for Tabletop Displays

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Guillaume Zufferey, Aurélien Lucchi

Tabletop systems have become quite popular in recent years, during which there was considerable enthusiasm for the development of new interfaces In this paper, we establish a comparison between touch and tangible interfaces We set up an experiment involvin ...

Acm Order Department, P O Box 64145, Baltimore, Md 21264 Usa2010

The Complementarity of Tangible and Paper Interfaces in Tabletop Environments for Collaborative Learning

Guillaume Zufferey

The current trend in Human-Computer Interaction aims at bridging the gap between the digital and the real world, exploring novel ways to engage users with computational devices. Computers take new forms that are better integrated into our environment and c ...

EPFL2010

Augmented White Cane with Multimodal Haptic Feedback

Hannes Bleuler, Dominique Chapuis, Simon Gallo, Roger Gassert, Laura Santos Carreras

This paper proposes an instrumented handle with multimodal augmented haptic feedback, which can be integrated into a conventional white cane to extend the haptic exploration range of visually impaired users. The information extracted from the environment t ...

IEEE2010

Multi-Finger Interactions with Papers on Augmented Tabletops

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan

Although many augmented tabletop systems have shown the potential and usability of finger-based interactions and paper-based interfaces, they have mainly dealt with each of them separately. In this paper, we introduce a novel method aimed to improve human ...

ACM Press2009

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