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Simply put, multimodal interfaces allow users to interact with computers using multiple different modes or channels of communication (e.g. speaking vs. clicking a button vs. writing). Different modes are best suited for different kinds of input or outputs. For example, it is easier for a user to select among millions of names in a directory by saying the name they are interested in rather than searching in a huge menu, but if the user only has to choose among say three or four options, it is easier to click a button in a graphical user interface than to use speech. The most effective multimodal interfaces enable more natural and effective interaction by allowing users to interact using whichever mode or combination of modes are most appropriate given the situation and their preferences and abilities.

The International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces for Skills Transfer, promoted by the European SKILLS Integrated Project, will be held in Bilbao (Spain) on 15-16 December, 2009. SKILLS09 is a major international conference and a clear opportunity for researchers in the field of multimodal interfaces to capture, store and transfer human skills. These interfaces, based on Enactive Interfaces and Systems, are a new generation of human-computer interfaces that are based on the concept of Enactive Knowledge, that is the knowledge acquired by doing. This learning process is also referred to as enacting or enaction in transferring skills.

The main aim of ICMI-MLMI 2009 is to further scientific research within the broad field of multimodal interaction, methods and systems. This joint conference will focus on major trends and challenges in this area, and work to identify a roadmap for future research and commercial success. ICMI-MLMI 2009 will feature a single-track main conference with keynote speakers, panel discussions, technical paper presentations, poster sessions, and demonstrations of state of the art multimodal systems and concepts. It will be followed by workshops.

DVE has been a leading innovator in the presentation field for many years. The exhibitor show awarded DVE the Buyers Choice Award for interactive two-way video utilizing the DVE Transparent Display. No matter if the event or conference is for a small group of ten or a large group of 500 people DVE offers display systems that create True Telepresence.

The Advanced User Interface group of the University of Michigan Digital Library project employs user centered approaches to push the state of the art in human computer interaction for information seeking. We are building visually rich, highly interactive, and multiperson interfaces to support the extended information gathering and organizing tasks, not just the traditional "one-shot query." We also seek to inform the general UMDL reseach community about future collections and services that its agent archictecture might provide to support such advanced interfaces.

The Advanced Interfaces Group focuses on building improved human-computer interfaces through its research in virtual environments and collaborative visualization systems.

mission: development and evaluation of innovative interface designs, and design techniques, with a special focus on accessibility and education

Multimodal system process two or more combined user input modes - such as speech, pen, touch, manual gesture, gaze, and head and body movements - in a coordinated manner with multimedia system output. This class of systems represents a new direction for computing, and a paradigm shift away from conventional WIMP interfaces.

This is an approach on an advanced system for Multimodal Interaction and Rendering (MIRS) tacking three angles of the problem: UI description, selection of best device and modality, and the UI transformation/adaptation to the selected device. While the UI description is handled by the newly developed XML-based Dialog and Interface Specification Language (DISL), the device- and modality selection employs a profile-based approach, whereas the advanced UI transformations are built upon rule-based Transcoding techniques.

Work on user modelling, system design, visual recognition and tracking, language understanding and spoken language translation is envisaged. Proof of concept is expected in application domains characterised by multiple user scenarios, including interfaces for home and nomadic environments, as well as interfaces for creativity and entertainment.

The Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI�05) will take place in Trento, Italy October 3-7, 2005, with the theme of multimodal input and output interfaces through mobile technologies and applications. The main aim of ICMI�05 is to further scientific research within the broad field of multimodal interaction & systems. The conference will focus on major trends and challenges in this area, including distilling a roadmap for future research and commercial success. We are very pleased to announce this Call for Papers that invites experts from both research and industry to actively participate in ICMI 2005.

NEW YORK, NY and PORTLAND, OR -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/01/2005 -- As more technologies make their way into children's schools, homes, and public places, the challenge is to design technologies that can keep up with the energy of children. Today's children are mobile, active beings who take for granted IM, iPods, and the Internet. "The educational community has embraced the use of computers as teaching tools, yet many institutions will simply install 'what everyone else is using' without questioning how technology can best be used to enhance education," says Dr. Allison Druin, (University of Maryland) panelist at CHI 2005.

Virtual Environments (VE) represent advanced human computer interaction systems, communicating over several channels of information. The basic terms we need to describe human VE interaction are “communication channel” and “multimodality”. The communication channel is as a pathway between the user and the simulation that mediates the interaction. Multimodality is the quality of a system, which allows more that one modality (channel) to be used during human computer interaction. In a multimodal system the user communicates with computers via several modalities such as voice, gesture, gaze, visual, auditory, haptic, etc. Multimodal interaction modeling studies the mechanisms of integrating modalities in order to enhance human computer interaction.

By using different techniques, such as eye tracking or registration of user presence and orientation, an AUI can infer knowledge about the user's priorities in a task. The computing device can then use the information for estimating the quantity (volume) and timing of the communication with the user. [11] In this essay two popular techniques for collecting information about the user are presented; registration of gaze and speech activity. Both techniques have advantages, especially from the perspective of a disabled person. However, experiments show that gaze as well as speech at the present is insufficient as an input channel. Even though we normally use the eyes when interacting with a computer, the eye tracking must be considered relatively unreliable in this context. The complexity and spontaneity of eye movement is one main issue; inadequate tracking tools another. When it comes to speech control, insufficient speech recognition tools and algorithms are fundamental weaknesses.

Today most machines are controlled through an imperative command based user interface. The machines wait for the user to issue a command. Machines using a noncommand based user interface are continuously monitoring the user trying to figure out what he wants and acts accordingly. This relieves the user from learning, remembering and issuing specific commands for each task. Noncommand based user interfaces are often predicted to be used by the next generation of computers. This essay will discuss how noncommand user interfaces can be used, and what different modalities can be combined, to obtain better user interfaces that are easier to use. Also, some aspects of usage areas, implementation and related problems will be discussed.

Multimodal interfaces are radically different from GUIs, in many respects. They involve parallel input and output, probabilistic reasoning on input, time-criticality, multiagent architectures. Moreover, they imply new research topics such as dialogue modeling and modality fusion. With only traditional GUIs, standard computer's capabilities are not in synch with users' input/output capabilities.

As a general rule, the development of innovative systems based on new technological advances cannot be con- sidered complete until they integrate a sufficiently friendly user interface with the average end user. The same con- sideration applies to intelligent transportation systems, and more precisely to intelligent vehicles, where an easy, effective, and immediate form of dialog with the vehicle equipment could make driving safer and more efficient. Many prototypes of intelligent vehicles integrating extremely advanced information and control subsystems have been built and proposed, each with its own interface. This installment of the ITS department provides an essential overview of the concepts and principles of, and approaches to, the design of interfaces for equipment in future intelligent vehicles.

Designers are increasingly faced with the challenge of targeting multimodal applications, those that span heterogeneous devices and use multimodal input, but do not have tools to support them. We studied the early stage work practices of professional multimodal interaction designers. We noted the variety of different artifacts produced, such as design sketches and paper prototypes. Additionally, we observed Wizard of Oz techniques that are sometimes used to simulate an interactive application from these sketches. These studies have led to our development of a technique for interface designers to consider as they embark on creating multimodal applications.

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This document describes a loosely coupled architecture for multimodal user interfaces, which allows for co-resident and distributed implementations, and focuses on the role of markup and scripting, and the use of well defined interfaces between its constituents.

Few systems combine both Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) and multimodal input. This research aims at modeling the behavior of adults and children during their multimodal interaction with ECAs. A Wizard-of-Oz setup was used and users were video-recorded while interacting with 2D ECAs in a game scenario with speech and pen as input modes. We found that frequent social cues and natural Human-Human syntax condition the verbal interaction of both groups with ECAs. Multimodality accounted for 21% of inputs: it was used for integrating conversational and social aspects (by speech) into task-oriented actions (by pen). We closely examined temporal and semantic integration of modalities: most of the time, speech and gesture overlapped and produced complementary or redundant messages; children also tended to produce concurrent multimodal inputs, as a way of doing several things at the same time. Design implications of our results for multimodal bidirectional ECAs and game systems are discussed.

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Despite the availability of multimodal devices, there are very few commercial multimodal applications available. One rea- son for this may be the lack of a framework to support devel- opment of multimodal applications in reasonable time and with limited resources. This paper describes a multimodal framework enabling rapid development of applications using a variety of modalities and methods for ambiguity resolu- tion, featuring a novel approach to multimodal fusion. An example application is studied that was created using the framework.

Successful user interface paradigms owe their consistency and resulting intuitive behavior to well-understood design patterns and metaphors that can be articulated independently of any single application. As an example, concepts such as drag and drop and WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointer) span all modern graphical user interfaces. These common metaphors enable users to apply what they learn in using a given application to perform a large variety of tasks, and are founded on a set of user interface design principles.

Designing and implementing applications that can handle multiple recognition-based interaction technologies such as speech and gesture inputs is a difficult task. IMBuilder and MEngine are the two components of a new toolkit for rapidly creating and testing multimodal interface designs.

This paper discusses the main issues for creating Interactive Virtual Environments with Virtual Humans emphasizing the following aspects: creation of Virtual Humans, gestures, interaction with objects, multimodal communication.

Time-delayed teleoperation in space or on planetary surfaces will be difficult, especially in cooperative tasks requiring multiple operators. This research task will study multiple sensory feedback modes and feedback interface tradeoffs for specific tasks. The study will also help develop architecture concepts for multi-agent team interfaces.

This section contains a list of groups of people working on or with HCI, either commercially or for research purposes. For lack of a better classification I have chosen to classify them by country, and within a country in alphabetical order.

Many technological innovations rely upon User Interface Design to elevate their technical complexity to a usable product. Technology alone may not win user acceptance and subsequent marketability. The User Experience, or how the user experiences the end product, is the key to acceptance. And that is where User Interface Design enters the design process. While product engineers focus on the technology, usability specialists focus on the user interface. For greatest efficiency and cost effectiveness, this working relationship should be maintained from the start of a project to its rollout.

The HCI Education page is a collection of resources for students and educators interested in Human-Computer Interaction.

The Centre for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Design is a research-dedicated unit within the Department of Computation at UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology).

Human-Computer Interaction spans many disciplines, from the social and behavioral sciences to information and computer technology. But of all the textbooks on HCI technology and applications, none has adequately addressed HCI’s multidisciplinary foundations—until now.

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KRPDS'09
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Windows 7 and your Multi-Touch Table
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Touch interface for good | Strange Systems
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AIR-L Archived : [Air-L] CFP: PRESENCE 2009 (DEADLINE EXTENDED)
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The Old Republic: STAR WARSâ„¢: The Old Republicâ„¢ E3 Highlights
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Multi-touch interfaces growing bigger and bigger.
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Don't touch your computer, just wave - TechMan - post-gazette.com
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In Depth: Best pre-Windows 7 touchscreen laptops
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Affective Dialogue Systems
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nui » Usability of touch interfaces: tap is the new click
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Magic as a Metaphor for NUI Design: Part 2, Casting Spells
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BlueSkySchool: Microsoft Visioning
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Dialogue systems « Clockmaker Creations
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Direct Neural Interfaces
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Imagine Our Mind Without Bounds
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Resources
Choice I, II and III; Conversations With NPC’s; Conversation Sophistication; Conversation - They’re All Talking (About It); Defining Dialogue Systems; Redefining Game Narrative: Ubisoft’s Patrick Redding On Far Cry 2; Far Crying and Far ... (05-26-2009)
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IHCI 2010 : Second IEEE International Conference on Intelligent ...
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CHI workshop 2005
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Touch Usability: Evaluating Gesture Usability
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Introduction
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Conferencia "Spoken Dialogue Systems for Intelligent Environments ...
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Scanning Pen - The C Pen Scanner
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Adrian Shaughnessy
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job, Germany - Japanese Dialogue group
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Perceptual User Interface (PUI)
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Twitter Telepathy from the neural-interfaces lab
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Question: What is it that makes museums go this road? | conference ...
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Senior Neural Interfaces Project Manager
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Eventseer.net - IADIS international conference interfaces and ...
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[tt] Neural Interfaces News - March 2009
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[Dbworld] IHCI 2009: deadline extended
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Notional Misconduct: My secret shame
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Fear vs. Opportunity : By Noelle Skodzinski : Book Business
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Nuance Announces Mobile Developers Program Program Establishes ...
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Tools of Change Twitter tidbits | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
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Amsterdam, Sep, 10-12: Konferenz Affective Computing and ...
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Andreas Holzinger :: Weblog :: CfP Affective Computing and ...
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Wed Feb 4 2009: Lecture by Juan Gilbert
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Why Gesture Interfaces Suck and Where in CES Was the Real Solution ...
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Nuance Finalizes Multi-Year Agreement with Nokia, Covering ...
Through a series of open programming interfaces, language models and development tools, those partners will have access to a vibrant and dynamic environment where mobile innovation around advanced multi-modal consumer interactions can ... (10-08-2008)
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GeekBrief.TV | Video Podcast » Blog Archive » GBTV #411 | GeekBrief.TV
If you think brain-based interfaces are the way to go, you absolutely MUST see the movie Forbidden Planet. It's old sci-fi, a little cheesy, but has an interesting plot (it's based on Shakespeare's The Tempest) and really good effects ... (08-21-2008)
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7 Things You Should Know About Multi-Touch Interfaces | EDUCAUSE
Multi-touch interfaces are input devices that recognize two or more simultaneous touches, allowing one or more users to interact with computer applications through various gestures created by fingers on a surface. ... (05-16-2008)
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04-14-2008 capture and reproduction of spatial audio
duraiswami is director of the perceptual interfaces and reality lab. and has broad research interests in computational audition, scientific computing, computer vision and machine learning and has over 130 publications in these areas. ... (04-08-2008)
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beamtenherrschaft: ICALT 2008 Call for Workshop Papers
Tore Hoel, Jan Pawlowski and Paul Hollins http://www.nordlet.org/icalt/; Machine-Mediated Multimodal Communication (M3C) Adel Elsayed; Technology-enhanced Science Education Sofoklis Sotiriou, Theo Arvanitis, Demetrios Sampson ..... Sometimes, You Get What You Need: Twitter Improves UI on Follower/Following Pages - Twitter has announced some changes to their follower and following pages interface design and functions. Now, when web users click to see lists of the pe. ... (02-22-2008)
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Research Frontiers: New Stuff Coming in Pen & Multi-Touch ...
Multi-Flick: An Evaluation of Flick-Based Scrolling Techniques for Pen Interfaces. Dzimity Aliakseyeu, Philips Research Eindhoven, Netherlands; Pourang Irani, University of Manitoba, Canada; Andres Lucero, Eindhoven University of ... (01-05-2008)
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developing affective interface technology for new media, digital ...
for this reason, the affective interfaces developed by callas cover a fundamental role in the new media experiences like: digital theatre, interactive tv, augmented reality art and interactive public performances. ... (12-25-2007)
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Peer-to-peer Ink Messaging across Heterogeneous Devices and Platforms
A key capability enabled by pen-interfaces is that of messaging using handwritten, as opposed to text messages. Not only are ink messages easier to enter than text messages (especially when a full keyboard is not present), ... (12-21-2007)
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User Experience Network » Blog Archive » AVI 2008 (Napoli, Italy)
AVI traditionally brings together experts in different areas of computer science who have a common interest in the conception, design and implementation of visual and, more generally, perceptual interfaces. Specific topics include: ... (12-06-2007)
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Canny Ppt Presentation
Special issue of ACM Queue magazine on context-aware and perceptual interfaces (summer 06?) JFC guest Ed. Workshop on Mobile Applications: Workshop on Mobile Applications Planning an event on campus later this semester. ... (10-30-2007)
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Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » The Graphical Keyboard User Interface
Seems like there's been some buzz about a move towards verbal/command-like interfaces and accompanied by about equal buzz for more direct-manipulation/gesture interfaces. I don't think we should move anywhere. Instead we should _expand_ ... (07-06-2007)
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Nuance to Acquire Tegic Communications
In addition to its core T9 product, it has expanded its portfolio to support multimodal interfaces, broad languages and additional databases. More than 50 software engineers continue to advance Tegic's solutions and bring to Nuance more ... (06-29-2007)
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More on the Livescribe Digital Pen | GottaBeMobile.com
The video shows how the pen interfaces with a computer. Note that we didn't mention this in our post yesterday. Yes, you'll need special paper to make this work. (There's that business model that makes the cost of the pen at $200 seem ... (05-31-2007)
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hci extended - stelios katsavras - affective interaction
affective interfaces are often divided into 3 categories [3]: 1) those that express emotions, 2) those that process emotions and use affect as part of the system’s intelligence and 3) those that attempt to understand emotions. ... (03-30-2007)
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about: digital whiteboards
pen interfaces are very powerful where suitable software exists to drive them. i’ve written elsewhere on the current state of pen computing, and manipulating a computer’s full interface with a stylus while using it as a digital ... (03-02-2007)
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UC New Media Research Directory » Turk, Matthew
His current research concerns computer vision, human-computer interaction, and perceptual interfaces. He is co-director of the UCSB Four Eyes Lab, which focuses on research in “imaging, interaction, and innovative interfaces. ... (01-26-2007)
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MyMac Magazine • Macintosh • iPod • iPhone • Apple TV
Pen computing types often talk about things like speech helping to augment pen interfaces. I agree. But then again, they augment other computer interfaces like mouse as well. Pen interfaces NEED to augment themselves more than other ... (12-14-2006)
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[hci, computing, km, innovation, history, marketing, yellow pages ...
perceptual interfaces imply cameras, microphones, and other sensors capturing the user's behavior. context-awareness implies high-level interpretation of that data, often in locations remote (in space and time) from where the data was ... (08-31-2006)
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Putting people first » The future of human-computer interaction ...
... cellphones, gadgets) and there is now rapid progress in the capabilities to make these devices context-aware, socially integrated, and personalised for the user, with more sophisticated perceptual interfaces (e.g speech, vision). ... (07-14-2006)
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The Future of Human-Computer Interaction - ACM Queue
That brings us to what is realistically the biggest challenge to contextual and perceptual interfaces: bridging the barriers between the disciplines working on these technologies—specifically, HCI, speech recognition, and computer ... (06-30-2006)
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Harry Potter and the Internet of Things
Multimodal interface research begins with the premise that as we bring computer interaction into a wider variety of environments-- off the desktop and office and out into the world-- two things happen. (Caveat: I'm not an interface ... (03-12-2006)
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chi workshop: what is the next generation of human-computer ...
perceptual interfaces; affective computing; context-aware interfaces; ambient interfaces; embodied interfaces; sensing interfaces; and speech and multi-modal interfaces. the workshop will be held on sunday, april 23rd, and papers need ... (12-01-2005)
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New 3-D sensors coming soon to computers, cameras, other gadgets - San Jose Mercury News
In the science fiction movie "Minority Report," set 50 years in the future, Tom Cruise's character interacts with a computer display by moving his hands in front of it. It won't take 50 years. Thanks to a promising new kind of image sensor, consumers ...
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Gotta Go? iPhone App Tells Moviegoers When to Pee - ABC News
Soda. Coffee. Water. Next time to you go to the movies, chug 'em all down. As long as you have a new iPhone app by your side, you'll know when you can escape to the bathroom without missing the best parts. Approved by Apple this week, RunPee, a new ...
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Securing mobile phones - Express Computer India
With mobile phones and other handheld devices becoming more complex and powerful, how difficult is it to secure them? As the consumers lead busy lifestyles, they rely on mobile devices such as smartphones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) to ...
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Neuromancer at 25: What it got right and wrong - Computerworld Australia
The tantalizing question about William Gibson's ideas in his novel Neuromancer involves their relationship with the course that the Web took and continues to take as Neuromancer's publication date--July 1, 1984, 25 years ago today--recedes farther ... (07-02-2009)
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Context-aware mobility: What is it and how will it change the business ... - Computerworld
Computerworld - By now, companies that have mobilized business applications for smartphones or other handheld devices know of the competitive advantages they can gain. The more detailed and relevant the information at hand, the greater the ... (07-02-2009)
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Is touch gestures in Windows 7 overrated? - CNET Asia
N-trig's dual-mode digitizer allows for both pen and touch input and is used in laptops from HP and Dell. (Credit: N-trig) There's a reason the first thing in Windows 7 that Microsoft chose to show publicly was its support for touch input. That built ... (07-02-2009)
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Marketing Manager - Mediabistro.com
Wireless Generation supports PreK-12 educators in improvingteaching and learning. The company invented mCLASS software, enablingteachers to use handheld devices for giving formative assessments inthe elementary grades. By using handhelds instead of ... (07-02-2009)
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Lowrance(R) Introduces New Endura Series of Outdoor GPS Handhelds ... - PR Inside
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- (Marketwire) -- 07/01/09 -- Editors Note: There is a photo and a video associated with this Press Release. Lowrance : ®, a brand by Navico : , a leading global manufacturer of leisure navigation electronics, has announced ... (07-01-2009)
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Lowrance - Market Wire
The new units bring a whole new navigation experience to the outdoor enthusiast, combining touch-screen functionality and quick access buttons for unprecedented ease of use, while also offering unrivalled flexibility and access to the widest possible ... (07-01-2009)
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LIFESTYLE: Permanent access - Tonawanda News
The Internet might not yet have killed the TV star, but it has sent the TV star to the hospital. Along the way, the automobile, radio, DVD player and every other piece of electronic equipment has been served. Evidence supports the notion that ... (06-30-2009)
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Dell MID to take on iPod Touch - PC Advisor
Dell is developing a handheld mobile device designed for internet access, following in the footsteps of rival Apple, according to a news report published in the Wall Street Journal . Dell engineers are developing prototype devices that resemble Apple ... (06-30-2009)
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WSJ: Dell developing iPod touch like handheld Internet device - MacWorld UK
Dell is developing a handheld mobile device designed for Internet access, following in the footsteps of rival Apple, according to a news report published in the Wall Street Journal on Monday. Dell engineers are developing prototype devices that ... (06-30-2009)
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GN Netcom Selects Synaptics Technology for Scrolling Interface on ... - TMCnet
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 29, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Synaptics Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNA), a leading developer of human interface solutions for mobile computing, communications, and entertainment devices, announced today that it has ... (06-29-2009)
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Reading the brain without poking it - PhysOrg
A new University of Utah study shows that arrays of tiny electrodes placed between the skull and the brain can accurately detect brain signals that command arm movements -- raising hope for longer-lived devices to help amputees control bionic arms ... (06-29-2009)
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VReveal Improves Your Low-Res Phone Video - PC World
Sure, you can capture video on a whole slew of handheld devices today, including your cell phone and tiny pocket digital camera. But have you seen the quality of those videos? Not only are they low-resolution, but they can be fuzzy, pixelated, dull ... (06-28-2009)
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Energizer Grows Energi To Go Line - Twice
St. Louis — Energizer today refreshed it line of Energi To Go charging products, adding the company’s first lithium-polymer rechargeable power packs for handheld devices. About a dozen new SKUs in the Energi To Go line will roll out in the next ... (06-23-2009)
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