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Tablet PCs - An Assistive Technology for Students With Reading Difficulties?
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the results of a descriptive case study concerning adoption of iPad or other tablets as assistive technology. Two pilot studies concerning the adoption and use of the iPad for...
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Spatial Ability and Map-Based Software Applications
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
Location-based applications are growing in importance as agencies are placing more and more computing into their field applications. The development of software for these applications needs to...
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A Presentation Support System by Expanding Embodiment With a Mobile Touchscreen Device
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
Most of the people make presentations by using tools such as pointers. However, the use of information devices such as laser pointers and mice can restrict the presenter's embodied motions and...
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Designing Mobile Apps for Visually Impaired and Blind Users
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
Although mobile devices include accessibility features available for visually impaired users, the user interface of the majority of the mobile apps is designed for sighted people. It is clear that...
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Building Bridges Between Elderly and TV Application Developers
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
The development of new digital TV systems and the design practices adopted in the development of new TV based applications often isolate elderly and disabled users. By considering them as users...
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Analysis of Volumetric Tactile Symbols Produced With 3D Printing
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
The morphological elements of design used for designing tactile maps and symbols for visually impaired users are points, linear, and areal elements. One of the main characteristics of these...
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Accessibility Study of Rich Web Interface Components
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
The use of the latest technologies to develop rich interfaces for websites could decrease one accessibility, making problematic the access for people with disabilities. Faced with this problem,...
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Virtualization Technology for Multi-Display Systems
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
The method for creation of multi-user multi-monitor systems designed for educational purposes is suggested. The method utilizes virtual machine technology which makes possible to create completely...
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The Utility of Controlled Vocabularies Within Bookmark Management Tasks
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
This research investigates the utility of adopting a controlled vocabulary approach to bookmark management. An initial user survey conducted for this research has shown that just over half the...
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Designing Multi-Modal Map-Based Interfaces for Disaster Management
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
The access to current and reliable maps and data is a critical factor in the management of disaster situations. Standard user interfaces are not well suited to provide this information to crisis...
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Multilingual Ontology Alignment Based on Visual Representations of Ontology Concepts
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
Image search represents one of the most frequent user actions on the Internet. Existing image search engines do not understand the images they return, nor do they support multilingualism. These...
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TsoKaDo: An Image Search Engine Performing Recursive Query Recommendation Based on Visual Information
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
This paper tackles the problem of the user's incapability to describe exactly the image that he seeks by introducing an innovative image search engine called TsoKaDo. Until now the traditional web...
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Towards 3D Data Environments Using Multi-Touch Screens
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
The increase in availability of multi-touch devices has motivated one to consider interaction approaches outside the limitations associated with the use of a mouse. The problem that the authors...
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User Interface for Trust Decision Making in Inter-Enterprise Collaborations
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
Trust decisions on inter-enterprise collaborations involve a trustor's subjective evaluation of its willingness to participate in the specific collaboration, given the risks and incentives...
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Human Operator Perspective to Autonomic Network Management
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
Autonomic Communications is a promising approach for the management of future networks, based on providing self-management and other self-x capabilities to the network elements. Network Governance...
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Contents Enforme: Automatic Deformation of Content for Multi-Features Without Information Loss
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors introduce a deformation technique that enlarges the feature areas in an image while retaining the information in the non-feature areas. Their main purpose is to provide an effective...
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Authenticated Tangible Interaction Using RFID and Depth-Sensing Cameras
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
Interactive large screen displays like tabletops or walls can enhance the interaction between humans and computers. A major topic is the collaboration between multiple simultaneous interacting...
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Generic Brain-Computer Interface for Social and Human-Computer Interaction
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
After suffering a more severe disease like spinal cord injury or stroke patients are often not able to interact or even communicate with their environment anymore, especially at the beginning of...
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Face Detection CUDA Accelerating
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
Face detection is very useful and important for many different disciplines. Even for the people future work, where the face detection will be used, the authors wanted to determine, whether it is...
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User Attention in Mobile Devices
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
The multichannel information (over) flow emerging in modern mobile multimedia devices creates a situation where the user's attention is a valuable asset for which different channels have to...
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Semiautomatic Evaluation of Websites Usability
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a semiautomatic evaluation method of usability in websites. Expert review is done in this case using a template based on the ISO 9241-151 guidelines that provides numerical and...
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Motion-Sound Interaction Using Sonification Based on Motiongrams
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
The paper presents a method for sonification of human body motion based on motiongrams. Motiongrams show the spatiotemporal development of body motion by plotting average matrices of motion images...
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Design Guidelines for Hybrid 2D/3D User Interfaces on Tablet Devices - A User Experience Evaluation
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
There is a growing proliferation of 3D based applications in tablet devices, but there is a lack of studies evaluating user experiences of these user interfaces. In particular, most of these...
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Universal Ground Control Station for Heterogeneous Sensors
April 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Today, a wide range of sensors and mobile systems - both aerial and ground-based - are available for surveillance and reconnaissance tasks. For example, they provide first responders with current...
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Analysis of Communication Overhead for a Clustering-Based Security Protocol in Ad Hoc Networks
September 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study and evaluate the overhead for a security algorithm based on clustering in MANET networks. The analysis of the communication overhead in Ad Hoc networks is an...
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Micro-Mobility Solution Based on Intra-Domain Multicast and Congestion Avoiding for Two-Nodes Mobile IP Network
September 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors deal with micro-mobility in TWINBOARD network, which is two nodes mobile network architecture based on an all IP infrastructure. The two nodes are the Base Station (BS)...
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Network Prediction for Energy-Aware Transmission in Mobile Applications
September 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Network parameters such as Signal-to-Noise-Ratio (SNR), throughput, and packet loss rate can be used for measuring the wireless network performance which highly depends on the wireless network...
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Modelling of Mobile Workflows With UML
September 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Thanks to the advances on the field of mobile computing nowadays it is possible to realize workflow systems, which provide support for mobile activities, i.e., activities which are usually...
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Scalable and Robust Wireless JPEG 2000 Images and Video Transmission With Adaptive Bandwidth Estimation
September 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a scalable and dynamic scheme for robust JPEG 2000 images/video transmission over wireless channels. The proposed system relies on an adaptive bandwidth estimation tool to...
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Narrowband Interference Suppression for MIMO MB-OFDM UWB Communication Systems
September 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
UltraWideBand (UWB) systems show excellent potential benefits when used in the design of high-speed digital wireless home networks. The constantly-increasing demand for higher data transmission...
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A Survey of Modeling Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks
August 17, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) monitor environment phenomena and in some cases react in response to the observed phenomena. The distributed nature of WSNs and the interaction between software and...
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Behind-the-Scenes of IEEE 802.11a Based Multi-Radio Mesh Networks: A Measurement Driven Evaluation of Inter-Channel Interference
September 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
To successfully develop IEEE 802.11a based wireless mesh network solutions that can achieve the reliability and capacities required to offer high quality triple play services, the use of multiple...
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Target Tracking in Marine Wireless Sensor Networks
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
It is evident that wireless sensor networking has a secure place in the future of communication systems. The potential and promise of such networks cannot be underestimated. A major advantage is...
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Customer Security Concerns in Cloud Computing
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
There is no consensus about what exactly cloud computing is, but some characteristics are clearly repeated. It is a new distributed computing and business paradigm. It provides computing power,...
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Interactive Internet Television for Mobile Devices and Large-Scale Areas
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In coming years it is supposed that importance of the Internet television technology will grow and also number of households and subscribers paying for this service will be increasing. It is also...
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QoS for Wireless Mesh: MAC Layer Enhancements
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Wireless mesh networks present MAC design challenges beyond those of WLANs. Abundant hidden nodes increase the number of collisions. This, combined with the correlated access needed when...
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Quality of Services Assurance for Multimedia Flows Based on Content-Aware Networking
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a new architectural solution to support Quality of Services (QoS) for real time media flows in a multi-domain system based on new concepts as Content-Aware Networks (CAN) and...
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The Impact of Control Information Prioritization on QoS Performance Metrics
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Real-time protocols such as Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) and its companion protocol Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) are the solution for customers who have progressively come to...
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Novel Load Balancing Scheduling Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, optimal scheduling mechanisms are developed for packet forwarding in wireless sensor networks, where clusterheads are gathering information. The objective is to monitor real-life...
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Testing Triple Play Services Over Open Source IMS Solution for Various Radio Access Networks
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Nowadays, with the development of next generation networks, new standards for voice and video services have been introduced, and VoIP (Voice over IP) has become a very popular protocol. It leads...
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A Robust Periodogram-Based IFO Estimation Scheme for OFDM-Based Wireless Systems
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a new periodogram-based Integer Frequency Offset (IFO) estimation scheme robust to the Fractional Frequency Offset (FFO) variation. The authors first observe the...
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Vulnerability of MRD-Code-Based Universal Secure Error-Correcting Network Codes Under Time-Varying Jamming Links
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In order to provide reliable and secure communication against eavesdroppers and jammers over networks, Universal Secure Error-Correcting Network Codes (USECNC) based on Maximum-Rank-Distance (MRD)...
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QoS Signaling for Service Delivery in NGN/NGS Context
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The evolution of next generation network raises the issue of exploiting customizable services for a nomadic user within the environment of heterogeneity and mobility. In this paper, the E2E QoS...
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A Resource Management Strategy to Support VoIP Across Ad Hoc IEEE 802.11 Networks
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the concept of the resource management strategy in ad hoc networks for rescue operations. The presented strategy is a result of the new outlook on the IEEE 802.11 networks...
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Performance Evaluation for DSRC Vehicular Safety Communication: A Semi-Markov Process Approach
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, an analytic model is proposed for the performance evaluation of vehicular safety related services in the Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) system on highways. The...
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Practical Performance Measurements and Analysis of IEEE 802.16 Networks
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
IEEE 802.16 standard defines the wireless broadband technology called WiMAX. When compared to other wireless technologies, it introduces many interesting advantages at PHYsical (PHY) and media...
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