Vocera: Enhancing communication across a library system

Enhancing System Communication through Synthetic Characters

Synthetic characters are an effective modality to convey messages to the user, provide visual feedback about the system internal understanding of the communication, and engage the user in the dialogue through emotional involvement. We propose SMIL-AGENT as a representation and scripting language for synthetic characters, which abstracts away from the specific implementation and context of use o...

Provo City Library: Building across a Century

PM: An Operating System Coordinated High Performance Communication Library

We have developed a new communication library, called PM, for the Myrinet gigabit LAN card, that has a dedicated processor and on-board memory to handle a communication protocol. In order to obtain high performance communication and support a multi-user environment, we have co-desgined PM, an operating system realized by a daemon process, and the run-time routine for a programming language. Sev...

A Library System for Small-Scale Library

In this paper, we explain a library system for small-scale libraries. This system uses books and face images for administration of lending and returning books. Users can borrow books by facing the front of the camera, presenting the book, and clicking the "Borrow" button. When returning books, users are required to click the "Return" button in the same way as on borrowing. The librarian can che...

A portable collective communication library using communication schedules

We describe a flexible and efficient implementation of a portable collective communication library based on communication schedules. With communication schedules the communication pattern of an operation is expressed before it is actually executed. We provide a simple set of functions to create such a communication schedule and to check whether the communication pattern is correct. Analyzing th...