Background Since 2005 lay representatives (‘Research Partners’ – RP) have been involved in the work of a clinical trials unit and academic research centre. Their roles can include attending trial management groups, reviewing documents and chairing and presenting at sub-committees. Where recruitment of RPs was once opportunistic, RPs are now more formally recruited in conjunction with a national...

One of the main challenges facing ubiquitous computing research and development is the difficulty of writing software for complex, heterogeneous distributed applications. In this paper, we evaluate automatic application partitioning as an approach to rapid prototyping of ubiquitous computing systems. Our approach allows developers to largely ignore distribution issues when developing their appl...

C. ARRIETA, S. URIBE, C. SING-LONG, J. RAMOS, A. VARGAS, P. IRARRAZAVAL, AND C. TEJOS DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE, SANTIAGO, CHILE, BIOMEDICAL IMAGING CENTER, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE, SANTIAGO, CHILE, DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE, SANTIAGO, CHILE, DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, PONTIF...

Rapid prototype models are directly integrated into nonengineering applications such as medicine. Medical models are used to plan complex procedures prior to surgery with potential to optimise patient treatment in the operating theatre. This paper presents results following a 12 month National Health Service Executive research project to assess the feasibility of using rapid prototype medical m...

Vikram Singh Master of technology 4 Sem. Roll. No. I 118 May 2013 Green Hills Engineering College Solan (Himachal Pradesh Technical University Hamirpur (H.P.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACTION This paper present an assessment of the “state of the art” in respect to rapid prototyping processes. Based on...

Over the last few years the idea of using video games for serious purposes such as education, training or health has gained widespread popularity. These games are, in contrast to their commercial counterparts, often meant to be played by single players. However, it has been shown that playing in groups trains social skills, supports collaborative learning and increases motivation. Multiplayer g...

The aim of the work described in this paper is to extend the EPFL dialogue platform with multimodal capabilities. Based on our experience with the EPFL Rapid Dialogue Prototyping Methodology (RDPM), we formulate precise design principles that provide the necessary frame to use the RDPM to rapidly create an efficient multimodal interface for a given application. We analyze the consequences of th...

We present an overview of the development environment for Regulus, an Open Source platform for construction of grammar-based speech-enabled systems, focussing on recent work whose goal has been to introduce uniformity between text and speech views of Regulus-based applications. We argue the advantages of being able to switch quickly between text and speech modalities in interactive and offline ...

We present a prototype interlingual communication system that is being used to collect a corpus of task based dialogues between speakers of different languages. This corpus will be used to assess human reactions to an automated speech-to-speech translation system. In this demonstration we show how the HCRC Map Task can be adapted to support data collection in this interlingual environment, and ...