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In our daily lives we assist to an exponential growth of mobile and fixed devices that surround us, though many of them having limited resources, and not even providing an interface screen. In this paper, we present remoteU¡, a middleware that allows the interaction of those devices with users, resorting to simple but expressive programming mechanisms, and providing efficient implementation and...

Interpretation of Annotated Commands

In this paper, we tackle Natural Language (NL) command interpretation for artificial agents. Our architecture relies on a logical modeling of the user’s command to enhance the semantic interpretation. This allows us to catch the relations between terms in the user sentence. We present our approach based on a surface syntactic analysis. We first define our surface analysis algorithm, based on th...

Drawing a mark can be an efficient command input technique when using a pen-based computer. However, marks are not intrinsically self-explanatory as are other interactive techniques such as buttons and menus. We present design principles for interaction mechanisms which make marks self explanatory for novices but still allow experts to use efficient command marks. The key notion is that use of ...

Designing and implementing multimodal applications that take advantage of several recognitionbased interaction techniques (e.g. speech and gesture recognition) is a difficult task. The goal of our research is to explore how simple modelling techniques and tools can be used to support the designers and developers of multimodal systems. In this paper, we discuss the use of finite state machines (...

of ours, there immediately springs up a mushroom crop of theorists, who would account, each after his own fashion, for the phenomenon. First come the supernaturalists, who assign the event to the wrath of some offended God or Gods, on account of sins, real or imagined. The " sins of outrulers" is the most favorite formula in India. Next come the transcendentalist s, who attribute the circumstan...

In the Lysistrata of Aristophanes, the women of all Greece, deprived of sexual pleasure because their husbands are fighting each other in the Peloponnesian War, determine to end the war. To secure their own sensuous good, they agree on a sex-strike against their husbands and the seizing of the Athenian acropolis. The seizing of the Acropolis, however, leads to a deepening of heir goals. Opposed...