Children who are deprived of language play are likely to experience impaired linguistic development and this can in turn inhibit communicative and social skills (Donahue & Bryan 84). A software tool which will permit a child with language and/or speech impairments to explore language in an enjoyable way, by manipulating words and phrases into simple jokes, is being built to address this issue. ...

Background and significance: Virtual resources have become a popular way to enhance lecture and laboratory instruction; however, there is no experimental data assessing their effectiveness in optometry. This study evaluated the effects of different interactive strategies on student motivation and learning outcomes. Methods: Sixty-five optometry students were assigned to control and intervention...

In this position paper we outline the visions of the SWIRLS project, focusing on the aspects more closely related to ubiquitous computing. In order to support practitioners in coordinating care-giving in hospital wards without disrupting the practices they have established within their work, we present a solution that augments the natural interaction with pre-printed paper-based forms through c...

A recent trend in cognitive modeling is to couple cognitive architectures with computer models or simulations of dynamic environments to study interactive behavior and embedded cognition. Progress in this area is made difficult by the fact that cognitive architectures traditionally have been motivated by data from discrete experimental trials using static, noninteractive tasks. As a result, add...

OpenSoundEdit is a sound-editing system that provides a unified three-dimensional user interface to edit complex sounds composed from different representations. Sounds are mapped onto a single three-dimensional space representing time, amplitude and a view-dependent third dimension (e.g., frequency, channel number, etc.) Sounds can be edited by direct manipulation on the 3D display window or us...

We have built user environments that simplify and provide interactive access to data, models, and compute resources as well as integrate various distributed computational services to study earthquake waveforms utilizing 3D models and compute resources within the Geosciences Network (GEONgrid) and national computational grids, such as TeraGrid. These data and computing services are implemented u...

In this paper, we present an integrated Semantic Web interactive visualization environment (ISWIVE) to incorporate the topic features from Topic Maps into RDF. Both the detailed resource descriptions and the overall topic relationship can be clearly visualized in ISWIVE. Besides, an interactive local viewer and visual query interface facilitate browsing and searching over the Semantic Web resou...