Designers play a key role in the design of inclusive and socially conscious interfaces. Thus, it is imperative for designers to be thoughtful ethical social implications design. However, gaps foundational training that receive (e.g., as university students) can negatively impact their ability consider practice. This result consequences such digital marginalization, which, defined by Digital Des...

This paper describes an abstract framework, called valuation network (VN), for representing and solving discrete optimization problems. In VNs, we represent information in an optimization problem using functions called valuations. Valuations represent factors of an objective function. Solving a VN involves using two operators called combination and marginalization. The combination operator tell...

This paper describes an abstract framework called valuation network for computation of marginals using local computation. In valuation networks, we represent knowledge using functions called valuations. Making inferences involves using two operators called marginalization and combination. Marginalization tells us how to coarsen a valuation by eliminating some variables. Combination tells us how...

In this study, the missing-feature method is considered to address band-limited speech for speaker recognition. In an effort to mitigate possible degradation due to the general speaker independent model, a two-step reconstruction scheme is developed, where speaker class independent/dependent models are used separately. An advanced marginalization in the cepstral domain is proposed employing a h...

This papers discusses several implementation aspects for Dempster-Shafer belief functions. The main objective is to propose an appropriate representation of mass functions and efficient data structures and algorithms for the two basic operations of combination and marginalization.

This article studies the reception of a popular 19 century Anglo-Indian novel, Captain Philip Meadows Taylor’s Tara (1863). This novel was once assigned a central position in the canon of Anglo-Indian novel. However, in the present age, it has been displaced from its position of eminence. This article contends that the present marginalization of Tara can be related to the change in the politica...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of our study was to examine the effects of socioeconomic status, acculturative stress, discrimination, and marginalization as predictors of depression in pregnant Hispanic women. DESIGN A prospective observational design was used. SETTING Central and Gulf coast areas of Texas in obstetrical offices. PARTICIPANTS A convenience sample of 515 pregnant, low income, low m...

Safety of children and marginalization of youth are increasing problems in our modern society. Developing technologies, however, offer more possibilities for building safety solutions for children and teenagers. This paper describes a new concept of using sensors to monitor human behavior in combination with data processing and information transfer via different communication channels as well a...