Ways to make meetings accessible

Simple ways to make friends

This paper describes a study of the effects of mimicry and social praise when used by an artificial social agent. An experiment (N=50) is described which shows that social praise increases the perceived friendliness of a chat-robot, while, mimicry displaying matching behavior enhances the perceived intelligence of the robot. We advice designers to incorporate both mimicry and social praise in t...

New ways to make a blood cell

In a niche under the skin in Drosophila larvae, blood cells called plasmatocytes can transform into other classes of blood cell.

100 Ways to Make a Japanese House

© 2012 Children’s Literature Association. Pp. 153–163. Scenes of children making dollhouses are something of a leitmotif in Rumer Godden’s celebrated doll stories. Her first children’s novel, The Dolls’ House (1947), has sisters Charlotte and Emily Dane refurbishing a Victorian dollhouse, while in 1956’s The Fairy Doll, the young protagonist Elizabeth fashions a more unassuming home for her dol...

Two ways to make great contributions.

Making Brainstorming Meetings Accessible for Blind Users

Co-located meetings, as a fundamental part of our professional and educational lives heavily rely on visual information. In such meetings visual information consists of a) the artifact or “content” part (as for instance in brainstorming meetings the mind maps) and b) of nonverbal communication elements (like deictic gestures and gazes). Blind persons to a large extent do not have access to thes...