This paper presents the main approaches used to synthesize talking faces, and provides greater detail on a handful of these approaches. No system is described exhaustively, however, and, for purposes of conciseness, not all existing systems are reviewed. An attempt is made to distinguish between facial synthesis itself (i.e the manner in which facial movements are rendered on a computer screen)...

We propose a methodology to estimate a user’s interest in documents displayed on a computer screen from his or her physical actions. We introduce the ongoing pilot study’s results which showed a possible relationship between face approaches captured by a web camera and the user’s interest in the document on the screen. Some researches showed that physical actions captured through the device can...

Updating a video screen involves row replacement, i.e. the task of updating an existing screen row to produce the desired row. In many environments, screen operations require transmitting characters to the terminal by a process that is painfully slow compared to computing speeds. Thus, it is worth while to compute a minimal set of row updating commands, as long as the time to do so does not out...

In crosslinguistic investigations, expressions of TIME are closely connected to SPACE (Alverson, 1994; Boroditsky, 2000, 2011; Lakoff and Johnson, 1980; Radden, 2003; Haspelmath (1997). The manifestations of TIME IS SPACE metaphor should, however, be scrutinized from a relativist viewpoint. Different cultures’ concepts of TIME may differ as a result of life experience, shared community beliefs,...

The evaluation of computer software relies on the relationship between the characteristics of the software and the efficiency of its use. To find out which characteristics of the software can influence the level of acquired knowledge, an experiment was carried out with tenth grade students in Estonian schools. Fifty-four students studied 35 units from different multimedia textbooks. Correlation...

It is becoming increasingly common to see computers with two or even three monitors being used today. People seem to like having more display space available, and intuition tells us that the added space should be beneficial to work. Little research has been done to examine the effects and potential utility of multiple monitors for work on everyday tasks with common applications, however. We com...