The BubbleFish uses Augmented Reality to let its users maintain digital documents spatially in the physical environment as an alternative to the currently dominating file/folder approach in desktop based computer systems. The style of interaction provided by the document manager follows the principles of direct manipulation, but takes the issue of directness at the interface further by providin...

In large scale document digitalization of hand written and printed documents, they are scanned and stored in digital form. Since many of these documents are hand written they have errors like angular skewness of words. Skew detection and removal is a part of pre-processing before using OCR software to digitalize the documents. One type of skewness that is most difficult to detect and correct is...

Theories of international outsourcing predict rises in firms’ innovation rates mediated through lower wages per worker. Consistent with the predictions of Glass and Saggi (2001), we find a tradeoff between wages and innovation. However, we do not find that the proportion of internationally outsourced service inputs reduces but rather increases a firm’s wage per worker, a result most likely driv...

This paper deals with the incremental interpretation of on-line hand-drawn structured documents. We recall the bases of the CD-CMG visual grammar we have presented previously, but we mainly focus on its associated parser. The formalism context-sensitiveness allows to exploit a parser with predictive capacities which couples bottomup and top-down strategies. It also helps targeting consistent ca...