T here is a series of documentaries trackmg a group of British schoolchildren every seven years, that began when they were all at age seven with a film called Seven-up, and has now passed age 35. The films were made with an explicit assumption that social class and innate character, properties already apparent in a seven-year old, would be the defining characteristics of the adult's life. While...

ClipBoard is a novel system aimed at improving the accessibility of movies. Although subtitles and audio description are already provided for some TV programs and by a limited number of movie theaters, the availability of accessible content still depends on the choice of the film distributor. Through ClipBoard it is possible to synchronize in real-time, using a portable device such as a smartph...

This paper describes our approach for the “Who Rated What” task in KDD Cup 2007 competition. Given the Netflix data set that consists of more than 100 million ratings between 1998 and 2005, this task is to predict the probability that each user-movie pair was rated in 2006. Totally 100,000 user-movie pairs are drawn from the Netflix data set as the test set. In our approach, the Netflix data se...

BACKGROUND Alaska Native people have nearly twice the rate of colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality as the US White population. OBJECTIVE Building upon storytelling as a culturally respectful way to share information among Alaska Native people, a 25-minute telenovela-style movie, What's the Big Deal?, was developed to increase CRC screening awareness and knowledge, role-model CRC co...

In this paper, we describe our prototype system for movie editing on an augmented desk. We aim to enable a user to edit a movie in an intuitive operation using both hands. In the current prototype system, a user can make a movie by editing a sequence of pictures. We introduce some hand gestures in the current system and then propose other hand gestures which would be implemented in the future.

Leveraging historical data from the movie industry, this study built a predictive model for movie success, deviating from past studies by predicting profit (as opposed to revenue) at early stages of production (as opposed to just prior to release) to increase investor certainty. Our work derived several groups of novel features for each movie, based on the cast and collaboration network (who’),...