[AG-USERS] Hello, introductions

[Gregg Vanderheiden]

HI
I assume you meant replies to go to the list.  If this is not correct then
let us know.

We (at Trace Center -- the Universal Design / Disability Access program of
Alliance) are working on ways to provide access to the other Alliance
technological developments.   Currently our focus (as part of 'SWOF'
expedition) is on creating the AG extensions and services necessary to
create an on-demand speech to text captioning system for the AG to allow
people who are deaf (or having problem hearing) to see what is being said.
A unique feature of this is the ability to make corrections on-the-fly to
the streaming captions on screen.  This is not otherwise available but
essential for scientific discussions (or instruction). 

A side benefit of the accurate captioning has been the benefit to people who
are listening to someone speaking in a foreign (to them) language, and
people listening to someone who is speaking with an accent that they do not
always understand.  

Future work may also allow real time human or machine (or machine assisted
human) language translation (though that is not part of our project today)

 
Gregg

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Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. 
Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr.
Director - Trace R & D Center 
University of Wisconsin-Madison 


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ag-users at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-users at mcs.anl.gov] On
Behalf Of Jennifer Teig von Hoffman
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:15 PM
To: ag-users at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: [AG-USERS] Hello, introductions

Hi everybody,

Since this is a new list, and we haven't before tried to gather 
non-technical AG users in this sort of way, I'm very curious to hear 
who's joined the list and in what ways you're using the AG. So, I'd like 
to encourage everybody to send a little mail by way of introduction.

As for myself, I was an early adopter of the AG in the summer of 99, 
when we were planning for the Alliance Chautauqua conference series and 
starting to bring the first few nodes online. I've been involved in 
managing events of all sizes, and am currently leading SC Global 
(http://www.scglobal.org/) and the AG Documentation Project 
(http://www.accessgrid.org/agdp/). I also manage BU's AG facility 
(http://scv.bu.edu/accessgrid/); we're still operating in a rather 
informal fashion, but playing around with the idea of eventually 
formalizing our operations, with written policies and such.

So how about you? Who's out there, and what are you involved with 
regarding the AG?

Cheers,
Jennifer Teig von Hoffman
Project Manager
Scientific Computing and Visualization
Boston University
jtvh at bu.edu