Users nowadays need to manage large amounts of information, including documents, e-mails, contacts, and multimedia content. To facilitate the tasks of organisation, maintenance, and retrieval of personal information, a number of semantics-based methods have emerged; these methods employ (personal) ontologies as an underlying infrastructure for organising and querying the personal information sp...

CompILE is a sociotechnical “comprehensive interactive learning environment” system for personal knowledge management and visualization that represents the growing collective knowledge an individual gathers throughout his or her lifespan. A network of intelligent agents connects the user and his or her inhabited knowledge space to external information sources and a multitude of fellow users. Fo...

Why do computers need emotional intelligence? Science fiction often portrays emotional computers as dangerous and frightening, and as a serious threat to human life. One of the most famous examples is HAL, the supercomputer onboard the spaceship Discovery, in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL could express, recognize and respond to human emotion, and generally had strong emotional skills – t...

Human awareness of left space may be disrupted by cerebral lesions to the right hemisphere (hemispatial neglect). Current knowledge on the anatomical bases of this complex syndrome is based on the results of group studies that investigated primarily the best known aspect of the syndrome, which is visual neglect for near extrapersonal (or peripersonal) space. However, another component-neglect f...

In this paper, we present our project for realizing Virtualized Reality in a large-scale space such as a soccer stadium, concert hall, etc. . We have developed an extended system of CMU 3D room [3] in an efficient way so that 4D digitization of a large-scale space can practically realized. We place 16 progressive scan cameras around a large space (e.g. 70m 50m with 25m height). The videos from ...

Adaptation is a well known concept in the field of e-learning and is increasingly applied in modern learning systems. In order to gain more flexibility and to enhance existing e-learning platforms, we have developed a generic solution approach which enables to add adaptation functionality to existing Web-based e-learning systems. In this paper we present a distributed architecture on the basis ...