Hearing aids are electronic, battery-operated sensing devices which aim at compensating various kinds of hearing impairments by means of appropriate signal processing. Most of today’s hearing aid systems consist of two appliances working independently of each other. However, collaboration using a wireless communication link would allow to improve the overall beamforming capability of the system...

Applications such as Google Docs, Office 365, and Dropbox show a growing trend towards incorporating multi-user collaboration functionality into web applications. These collaborative applications share a need to efficiently express shared state, typically through a shared log abstraction. Extensive research efforts on log abstractions by the database, programming languages, and distributed syst...

Klyrgyzstan is a rugged country, with the Tien Shan lmountain range covering approximately 95% of the whole territory. The average altitude in Kyrgyzstan is 2,750m above sea level. The highest point is Peak Pobeda at 7,439m and the lowest is 350m above sea level in the south-west of the republic. Kyrgyzstan is the second smallest of the Central Asian republics in both area and population and is...

A previous analysis of the data considered here used a simple concept of reference in which an utterance refers to an identifiable object in the world – a specific rocket description in the simulation list. In this paper, the analysis is deepened to reveal the learning by the group of students of a more sophisticated reference that involves pairs of objects compared in a subtle way. Mastering p...

Air Medical Journal 29:1 The North East Air Alliance (NEAA), originally the New England Air Alliance, was formed in 1989 in collaboration between Hartford Hospital’s LIFE STAR, Boston Med-Flight, and the University of Massachusetts LifeFlight air-medical transport programs as a joint venture to facilitate information exchange. Members include Hartford Hospital LIFE STAR, Boston Med-Flight, UMAS...

This paper presents a computational model of how conversational participants collaborate in making referring expressions. The model is based on the planning paradigm. It employs plans for constructing and recognizing referring expressions and meta-plans for constructing and recognizing clarifications. This allows the model to account for the generation and understanding both of referring expres...

In this position paper we argue that electronic book and document readers (H UHDGHUV) open new avenues for computer supported collaborative work. This position draws on our experience building and e-reading with the XLibris “active reading machine,” a portable pen-based computer specialized for the task of reading, critical thinking, and analysis.