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Personal digital assistant

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A Dialogue-based Grounding mechanism and new Service Description Features for adapting Semantic (Web) Services to Personal Assistants

We delegate increasingly sophisticated and complex tasks to computer programs, and we require them to act autonomously on our behalf in distributed environments (eg the web, the grid). Personal Assistants (PA) are computer programs that can be thought as a ...

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)2004

Controlling Virtual Humans Using PDAs

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo

The new breed of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) and mobile phones have enough computing power to display 3D graphics. These new mobile devices (handhelds) have some other interesting communication and interaction possibilities as well. In this paper we ...

2003

PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots

Aude Billard, Sylvain Calinon

To fulfill a need for natural, user-friendly means of interacting and reprogramming toy and humanoid robots, a growing trend of robotics research investigates the integration of methods for gesture recognition and natural speech processing. Unfortunately, ...

2003

Universal multimedia access from wired and wireless systems

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yousri Abdeljaoued

Personal computing and communication devices such as computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and mobile phones are moving to their next generation in which the end user will be able to access a multitude of information with a single device either lo ...

2001

Towards Mobile Ad-Hoc WANs: Terminodes

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Ljubica Blazevic, Levente Buttyan, Milan Vojnovic

Terminodes are personal devices that provide functionality of both the terminals and the nodes of the network. A network of terminodes is an autonomous, fully self-organized, wireless network, independent of any infrastructure. It must be able to scale up ...

2000

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