Applications Virtually Augmenting Real Experiences for Behavioral Change

OpenACC - First Experiences with Real-World Applications

Today’s trend to use accelerators like GPGPUs in heterogeneous computer systems has entailed several low-level APIs for accelerator programming. However, programming these APIs is often tedious and therefore unproductive. To tackle this problem, recent approaches employ directive-based high-level programming for accelerators. In this work, we present our first experiences with OpenACC, an API c...

Simulation of a Neutron Detector for Real Time Imaging Applications

Monte Carlo Method is used to simulate a double layer gadolinium-amorphous silicon thermal neutron detector. The detector fabricated in pixel array configuration has various applications including neutron imaging. According to the simulation results, a detector consisting of a gadolinium (Gd) film with thickness of 2-4 ~m, sandwiched properly with two layers of sufficiently thick (-30 ?µm) hydr...

EMCE: A Multimodal Environment Augmenting Conferencing Experiences

Augmenting Museum Experiences with Mixed Reality

Current Mixed Reality experiences focus primarily on training, design and entertainment. This paper presents a very different application, scientific virtualization and its use in informal education. Specifically, we describe a case study that extends an existing museum dinosaur exhibit to include an encounter with ancient sea life. The real world assets and environment are augmented and, in so...

Augmenting User Models with Real World Experiences to Enhance Personalization and Adaptation

Social media are media for social interaction that allow creating and exchanging user-generated content. The massive social content can provide rich resources for deriving social profiles that can augment user models and improve adaptation in traditional applications. However, potentially valuable social contributions can be buried within highly noisy content that is irrelevant or spam. This pa...