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CORR
2011
Springer
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14 years 11 months ago
Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy: An Information-Based Measure and its Application to Problems of Ambiguity in Natural Language
This article presents a measure of semantic similarity in an is-a taxonomy based on the notion of shared information content. Experimental evaluation against a benchmark set of hu...
Philip Resnik
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
From garments to gardens: negotiating material relationships online and 'by hand'
From home improvement to scrapbooking, leisure activities performed “by hand” increasingly involve digital tools. In turn, software and devices to support handwork are prolife...
Elizabeth Goodman, Daniela Rosner
ICPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Hand Gesture Recognition: Self-Organising Maps as a Graphical User Interface for the Partitioning of Large Training Data Sets
Gesture recognition is a difficult task in computer vision due to the numerous degrees of freedom of a human hand. Fortunately, human gesture covers only a small part of the theor...
Axel Saalbach, Gunther Heidemann, Holger Bekel, In...
CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
FingerSense: augmenting expressiveness to physical pushing button by fingertip identification
In this paper, we propose a novel method, FingerSense to enhance the expressiveness of physical buttons. In a FingerSense enabled input device, a pressing action is differentiated...
Jingtao Wang, John F. Canny
HRI
2009
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
The power of suggestion: teaching sequences through assistive robot motions
We present a preliminary implementation of a robot within the context of social skills intervention. The robot engages a human user in an interactive and adaptive game-playing ses...
Ross Mead, Maja J. Mataric