Interaction between humans involves a plethora of sensory information, both in the form of
explicit communication as well as more subtle unconsciously perceived signals. In order to …

Automated transcription of polyphonic music is a difficult task which has been attempted
over the last 30 years by a number of researchers with only partial success. The problem is …

The implementations of online help in most commercial computing applications deployed
today have a number of well documented limitations. Speech technology can be used to …

As mobile-phone design moves toward a touch-screen form factor, the visually disabled are
faced with new accessibility challenges. The mainstream interaction model for touch-screen …

A model of auditory scene analysis is proposed, which incorporates an attentional
mechanism and is implemented using a network of neural oscillators. The core of the model …

Many speech enhancement algorithms suffer from musical noise–an estimation residue
noise consisting of music-like varying tones. To reduce this annoying noise, some speech …

There are numerous challenges to accessing user assistance information in mobile and
ubiquitous computing scenarios. For example, there may be little-or-no display real estate …

There are numerous difficulties for visually disabled students when tackling mathematical
problems. This relates more to methods of presentation rather than to any deficiency in the …

Non-speech sounds and haptics have an important role in enabling access to user
assistance material in ubiquitous computing scenarios. Non-speech sounds and haptics can …

In environments with many concurrent sound sources, it is often possible to hear out
individual sounds and identify their sources. To accomplish this perceptual organization of …