This paper describes a strategy for the conversation system to take part in human-to-human group conversation. One big characteristic of the group conversation system is that it can choose whether to observe or to take turn in the conversation. We implement the computational model combined with speech and gaze recognizers to keep the rules in turn taking, and define an interruption decision str...

From the start, I was never entirely sold on the idea of Chat Circles. I very much liked how the user's avatar was a circle on the visualization plane, and how it changed to match the users activity. However, immediately my concern turned to people abusing this fact. From the looks of the prototype pictures, players chat will be displayed inside their circle. What is to stop a user from spammin...

To achieve translation technology that is adequate for speech-to-speech translation (S2S), this paper introduces a new attempt named Corpus-Centered Computation, (abbreviated to C and pronounced c-cube). As opposed to conventional approaches adopted by machine translation systems for written language, C places corpora at the center of the technology. For example, translation knowledge is extrac...

Modern cordless telephones offer an ECO mode. When this is activated the base station, when idle, does not emit or emits only to a much lesser extent. In addition, the range of the base station (and thus the radiation strength) can be reduced in some models. During the conversation the emission of the handset (and sometimes the base station) is dynamically reduced, depending on the quality of t...

Office workers are today often faced with the dilemma of being focused on the present activity and yet available for incoming calls on their mobile phone. Current technology does not support this situation. Many intrusive calls seem to occur as consequence of the lack of information about the recipient's context. The focus of this thesis is the initiation of mobile communication via mobile phon...

one of the important discussions in the science of principles of jurisprudence is generalization and restriction. implication of generality from proper nouns and sentences is through premises of wisdom. there are different viewpoints about generic nouns in terms of conventionality of their reference to generality or their being based . on premises of wisdom, like proper nouns and sentences. pre...