The aim of Participatory Design (PD) is to involve the users in the design. Even though the research has shown the success of PD projects in empowering users, little has been said...
A timestamping scheme is non-interactive if a stamper can stamp a document without communicating with any other player. The only communication done is at validation time. Non-Inte...
As the trend towards technology-enriched home environments progresses, the need to enable users to create applications to suit their own lives increases. While several recent proje...
People with disabilities need several assistive technical aids to increase their autonomy and perform daily living tasks. This paper describes the role of networking and communicat...
Spoken multimodal dialogue systems in which users address faceonly or embodied interface agents have been gaining ground in research for some time. Although most systems are still...