Power transmission lines routes mapping is an important technique for locating power transmission line routes andtowers on mountain/hilltops to assist viewing of their impacts on the environment, operations and allocation of publicutilities. A study was therefore conducted to map the power transmission lines within Bukit Lanjan PLUS highway. Themain objective of this study is to ass...

Normally the primary purpose of an information display is to convey information. If it can be aesthetically interesting, that is an added bonus. Recent research experiments with reversing this imperative. An information display, which is first aesthetically pleasing and second is able to display information, is designed and implemented. The display presents an e-mail title in a visual form as a...

People with severe speech and motor impairment due to cerebral palsy are great difficult to move independently and also cannot control home electric devices. Computer has much to offer people with disability, but the standard human-machine interface (e.g. keyboard and mouse) is inaccessible to this population. In this chapter, we describe a speech recognition interface for the control of powere...

This paper looks at non-speech uses of the human voice in interactive objects. A collection of projects using non-verbal voice, as input and as output, is briefly reviewed. The Laughing Swing an interactive object using non-verbal voice as output, created by the author and associates is described in terms of motivations, sound design, sonic behavior implementation and user responses. The signif...

Human gaze has hidden potential for the interaction between the user and the computer. Eye-tracking techniques have been utilized in psychological research, for testing empirically human perceptual or cognitive processes. Likewise, eye-tracking is well fitted for the use of testing software usability, or for example the effectiveness of marketing materials, because those tests are typically set...

This paper develops a user interface to input by moving a terminal device. First, a concept of the portable viewer with magnifying glass-like operation already proposed and remaining problems are described. Next, a new method to detect the device movement using optical flow is proposed. Then, a prototype with an embedded 32-bit MPU is built to verify the proposed method. As a result, basic func...

The development of robust, accurate and efficient speech recognition systems is critical to the widespread adoption of a large number of commercial applications. These include automated customer service, broadcast news transcription and indexing, voice-activated automobile accessories, large-vocabulary voice-activated cellphone dialing, and automated directory assistance. This article provides ...

In voice-activated teleservices, two types of speech recognition systems are commonly used, (tri)phone-based and wholeword model recognizers. While the first type of systems exhibits a convenient implementation to recognize any new vocabulary word, the second achieves a higher performance level when the necessary and specific training data is available. In order to bridge the performance gap be...