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Symbiotic interaction ; 5th International workshop, Symbiotic 2016, Padua, Italy, September 29–30, 2016, revised selected papers
The 12 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The idea of symbiotic systems put forward in this workshop capitalizes on the computers’ ability to implicitly detect the users goals, preferences or/and psycho-physiological states and thereby enhancing human-computer interaction (HCI). The papers present an overview of the symbiotic relationships between humans and computers with emphasis on user-driven research on symbiotic systems, adaptive systems, implicit input data, physiological computing and BCI, but also on understanding the nature of the interdependence and agency between computers and humans more broadly.
Structure for Dependability : Computer-Based Systems from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Breaks new ground by presenting an interdisciplinary approach to a crucial problem – system dependability. Computer-based systems include hardware, software and people. Achieving dependability for such systems requires an interdisciplinary approach. In Structure for Dependability: Computer-Based Systems from an Interdisciplinary Perspective, computer scientists, sociologists, statisticians and psychologists bring together their latest research on the structure of dependable computer-based systems. The result is a highly readable overview of ways to achieve dependability in large computer-based systems with practical advice on designing dependable systems. This book is one of the outcomes of a six year Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration. Topics covered include fault tolerance, system evolution, determining software specifications, HCI, architecture, certification, dependability arguments, organisations, diagrams, time and procedures.
Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments
This book is based on publications from the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments held at Kloster Irsee, Germany, in 2002. The workshop covered various aspects of devel- ment and evaluation of spoken multimodal dialogue systems and components with particular emphasis on mobile environments, and discussed the state-- the-art within this area. On the development side the major aspects addressed include speech recognition, dialogue management, multimodal output gene- tion, system architectures, full applications, and user interface issues. On the evaluation side primarily usability evaluation was addressed. A number of high quality papers from the workshop were selected to form the basis of this book
Social Dimensions Of Information And Communication Technology Policy ; Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC8), IFIP TC 9, Pretoria, South Africa, September 25-26, 2008
The scope of the book includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of refereed international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured.
Services computing – SCC 2020 ; 17th International conference, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA, September 18–20, 2020, Proceedings
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Services Computing 2020, held as Part of SCF 2020 in Honolulu, HI, USA in September 2020. The 8 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They cover topics such as: foundations of services computing; scientific workflows; business process integration and management; microservices; modeling of services systems; service security and privacy; SOA service applications; and service lifecycle management.
Science and Technologies for Smart Cities ; 5th EAI International Summit, SmartCity360, Braga, Portugal, December 4-6, 2019, Proceedings
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Annual Smart City 360° Summit, held in Braga, Portugal, in December 2019. The volume combines selected papers of four conferences, namely IoT in Urban Space, Urb-IoT 2019, Smart Governance for Sustainable Smart Cities, SmartGov 2019, Sensor Systems and Software, S-Cube 2019, and Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, Intetain 2019. The 5 keynote and 32 conference papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 113 submissions and present results of multidisciplinary scientific and industry collaboration to solve complex societal, technological and economic problems Smart Cities. As such, the main goals are to promote quality of life, work conditions, mobility and sustainability.
Requirements Engineering
Essentially, this is an update that places more emphasis on modelling by describing a greater range of approaches to system modelling. It introduces the UML2, which is the recent standard approved by the OMG. There is also an enhanced discussion on the relationship between requirements management and modelling, which relates well to the concept of rich traceability. The chapter on the requirements management tool DOORS has been revised to use Version 7 of the tool and this is complemented with examples taken from the DOORS/Analyst tool which demonstrates how the concepts of modelling can be captured and created within DOORS. The text is still aimed at students and practitioners of systems engineering who are keen to gain knowledge of using requirements engineering for system development.
Reliable Face Recognition Methods : System Design, Implementation and Evaluation
This book seeks to comprehensively address the face recognition problem while gaining new insights from complementary fields of endeavor. The book examines the evolution of research surrounding the field to date, explores new directions, and offers specific guidance on the most promising venues for future research and development.
Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue
This book is a collection of eleven chapters which together represent an original contribution to the field of (multimodal) spoken dialogue systems. The chapters include highly relevant topics, such as dialogue modeling in research systems versus industrial systems, evaluation, miscommunication and error handling, grounding, statistical and corpus-based approaches to discourse and dialogue modeling, data analysis, and corpus annotation and annotation tools. The book contains several detailed application studies, including, e.g., speech-controlled MP3 players in a car environment, negotiation training with a virtual human in a military context, application of spoken dialogue to question-answering systems, and cognitive aspects in tutoring systems. The chapters vary considerably with respect to the level of expertise required in advance to benefit from them.
Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction
Presents a series of peer-reviewed survey articles written by international leading experts in computer vision, pattern recognition and Human-Computer Interaction. It is the first published text capturing the latest research in this rapidly advancing field with exclusive focus on real-time algorithms and practical applications in numerous industries, including computer games and medical and automotive systems. It is also an excellent starting point for further research in these areas. Contributions to this volume address specific topics such as: Real-Time Algorithms: from Signal Processing to Computer Vision / Recognition of Isolated Fingerspelling Gestures Using Depth Edges / Appearance-Based Real-Time Understanding of Gestures Using Projected Euler Angles / Flocks of Features for Tracking Articulated Objects / Static Hand Posture Recognition Based on Okapi-Chamfer Matching / Visual Modeling of Dynamic Gestures Using 3D Appearance and Motion Features / Head and Facial Animation Tracking Using Appearance-Adaptive Models and Particle Filters / A Real-Time Vision Interface Based on Gaze Detection – Eyekeys / Map Building From Human-Computer Interactions / Real-Time Inference of Complex Mental States from Facial Expressions and Head Gestures / Epipolar Constrained User Pushbutton Selection in Projected Interfaces / Vision-Based HCI Applications / The Office of the Past / MPEG-4 Face and Body Animation Coding Applied to HCI / Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction.
Pervasive Collaborative Networks ; IFIP TC 5 WG 5.5 Ninth Working Conference on VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES, September 8-10, 2008, Poznan, Poland
The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of refereed international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research.
Persuasive Technology ; 2nd International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2007, Palo Alto, CA, USA, April 26-27, 2007. Revised Selected Papers
Persuasive technology is the general class of technologies that purposefully apply psychological principles of persuasion – principles of credibility, trust, reciprocity, authority and the like – in interactive media, in the service of changing their users’ attitudes and behavior. Only one year ago, in 2006, the first international conference in this area, PERSUASIVE 2006 was hosted in Eindhoven.
Perception and Interactive Technologies; International Tutorial and Research Workshop, Kloster Irsee, PIT 2006, Germany, June 19-21, 2006
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies, PIT 2006, held at Kloster Irsee, Germany in June 2006. The 16 revised full papers presented together with 4 revised poster papers and 6 system demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on head pose and eye gaze tracking, modeling and simulation of perception, integrating information from multiple channels, visual and auditory display driven by perceptive principles, spoken dialogue systems, multimodal and situated dialogue systems, and integration of perceptive technologies and animation.
People and Computers XX - Engage ; Proceedings of HCI 2006
This volume contains the refereed papers to be presented at the 'HCr06: The papers reflect the exciting and evolving nature of human-computer interaction (HCI), a multidisciplinary and crucial research field for computing technologies. We nevertheless note the very low proportion of industry-only authored papers, and we need to consider new ways of engaging industry people in the HCI conference. An innovation this year has been to introduce themes.
People and Computers XVIII - Design for Life ; Proceedings of HCI 2004
We selected 23 full papers out of 63 submitted, which covered our interaction with computer systems in a variety of types of life situation — including games, tourism and certain types of work — and also covered a variety of stages in our lives, from the young to the elderly. These papers were complemented by others that described more traditional aspects of research in the field of human-computer interaction. In putting together the programme we followed a three-stage process. First each paper was reviewed by at least three reviewers. Then a member of the committee conducted a meta-review. Finally, all sets of reviews were considered by the technical chairs who assembled a programme that was submitted to, and approved by, the full committee. This process was greatly assisted by the use of the Precision Conference Solutions web-based submission system.
People and Computers XIX - The Bigger Picture ; Proceedings of HCI 2005
Contains the full papers presented at HCI 2005, the 19th Annual Conference of the British HCI Group, a specialist group of the BCS. The conference has become the premiere annual conference on human-computer interaction in Europe, attracting a global audience. People and Computers XIX includes leading edge discussions outlining the latest research results and novel systems from the foremost research and development groups and laboratories throughout the world. The papers presented in this volume include contributions from leading figures in both the research and business sectors.
PEACH - Intelligent Interfaces for Museum Visits
PEACH, is a large, interdisciplinary development project that explores the use of novel technologies for physical museum visits. Led by teams from ITC-irst, Trento and DFKI, Saarbrücken, the research is at the forefront of work on intelligent user interfaces, but also covers other areas of artificial intelligence, microsystems and human-computer interaction.
Pattern recognition and artificial intelligence ; 3rd Mediterranean Conference, MedPRAI 2019, Istanbul, Turkey, December 22–23, 2019, Proceedings
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Mediterranean Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, MedPRAI 2019, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in December 2019. The 18 revised full papers and one short paper presented were carefully selected from 54 submissions. The papers are covering the topics of recent advancements in different areas of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, such as statistical, structural and syntactic pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining, neural networks, computer vision, multimedia systems, information retrieval, etc.
Open Source Development, Communities and Quality ; IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Working Group 2.3 on Open Source Software, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy
The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of refereed international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research.
Open Semantic Technologies for Intelligent System ; 10th International Conference, OSTIS 2020, Minsk, Belarus, February 19–22, 2020, Revised Selected Papers
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Open Semantic Technologies for Intelligent System, OSTIS 2020, held in Minsk, Belarus, in February 2020. The 14 revised full papers and 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers mainly focus on standardization of intelligent systems and cover wide research fields including knowledge representation and reasoning, semantic networks, natural language processing, temporal reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, multi-agent systems, intelligent agents.
