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A concept analysis scheme of simple stories for learning resources through extraction of domain-based multimedia elements
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International Association of Online Engineering
, 2017 , Article)
Children with special needs face major difficulties to understand the script of stories. They cannot comprehend the words' meaning properly. Instructors use different techniques to explain them. They read the script several ...
Incorporating haptic and olfactory into surgical simulation
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Recently, surgical simulation is a widely used method to train surgeons on specific surgeries due to the fact that it helps reducing surgical errors. Available surgical simulations lack realism since they only incorporate ...
The many benefits of annotator rationales for relevance judgments
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International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
When collecting subjective human ratings of items, it can be difficult to measure and enforce data quality due to task subjectivity and lack of insight into how judges arrive at each rating decision. To address this, we ...
Incorporating olfactory into a multi-modal surgical simulation
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Maruzen Co., Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
This paper proposes a novel multimodal interactive surgical simulator that incorporates haptic, olfactory, as well as traditional vision feedback. A scent diffuser was developed to produce odors when errors occur. Haptic ...
Fuzzy logic: A "simple" solution for complexities in neurosciences
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National Library of Medicine
, 2011 , Article)
Background: Fuzzy logic is a multi-valued logic which is similar to human thinking and interpretation. It has the potential of combining human heuristics into computer-assisted decision making, which is applicable to ...
Open education resources and mobile technology to narrow the learning divide
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Athabasca University
, 2013 , Article)
As the world becomes more digitized, there will be an increasing need to make available learning resources in electronic format for access by information and communication technologies. The question education will face is ...
Immersive virtual reality in improving communication skills in children with Autism
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International Association of Online Engineering
, 2017 , Article)
Individuals in the Autism Spectrum often encounter situations where they have to respond to questions and situations that they do not know how to respond to, such as, questions asked by strangers including ones related to ...
Design and implementation of a multimedia-based technology solution to assist children with intellectual disability to learn
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Kassel University Press GmbH
, 2017 , Article)
This paper presents an innovative technological solution to improve the understanding and cognitive functions of children with intellectual disability through multimedia. New algorithms that mine the story-based scripts, ...
Why Is That Relevant? Collecting Annotator Rationales for Relevance Judgments
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AAAI Press
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
When collecting subjective human ratings of items, it can be difficult to measure and enforce data quality due to task subjectivity and lack of insight into how judges’ arrive at each rating decision. To address this, we ...
An automated robust segmentation method for intravascular ultrasound images
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World Scientific Publishing Co.
, 2014 , Book chapter)
It is widely known that the state of a patient's coronary heart disease can be better assessed using intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) than with more conventional angiography. Recent work has shown that segmentation and 3D ...