International Business Machines Corporation

Infoprintsolutions Company, LLC

Brian John Cragun

Paul Reuben Day

John Edward Petri

Cary Lee Bates

Cale T Rath

Michael John Fork

William Craig Rapp

Hoa Thu Tran

Douglas R Fish

Adam Clark

Zachary Adam Garbow

Joseph Phillip Bigus

Helen Roxlo Delp

Shunguo Yan

Puthukode G Ramachandran

David B Styles

Elizabeth A Schreiber

Timothy Jude O'Keefe

Brian Owen Wood

Todd Mark Kelsey

Leah Rae Smutzer

Christopher A Peterson

John Christian Unterholzner

Anthony W Eichenlaub

Stephen Hollis Lund

John Matthew Santosuosso

David Alan Wall

Jordi A Albornoz

Paul Richard Chmielewski

Marc Kevin Johlic

Barnaby L Court

Christine A Grev

Andrew L Hanson

Susann Marie Keohane

David Lee Darrington

Kevin Glynn Paterson

Peter Martin Schwarz

James Stuart Taylor

David Gerald Herbeck

Julia Elizabeth Rice

Lee David Feigenbaum

Candace Trielle Pederson

Roland Albert Merrick

Lonnie A McCullough

William Clarence Swope

Bradley J Erickson

Todd Eric Johnson

Wayne J Rothschild

Frederick Henry Esch

Gregory Richard Hintermeister

Nitendra Rajput

Jeffrey Michael Ryan

Michael T Kalmbach

Vikrant Nandakumar

Sean James Martin

Vivek Shyamlal Sharma

Sean Thomas Brownlow

Kyle Lane Henderson

Clifton Malcolm Nock

Bryan Lester Striemer

Robert John Donovan

William Stephen Carter

Patrick S Botz

David Gerard Herbeck

Douglas Robert Petty

William H Krebs, Jr

Robert Russell Nelson

Radhika Aggarwal

Randall Richard Schnier

William Jaaskelainen

Thomas J Ashford

Mary Jo Mueller

Byron T Watts

David Richard Poulter

Thomas Jay Allen

Michael D Mitchell

Mark John Beach

Makoto Kuwabara

Wayne Jay Rothschild

A user interface is analyzed to identify a problem element in the user interface. A problem in the user interface is related to an initial value of an attribute of the problem element. A changed value of the attribute of the problem element is computed. A determination is made that the changed value satisfies a compliance rule applicable to the user interface. A first record and a second record are selected from a historical data. The first record includes a first value of a metric usable with the user interface, and the second record includes a second value of the metric. A difference between the second value and the first value is associated with the changed value as an expected change in the metric due to the changed value. The changed value and the expected change in the metric are presented as a remedy for the problem.

Guided remediation of accessibility and usability problems in user interfaces

Embodiments herein include a NLP application used to coach a participant who violates a social norm during a conversation. For example, the NLP application can evaluate the textual representation of the conversation to determine if the participant is exhibiting a characteristic of autism or other medical disorder which violates a social norm, and if so, inform the participant. Once a characteristic of autism is identified, a coaching application may output text that informs the participant what particular characteristic he is exhibiting&#x2014;e.g., the participant is ignoring an attempt by another participant to change the topic of the conversation. In addition to providing notice, in one embodiment, the coaching application suggests a corrective action to the participant. For example, if the participant fails to provide an appropriate response to an emotional statement, the coaching action may suggest a sympathetic statement.

Coaching a participant in a conversation

Embodiments herein include a natural language computing system that provides a diagnosis for a participant in the conversation which indicates the likelihood that the participant exhibited a symptom of autism. To provide the diagnosis, the computing system includes a diagnosis system that performs a training process to generate a machine learning model which is then used to evaluate a textual representation of the conversation. For example, the diagnosis system may receive one or more examples of baseline conversations that exhibit symptoms of autisms and those that do not. The diagnosis system may annotate and the baseline conversations and identify features that are used to identify the symptoms of autism. The system generates a machine learning model that weights the features according to whether the identified features are, or are not, an indicator of autism.

Diagnosing autism spectrum disorder using natural language processing

A first hierarchy of a first type of elements of a user interface is received from an application. A second application presents the user interface including a set of the first type of elements and a set of a second type of elements at a client. A second hierarchy of the second type of elements used in a system-specific presentation of the user interface is received from the application. A first element of the first type in the first hierarchy is determined to violate a condition specified in a compliance rule, and that a second element of the second type in the second hierarchy is related to the first element. An evaluation is made that an attribute of the second element causes the condition to be violated. The second element is reported.

Evaluating accessibility compliance of a hybrid user interface design

A media stream aggregation mechanism receives and analyzes multiple media streams and creates an aggregate media stream output based on user preferences. In this manner a media provider that uses the media stream aggregation mechanism potentially may provide a customized presentation to each user based on user preferences. By providing the aggregation of multiple media streams to a user, the user's experience is customized according to user preferences.

Aggregation of multiple media streams to a user

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for organizing and selecting structures used to generate forms for capturing information as annotations made for a variety of different type data objects are provided. Some embodiments allow annotation structures to be associated with specific pairings of data object types and user roles via entries in a configuration file. When a user selects a set of one or more data objects for annotation, the configuration file may be accessed to determine a proper annotation structure for use in generating an annotation form based on the selected data objects and a role of the user.

Annotation structure type determination

System, method, and computer program product to perform an operation to obfuscate search queries via broadened subqueries and recombining, by referencing an ontology to identify a set of generalized terms corresponding to at least one term of a received query, generating a plurality of subqueries based on the received query and the set of generalized terms, executing each of the plurality of subqueries to retrieve a result set for each respective subquery, and filtering the result sets using the received query to produce a result set responsive to the received query.

Search query obfuscation via broadened subqueries and recombining

Techniques are described for outputting web page components, or gadgets, on a web page or other graphical user interface. A gadget automatically conforms to particular styles based on the styles of the other gadgets and of controlling relationships to the other gadgets that are determined from page analysis and other policies.

Autonomous gadget management system

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for placing menu items in a radial menu. A radial menu may be displayed in response to receiving a predefined gesture made with a screen pointer. A plurality of global menu items may be placed at predefined locations in the radial menu. A set of local menu items that are to be displayed in the radial menu be determined and displayed in the radial menu based on one or more predefined relationships between the local or global radial menu items.

Placement of items in radial menus

A method, system, and computer program product for evaluating compliance of a user interface design are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A hierarchy of elements of a user interface is received from a first application executing in a client data processing system. A second application presents the user interface including a set of user interface elements at the client data processing system. A compliance rule is selected from a set of compliance rules. An evaluation is made whether an attribute associated with a user interface element meets a condition specified in the compliance rule. Responsive to the evaluating being negative, the user interface element is reported as being non-compliant with the compliance rule.

Evaluating accessibility compliance of a user interface design

A method, system, and article of manufacture that allows amateur camera operators to share video and audio with other amateur camera operators at the same event over a cooperative, ad hoc network. One embodiment of the present invention comprises forming an ad hoc network comprising a plurality of recording devices, and communicating audiovisual signals between the plurality of recording devices in the ad hoc network. In some embodiments, this method may further comprise transmitting a replay request to the plurality of recording devices and receiving an audiovisual signal corresponding to the replay request, transmitting a push request to the plurality of recording devices, and/or transmitting a message to at least one of the plurality of recording devices.

Method and apparatus for cooperative recording

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