{"title":"Visual robot choreography for clinicians","authors":"J. A. Atherton, M. Goodrich","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928685","url":null,"abstract":"Robots show potential to be helpful in therapy for children with autism, but there are open questions on how to control the robots. Because clinicians typically lack programming experience, they must currently ask a programmer to program the robots. We hypothesize that clinicians are able to program robots sufficiently for their needs if the programming representation is understandable to them. We are designing a user interface tailored to clinician needs that enables clinicians to program robots. Clinicians, computer scientists, and mechanical engineers are collab-oratively involved in the design process. The first step is enabling clinicians to choreograph existing robot actions into a useful overall robot behavior. We demonstrate that clinicians are capable of choreographing actions with a pilot study.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"235 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133395775","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}
R. Keller, W. Clancey, M. Deans, J. Differding, K. Dodson, F. Enomoto, Jay P. Trimble, M. Sims
{"title":"Collaborative systems for NASA science, engineering, and mission operations","authors":"R. Keller, W. Clancey, M. Deans, J. Differding, K. Dodson, F. Enomoto, Jay P. Trimble, M. Sims","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928745","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a set of ten collaborative systems projects developed at NASA Ames Research Center over the past ten years. Our goal is to design new information technologies and collaboration tools that facilitate the process by which NASA engineers, scientists, and mission personnel collaborate in their unique work settings. We employ information management, artificial intelligence, and participatory design practices to build systems that are highly usable, augment human cognition, and support distributed NASA teams. NASA settings and applications serve as valuable testbeds for studying collaboration and developing new collaborative technologies.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115566386","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":"The intersection between cognitive robotics and human robot interaction","authors":"J. Trafton","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928680","url":null,"abstract":"Interaction between two entities is a mixture of social, cognitive, and embodied qualities. We know a great deal about interaction between people, but only recently have begun exploring whether people interact with robots and avatars the same way that people interact with each other.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123203532","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":"Detecting abnormal data for ontology based information integration","authors":"Yang Yu, J. Heflin","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928721","url":null,"abstract":"To better support information integration on Semantic Web data with varying degrees of quality, this paper proposes an approach to detect triples which reflect some sort of error. In particular, erroneous triples may occur due to factual errors in the original data source, misuse of the ontology by the original data source, or errors in the integration process. Although diagnosing such errors is a difficult problem, we propose that the degree to which a triple deviates from similar triples can be an important heuristic for identifying errors. We detect such “abnormal triples” by learning probabilistic rules from the reference data and checking to what extent these rules agree with the triples. The system consists of two components for two types of abnormal relational descriptions that a Semantic Web statement could have, whether accidentally or maliciously: a statement could relate two resources that are unlikely to have anything in common or an inappropriate predicate could be used to describe the relation between the two resources. The classification technique is adopted to learn statistical characteristics for detecting a suspect resource pair, i.e. there is no significant relation between the subject and the object in the statement. For the suspect usages of a predicate, the system learns semantic patterns for each predicate from indirect semantic connections between the subject / object pairs.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128483487","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":"Use of multi-context systems for crossing boundaries","authors":"H. Tellioglu","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928742","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is about the introduction of multi-context systems as a framework. Multi-context systems consist of structured data enriched with attachments as additional resources like documents or web sites, and with add-ons like annotations, tags, ranks, etc. linked to it. Attachments and annotations are connected by hyperlinks to the structured data. Multi-context systems help define, capture, and analyze the different levels of data used and exchanged in a work group. A real multi-context system, a to-do list, is used to illustrate the practice around such an artifact to underline the importance of such systems. The analysis of to-do lists ended up first in a model and then in a prototype, which was implemented and evaluated. The prototype shows how multi-context systems are useful to overcome problems of boundary crossings between teams.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"34 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116622490","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}
Y. Demchenko, J. V. D. Ham, V. Yakovenko, C. D. Laat, M. Ghijsen, M. Cristea
{"title":"On-demand provisioning of Cloud and Grid based infrastructure services for collaborative projects and groups","authors":"Y. Demchenko, J. V. D. Ham, V. Yakovenko, C. D. Laat, M. Ghijsen, M. Cristea","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928675","url":null,"abstract":"Effective use of existing network and IT infrastructure can be achieved by providing combined network and IT resources on-demand as infrastructure services that are capable of supporting complex technological processes, scientific experiments, and collaborative groups of researchers and applications. This paper provides a short overview of existing standards and technologies and refers to ongoing projects. We also describe experiences in developing an architectural framework and tools for combined on-demand network and Grid/Cloud service provisioning. The paper proposes an architectural framework for on-demand infrastructure service provisioning comprising of three main components: the Composable Services Architecture (CSA) that intends to provide a conceptual and methodological framework for developing dynamically configurable virtualised infrastructure services; the Infrastructure Services Modeling Framework (ISMF) that provides a basis for the infrastructure resources virtualisation and management, including description, discovery, modeling, composition and monitoring; and the Service Delivery Framework (SDF) that provides a basis for defining the whole composable services life cycle management and supporting infrastructure services. We discuss implementation suggestions for the defined architectural components and provides information about the ongoing developments of the GEMBus which is considered as a middleware framework for CSA.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128445503","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 survey of crowdsourcing as a means of collaboration and the implications of crowdsourcing for interaction design","authors":"Yue Pan, Eli Blevis","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928716","url":null,"abstract":"Crowdsourcing has emerged as a new learning and online collaborative paradigm, in which “crowds” of people can collaborate and complete a specific task. In this paper, we provide a survey of crowdsourcing as a means of collaboration in three different contexts, namely academic, enterprise, and social. The survey also includes a short inventory of how different factors contribute to the development of crowdsourcing. Finally, we develop and outline open questions, insights, as well as a research agenda for enhancing crowdsourcing development in the perspective of HCI.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131643705","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":"Expert opinions in cancer metastasis: Harvesting knowledge from uncertainty and discrepancies","authors":"A. Divoli","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928759","url":null,"abstract":"Research in computational biology is often contingent on principal notions. Mathematical modeling is relying on valid initial assumptions. Text mining algorithms can only retrieve or extract information found in text. Knowledge representation requires a degree of knowledge consensus. Our understanding of certain areas in biology, however, is still in its infancy having a ripple effect in computational efforts.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"310 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131818346","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":"Use of sensor-based feedback technology in reducing home energy consumption","authors":"Annika Matta, Aurélia Heitz, Banny Banerjee","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928753","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally the energy crisis has been addressed through advances in (a) efficient technologies allowing users to carry out the same function with less energy, (b) offsets from non-renewable energy sources through renewable sources, and (c) pricing and regulatory measures [1].","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116337295","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":"MoSS: Mobile Smart Services for ubiquitous network management","authors":"Sheng-Ying Pao, Alexander Reben, A. Rayes","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928664","url":null,"abstract":"We present an intelligence-based mobile solution addressing product life cycle and overall network management functions. Traditional network and service management systems rely on basic inventory information periodically collected from the network in order to establish the basic “Install Base” network view. Such collection systems, however, still require manual human manipulations given the required device's electronically embedded predefined parameters are often inaccurate or absent. Leveraging mobile agents and ubiquitous computing in networks, we developed the Mobile Smart Services (MoSS), a location-aware solution as well as a novel interactive interface to improve the collected parameters and Return Material Authorization (RMA) user experience. The fluid interaction, mobility, and efficiency of the system allow network service providers and customers to solve network management problems. The applications developed also enable ubiquitous inventory management, intelligent contract management and effective system diagnosis to improve productivity in complicated network systems.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127190479","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}