Virtual keyboards used by physically impaired users for text entry usually display all characters simultaneously on the screen. Applications where saving physical space is critical, however, require another approach. A common option is grouping several symbols under one key and employing a hierarchical selection mechanism. We present an alternative technique (Symbol Creator) based on assembling...

T paper studies the optimal product and pricing decisions in a crowdfunding mechanism by which a project between a creator and many buyers will be realized only if the total funds committed by the buyers reach a specified goal. When the buyers are sufficiently heterogeneous in their product valuations, the creator should offer a line of products with different levels of product quality. Compare...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the iPad 2™ with Book Creator™ software to provide visual cues and video prompting to teach shopping skills in the community to a young adult with an autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability. METHODS A multiple probe across settings design was used to assess effects of the intervention on the participant's independence with following a shopping list in a groc...

Human creativity is intimately bound with the objects used in the creative process. Creation, creator, and tools exist as actors in a constantly undulating assemblage, both the weight of each component and the connection between components adapting to present circumstances. What changes in our understanding of creativity, then, need to occur when one of the actors is a non-human object with at ...

Despite the recognition that Archiving Web content is important and Web archiving systems freely crawl and collect resources on the Web for preservation, they have difficulties in collecting all versions of a single Web page and in preserving a collected resource with policies of use given by its creator. In order to solve the problems, we have proposed an Institutional Web Archiving System, wh...