LODE: Global Reasoning on e-Stories for Deaf Children

Abstract. Due to a limited exposition to the language in its spoken form in their first years of life, deaf children lack the primary means of acquiring literacy skills. In this paper, we present LODE, a web-based interactive tool for the literacy of Italian deaf children. LODE proposes written e-stories and elicits children to globally reason on them through interactive exercises, developed with the support of an automated reasoner and a natural language processor. The LODE's users are also invited to collaborate and exchange their productions in an interactive manner

The AI4Citizen pilot: Pipelining AI-based technologies to support school-work alternation programmes

The School-Work Alternation (SWA) programme was developed (under a European Commission call) to bridge the gaps and establish a well-tuned partnership between education and the job market. This work details the development of the AI4Citizen pilot, an AI software suite designed to support the SWA programme. The AI4Citizen pilot, developed within the H2020 AI4EU project, offers AI tools to automate and enhance the current SWA process. At the same time, the AI4Citizen pilot offers novel tools to support the complex problem of allocating student teams to internship programs, promoting collaborative learning and teamwork skills acquisition. Notably, the AI4Citizen pilot corresponds to a pipeline of AI tools, integrating existing and novel technologies. Our exhaustive empirical analysis confirms that the AI4Citizen pilot can alleviate the difficulties of current processes in the SWA, and therefore it is ready for real-world deployment

Constraint-based Temporal Reasoning and E-Learning Tools for Deaf Users. A Literature Review

KRDB Research Centre Technical Report KRDB08-1, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Ital

Evaluation of software tools with deaf children

ABSTRACT Evaluating software applications with deaf or hard of hearing children requires methods and procedures tuned to them. Indeed, they are unusual users with special communication needs. This paper proposes a list of guidelines for organizing effective evaluations of interactive tools with deaf children. The novelty of this work is that such guidelines are not based on theoretical thinking. Instead, they are built on data collected through questionnaires proposed to experts working with deaf children. The questionnaire's data are reinforced by my experience which was gained during usability tests with deaf children. In future work, the effectiveness of these guidelines will be checked during the evaluation of an e-learning tool for Italian deaf children

Launch your demo on the Web!

This paper is a very short guide for launching successfully a system demonstration on the Web. It doesn't want to be a complete guide, but it only gives some easy and sometimes probably obvious advice to help in the navigation of the ever growing World Wide Web. A list of the most popular search engines and Web directories is compiled. The history of the launch on the Web of the COMPASS demo, a system for image retrieval by content, is described. At the end the references to some Computer Vision related archives are cited. 1 Introduction The reasons for launching own's system demonstration on the Wide World Web are manifold: the most natural is that one wants to present the system to the likely customers (this is a type of advertising), one wants to have feedback about the system functionalities for improving the system, or alternatively one wants to nd partners for working together to rene the system, etc. . . . The Launch on the Web operation should follow two courses: th..

The COMPASS Server: a modified version of tclhttpd2.1.3

COMPASS [1] is a distributed system for image retrieval by content. The COMPASS server, a modied version of the tclhttpd2.1.3 server, is presented in this paper. 1 Introduction Advances in high performance computing, communication, and storage technologies as well as industry's current fascination with large scale multimedia applications have made development of eective techniques for visual and multimedia data management one of the most challenging and important direction of future research. Such systems will support visual data as rst-class objects capable of being stored and retrieved based on their rich internal contents. The contents of still images and video frames can be extracted manually by archivists or automatically by using computers. The archivists's work is slow, boring and subjective. So current research on the analysis of the multimedia data has been concentrated on the automatic extraction of ever more complete image description. Some research groups are working..

VIDEO: Video and Image Data Exploration and Organization

The future of digital telecommunications is strictly linked to systems which are able to manage multimedia databases providing type specific interfaces. The purpose of the VIDEO Research Unit at ITC-irst is to provide leading edge tools to cope with image and video data in type and application specific ways. Current research and development activities are focused on two applications: video stream analysis and presentation (Exprit Projects EUROMEDIA and OPAL); browsing of police mug-shots databases and creation of photographic quality identikits (SpotIt!). The present paper will briefly describe the systems developed at ITC-irst and the technologies upon which they are based