Articles Tagged: User centered design
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The power of open-source hardware in crisis
Could open-source solutions provide a crucial layer of defense for the future of pandemic-ready and disaster-resilient supply chains?
By Alex Long, January 2022
Computer scientists in action: Åsa Cajander, complex systems for society
By Åsa Cajander, October 2018
Jian Guan on design and innovation in China
Having attended universities in the U.S. and China, this educator shares his insight of the design industry and education in China.
By Ahmed Ansari, Raghavendra Kandala, June 2016
3-D printing interactive objects
Today's 3-D printing hobbyists churn out kilos of static trinkets. These existing machines can further help them create functional objects, if new perspectives and designs are employed.
By Valkyrie Savage, April 2016
VR to the rescue
Virtual reality is helping rescue teams prepare for emergency situations in places they could never ordinarily go, like collapsed mines deep underground.
By Alain Boulay, November 2015
Airwriting
It may be possible to enable text entry by writing freely in the air, using only the hand as a stylus.
By Christoph Amma, Tanja Schultz, December 2013
Towards a user-friendly semantic formalism for natural language generation
Computational semantics has become an interesting and important branch of computational linguistics. Born from the fusion of formal semantics and computer science, it is concerned with the automated processing of meaning associated with natural language expressions [2]. Systems of semantic representation, hereafter referred to as semantic formalisms, exist to describe meaning underlying natural language expressions. To date, several formalisms have been defined by researchers from a number of diverse disciplines including philosophy, logic, psychology and linguistics. These formalisms have a number of different applications in the realm of computer science. For example, in machine translation a sentence could be parsed and translated into a series of semantic expressions, which could then be used to generate an utterance with the same meaning in a different language [14]. This paper presents two existing formalisms and examines their user-friendliness. Additionally, a new form of semantic representation is proposed with wide coverage and user-friendliness suitable for a computational linguist.
By Craig Thomas, December 2008