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Sign language recognition model combining non-manual markers and handshapes
(2016-11-29)
People with disabilities have fewer opportunities. Technological developments should be used to help these people to have more opportunities. In this paper we present partial results of a research project which aims to ...
Sign Language Recognition Using Leap Motion
(2015-12-01)
Several million people around the world use signs as their main mean of communication. The advances in technologies to recognize such signs will make possible the computer supported interpretation of sign languages. There ...
GQM+Strategies and IDEAL: A Combination of Approaches to Achieve Continuous SPI An Experience Report in a Large Multi-industry State-Owned Company
(2016)
GQM+Strategies is an approach that aligns the business goals at each
level of an organization to strategies and assesses the achievement of goals. The
IDEAL model is an organizational improvement model. In this paper, ...
Typifying mechanisms for gender digital equity in Latin America
(2016)
Gender digital equity in Latin America and the Caribbean is our goal.
We analyze gender specific structural inequalities that constitute barriers for
women’s access to ICT: such as education, traditional cultural beliefs ...
Supporting phobia treatment with virtual reality: systematic desensitization using oculus rift
(2017)
An irrational fear is called a phobia. Cognitive therapy teaches patients
how to respond to triggering stimuli, by relaxing their mind and entering a state of
reduced anxiety. Some of these methods depend on patient’s ...
An Empirical Validation of an Automated Genetic Software Effort Prediction Framework Using the ISBSG Dataset
(2016-04)
The complexity of providing accurate software
effort prediction models is well known in the software industry. Several
prediction models have been proposed in the literature using different
techniques, with different ...
Use of Emerging 3D Printing and Modeling Technologies in the Health Domain
(2016)
Three-Dimensional (3D) technologies emerged from the technological advances in manufacturing required to produce physical versions of digital models. The most attractive feature of 3D technologies is that virtual models ...
Development and Evaluation of Augmented Object Prototypes for Notifications in Collaborative Writing Environments
(2016)
In Ubiquitous Computing, augmented objects refer to those elements of
the real world which have been provided with computational capabilities to meet a
specific need. Meanwhile, Collaborative Writing Environments (CWE) ...
Ubiquitous Notification Mechanism to Provide User Awareness
(2016)
Awareness could be defined as the knowledge that the user has of a particular activity, either individual or collaborative. Good awareness mechanisms provide information to the user at the right time so that s/he can know ...
Evolution of microcontroller’s course under the influence of arduino
(2016)
This paper presents the evolution of an undergraduate microcontroller’s course that uses Arduino as its main platform. In earlier versions of the course, it focused on teaching Arduino’s framework and its interconnection ...