An interesting post to read:
“Microsoft and Apple aren’t going to open up all their stuff. But they all create programs that put pixels on the screen. And if we can modify those pixels, then we can change the program’s apparent behavior,” said James Fogarty, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering.
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His research allows people to personalize programs based on their needs.
The UW tool, named Prefab, takes advantage of the fact that almost all displays are made from prefabricated blocks of code such as buttons, sliders, check boxes and drop-down menus. Prefab looks for those blocks...
We have started a collaboration with CEFRIEL and DISCo to study how Italian general practitioners could benefit from having an itsme machine each. Moreover, we are investigating advanced scenarios, to provide additional functions and services specifically designed (and possibly implemented) to support such peculiar kind of professional users.
In particular, we are working with two specific workgroups of the research entities mentioned above:
at CEFRIEL, the Semantic Web activities research group, that has previously partnered with several successful national and international projects; they will be responsible for designing innovative (semantic) services for our workstation;
at DISCo, the ITIS research group focusing on health-care,...
