With real time traffic information, drivers on our highways can adapt and take action when encountering congestion. They can reschedule appointments or choose an alternate route. Existing systems that provide real time traffic information rely on infrastructure and human resources. These techniques are inaccurate, slow and require expensive infrastructure that provide limited coverage. We propo...

Emotion-based interactive music systems have great application potential, namely in entertainment and healthcare. This paper describes an installation that explores the interactive capabilities of EDME, an emotionbased music engine we are developing. At the core of the installation there is an affective computer system that selects appropriate music and images to express its emotional state. Th...

In this work we present SAPVis, an interactive network visualization tool which helps SAP developers track dependency graphs in their network in order to guide testing and find inefficiencies within their system. By using an non-static arc diagram layout coupled with user manipulation tools (filter, sort, zoom, pan, and resize by attribute) we show how our visualization can help developers view...

Health monitoring system is an active application in pervasive and ubiquitous computing. It is an application of mobile computing technology for enhancing communication among health care workers, physicians and patients with a view to provide better health care system. Recent elevation in sensors, wireless communication and low-power integrated circuits has empowered the design of pocket size, ...

Partitioning is often used to support better graph drawing; in this paper, we describe an interactive system in which graph drawing is used to support better partitioning. In our system the user is presented with a drawing of a current network partitioning, and is responsible for choosing appropriate optimization procedures and for focusing their application on portions of the network. Our pilo...

In this paper an interactive facial animation system is described The system is built on top of the facial animation system developed by Keith Waters which uses a muscle based face model We built an interactive facial animation system on top of it to produce keyframe animations of a synthetic face model The user creates keyframes interactively by either giving prede ned universal expressions to...

We introduce a distributed virtual surgery system for knee surgery study and planning. In our virtual surgery system, a group of surgeons can study 3D patient-specific knee models and discuss knee problems in real time through interactive visualization and online chat. The 3D knee model includes visualizations of tibia, femur, and contact force at the knee joint, which are created according to ...

The most important features of the developed image database system include compressed domain indexing, searching by using scalable features, and progressive image transmission. User interaction is involved at both the search re nement stage and display of the query results. The indexing and searching algorithms are tightly coupled with the underlying image compression algorithm by means the ima...

This paper proposes a new system which supports origami creators who have no special knowledge about origami creation to create their unique works easily in 3-D virtual space. Moreover, 2-D diagrams or 3-D animation are automatically made for describing the folding processes so that people can re-build these works. Users can decide folding operations and create works by an interactive interface...

While work has been done on connectivity, mobility and general rendezvous systems for ubiquitous computing environments, research has been hampered by the lack of higher level application abstractions. To identify what these might be, we constructed a prototype ubiquitous computing environment which we call an Interactive Workspace, and observed how application writers attempted to use its faci...