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Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, Volume 3, Issue 2

June 2019 - 22 articles

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Articles (22)

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,673 Views
15 Pages

Urban traffic noise situations are usually visualized as conventional 2D maps or 3D scenes. These representations are indispensable tools to inform decision makers and citizens about issues of health, safety, and quality of life but require expert kn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,097 Views
20 Pages

Towards a Taxonomy for In-Vehicle Interactions Using Wearable Smart Textiles: Insights from a User-Elicitation Study

  • Vijayakumar Nanjappan,
  • Rongkai Shi,
  • Hai-Ning Liang,
  • Kim King-Tong Lau,
  • Yong Yue and
  • Katie Atkinson

Textiles are a vital and indispensable part of our clothing that we use daily. They are very flexible, often lightweight, and have a variety of application uses. Today, with the rapid developments in small and flexible sensing materials, textiles can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,218 Views
17 Pages

Recognition of Tactile Facial Action Units by Individuals Who Are Blind and Sighted: A Comparative Study

  • Troy McDaniel,
  • Diep Tran,
  • Abhik Chowdhury,
  • Bijan Fakhri and
  • Sethuraman Panchanathan

Given that most cues exchanged during a social interaction are nonverbal (e.g., facial expressions, hand gestures, body language), individuals who are blind are at a social disadvantage compared to their sighted peers. Very little work has explored s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,789 Views
25 Pages

Traditional methods of public consultation offer only limited interactivity with urban planning materials, leading to a restricted engagement of citizens. Public displays and immersive virtual environments have the potential to address this issue, en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,106 Views
13 Pages

Visual Analysis of a Smart City’s Energy Consumption

  • Juan Trelles Trabucco,
  • Dongwoo Lee,
  • Sybil Derrible and
  • G. Elisabeta Marai

Through the use of open data portals, cities, districts and countries are increasingly making available energy consumption data. These data have the potential to inform both policymakers and local communities. At the same time, however, these dataset...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,610 Views
15 Pages

Tell Them How They Did: Feedback on Operator Performance Helps Calibrate Perceived Ease of Use in Automated Driving

  • Yannick Forster,
  • Sebastian Hergeth,
  • Frederik Naujoks,
  • Josef Krems and
  • Andreas Keinath

The development of automated driving will profit from an agreed-upon methodology to evaluate human–machine interfaces. The present study examines the role of feedback on interaction performance provided directly to participants when interacting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,312 Views
18 Pages

Comparing Interaction Techniques to Help Blind People Explore Maps on Small Tactile Devices

  • Mathieu Simonnet,
  • Anke M. Brock,
  • Antonio Serpa,
  • Bernard Oriola and
  • Christophe Jouffrais

Exploring geographic maps on touchscreens is a difficult task in the absence of vision as those devices miss tactile cues. Prior research has therefore introduced non-visual interaction techniques designed to allow visually impaired people to explore...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
57 Citations
11,218 Views
9 Pages

A Virtual Reality System for Practicing Conversation Skills for Children with Autism

  • Natalia Stewart Rosenfield,
  • Kathleen Lamkin,
  • Jennifer Re,
  • Kendra Day,
  • LouAnne Boyd and
  • Erik Linstead

We describe a virtual reality environment, Bob’s Fish Shop, which provides a system where users diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can practice social interactions in a safe and controlled environment. A case study is presented which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,224 Views
16 Pages

Tactile Cues for Improving Target Localization in Subjects with Tunnel Vision

  • Damien Camors,
  • Damien Appert,
  • Jean-Baptiste Durand and
  • Christophe Jouffrais

The loss of peripheral vision is experienced by millions of people with glaucoma or retinitis pigmentosa, and has a major impact in everyday life, specifically to locate visual targets in the environment. In this study, we designed a wearable interfa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,499 Views
24 Pages

The number of scientific publications combining robotic user interfaces and mixed reality highly increased during the 21st Century. Counting the number of yearly added publications containing the keywords “mixed reality” and “robot&...

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