---interaction through keyboard and mouse rather than the more natural ways humans use to communicate with each other This report describes an evolving framework that addresses the above issues. The main characteristics of DISCIPLE (DIstributed System for Collaborative Information Processing and LEarning) are a

“McSig ” is a multimodal teaching and learning environment for visually-impaired students to learn character shapes, handwriting and signatures collaboratively with their teachers. It combines haptic and audio output to realize the teacher‟s pen input in parallel non-visual modalities. Mc

A problem faced by groups that are not co-located but need to collaborate on a common task is the reduced access to the rich multimodal communicative context that they would have access to if they were collaborating face-to-face. Collaboration support tools aim to reduce the adverse effects

to quickly add collaboration capabilities to it. In this paper, we will discuss QuickSet's collaboration capabilities, the ease with which they were added to the user interface, and plans for future extensions to these capabilities. KEYWORDS: multimodal, cscw, groupware, handheld, collaboration

Groups who are not co-located but still need to collaborate on a common task face the problem of reduced access to the rich multimodal communicative context that they would have if they were collaborating face-to-face. We present a demonstration system that allows participants at remote sites

This paper presents an innovative software platform OpenSTEP intended to build advanced distributed integrated systems and to conduct multidisciplinary collaborative projects in both academy and industry. The paper discusses an open system architecture, methodology, component library and CASE

The spatial and motor skills used for handwriting are particularly difficult for visually impaired people to develop. These skills are required in order to sign an aesthetically pleasing and repeatable signature, which is often required for documents such as legal agreements and job applications. In a previous study, a system called McSig 1.0 was designed to teach visually impaired students how to write letters and eventually, a signature. McSig 1.0 is designed for the teacher and student to work together. The system recreates the movement of the teacher’s pen for the student. The student holds a pen which is attached to the mechanical arm on a PHANTOM Omni haptic device. The teacher scribes a letter shape on a Tablet PC screen. As the teacher’s pen moves, software causes the mechanical arm to move the student’s pen around the trajectory of the stroke, so that the student’s hand is guided through the formation of the letter. At the same time, the stereo pan and pitch of a sound tone are altered to express the movement of the pen in the x and y axes, respectively. The tip of the student’s pen moves over a tactile plastic sheet. The sheet is scored, leaving a tactile ridge that the

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Multimodal collaboration environment for inclusion of visually impaired children

Many applications of robotics and embedded sensor technology can benet from ne-grained localization. Fine-grained localization can simplify multi-robot collaboration, enable energy ecient multi-hop routing for low-power radio networks, and enable automatic calibration of distributed sensing systems