1 School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America, 2 Bioinformatics and Research Computing, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Department of Biological Sciences and School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 4 European Molecular ...

The paper deals with a spoken dialogue system component – response generation module. We are developing the spoken dialogue system called CIC (city information centre) providing a subset of services of a real city information centre. The main focus of this article is an experiment with usage of UCG (Unification Categorial Grammar) for response generation within a dialogue system speaking Czech....

The global digital divide threatens to deprive millions of people of the benefits that are attainable from having access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Most of these people live in rural parts of developing countries and they are unlikely ever to own their own computers. However, international aid agencies, governments and NGOs are becoming increasingly enthusiastic about...

This paper shows some of the vital steps in the design process of a graspable groupware system. Activity theory is the theoretical foundation for our research. Our design philosophy is based on the tradition of Augmented Reality (AR), which enriches natural communication with virtual features. Another important part of our design philosophy is the use of coinciding action and perception spaces....

There continue to be numerous breaches publicised pertaining to cyber security despite security practices being applied within industry for many years. This article is intended to be the first in a number of articles as research into cyber security assurance processes. This article is compiled based on current research related to cyber security assurance and the impact of the human element on i...

This paper presentsthe research project “Business Games as Cultural Techniques. Transforming Knowledge and Steering Actions at the Interface between Economy, Computer Sciences and Mediality”. 1 The main idea of the project is to reflect a development that is central in the history of the computer as well as games between 1950 and 1970, when both these cultural techniques were at the centre of g...

XIN PENG, School of Computer Science, Fudan University, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Data Science, Fudan University, China JINGXIAO GU, School of Computer Science, Fudan University, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Data Science, Fudan University, China TIAN HUAT TAN, Acronis, Singapore JUN SUN, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore YIJUN YU, Department of Computing and ...

During the last decade, Visuo-Haptic Augmented Reality (VHAR) systems have emerged that enable users to see and touch digital information that is embedded in the real world. They pose unique problems to developers, including the need for precise augmentations, accurate colocation of haptic devices, and efficient concurrent processing of multiple, realtime sensor inputs to achieve low latency. W...