Making your presentation communicate

How to communicate smartly with your house?

We are involved in conceiving and implementing man–machine interfaces allowing multimodal and situated dialogue in order to interact with smart digital environments. Several methods are presented depending on how and what the user can say. We describe our approach and some tracks to permit to end-users to communicate more naturally with their house, by speech or by gesture, for instance. Some a...

Making Mobile Agents Communicate: A Flexible Approach

The concept of “agents” has recently attracted a lot of attention in AI as well as distributed systems circles, although nobody has come up yet with a general definition of just what an agent is supposed to be. For the purposes of this paper, we assume that an agent is a computer program that helps a user perform a task (or set of tasks). To do this, it must contain persistent state and be able...

Making Your Website Usable

Making your own retrograde carrier.

One of the problems faced by manufacturers is the difficulty in constructing a robust and reliable, angled applicator tip. This can be overcome by handmaking your own retrograde carrier. The applicator tip may be bent to about 50 degrees and, if a kink occurs while bending the tip, it can be replaced easily by a new modified needle. Because the wire used is flexible, it can adapt to the bend wi...

Making Your Genbank Entry Count

sequence submissions becoming standard fare. Some scientists, however, are doing a messy job of their GenBank submission because they are in a hurry to get a GenBank accession number so that they can publish their sequence data in an academic journal (proof of GenBank submission is required by most publishers). The irony is that the GenBank entry for a given nucleotide sequence is often more im...