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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.

To excel in today’s fast-moving, global business environment, you have to interact and collaborate with co-workers, partners, and customers all over the world at a moment’s notice. You need to continuously innovate and transform your business model to maintain your edge—and you need to plan ahead to respond rapidly to unexpected issues that impact business continuity.

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.

Multimodal user interfaces – the human has several “channels” with which to operate on the machine (hands, speech, eye gaze, bodily movements,…) • Using the keyboard gives feedback to the user’s – eyes (the character shows up on screen) – hands (feel the key being pushed down) – ears (the keytapping can be heard

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 links lead to resources and research groups in the WWW providing information about HCI research.

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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Small GPS devices help prosecutors win convictions
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Yahoo! Finance: AMD News
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Is There Anything the iPhone Can’t Do?
What the game lacks in depth it more than makes up for in nostalgia. Plus, those who appreciate irony can enjoy turning one of the most technologically advanced handheld devices into one of the most primitive gadgets from days gone by.
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ESA Cheers For Pirates' Prison Sentences [Entertainment Software ...
The Entertainment Software Association is the US association dedicated to serving the business and public affairs needs of companies publishing interactive games for video game consoles, handheld devices, personal computers, ...
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Apple Multi-Touch Patent suggests next-gen MacBook Tablet interface
MacBook Touch mockups from a fan; Apple patent shifts controls to rear of iPod; Apple patents show touch-interfaces continue to top agenda; Apple has an interesting job opening posted; MacBook October refresh might include Multi-Touch ...
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Mobile Websites - Explore the best option for your business
Websites are changed to be appropriately be viewed on different handheld devices. Emulation and testing - test your site on a variety of emulators and also test it on real handsets. Mobile specific analytics - Normal analytics programs ...
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V3 of Acrobat Reader for Palm OS
"Adobe® Reader® for Palm OS® software lets you view Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on handheld devices running Palm OS. Now take your eBooks, documents, and Adobe Photoshop® Album slide shows from your desktop with you on ...
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Multiple Use Computing Devices
Today's plant-floor operators are being weighed down by handheld devices that collect and read info... (08-27-2008)
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Senior Wireless Developer for Handheld Devices - Vancouver, BC (CB ...
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New Toys
Granted, I hate touch interfaces, but they aren't going away....might as well get used to it (and a pretty decently laid out one at that); Integrated WiFi. No longer do I have to decide between extra storage and networking functionality ... (08-26-2008)
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Why Apple Shouldn’t (and Probably Won’t) Release a Touch-Screen Mac
But I think that the failure of Tablet PCs shows that consumer interest in touch interfaces on standard computers is lukewarm, to put it mildly. And while Apple often enters nascent markets before anyone’s had a big hit, ... (08-26-2008)
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Windows Mobile – The Real deal in Pakistan’s Handset market!
The local smart phone segment is now evolving to the next level .ie innovative data services, business automation through handheld devices, business process enhancement (for corporate & SME’s) & advance level of connectivity. ... (08-25-2008)
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singapore science centre
... moved on from the 80s. although many of its exhibits seem relevant (nanotechnology, references to minority report + gesture interfaces, internet), the way in which they're implemented may as well have been out of glue and cardboard. (08-24-2008)
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Singularity Hub Reviews Intel CTO Justin Rattner’s IDF Keynote on ...
Tan Le From Emotiv Presents Noninvasive Neural Interfaces Our Take: Cool, but invasive neural interfaces are the real future Emotiv demonstrates one of the most practical and well developed noninvasive neural interface applications we ... (08-24-2008)
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Transportation Project Planner Job (AE-ABD:Abu Dhabi, United Arab ...
The position requires technical background and professional working experience with transit technologies and multimodal implementation. Independent decision-making is required that has been achieved through a minimum of ten (10) years ... (08-23-2008)
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Free mpeg4 player. Movie2x free dvd ripper v movie2x free dvd ...
Windows media player flv at free downloads center played in windows media player or other standard multimedia playerwith integrated advanced mpeg4. Movie2x free dvd ripper v movie2x free dvd ripper is mpeg4, divx, xvid, mov, avi, asf, ... (08-23-2008)
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Openstream Launch Mobile Trading Tools
Openstream Inc. ( http://www.openstream.com/ ), a provider of multimodal information management solutions for the enterprises and Omnesys Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd., a leading Brokerage and Trading Platform provider in India, ... (08-23-2008)
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Handheld Devices in the Classroom
Welcome, Freshmen. Have an iPod. By JONATHAN D. GLATER. Published: August 20, 2008. Taking a step that professors may view as a bit counterproductive, some universities are doling out Apple iPhones and Internet-capable iPods to students ... (08-21-2008)
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50%/100% Researcher Position: Learning Sciences
specializing in discourse/interactional linguistics and/or science education/learning and/or multi-media/IT and learning with a strong focus on the multilingual/multi-modal dimensions of knowledge construction (Project: CODI-SCILE-A) ... (08-21-2008)
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Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery
In addition, find and filter option gives advanced controls for your ease. The graphical user interface resembles the original iPod, which facilitate easiest and fastest recovery without any specialized skills and a glance of it gives ... (08-20-2008)
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Intelligent transportation system
In areas like Santiago, Chile, a high population density is supported by a multimodal system of walking, bicycle transportation, motorcycles, buses, and trains. A small portion of the population can afford automobiles, ... (08-19-2008)
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Magic pen walkthrough. By simalcrum walkthrough - may could do as ...
Brian knep, industrial light and magic learning and using the cognitive walkthrough method: pen interfaces implicit structures for pen-based systems. You along through the main quest with a detailed walkthrough octo s eyes to free this ... (08-17-2008)
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Innovation in User Interaction
One of the nice things about multi-touch interfaces is that they allow you to drag things off of the screen to access hidden functionality. Aza Raskin uses this to great effect in the FireFox Mobile concept video to hide browser ... (08-17-2008)
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a more reasonable neural interface
External neural interfaces are convenient, but aren’t very realistic for totally immersive VR-style neural interfaces. Undergoing surgery for a full-VR neural interface would probably be rare in a realistic setting, given the level of ... (08-17-2008)
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SavaJe Accelerates Mobile Java Application Development With The ...
V-ENABLE is the leading provider of multimodal search solutions optimized for accessing and presenting content and information over mobile networks. V-ENABLEs patented mobile speech search allows mobile users to simply input/search ... (08-12-2008)
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Affective design
Affective computing aims to deliver affective interfaces (Reynolds, Picard, 2001) capable of eliciting certain emotional experiences from users (McCarthy, Wright, 2004). Similarly, affective design attempts to define the subjective ... (08-11-2008)
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Microsoft Design Student of the Month
Since my background is in both industrial and interaction design, I have a strong expertise in tactile and tangible interfaces, haptics, embedded computing, tabletop computing, and gesture interfaces. At the same time however, ... (08-07-2008)
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updates on multi-touch interfaces
At the Microsoft Faculty Summit I saw a few things:. Sphere by Hrvoje Benko... I talked to him, and he may be interested to get a game from us. http://research.microsoft.com/users/benko/projects/sphere/ ... (07-29-2008)
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The Basics of UI Test Automation
It can cater to attentive user interfaces, batch interfaces, conversational interface agents, crossing-based interface, gesture interfaces, intelligent user interfaces, live user interface, multi-screen interfaces, non-command user ... (07-28-2008)
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Processing 0143 and a status report
As in, there are no strings attached to the funding, and Processing is not being re-tooled for gesture interfaces. We owe them our enormous gratitude. The big things for 1.0 include the Tools menu, better compile/run setup (what you see ... (07-28-2008)
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On Multi-touch Interfaces Pt. II
In design school I worked on a project to create the ultimate hand-held. I had seen designs with a single touch-screen absent a physical QWERTY keypad. At the time, I thought that the fastest way to type would always be with a keypad, ... (07-25-2008)
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On Multi-touch Interfaces
I was blown away by Jeff Han's TED presentation of his multi-touch interface I'd seen as a podcast in 2006. I thought to myself: "this really is a game-changer." I tried to imagine the possibilities despite the obvious kinks in the ... (07-24-2008)
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Conversation: They're All Talking (About It)
Ellison essentially covers the basic mechanics of different dialogue systems in games, including branching and non-branching dialogue, hub-and-spokes dialogue, and even parser-driven dialogue. He does a fair enough job of summarizing ... (07-21-2008)
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Could Touch Interfaces Lead to New Business?
Tags: Ideal page in the universe, iPhone Touch Interface, LG Touch Interface, touch interface, touch UI, we hate touch interfaces, we love keyboards. Share This. Share This. Share This. (07-16-2008)
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Could Touch Interfaces Lead to New Business?
... you can pry our keyboards when you take them from our cold, dead hands. Tags: Best page in the universe, iPhone Touch Interface, LG Touch Interface, touch interface, touch UI, we hate touch interfaces, we love keyboards. Share This. (07-16-2008)
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[SIG-IRList] HCI 2009, 20-23 January 2009, Allahabad, India
•Affective Interfaces/ Systems/ Application/ Interaction •Object/Target Detection/Tracking/ Recognition/Classification •Threat/Event recognition •Combining visible & non-visible signals •Multimodal Facial Recognition ... (07-14-2008)
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Defining Dialogue Systems
Defining Dialogue Systems: In games using non-branching dialogue, the simplest form of interaction, the player walks up to an NPC and initiates conversation. The NPC delivers his or her lines and the conversation ends. ... (07-10-2008)
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Gamasutra post on Defining Dialogue Systems
If anyone here is interested in raising the level of immersion in your virtual worlds or online games, especially those that leverage bots and NPCs, then take a look at this post on gamasutra.com. I found it this morning as I was doing ... (07-09-2008)
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Defining Dialogue Systems
Defining Dialogue Systems: Brent Ellison looks at the universe and history of player-NPC dialogue interaction in games, analyzing titles from Mass Effect through Facade to The Sims and beyond. (07-08-2008)
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Defining Dialogue Systems
In an in-depth Gamasutra analysis piece, Ellison looks at the universe and history of player-NPC dialogue interaction in games, analyzing titles from Mass Effect through Facade to The Sims and beyond. kick it on GameDevKicks.com. (07-08-2008)
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Gamasutra - Defining Dialogue Systems
Gamasutra - Defining Dialogue Systems. (07-08-2008)
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Neural Interfaces Conference webcast
Brain Waves pointed out that the lectures from last month's Neural Interfaces Conference in Ohio are on the site now (in streaming form). Neat-o. For those of you that missed it, and I assume that's... [[ This is a content summary only. ... (07-07-2008)
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IT as Dialogue Systems
Nigel Green has augmented VPEC-T with an assertion that information is perhaps more about Context and Dialogue than the data/info/knowledge/wisdom "stack." As I've said in previous posts, when considering Information, I think it is more ... (07-05-2008)
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Neural Interfaces Conference ...
Neural Interfaces Conference. 'cause I'm a Kurzweil-Fanboy>? herrgraff Posted by herrgraff from Delicious [05/07/2008 02:36:32] (07-04-2008)
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O2 XDA Stealth Fresh Sale/Swap Cash
Display Monochrome or color Color No. of colors 16 bit Touch screen Yes Backlit display Yes Data Input Method Keyboard, Pen Interfaces Infrared Yes Audio Built-in speakers? Yes Built-in mic? Yes Desktop Connectivity Desktop software ... (07-04-2008)
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Design For Mobile: agenda and workshops announced!
For example, ask Dan Saffer of Adaptive Path about the future of gesture interfaces on the session page for his talk, Tap is the New Click. Then ask Kashif Imam of ECCO Design similar questions for his session, The Next Frontier of UI ... (07-02-2008)
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References
... speech and gesture engine around the Diamond Touch multi-user surface, and (b) wrapping existing, widely-used off-the-shelf single-user interactive spatial applications with a multimodal interface created from this engine. ... (06-27-2008)
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Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems
Topics addressed include talking heads, conversational agents, tutoring systems, multimodal communication, machine learning, architectures for multimodal dialogue systems, systems evaluation, and data annotation. ... (06-19-2008)
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3 years PhD studentship : Enactive learning of juggling
Abstract of the PhD project: The main objective is to quantify to what extend a multimodal interface which integrates force feedback (haptics), vision and auditory virtual reality improves learning and transfer of motor skills. ... (06-18-2008)
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Update from the Neural Interfaces Conference
I am spending the first half of this week in Cleveland, Ohio at the 2008 Neural Interfaces conference. The first day was spent mostly discussing neural stimulation as an interface paradigm. Judging from the presentations, ... (06-17-2008)
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Context Aware Dialogue Systems
Well, I guess I've decided a new idea has firmed-up enough in my mind to give it an airing – the working name of this concept is Context Aware Dialogue Systems (CADS). The idea is to provide an antidote to Six Sigma Dogma and ... (06-17-2008)
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Neural Interfaces Conference - Cleveland
This new conference will build from the Neural Interfaces Workshop, an annual meeting supported by the NIH from 2004 through 2006 as well as the preceding Neural Prostheses Workshop which ran for 37 years in Bethesda, MD. ... (06-16-2008)
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Perception in Multimodal Dialogue Systems
4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies for Speech-Based Systems, PIT 2008, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 16-18, 2008, Proceedings series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ... (06-11-2008)
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CAVE - Miele spart Kosten bei der Produktentwicklung durch ...
called “geometric concept designs� via the multimodal user interface of a. virtual reality (VR) based system motivates the current research. In the. VR system, geometric designs can be more effectively input into the ... (06-11-2008)
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Research result: Artificial Character Interface vs Users' emotion ...
http://www.waset.org/ijci/v1/v1-4-35.pdf; Digital Characters as Affective Interfaces http://www.emotion-in-hci.net/workshopHCI2005/Graf_DigitalCharactersAsAffectiveInterfaces.pdf; Synthetic Character Fidelity through Non-Verbal ... (06-08-2008)
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38th Neural Interfaces Conference
Date: Jun 16, 2008 Time: 7:30 am ET - 3:30 pm ET Where: Intercontinental Hotel and Conference Center 9801 Carnegie Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106. (06-08-2008)
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Premier conference on neurotechnology and deep brain stimulation ...
These are two of the several topics that will be presented at the Neural Interfaces Conference, June 16-18, hosted by Case Western Reserve University. The conference will be held at the InterContinental Hotel and Bank of America ... (06-06-2008)
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Neural Interfaces Conference
Forum: Medical News Today Posted By: News Post Time: 06-06-2008 at 04:30 AM. (06-06-2008)
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Neural Interfaces Conference
We are pleased to announce that the 38th Neural Interfaces Conference will be held at the InterContinental Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio from June 16-18, 2008The Neural Interfaces research community consists of investigators, supported by ... (06-06-2008)
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Multitouch and gesture interfaces
Apple’s iPhone, Nintendo’s Wii, and Microsoft’s Surface and Windows 7 all confirm that multitouch and gesture interfaces are likely to dominate input hardware soon. They’re often less expensive to engineer and manufacture than ... (05-29-2008)
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New interfaces climb the charts
... developers before we can be sure they’re optimized for inclusion. Ars Technica: Windows 7 demo: all multitouch and no meat. For a more thorough discussion of this topic:. Inclusive Technologies: Multitouch and gesture interfaces. (05-29-2008)
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Are Touch Interfaces All That Big a Deal?
Then tell us what you think of everything heading towards touch interfaces after the jump. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you're viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser. ... (05-28-2008)
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General Software : Software for Diagramming?
Those guys really know what they are doing and have been doing innovative pen and gesture interfaces for a long time now. I don't know if they have any plans to release it - I'll mention it to them that there is some interest. (05-27-2008)
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Editorial: The Future of the Interface
I could list gesture interfaces, hologram interfaces, and all kinds of crazy things. Of course, if an engineer is inventing something I haven't thought of it makes it very difficult to mention it here. Interfaces will interact with the ... (05-21-2008)
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YMYI - Digital Art Installation
... the whole implicit input towards the system, allowing us to say that the project deals with the emergent areas related to perceptual interfaces, shaped by the use of computer vision techniques and motion tracking technologies. ... (05-04-2008)
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[SIG-IRList] CFP HCI 2009, Allahabad, India, 20-23 January, 2009
*Affective Interfaces/ Systems/ Application/ Interaction *Object/Target Detection/Tracking/ Recognition/Classification *Threat/Event recognition *Combining visible & non-visible signals *Multimodal Facial Recognition ... (05-02-2008)
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IA Summit: Inspiration From the Edge
Technologies such as touch screens, gesture interfaces, lightweight desktop applications, etc. are enabling much more. Further, Stephen claims that natural behaviours are better than learned behaviours, unless the learned behaviour ... (04-16-2008)
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O2 XDA IIs
... VGA camera (supports still image and video capture) - Quadband Display Monochrome or color Color: No. of colors: 16 bit Touch screen: Yes Backlit display: Yes Data Input Method: Pen Interfaces Infrared: Yes Audio Built-in speakers? ... (04-15-2008)
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Thesis - developing emotional channel between people through ...
to three questions will follow as a result. Can mass customization provide "happiness" to consumers? Are chosen affective interfaces effective to deliver and trigger emotions? What is the role of communities for mass customization? ... (04-10-2008)
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Seasonal affective disorder - Illuminating a seasonal disorder ...
WebitPR (press release), UK - Dec 19, 2007For this reason, the affective interfaces developed by CALLAS cover a fundamental role in the new media experiences like: Digital Theatre, Interactive TV, ...Source: news.google.comCounselors ... (01-15-2008)
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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
Abstract: Pen and touch interfaces for personal and shared devices are becoming increasingly relevant today, in the context of mobility and ease of use. A key capability enabled by pen-interfaces is that of messaging using handwritten, ... (12-21-2007)
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Developing Affective Interface Technology for New Media and ...
... Living Adaptive Systems, a project co-financed by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme, proposes the development of innovative technology –multi modal affective interfaces- within New Media and Digital... (12-19-2007)
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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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Magic Lantern Starship Host
The magic Lantern pen interfaces via USB cable to the magic Lantern Console. As you write, your own handwritten notes and drawings are transformed into cyberspace and onto your picture conference tab. More! ... (11-03-2007)
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Using a Convertible Notebook to Streamline Construction Approval ...
The lesson from my experience is simple: convertible computers incorporating pen interfaces can and do facilitate communications. They turn what use to be one-way, one person at a time, communications into multipath broad communications ... (07-30-2007)
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More on the Livescibe Digital Pen
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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Multi-Touch Has Arrived
But these tablet-pen interfaces will soon vanish along with the mouse to be replaced by even more intuitive systems like multi-touch or the Minority Report hand-in-glove style system. Multi-touch was introduced about a year ago by ... (05-05-2007)
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HCI Extended - Yoseph Samuel Sultan - Affective Interaction
Höök, K (2004) User-Centred Design and Evaluation of Affective Interfaces, In: Zs. Ruttkay, C. Pelachaud (Eds.), From Brows till Trust: Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents, Kluwer, 2004. http://www.sics.se/~kia/papers/hook1.pdf ... (03-30-2007)
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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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Meeting with Prof. Matthew Turk
His research interests include computer vision and imaging, perceptual interfaces, multimodal interaction, human-computer interaction, and gesture recognition. Prof. Turk is also the co-director of UCSB FourEyes Lab, the research focus ... (12-07-2006)
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Introduction | revision 2
Automatic recognition of facial expressions may act as a component of natural human-machine interfaces (some variants of which are called perceptual interfaces or conversational interfaces). Such interfaces would enable the automated ... (10-28-2006)
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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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going away soon...
but i need to study so hard cos i only have 1 year to go and i have to complete all this hard stuff about artificial intelligence, perceptual interfaces and at least i have to show that conceptually at least my system is working... i ... (08-01-2006)
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The future of human-computer interaction [ACM Queue]
... 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 (eg speech, vision). ... (07-14-2006)
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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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D-Lib November 2005 Calls for Presentations
... perceptual interfaces, with a growing interest for mobile devices such as smartphones, palmtops and PDAs, in the framework of traditional and emerging environments, such as ubiquitous and pervasive computer applications." ... (11-17-2005)
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the future of podcasting (and my presentation today)
first, Michitaka-san's work on real world avatars, Ehnes's vision of augmented realities with ubiquitous and intelligent projection systems, Hideaki-san's and Koichi-san's work on tangible and perceptual interfaces, and Berger's ... (07-26-2005)
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Something I thought that was cool. ---------------...
Pen interfaces have sex appeal but are not very popular in the global market. Nokia just phased out their pen-based Series 90 phones, although they plan to bring the pen back someday. Palms are found almost exclusively in the US, ... (12-31-2004)
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Five Things Steve Jobs Must Do Before He Dies - Forbes
Five Things Steve Jobs Must Do Before He DiesForbes, NY - 4 hours agoJobs' experiments with touch interfaces and fascination with ever larger, thinner displays hint that he may have some thoughts on how to take the way we ...
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Mixed Messages - Processor.com
Mixed MessagesProcessor.com, NE - 4 hours agoMonitor that outbound mail to see who is automatically forwarding mail off the network to handheld devices and Web mail accounts, which are not under the ...
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Robert Lifton, Chairman and CEO of Medis Technologies, to Be ... - MarketWatch
Robert Lifton, Chairman and CEO of Medis Technologies, to Be ...MarketWatch - 5 hours agoThe Medis 24/7 Fuel Cellprovides portable power to a variety of handheld devices such as cellphones, smartphones, MP3 players, GPS systems and handheld ...
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Small GPS devices help prosecutors win convictions - The Associated Press
The Associated PressSmall GPS devices help prosecutors win convictionsThe Associated Press - 5 hours agoBut the growing popularity of GPS systems — in cars, cell phones and other handheld devices — gives authorities another powerful tool to track suspects. ...
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SiRF Hosts 2nd Annual Location 2.0 Summit - PR Newswire (press release)
SiRF Hosts 2nd Annual Location 2.0 SummitPR Newswire (press release), NY - 8 hours agoSiRF markets and sells its products in four target platforms: wireless handheld devices such as mobile phones; automotive electronics systems, ...
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Omnicell to Present at Thomas Weisel Partners Healthcare Conference - MarketWatch
Omnicell to Present at Thomas Weisel Partners Healthcare ConferenceMarketWatch - 9 hours agoSolutions range from large central pharmacy "smart inventory" carousels to small handheld devices. From the point at which a medication arrives at the ...
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Universities Try Out New Digital Devices - MSNBC
Universities Try Out New Digital DevicesMSNBC - 10 hours ago... using a package of interactive tools from Dell (DELL) that includes PCs and handheld devices that link to digital projectors and electronic whiteboards. ...
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Nintendo Says No Dual Touch DS - NewsOXY
NewsOXYNintendo Says No Dual Touch DSNewsOXY, FL - Aug 27, 20083G handheld devices such as the Apple iPhone already have the technology. Video gamers that are on the move would find the touch features easily to play ... (08-27-2008)
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OTCPicks.com: OTCPicks.com Daily Market Movers Digest Midday ... - Trading Markets (press release)
OTCPicks.com: OTCPicks.com Daily Market Movers Digest Midday ...Trading Markets (press release), CA - Aug 27, 2008SiRF markets and sells its products in four target platforms: wireless handheld devices such as mobile phones; automotive electronics systems, ... (08-27-2008)
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Silicon Image Wows Crew at Summer Conference - Cable360.net
Silicon Image Wows Crew at Summer ConferenceCable360.net, NY - Aug 27, 2008Other participants included Telcordia, which demonstrated a multi-modal advanced advertising solution; SeaChange International, which featured Axiom On ... (08-27-2008)
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INTERVIEW: Gartner Sees Smartphone Sales Worth $200 Billion In 2012 - CNNMoney.com
INTERVIEW: Gartner Sees Smartphone Sales Worth $200 Billion In 2012CNNMoney.com - Aug 27, 2008Smartphones, handheld devices with PC-like capabilities such as Internet access and a host of bolt-on applications, are already big business, thanks in part ... (08-27-2008)
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�IDF 2008】 Rattner��基調講演�登壇� - EE Times Japan
ã€�IDF 2008】 Rattneræ°�ã�ŒåŸºèª¿è¬›æ¼”ã�«ç™»å£‡ã€�EE Times Japan, Japan - Aug 24, 2008「NEURAL INTERFACES（æ€�考èª�識）ã€�ã�§ã�¯ã€�専用ã�®ãƒ˜ãƒƒãƒ‰ã‚»ãƒƒãƒˆã�§è„³æ³¢ã‚’検出ã�—ã€�感情や動作ã�ªã�©ã‚’読ã�¿å�–るシステムã�ŒæŠ«éœ²ã�•ã‚Œã�Ÿã€‚ベンãƒ�ャーä¼�業ã�®ç±³Emotive Systems社ã�Œ ... (08-25-2008)
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Intel predicts singularity by 2048 - Techwatch
The AgeIntel predicts singularity by 2048Techwatch, UK - Aug 22, 2008... programmable matter, neural interfaces that allow applications to be controlled by the human mind, and advanced robots that seem almost human. ...IDF 2008: Intel’s rise of the machines IT PROall 240 news articles (08-22-2008)
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Omnesys(R) and Openstream(R) Announce Launch of Brokerage and ... - MarketWatch
Omnesys(R) and Openstream(R) Announce Launch of Brokerage and ...MarketWatch - Aug 22, 2008The multimodal solution would greatly enhance the usability of their joint offering to brokerage houses. Key features of the service include: access to NSE, ...Openstream, Omnesys Jointly Launch Multimodal Browser Based ... TMC Netall 13 news articles (08-22-2008)
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Intel Shows Off Future of Mobile Internet Devices - Wired News
Intel Shows Off Future of Mobile Internet DevicesWired News - Aug 20, 2008To ensure performance, the next generation of handheld devices will be powered by the energy-efficient Intel Atom Processor used in many subnotebooks. ... (08-20-2008)
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How Green Are We? - PC Magazine Middle & Near East
PC Magazine Middle & Near EastHow Green Are We?PC Magazine Middle & Near East, United Arab Emirates - Aug 18, 2008This is why we transport our waste back by boat and multimodal transportation back to our recycling facility in the Netherlands. ... (08-19-2008)
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HTC G1 / HTC Dream confirmed by T-Mobile as first Android phone - infoSync World
HTC G1 / HTC Dream confirmed by T-Mobile as first Android phoneinfoSync World, Norway - Aug 18, 2008Ironically, amongst all the touch interfaces and multimedia features, the heaviest battle right now is in messaging services. Corporate customers pay their ... (08-18-2008)
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Windows 7 Details Coming in October - Digitaltrends.com
Digitaltrends.comWindows 7 Details Coming in OctoberDigitaltrends.com, OR - Aug 15, 2008Windows 7 will also include support for multi-touch interfaces. Sinofsky promises more communication about Windows 7 going forward, noting in the blog, ... (08-15-2008)
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11 SpeechCycle Team Members Selected to Present at the Speech ... - MarketWatch
11 SpeechCycle Team Members Selected to Present at the Speech ...MarketWatch - Aug 14, 2008SpeechCycle presenters include: Name Session(s) Dr. Jonathan Bloom Driving the Conversation Forward VUI Design for Multimodal Applications Steve Chirokas ... (08-14-2008)
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Dynamic Touch interfaces - Techtree.com
Techtree.comDynamic Touch interfacesTechtree.com, India - Aug 14, 2008Some of you might have heard about the touch sight camera that helps the blind take pics. This is obviously a great step forward for the blind, ... (08-14-2008)
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Touchscreens are NOT the future of computers - Dallas Morning News
Touchscreens are NOT the future of computersDallas Morning News, TX - Aug 13, 2008That said, there are some limited applications where touchscreens, particularly multi-touch interfaces, could be useful, such as photo editing. ... (08-13-2008)
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Touch games poised to shake up industry - Ottawa Citizen
Touch games poised to shake up industryOttawa Citizen,  Canada - Aug 13, 2008"Since they're a lot more user-friendly, people are a lot less afraid of it," Graveline says of touch interfaces. "It's more interesting for them to try it ... (08-13-2008)
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Airtel to pilot XIUS-bcgi's mobile transaction platform - Telecom Paper (subscription)
Airtel to pilot XIUS-bcgi's mobile transaction platformTelecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - Aug 11, 2008XIUS-bcgi's eCogNito service extends the division's Intellectual Property in embedded RFID, touch interfaces and secure flash controllers developed in ... (08-12-2008)
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Bharti Airtel to Pilot XIUS-bcgi’s New End-to-End Mobile ... - Business Wire (press release)
Mobiletor.comBharti Airtel to Pilot XIUS-bcgi’s New End-to-End Mobile ...Business Wire (press release), CA - Aug 11, 2008XIUS-bcgi’s eCogNito solution extends the division’s Intellectual Property in embedded RFID, touch interfaces and secure flash controllers developed in ...Bharti Airtel to Pilot XIUS-bcgi's Mobile Transaction Platform TMCnetall 15 news articles (08-11-2008)
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Adapx Teams With SAIC to Support DARPA's Deep Green Program - CNNMoney.com
Adapx Teams With SAIC to Support DARPA's Deep Green ProgramCNNMoney.com - Aug 5, 2008"The goal of our work is to provide a multimodal interface that allows commanders and their staff to formulate and communicate their plans in the way they ... (08-05-2008)
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Review: Svelte Samsung Slider Has a Mighty Morphin' Touch Screen - Wired Blogs
Review: Svelte Samsung Slider Has a Mighty Morphin' Touch ScreenWired Blogs - Jul 31, 2008What it does have is a tiny touch OLED nav-pad that is one of the coolest, most efficient touch interfaces we’ve seen on a handset. ... (07-31-2008)
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50 Years of Hypnosis in Medicine and Clinical Health Psychology: a ... - RedOrbit
50 Years of Hypnosis in Medicine and Clinical Health Psychology: a ...RedOrbit, TX - Jul 31, 2008Ericksonian hypnosis in tinnitus therapy: Effects of a 28-day inpatient multimodal treatment concept measured by Tinnitus- Questionnaire and Health Survey ... (07-31-2008)
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Tarot Cards, Palm Reading and Apple Patents - MacNewsWorld
Tarot Cards, Palm Reading and Apple PatentsMacNewsWorld, CA - Jul 31, 2008Similarly, rumors are circulating that Apple will build new multi-touch interfaces into Mac computers. The raves that the iPhone's touch screen has drawn, ... (07-31-2008)
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TECNALIA designs system for handling industrial using only voice ... - Basque Research
TECNALIA designs system for handling industrial using only voice ...Basque Research, Spain - Jul 30, 2008The project, developed by the Infotech Unit at TECNALIA and known as InterAmi, is an advanced multimodal interface system, based on natural human ... (07-30-2008)
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