Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown

About: Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Higher education & The Internet. The organization has 209 authors who have published 244 publications receiving 7410 citations. The organization is also known as: ITB & IT Blanchardstown.

Performance indicators in club level Gaelic football

Abstract: Over 2000 Gaelic Football clubs compete annually for the honour of playing in the All-Ireland club finals in Croke Park in front of up to 30,000 people There are no published performance data for

Emotional facial expressions in synthesised sign language avatars: a manual evaluation

Abstract: This research explores and evaluates the contribution that facial expressions might have regarding improved comprehension and acceptability in sign language avatars. Focusing specifically on Irish sign language (ISL), the Deaf (the uppercase "D" in the word "Deaf" indicates Deaf as a culture as opposed to "deaf" as a medical condition) community's responsiveness to sign language avatars is examined. The hypothesis of this is as follows: augmenting an existing avatar with the seven widely accepted universal emotions identified by Ekman (Basic emotions: handbook of cognition and emotion. Wiley, London, 2005) to achieve underlying facial expressions will make that avatar more human like and improve usability and understandability for the ISL user. Using human evaluation methods (Huenerfauth et al. in Trans Access Comput (ACM) 1:1, 2008), an augmented set of avatar utterances is compared against a baseline set, focusing on two key areas: comprehension and naturalness of facial configuration. The approach to the evaluation including the choice of ISL participants, interview environment and evaluation methodology is then outlined. The evaluation results reveal that in a comprehension test there was little difference between the baseline avatars and those augmented with emotional facial expression. It was also found that the avatars are lacking various linguistic attributes.

Work in Progress – Learning Styles and elearning, what is the Connection?

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to describe an experiment designed to explore the relationship between a student's learning style and their success in an online module. This paper will present these preliminary findings and describe how this information was then used to motivate the design of online module content using a variety of media to address the preferences of the auditory, kinesthetic and visual learner. A pre-test and post-test quasi experimental design is employed to establish the possible effectiveness of adapting to a learner's style. Each student prior to taking the online module is requested to complete a learning style questionnaire. Depending on their learning style each student will then be directed to a particular version of the module content designed to accommodate their preferred learning style. A pre-test post-test experiment will be used as one measure of their performance during the module. The students that will be involved in this experiment are those doing the Higher Diploma in Computing and those doing a Bachelor of Science in Computing. Their course will use a blended learning approach

Assessment of stereo camera calibration techniques for a portable mobile mapping system

Abstract: Mobile mapping systems that detect and geo-reference road markings almost always consist of a stereo camera system integrated with a global positioning system/inertial navigation system. The data acquired by this navigational system allows features detected in the stereo images to be assigned global co-ordinates. An essential step in this process is the calibration of the cameras, as it relates the pose of the two cameras to each other and a world co-ordinate system. In Europe, road markings must be evaluated from a 35 m range, so the cameras are required to have a wide field of view. Traditional calibration methods supposedly require a calibration object that would fill most of the calibration images. This large field of view would require a calibration object of substantial size that would be impractical for the purposes of this portable system. This study explores the theory of camera calibration and then details two camera calibration techniques (using portable 3D and 2D calibration objects). The accuracy of these methods is then evaluated using a ground-truth experiment.