Abstr act: Many real world models can be characterized as weak, m�aning that there is significant uncertainty in both the data input and inferences. This lack of determinism makes it especially difficult for users of computer decision aids to understand and have confidence in the models. This paper presents a representation for uncertainty and utilities that serves as a framework for graphical ...

In this paper we outline how computer-generated diagrams and other types of graphical devices might be used to help communicate patient-tailored information in clinical genetics.

This paper approaches the problem of annotating measure positions in Western classical music recordings. Such annotations can be useful for navigation, segmentation, and cross-version analysis of music in different types of representations. In a case study based on Wagner’s opera “Die Walküre”, we analyze two types of annotations. First, we report on an experiment where several human listeners ...

Seeing the moving face of the talker permits better detection of speech in noise compared to not seeing their face. We report on an experiment that examined the basis of this AV facilitation effect. This work follows up research by [1] and [2] that developed a procedure for demonstrating an AV speech detection effect and [3] that showed that this facilitation occurred regardless of whether part...

This paper describes a new method for visualizing complex information spaces as painted images. Scientific visualization converts data into pictures that allow viewers to “see” trends, relationships, and patterns. We introduce a formal definition of the correspondence between traditional visualization techniques and painterly styles from the Impressionist art movement. This correspondence allow...

In the first of two experimental studies, 312 students were randomly assigned to one of 8 conditions, where agents differed by ethnicity (Black, White), gender (male, female), and image (realistic, cartoon), yet had identical messages and computer-generated voice. In the second study, 229 students were randomly assigned to one of 12 conditions where agents represented different instructional ro...

High-resolution array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) provides exon-level mapping of DNA aberrations in cells or tissues. Such aberrations are central to carcinogenesis and, in many cases, central to targeted therapy of the cancers. Some of the aberrations are sporadic, one-of-a-kind changes in particular tumor samples; others occur frequently and reflect common themes in cancer biolog...

We describe a method used in the REAP tutor to automatically check whether students are reading practice texts for English vocabulary learning. The number of texts used by the REAP tutor and challenges of automatically generating reading comprehension questions necessitated a simpler type of question that could be computer-generated. We describe an algorithm for generating such reading-check qu...

This paper introduces Iconoscope, a game aiming to foster the creativity of a young target audience in formal or informal educational settings. At the core of the Iconoscope design is the creative, playful interpretation of word-concepts via the construction of visual icons. In addition to that, the game rewards ambiguity via a scoring system which favors icons that dichotomize public opinion. ...

This paper presents an Optimality-theoretic (Prince and Smolensky 1993) analysis of quantity-insensitive stress. A set of grid-based constraints is shown by means of a computer-generated factorial typology to provide a relatively tight fit to the full range of stress systems attested in an extensive survey of quantity-insensitive stress patterns, many of which have not been previously discussed...