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A Flexible Framework for Key Audio Effects Detection and Auditory Context Inference

Rui Cai, Lie Lu, Alan Hanjalic, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Lian-Hong Cai

IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP) | May 2006

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Creativity Support Tools: Report From a U.S. National Science Foundation Sponsored Workshop

Ben Shneiderman, Tom Hewett, Gerhard Fischer, Pamela Jennings, Mary Czerwinski, Kumiyo Nakakoji, Mitch Resnick, Brad Myers, Jay Nunamaker, Linda Candy, Ernest Edmonds, Randy Pausch, Mike Eisenberg, Elisa Giaccardi, Ted Selker, Elisabeth Sylvan, Michael Terry

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction | May 2006, Vol 20: pp. 61-77

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Noninvasive Measurement of Scattering Anisotropy in Turbid Materials by Nonnormal Incident Illumination

Neel Joshi, Craig Donner, Henrik Wann Jensen

Optics Letters | April 2006, Vol 31: pp. 936-938

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Making Cellphones Enhance Village Economies in Rural India

March 22, 2006

By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Technology has revolutionized the developed world in recent years. The way we work, the way we play, the way we communicate—all have been transformed by the advent of…

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Interactive Sound Synthesis for Large Scale Environments

March 4, 2006 | Nikunj Raghuvanshi

We present an interactive approach for generating realistic physically-based sounds from rigid-body dynamic simulations. We use spring-mass systems to model each object’s local deformation and vibration, which we demonstrate to be an adequate approximation for…