Cognitive Company Discovery is an application that helps business professionals identify companies of interest to them. The application employs a variety of artificial intelligence and data science techniques to build a corpus of company data, rapidly search the corpus based on implicit and explicit user queries, present the results using visualization techniques that yield insight into areas of interest to the user and to scan vast amounts of news and blog posts to aid users in discovering new companies. The application is currently deployed in a major corporation. A video that demonstrates our system can be found at the following URL: https://player.vimeo.com/video/278031050

This article investigates the use of streaming multimedia narratives in Web entertainment. Based on experience gained during the user-centered design of a Web site for art and culture, evidence is provided that users want and like "less clicking, more watching" Web experiences where the point of view of experts, artists, or celebrities is presented in a narrative form. A study was conducted where users evaluated 2 prototypes of cultural tours that stream continuously for several minutes unless the user chooses to exercise control over the flow or to explore hotlinks that lead to extra information. Those tours were positively evaluated as both entertaining and engaging. By analyzing mouse activity, it was determined that users who interacted more tended to report less entertainment and engagement. It was also found that such "watchable" experiences are not necessarily a solitary experience and can be enjoyed by groups of people. Finally, users see the Web experiences as a highly enriching and accessible way to augment the cultural experiences and performances they enjoy in brick-and-mortar cultural institutions around the world, rather than as a substitute for them.

The development of highly interactive software systems with complex user interfaces has become increasingly common, where prototypes are often used as a vehicle for demonstrating visions of innovative systems. Given this trend, it is important for new technology to be based on flexible architectures that do not mandate the understanding of all complexities inherent in a system. In this context, we share our experience with developing an object oriented framework for a specific new technology, i.e. speech recognition. We describe the benefits of the object oriented paradigm rich with design patterns, which provide a natural way to model complex concepts and capture system relationships effectively, along with achieving a high level of software reuse.

Article MedSpeak: report creation with continuous speech recognition Share on Authors: Jennifer Lai IBM Corporation/T.J. Watson Research Center, 30 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, New York IBM Corporation/T.J. Watson Research Center, 30 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, New YorkView Profile , John Vergo IBM Corporation/T.J. Watson Research Center, 30 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, New York IBM Corporation/T.J. Watson Research Center, 30 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, New YorkView Profile Authors Info & Claims CHI '97: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systemsMarch 1997 Pages 431–438https://doi.org/10.1145/258549.258829Online:27 March 1997Publication History 37citation744DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations37Total Downloads744Last 12 Months12Last 6 weeks3 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access