The paper addresses the development and use of Grid middleware and the use of distributed resources for interactive visualisation of simulated data within a dedicated problemsolving environment. We developed an agent-oriented architecture, the Interactive Simulation System Conductor (ISS), for the design of interactive experiments. The Vascular Radiology Explorer is a case study for these exper...

Smart environments bring together multiple users, (interaction) resources and services. This creates complex and unpredictable interactive computing environments that are hard to understand. Users thus have difficulties to build up their mental model of such interactive systems. To address this issue users need possibilities to evaluate the state of these systems and to adapt them according to ...

A number of formal notations have been developed to assist the description or analysis of interactive systems. This paper reviews a subset of these notations from the perspective of a software engineer. It is therefore concerned with the extent to which these notations support the design and implementation of interactive systems. The notations considered on the one hand describe the capabilitie...

We present Sketch, a library and a distributed runtime for building interactive tools for exploring large datasets, distributed across multiple machines. We have built several sophisticated applications using this framework; in this paper we describe a billion-row spreadsheet, and a distributed-systems performance analyzer. Sketch applications allow interactive and responsive exploration of com...

This paper addresses the subject of interactive educational TV and explores the issues involved in combining the production traditions of TV with the interactive theories derived from AI in Education. Of particular concern are notions of narrative coherence and collaborative learning. We describe initial steps towards realising a system, based on matching a database of tagged media resources to...

Services mashup and content composition are becoming important in modern interactive systems. Such techniques allow people to better satisfy their contextual needs. This paper presents motivation, objective, challenges and current status of PhD research, which started a few months ago and will last for about three years. I will be working to identify models, technologies and interaction paradig...

The unprecedented rise of multilingual resources afforded by the exponential web growth demands the development of communication technologies in order to eliminate the barriers between languages. More comprehensive tools to overcome such barriers, such as machine translation and cross-lingual information retrieval applications, are nowadays in strong demands. In this paper, we present an overvi...

There is some evidence that structured training can benefit cochlear implant (CI) users’ appraisal of music as well as their music perception abilities. There are currently very limited music training resources available for CI users to explore. This demonstration will introduce delegates to the ‘Interactive Music Awareness Program’ (IMAP) for cochlear implant users, which was developed in resp...

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