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Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, Volume 6, Issue 8

August 2022 - 10 articles

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Articles (10)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,583 Views
13 Pages

A Usability Study on Widget Design for Selecting Boolean Operations

  • Diogo Chambel Lopes,
  • Helena Mendes,
  • Ricardo Portal,
  • Rui de Klerk,
  • Isabel Nogueira and
  • Daniel Simões Lopes

Applying the correct set of Boolean operations is a fundamental task in constructive solid geometry (CSG), which is a staple in automated manufacturing systems. Although textual buttons and icons are the most common interfaces to apply such operation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,717 Views
16 Pages

Over the years, the purpose of cultural heritage (CH) sites (e.g., museums) has focused on providing personalized services to different users, with the main goal of adapting those services to the visitors’ personal traits, goals, and interests....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,775 Views
19 Pages

Digital musical instruments have become increasingly prevalent in musical creation and production. Optimizing their usability and, particularly, their expressiveness, has become essential to their study and practice. The absence of multimodal feedbac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,237 Views
20 Pages

Ability-Based Methods for Personalized Keyboard Generation

  • Claire L. Mitchell,
  • Gabriel J. Cler,
  • Susan K. Fager,
  • Paola Contessa,
  • Serge H. Roy,
  • Gianluca De Luca,
  • Joshua C. Kline and
  • Jennifer M. Vojtech

This study introduces an ability-based method for personalized keyboard generation, wherein an individual’s own movement and human–computer interaction data are used to automatically compute a personalized virtual keyboard layout. Our app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,489 Views
10 Pages

Background: When exploring audio-tactile nautical charts without vision, users could trigger vocal announcements of a seamark’s name thanks to video tracking. In a first condition they could simply use a green sticker fastened at the tip of a f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,371 Views
23 Pages

Cognitive Learning and Robotics: Innovative Teaching for Inclusivity

  • Nurziya Oralbayeva,
  • Aida Amirova,
  • Anna CohenMiller and
  • Anara Sandygulova

We present the interdisciplinary CoWriting Kazakh project in which a social robot acts as a peer in learning the new Kazakh Latin alphabet, to which Kazakhstan is going to shift from the current Kazakh Cyrillic by 2030. We discuss the past literature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,451 Views
21 Pages

Behaviour of True Artificial Peers

  • Norman Weißkirchen and
  • Ronald Böck

Typical current assistance systems often take the form of optimised user interfaces between the user interest and the capabilities of the system. In contrast, a peer-like system should be capable of independent decision-making capabilities, which in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,777 Views
23 Pages

ViviPaint: Creating Dynamic Painting with a Thermochromic Toolkit

  • Guanhong Liu,
  • Tianyu Yu,
  • Zhihao Yao,
  • Haiqing Xu,
  • Yunyi Zhang,
  • Xuhai Xu,
  • Xiaomeng Xu,
  • Mingyue Gao,
  • Qirui Sun and
  • Tingliang Zhang
  • + 1 author

New materials and technologies facilitate the design of thermochromic dynamic paintings. However, creating a thermochromic painting requires knowledge of electrical engineering and computer science, which is a barrier for artists and enthusiasts with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,562 Views
23 Pages

Perspectives on Socially Intelligent Conversational Agents

  • Luisa Brinkschulte,
  • Stephan Schlögl,
  • Alexander Monz,
  • Pascal Schöttle and
  • Matthias Janetschek

The propagation of digital assistants is consistently progressing. Manifested by an uptake of ever more human-like conversational abilities, respective technologies are moving increasingly away from their role as voice-operated task enablers and beco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,417 Views
19 Pages

Achieving fluency in arithmetic operations is vital if students are to develop mathematical creativity and critical thinking abilities. Nevertheless, a substantial body of literature has demonstrated that students are struggling to develop such skill...

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Multimodal Technol. Interact. - ISSN 2414-4088