The emergence of digital capture and editing technologies make providing a more detailed and coherent description of the experiences depicted in photos possible. Through the combination of photos, music and voice, people ...

In order to make computers proactive and assistive, we must enable them to perceive, learn, and predict what is happening in their surroundings. This presents us with the challenge of formalizing computational models of ...

HelperBot is a prototype Slackbot designed to demonstrate how a conversational bot could be used to reduce the high attrition rate for online students by reducing students’ cognitive load.

More than 95% of deaf children in the United States are born to hearing parents (Mitchell & Karchmer 2004). With the majority of hearing parents having little to no exposure to American Sign Language (ASL) prior to the ...

A great deal of effort has been put into developing Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) systems that provide a human-like assistant in the user interface. However, little is known whether improvements to ECA interfaces ...

A recent survey of studies related to digital libraries concluded that students use and like electronic resources. However, the results of access studies show that actual use of online content is relatively low, with only ...

As part of the DARPA Tactical Mobile Robotics (TMR) program, Georgia Tech investigated the human interface issues associated with controlling robot "units," multiple robotic agents working as a team. This report provides ...