{"title":"Gardener: A file browser assistant to help users maintaining semantic folder hierarchy","authors":"Debmalya Sinha, A. Basu","doi":"10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481780","url":null,"abstract":"Users, especially beginners, have problem finding files from large, ever growing filesystem. Common practice is to memorize the pathnames of frequently accessed folders and files which increases the cognitive load while file browsing. A suitable solution is to have a semantic hierarchy among folders so that the users can use reasoning instead of memorizing pathnames while file browsing. However, users are usually reluctant to put files in their proper places each time a file is saved. Thus, practically maintaining a Semantic Folder Hierarchy in a large filesystem is hard. This article proposes a file browser assistant “Gardener” which helps the user to maintain the Semantic Folder Hierarchy Tree in a filesystem by suggesting a suitable location each time a new file is created. The User Interface also has a “Single Click Save” option that eliminates the need to browse the filesystem and reduces interaction time. Although indirectly, this assistance for maintaining Semantic Folder Hierarchy eventually reduces the cognitive load of the users while finding files in a filesystem.","PeriodicalId":107245,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133161841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Arjunan, H. Weghorn, J. O'Connor, D. Kumar, Sruthi Shahebjada, T. Filho
{"title":"Towards better real-time control of smart wheelchair using subtle finger movements via wireless (blue-tooth) interface","authors":"S. Arjunan, H. Weghorn, J. O'Connor, D. Kumar, Sruthi Shahebjada, T. Filho","doi":"10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481786","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the design of a novel realtime system to control a smart wheelchair using subtle finger movements. Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals from the forearm recorded during muscle onset activation were used as the control signals. A set of time domain (TD) and wavelet features were extracted from sEMG signals. Wavelet singularities based on the volume conduction muscle model were computed to provide precise control to the system. A simple multilayer perceptron artificial neural network (ANN) is applied for classification of these features. The output of the classifier was used as a control signal to test a small miniaturized wheelchair in realtime via wireless (blue-tooth) interface. Wavelet decomposition singularities in association with an ANN classifier can successfully differentiate between five different subtle finger movements with a high degree of sensitivity. This research study is a framework towards providing a simple and better control and interface for amputees, disabled and elderly, who have limited mobility.","PeriodicalId":107245,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124319606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Bhowmick, Soumyajit Dey, Abinash Samantaray, D. Mukherjee, P. Misra
{"title":"A temporal constraint based planning approach for city tour and travel plan generation","authors":"P. Bhowmick, Soumyajit Dey, Abinash Samantaray, D. Mukherjee, P. Misra","doi":"10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481849","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present an AI planning-based city tour and travel application. The system assists the travellers to generate temporally constrained plans and their interactive map-based visualizations. We discuss the requirement of temporal constraints in the domain of city tour and travel application and consequent modelling of such an application as a temporally constrained planning problem. We have proposed schemes for specification and processing of temporal constraints in a Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planner. We have redefined the basic PDDL3.0 temporal operators by imposing interval bounds and defined them as a restricted subset of Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL) family. The planner has been used to devise city tour and travel plans under temporal constraints and the generated plans have been rendered through Google-map based navigation interface.","PeriodicalId":107245,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI)","volume":" 21","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120829780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comparative study of native (L1) and Nonnative (L2) English speech strategy for discourse prosodic organization","authors":"Shambhu Nath Saha, Shyamal Kr. Das Mandal","doi":"10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481862","url":null,"abstract":"English speech of L1 English and L1 Bengali speakers of the same discourse is analyzed by applying hierarchical discourse prosody framework HPG (Hierarchy of Prosodic Phrase Group) in order to find the between-and within-group similarities and differences in speech planning of L1 (native) and L2 (non-native) English speakers for prosodic organization at discourse level. The analysis reveals that the speech rate of L1 speakers is higher than speech rate of L2 speakers; L2 speakers contain more break boundary than that of the L1 speakers at every discourse prosodic level in the organization, which exhibit the fact that L2 speakers use more intermediate chunking units and larger scale planning units than that of L1 speakers. Between-group differences are also found through the analysis of phrase component at prosodic phrase level (PPh) and accent component at prosodic word level (PW). These findings can be attributed to L2 speakers' improper phrasing, improper word level prominence and ambiguous difference between content words and function words in discourse prosodic organization.","PeriodicalId":107245,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI)","volume":"209 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121041869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tirthankar Dasgupta, Aakash Anuj, Manjira Sinha, R. Ghose, A. Basu
{"title":"VoiceMail architecture in desktop and mobile devices for the Blind people","authors":"Tirthankar Dasgupta, Aakash Anuj, Manjira Sinha, R. Ghose, A. Basu","doi":"10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481791","url":null,"abstract":"The advancement in computer based accessible systems has opened up many avenues for the visually impaired across a wide majority of the globe. Audio feedback based virtual environment like, the screen readers have helped Blind people to access internet applications immensely. However, a large section of visually impaired people in different countries in particular, the Indian sub-continent could not benefit much from such systems. This was primarily due to the difference in the technology required for Indian languages compared to those corresponding to other popular languages of the world. In this paper, we describe the VoiceMail system architecture that can be used by a Blind person to access e-Mails easily and efficiently. The contribution made by this research has enabled the Blind people to send and receive voice based e-Mail messages in their native language with the help of a computer or a mobile device. Our proposed system GUI has been evaluated against the GUI of a traditional mail server. We found that our proposed architecture performs much better than that of the existing GUIs.","PeriodicalId":107245,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128467627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Significance of learner dependent features for improving text readability using extractive summarization","authors":"K. Nandhini, S. Balasundaram","doi":"10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481842","url":null,"abstract":"Information and Communication Technologies play major role in all types of day to day life activities including Government, public and social domains. The need for HCI aspects to be taken care in these activities has become a predominant one. Especially, incorporating HCI features in the academic environment is getting more attention. In the case of reading materials associated with any type of academic process or content delivery, much focus is to be given so that even people with learning difficulties can get the information to his/her level of ability. Though lot of information is available in the academic scenario in the forms of text books, course ware, on line resources, web documents etc., not all content is readable by all. Tools and technologies must be made available to help people with learning difficulties including dyslexics. The idea is to reduce the burden levels of the learners with the help of assistive technologies. In this direction, this paper focuses on highlighting the importance of various features to be considered for making the text readable by all, using summarization techniques. Text summarization based on both document level and learner level features are discussed for making the content readable for people with learning difficulties. The experiments show that learner dependent features improve the readability of the text through summary as preview of the text.","PeriodicalId":107245,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI)","volume":"155 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127255263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rule based human activity recognition for surveillance system","authors":"A. Kushwaha, O. Prakash, A. Khare, M. Kolekar","doi":"10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481853","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a framework for classification and recognition of human activities in complex motion. We propose a template matching based method to classify the objects and a rule-based approach to recognize human activities. First, moving objects are detected and their silhouettes are generated in each frame. Second, template matching based approach is used to classify the generated silhouette and then a rule based classifier is applied to classify human activities such as running, walking, bending, boxing and jogging etc. The experimental results show that the system can recognize seven types of primitive actions with high accuracy.","PeriodicalId":107245,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116686478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Subrajeet Mohapatra, D. Patra, Sunil Kumar, S. Satpathy
{"title":"Kernel Induced Rough c-means clustering for lymphocyte image segmentation","authors":"Subrajeet Mohapatra, D. Patra, Sunil Kumar, S. Satpathy","doi":"10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481865","url":null,"abstract":"Blood microscopic image segmentation is a fundamental tool for automated diagnosis of hematological disorders. In particular, lymphoblast image segmentation acts as the foundation for all image based leukemia diagnostic system. Precision in image segmentation is a necessary condition for improving the diagnostic accuracy in automated cytology. Since the diagnostic information content of the segmented images are plentiful, suitable segmentation routines need to be developed for better disease recognition. In this paper, Kernel Induced Rough C-means (KIRCM) clustering algorithm is introduced for the segmentation of human lymphocyte images. Rough C-means clustering (RCM) is performed in higher dimensional feature space to obtain improved segmentation accuracy and to facilitate automated Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) detection. Comparative analysis reveals that use of rough sets in kernel space clustering for leukocyte segmentation gives the proposed scheme an edge over existing schemes.","PeriodicalId":107245,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125539897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing an intelligent blink analyzer tool for effective human computer interaction through eye","authors":"S. Deb, Sujay Deb","doi":"10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481806","url":null,"abstract":"The traditional human-computer interfaces demand good manual agility and refined motor control, which may be absent or unpredictable for people with certain disabilities. Here it is proposed a robust, accurate algorithm with relevant hardware setup to detect eyes and measure the duration of blinks to interpret them in real time to control a computer or computer interfaced devices. The complete system is divided into two primary modules. The first one is to detect voluntary eye blink and second module to trigger an onscreen soft agent that interprets the blink into proper mouse movement with associated mouse action sequence. This is a low cost proposal and prototypes designed to work with web camera interfaced to a standard PC.","PeriodicalId":107245,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123028908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intelligent contextual assistance for visuals in remote campaign operation","authors":"M. Rituparna, K. V. Krishna, J. K. Mukherjee","doi":"10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHCI.2012.6481856","url":null,"abstract":"Remote working using roaming work agents supported campaigns need multiple observer based view formation by dynamic reconfiguration of the observers located at site. The work addresses development of machine intelligence for dynamic reconfiguration of observers and pertinent context sensitization synchronized to on-line visuals depending on the campaign objective at different phases of operation which mainly relate to navigation, appreciation of surrounding for navigation planning and assessment of local work environment at a site. The comprehensive human-machine interface described here, addresses the dual problem of optimum view set formation and visual context appraisal in an on-line process.","PeriodicalId":107245,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127743794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}