Efficient and effective handling of video documents depends on the availability of indexes. Manual indexing is unfeasible for large video collections. Effective indexing requires a multimodal approach in which either the most appropriate modality is selected or the different modalities are used in collaborative fashion. In this paper we focus on the similarities and differences between the moda...

Given recent technological advancements in mobile devices, military research initiatives are investigating these devices as a means to support multimodal cooperative interactions. Military components are executing dynamic combat and humanitarian missions while dismounted and on the move. Paramount to their success is timely and effective information sharing and mission planning to enact more ef...

In this article, a multimodal framework is proposed to track the character development of female characters in the Bioshock franchise. The language part of the framework focuses on appraisal analysis. The appraisal framework is applied to understand the player’s interpretation of the linguistic resources found in the characters’ utterances. The nonlinguistic part of the framework utilizes Kress...

The study presented is part of a work-in-progress project of developing a mobile application for smartphones, Talking Tools (TT). The first context TT is developed for and tested in is sloyd education [Swedish: slöjd], a compulsory subject taught in Finnish schools. In sloyd learners design and manufacture unique artifacts in various materials (textiles, wood, metal, and electronics). The proce...

Despite offering several promising concepts, the Language/Action Perspective (LAP) is still not in the mainstream of Information Systems Development (ISD). With use of a comparative evaluation of LAP theory and DEMO theory, the implication of DEMO’s reflection upon LAP is determined. The paper concludes by outlining an agenda for further research if LAP is to improve its footprint in the field.

Through the Blueprints for Violence Prevention Initiative, OJJDP provides information to communities on a broad array of violence prevention and intervention programs that have been proven to be effective. This Bulletin describes the demanding criteria established by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence to designate model Blueprints programs and the activities of the 11 programs ...

In this special section we report on the workshop Standards in Emotion Modeling held in August 2011, Leiden, The Netherlands. An important goal of this workshop was to identify challenges related to the development and evaluation of computational models of affective processes. These challenges were approached from a psychological and a computational modeling perspective. In this introduction we...

Recent information systems research has challenged the tendency of researchers to focus upon single information system (Vertegaal 2003) or upon individuals simply as users of those systems (Lamb and Kling 2003). Responding to these critiques, this paper forwards a new paradigm through which to study knowledge management: the multimodal knowledge network. Drawing heavily upon the field of social...

Interactive 3D content has become an integralpart in online applications. Examples can befound in Second Life, Google 3D City scene andMicrosoft 3D reconstruction using multiple 2Dphotos. One advantage attributable to 3D contentis the extra dimension, which provides bettervisual communication than 2D to representstructures and explain concepts. Moreimportantly, h...