{"title":"Science communication in 3D virtual worlds: The science circle alliance in second life","authors":"H. Hayek, Phillip D. Youngblood","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426887","url":null,"abstract":"Educators have increasingly used 3D virtual worlds as alternative learning environments to engage students and accommodate different learning styles. Members of The Science Circle, an international alliance of science educators and enthusiasts, were surveyed about their experiences and attitudes towards communicating science in Second Life. 36 survey respondents expressed overwhelmingly positive experience communicating, teaching, and learning science concepts there. They also largely agreed that virtual worlds include features that enhance learning in ways that are difficult to reproduce in physical settings.","PeriodicalId":375443,"journal":{"name":"2015 5th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123247337","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":"FOAF-based clustering of handicraft women using ranked features","authors":"Rania Yangui, Ahlem Nabli, F. Gargouri","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426890","url":null,"abstract":"This paper builds upon the BWEC1 (Business for Women in Women of Emerging Country) research project to improve the socio-economic situation of handicraft women. In this project our principal task is to build data warehouse schema from handicraft women social network. For that, we follow a semi-supervised clustering-based methodology. In this paper, we propose the adaptation of a semi-supervised hierarchical clustering based on ranking mixed features for the FAOF ontology. This later serves as perfect input data for clustering. The main contribution is to use ontology-based similarity measures that combine numerical and nominal variables along different dimensions (instances, attributes, and relation-ships) and to provide a performable clustering algorithm based on ranking features. The evaluation of the used clustering methods in the context of the project emphasizes it effectiveness to generate valid clusters which can be successfully used for extending the data warehouse schema.","PeriodicalId":375443,"journal":{"name":"2015 5th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"448 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123231130","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":"Human face texture generation based on MPEG-4 standard","authors":"Imen Lagha, Achraf Othman","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426891","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is about a new method of generation texture for 3D face model. The 3D model is used as a signing avatar to help deaf people to interact easily. This approach is based on the MPEG-4 standard for facial detection points from two orthogonal photos representing the front and side view of a human head. The two photos are cut, combined and finally deformed corresponding to an UV-map to finally generate a texture which can be mapped on the 3D head.","PeriodicalId":375443,"journal":{"name":"2015 5th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128566141","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":"My vWallet - A smartphone application for assisting people with math difficulties at point of sale","authors":"O. Tahan, Farah Barake, N. Seliman, Z. Merhi","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426922","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the recent advancements in mobile technologies, the massive deployment of smartphones in the markets has become a thriving trend. These systems gained high popularity among users due to their relatively low cost and continuous expansion towards better functionalities and performance. We believe that the pervasive utilization of these systems and ease of use help us build mobile applications that are of big aid for people with disabilities. In this paper, we present My vWallet, an easy to use interactive smartphone application dedicated to assist people suffering from dyscalculia, mathematical computation difficulties and mild or moderate mental deficiency to easily overcome situations where money managing and exchange is required. Our application provides an interactive and easy to use graphical user interface, which provides an efficient and simple way for handling monetary exchange. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to develop a mobile software that targets this issue.","PeriodicalId":375443,"journal":{"name":"2015 5th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128169804","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 filtering proposal for extracted Arabic term candidates","authors":"Imen Bouaziz Mezghanni, F. Gargouri","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426927","url":null,"abstract":"In the terminology extraction process, determining relevance of the candidates is very crucial for the purpose of identifying domain-relevant terms. Information about terms can be often gathered from linguistic knowledge or from statistic measures. In this paper, we present a proposition of a filtering mechanism based on a machine learning technique so as to keep only the most relevant terms. The proposed strategy incorporates varied and rich features from the content as well as the structure of Arabic legal documents.","PeriodicalId":375443,"journal":{"name":"2015 5th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115760086","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":"On QoS web service composition using satisfiability","authors":"Abderrahim Ait Wakrime, Saïd Jabbour","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426929","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud Computing based Software as a Service (SaaS) combines multiple Web Services in order to satisfy a SaaS request. SaaS is based on Service Oriented Architectures and Web Service technology which are popular paradigm to design new generation of applications. These functionalities are published on the Internet, but exploiting rigorously a large data stream in order to use Web Services is a complicated and laborious task which may involve error prone. In this paper we investigate the problem of SaaS Web Service Composition. We present a new technique that translates the problem of minimum SaaS Web Services composition into MaxSAT problem. We extend this encoding to take int account the QoS by proposing a weighted MaxSAT version.","PeriodicalId":375443,"journal":{"name":"2015 5th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"229 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127244127","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}
Marco Alfonse, Amira T. Ali, A. S. Elons, N. Badr, Magdy Aboul-Ela
{"title":"Arabic sign language benchmark database for different heterogeneous sensors","authors":"Marco Alfonse, Amira T. Ali, A. S. Elons, N. Badr, Magdy Aboul-Ela","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426902","url":null,"abstract":"The lack of a visualized representation for standard Arabic Sign Language (ArSL) makes it difficult to do something as common place as looking up an unknown word in a dictionary. The majority of printed dictionaries organize ArSL signs (represented in drawings or pictures) based on their nearest Arabic translation; so unless one already knows the meaning of Arabic sign, dictionary look-up is not a simple proposition. In order to build Arabic signs recognition system, standard database of Arabic signs is required to validate the results, however, this database is absent. In this paper, we introduce the ArSL database, a large and expanding public dataset containing video sequences of thousands of distinct ArSL signs. The database is collected using digital camera, Microsoft Kinect 2 sensor and Leap motion tracking sensor. This dataset is created as part of a project to develop an Arabic sign language translator. This database contents and variations qualifies it to be a benchmark database for ArSL in both research and commercial purposes.","PeriodicalId":375443,"journal":{"name":"2015 5th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122293473","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":"Improving coverage of rule based NER systems","authors":"Emna Hkiri, Souheyl Mallat, M. Zrigui","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426925","url":null,"abstract":"Named entity recognition (NER) is the problem of identifying (locating and categorizing) atomic entities in a given text that fall into predefined categories or classes. In this work, we developed a bilingual Arabic-English lexicon of named entities (NE) to improve the performance of Arabic rule-based systems. To reach our goal, we followed different steps starting by the pre-editing of the DBpedia linked data entities and the parallel corpus and then applying our automatic model for detection, extraction and translation of Arabic-English Named Entities. Our approach is fully automatic and hybrid, it combines linguistic and statistical methods.","PeriodicalId":375443,"journal":{"name":"2015 5th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131696735","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 crosswords game for deaf","authors":"Raouf Chebka, Fathi Essalmi","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426880","url":null,"abstract":"Learning vocabulary of natural language is very important for deaf learners. It helps them understanding what they read, express their thoughts and communicate with others. Despite this importance, vocabulary acquisition remains a hard task which requires a higher motivation level. On the other hand, learning games are considered as one of the effective ways for increasing learner's desire to learn. This paper presents an accessible version of the popular crosswords game for deaf learners. It allows learning Arabic vocabulary in a fun and interactive way. The game was used by 38 learners. The obtained results showed that the game enhances the learners' level of knowledge regarding Arabic vocabulary. Besides, it showed that the learners are very satisfied with learning vocabulary using the game.","PeriodicalId":375443,"journal":{"name":"2015 5th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132168331","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":"Towards feedback personalization in mobile assessment based on semantic web","authors":"R. Ghribi, L. Cheniti-Belcadhi","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426919","url":null,"abstract":"Feedback is a crucial component of the assessment process in mobile learning environments, simply because it can be used by the learner to bridge the gap in his/her knowledge or to have an idea about his/her performance. In this paper we propose a personalized mobile feedback module based on semantic web technologies, it is responsible to provide the learner with personalized mobile feedback related to mobile self assessment. Our module is a component of the framework PMAF (Personalized Mobile Assessment Framework) that aims to provide personalized mobile assessment resources. The use of semantic web technologies is explained with the feature of ensuring data interoperability and reuse of mobile feedback resources. In addition, an investigation for the enhancement of the defined feedback in IMS/QTI specification is presented. In our approach, a personalized mobile feedback module based on web services uses the learner's information stored in his/her e-portfolio to continuously suggest the most appropriate and personalized feedback in a particular field of knowledge to ensure the achievement of learning goals.","PeriodicalId":375443,"journal":{"name":"2015 5th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134434682","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}