The primary focus of the study was to determine the relations among vocabulary and phonological awareness skills in two groups of preschool-aged children (n=118): those with typical vocabulary skills and those with deficits in expressive and receptive vocabulary. Additionally, we sought to determine if the patterns of relations among the variables differed by vocabulary status. Finally, given t...

This paper describes an academic experience of podcasting, which involved a group of students of a course on multimedia communication and human-computer interaction both as users of the university’s podcasting service, and as creators of podcasted lessons. The evaluation of the effect on student performance and data from student satisfaction surveys provide encouraging results.

When evaluating any new medium or technology we often turn to the familiar as a point of reference. Podcasting was no different, drawing obvious comparisons with radio. While there are traits within all podcasts that are radiogenic, one must also consider whether such distinctions are beneficial to the medium. Indeed, one might argue that when one considers the manner in which podcasts are crea...

video annotation, multimedia processing, digital medical records, podcasting In this paper, we demonstrate how rich media annotation can enable two new applications for video podcasting and digital medical records. At WIAMIS 2004, we introduced an innovative video annotation technology called Active Shadows, that captures a virtual presence interacting with a displayed image and overlays on top...

Purpose: The paper discovers how many American Research Libraries produce podcasts, on what subjects they are produced and how those podcasts are promoted. Design/methodology/approach: The researchers looked at each American Research Library’s website in December 2009 to determine if the library has a podcasting initiative and if so, what topics were covered. General scanning of the website, si...

Podcasting in medical education is becoming more widely used and may be a useful tool for communicating with applicants to medical school. Given recent trends in the popularity of podcasting and mobile media, we created a podcast to communicate more effectively with applicants to our medical school as well as with the broader premedical community. The purpose of this study was to characterize t...

We present a multi-pass approach to real-time, largevocabulary speech recognition in which we dynamically manipulate the vocabulary between passes. For recognition tasks where subsets of the vocabulary can be triggered by the occurences of other words or phrases, a combination of unknown word modelling and vocabulary refinement can be utilized to attack large-vocabulary tasks with relatively sm...

It is well established that extensive reading promotes the incidental learning of L1 and L2 receptive vocabulary; however, little is known about its effectiveness on productive gains in vocabulary knowledge. This paper investigates the extent to which extensive reading combined with writing tasks promotes productive vocabulary growth of Japanese university students. To examine changes in vocabu...