This document describes the working environment developed by ESCoM laboratory (Equipe Sémiotique Cognitive et Nouveaux Médias, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme) during the ASA-SHS project (Audiovisual Semiotic Workshop for Human and Social Sciences). ASA-SHS is a R&D project financed by the French National Research Agency (ANR, Programme Blanc 2008) and targets to develop strategies of ...

We propose residUUm, an audiovisual performance tool that uses sonification to orchestrate a particle system of shapes, as an attempt to build an audiovisual user interface in which all the actions of a performer on a laptop are intended to be explicitly interpreted by the audience. We propose two approaches to performing with residUUm and discuss the methods utilized to fulfill the promise of ...

Automatic deduction of semantic labels for audiovisual data requires awareness of context, which in turn requires processing sequences of audiovisual scenes or events. The representation of such sequences is important for semantic analysis tasks. Whereas, conventionally, sequences of specific short-duration event labels, often hand-annotated for learning detectors or classifiers, have been used...

Nowadays more and more audiovisual information is available, from many sources around the world. Computer and data technologies are continuing to develop at a rapid rate, providing higher performance while reducing the cost and size of the system components. Users require assistance to avoid being overwhelmed by this amount of information and the information providers require assistance in auth...

Programming by demonstration systems acquire procedural knowledge from examples, and then use that knowledge to execute the learned procedure on new instances. We present an architecture, called version space algebra, for learning this type of procedural knowledge, and describe an implemented system for programming by demonstration in the text-editing domain. We present results showing the syst...

It has been shown that for k = 8 or 9, there exists a BIBD(v, k, 1) for all positive integers v == 1 or k (mod k(k-1)), with some possible exceptions. We show that such designs exist for 49 of these exceptional values. A balanced incomplete block design (BIBD) with parameters (v, k, 1) is a pair (X, A) where X is a v-set and A is a family of k-subsets (where 2 < k < v) called blocks, such that ...

This paper describes Familiar, a domain-independent programming by demonstration system for automating iterative tasks in existing, unmodified applications on a popular commercial platform. Familiar is domainindependent in an immediate and practical sense: it requires no domain knowledge from the developer and works immediately with new applications as soon as they are installed. Based on the A...

  Having in mind the high level of challenge in writing as a foreign language, this research provided Iranian EFL learners with audiovisual feedbacks as an alternative of common written feedback and focused on its’ meaningfulness in order to provide an incentive medium for the participants and increase their moti-vation. One hundred young adult female learners in addition to six English languag...

First we analyse audiovisual documents and the temporalities they are concerned with. Then we define hypervideos as extended audiovisual documents that offer hypertextual capabilities in the framework of audiovisual information systems. We analyse some features of hypervideos regarding the temporalities we defined, and show that hypervideo are complex objects. So we finally present the beginnin...

The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) is developing a web-based platform for audiovisual media. The forthcoming audiovisual portal optimises access to scientific videos such as computer animations, lecture and conference recordings. TIB's AVPortal offers new methods for searching within videos enabled by automated video analysis with scene, speech, text and image recogniti...