The authors discuss the feasibility of End-User Development (EUD) for non-information workers in the context of neurorehabilitation. The authors present a three-week long field deployment of TagTrainer, a system that enables therapists to create, share, and use exercises for arm-hand training with a tangible interactive tabletop application. The experiences suggest that therapists are capable a...

No doubt, the performance of a Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system depends on a) how efficient the image visual content is represented and b) the degree of importance, which is assigned to each content-descriptor. In the first case, efficient visual representation is achieved, apart from the extraction of appropriate descriptors, through a proper organization of them [1]. The second cas...

The study deals with the issue of applying communicative club format for organizing leisure, educational, and cultural activities foreign students interested in Russian language. authors describe structural content model Almaz Russian-language Russian-Chinese communication created based on centers language, literature, culture at Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University. includes target, techno...

An interactive system for content-based retrieval in a pictorial database using color distribution features is discussed. Images are internally represented and indexed by a set of histograms reflecting homogeneous chromatic properties of image structure and also including color-induced geometric features. User query images are interactively composed through a graphic environment featuring color...