Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought. David McNeill. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992. 416 pp.

Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought

An interactive video display system. A display screen is for displaying a visual image for presentation to a user. A camera is for detecting an object in an interactive area located in front of the display screen, the camera operable to capture three-dimensional information about the object. A computer system is for directing the display screen to change the visual image in response to the object.

Interactive video display system

▶ Addresses the accessibility, usability, and, ultimately, acceptability of Information Society Technologies by anyone, anywhere, at anytime, and through any media and device. ▶ Focuses on theoretical, methodological, and empirical research, of both technological and non-technological nature. ▶ Features papers that report on theories, methods, tools, empirical results, reviews, case studies, and best-practice examples.

Universal access in the information society

Inevitably, reading is one of the requirements to be undergone. To improve the performance and quality, someone needs to have something new every day. It will suggest you to have more inspirations, then. However, the needs of inspirations will make you searching for some sources. Even from the other people experience, internet, and many books. Books and internet are the recommended media to help you improving your quality and performance.

Feature-Oriented Software Product Lines

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing the myth of the paperless office as the reading material.

The Myth of the Paperless Office

The classical approach for repairing a Description Logic (DL) ontology in the sense of removing an unwanted consequence is to delete a minimal number of axioms from the ontology such that the resulting ontology no longer has the consequence. While there are automated tools for computing all possible such repairs, the user still needs to decide by hand which of the (potentially exponentially many) repairs to choose. In this paper, we argue that exploring a proof of the unwanted consequence may help us to locate other erroneous consequences within the proof, and thus allows us to make a more informed decision on which axioms to remove. In addition, we suggest that looking at the so-called atomic decomposition, which describes the modular structure of the ontology, enables us to judge the impact that removing a certain axiom has. Since both proofs and atomic decompositions of ontologies may be large, visual support for inspecting them is required. We describe a prototypical system that can visualize proofs and the atomic decomposition in an integrated visualization tool to support ontology debugging.

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Visualising Proofs and the Modular Structure of Ontologies to Support Ontology Repair.

Recently, many studies were conducted which focused on eliciting gestures from users in order to come up with gesture sets for surface computing However, there are still many questions to clarify concerning the value of this method regarding to the usability of such gesture sets in real systems In this work, we contribute a usability test of an implemented gesture set based on user suggested pen and hand gestures for node-link diagram editing on interactive displays The results of the usability test gave valuable insight in how users interact spontaneously with such a gestural interface In particular, we found that the methodology of eliciting gestures from users reveals what kinds of gestures users prefer but that it does not necessarily show how they are applied Beyond that, we observed how participants differentiate between touch and pen within complex workflows

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Evaluating a User-Elicited Gesture Set for Interactive Displays.

Software product line engineering is a promising paradigm to create variable software. In practice, conditional compilation is often used to implement software product lines, such that code of features is annotated with ifdef directives. However, preprocessor usage can lead to obfuscated source code that is hard to understand and maintain. In the literature, ifdef directives are even referred to as "ifdef hell" [1, 5].

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FeatureCommander: colorful #ifdef world

In this work, we introduce and propose a preliminary realisation of a concept to enhance live multimedia presentations, where presenters are directly integrated in their presentation content as interactive avatars. Using multimodal input, especially body gestures, presenters control those embedded avatars through which they can interact with the virtual presentation environment in a fine-grained fashion, i.e. they are able to manipulate individual presentation elements and data as virtual props. The goal of our endeavour is to create novel immersive presentational experiences for live stage performances (talks, lectures etc.) as well as for remote conferencing in more confined areas such as offices and meeting rooms.

Embodied Interactions for Novel Immersive Presentational Experiences

The SEARIS workshop provides a forum for researchers and practitioners working on the design, development, and support of realtime interactive systems (RIS) These systems span from Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) environments to novel Human-Computer Interaction systems (such as multimodal or multitouch architectures) and entertainment applications in general Their common principle is a strong user centric orientation which requires real-time processing according to perceptual constraints

Raimund Dachselt

Papers

Visualising Proofs and the Modular Structure of Ontologies to Support Ontology Repair.

Evaluating a User-Elicited Gesture Set for Interactive Displays.

FeatureCommander: colorful #ifdef world

Embodied Interactions for Novel Immersive Presentational Experiences

SEARIS: software engineering and architectures for realtime interactive systems