Emotion recognition technology is being used to provide feedback to advertisers, sharing emotions through social media, and providing assistance to those who struggle to detect emotions. Affectiva is one of the companies ...

The parallel computing community has produced various cluster computing frameworks to process the immense amounts of data we generate in the modern age. Two in particular, Hadoop MapReduce and Spark, rose above the rest ...

In an age of ever expanding data sets, there is an increasing demand for high performance computing (HPC) in the scientific community. In order to maximize the performance of existing hardware, researchers have been looking ...

This thesis explores the possibility of creating a portable, non-invasive, and robust sign language recognition system on a mobile device, capable of improving the quality of life of sign language users. A gesture recognition ...

With the advancement of technology, electromyographic (EMG) and spatial data recognition is having a growing impact on accessible computing. I designed a customizable script that uses a combination of EMG, spatial and ...

Recommendation systems exist in almost every aspect of online business. Whether the system is recommending books, movies, clothes, etc., an algorithm is running behind the scenes. These algorithms are hard to acquire in ...

To achieve improved real-time performance, hardware-based speech recognition systems have emerged in recent years. While past efforts have demonstrated drastic improvements over software-based speech recognition systems, ...

Natural language communication with robots has obvious uses in almost all areas of life. Computer-based natural language interaction is an active area of research in Computational Linguistics and AI. While there have been ...

With the advancement of technology, daily interaction with computers is being relied on more and more. However, conventional interaction methods remain difficult or impossible to use for people with certain physical ...

In the technology industry and in academia, technologists frequently use the term "engagement" as one metric to measure a user's experience. Within the sub-field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), recently-published ...