AUGMENTING ACCESSIBILITY IN SOCIAL NETWORKS A Virtual Presenter

摘要：

Vila na Rede is an Inclusive Social Network (ISN) system developed as a product of e-Cidadanias Project, with the objective of being accessible to a broad variety of users,including those less familiar with technology or with low literacy skills. Different features were incorporated into Vila na Rede in order to provide its users with scaffolding learning support that helps them profit more from the system.One of these features is the Virtual Presenter,a speech synchronized facial animation system integrated to a text-tospeech synthesizer (TTS) that allows users to have textual information alternatively presented by a talking head. This paper investigates the integration of the Virtual Presenter into Vila na Rede system,and discusses results of activities conducted with the target audience to evaluate this new feature at the ISN.

关键词： Inclusive social networks Talking heads Facial animation

作者: Leonelo D.A.Almeida1 Elaine C.S. Hayashi Júlio C. Reis Paula D. P. Costa M. Cecília C. Baranauskas José Mario De Martino

作者单位: Department of Information Systems,Institute of Computing,University of Campinas Av.Albert Einstein,1 Department of Information Systems,Institute of Computing,University of Campinas Av.Albert Einstein,1 Department of Information Systems,Institute of Computing,University of Campinas Av.Albert Einstein,1 Department of Computer Engineering and Industrial Automation, School of Electrical and Computer Engi Department of Information Systems, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas Department of Computer Engineering and Industrial Automation, School of Electrical and Computer Engi

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information System(第13届企业信息系统国际会议 ICEIS 2011)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 824-833

在线出版日期: 2011-06-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）