Having a better way to represent and to interact with large geological models are topics of high interest in geoscience, and especially for oil and gas companies. We present in this paper the design and implementation of a visualization program that involves two main features. It is based on the central data model, in order to display in real time the modifications caused by the modeler. Furthe...

This paper presents a new framework for accessibility based on a broad framework for metadata about adaptability. Accessibility is generally associated with the needs of people with disabilities while adaptability includes, for example, the transformation of digital resources and services for users as they change from one access device to another, as is the case when one uses a telephone instea...

We examined whether children's ability to integrate speech and gesture follows the pattern of a broader developmental shift between 3- and 5-year-old children (Ramscar & Gitcho, 2007) regarding the ability to process two pieces of information simultaneously. In Experiment 1, 3-year-olds, 5-year-olds, and adults were presented with either an iconic gesture or a spoken sentence or a combination o...

This paper revisit and extends results about the Safety-Progress classification of properties introduced by Chang, Manna, and Pnueli [1]. Our work is motivated by runtime verification, as so we believe that this general classification is a good basis for specifying properties. In runtime verification, a major and distinguishing feature is the interest of finite execution sequences and their val...

Among the most obvious but generally overlooked differences between printed documents and video presentations is the orientation of the display medium. Paper-based documents throughout the world historically have been and continue to be predominantly portrait-oriented — taller than they are wide — whereas television screens and computer monitors are predominantly landscape-oriented — wider than...

Pen movements were recorded in healthy adults during learning of a sequence of vertical down strokes, a zigzag pattern, or a cursive-script pattern. The strokes had to be performed by moving the pen from target to target while visual feedback was offered via a computer monitor. The movement patterns were segmented into up and down strokes. Each stroke was segmented into primary and secondary su...

This paper presents a general approach to robust execution monitoring. The goal is to provide coverage for many types of unexpected and unanticipated situations, while at the same time enabling the robot to quickly detect , and react to, speciic contingencies. The approach uses a hierarchy of monitors, structured in layers of increasing speciicity. We present the general approach, and show its ...

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Document triage is the practice of quickly determining the merit and disposition of relevant documents. This practice involves selection of documents from a document overview and quick forms of reading: skimming, reading short portions of a longer document, and navigating through headings, indices, and tables of contents. Earlier studies of document triage practice showed considerable overhead ...

Large displays are often constructed by tiling multiple small displays, creating visual discontinuities from inner bezels that may affect human perception of data. Our work investigates how bezels impact magnitude judgement, a fundamental aspect of perception. Two studies are described which control for bezel presence, bezel width, and user-to-display distance. Our findings form three implicati...