International Business Machines Corporation

Nicholas I Waywood

Lenin Mehedy

Stefan Von Cavallar

Ermyas Abebe

Alessio Bonti

Peter Ilfrich

Ziyuan Wang

Adam Eberbach

Adam H E Eberbach

Filiz Isabell Kiral

Allison Irvin

Providing a method for secure collaboration amongst professionals so that the contents of a collaborative work session are only seen and accessed by those professionals who are authorized to view the contents. A privacy-preserving whiteboard device, along with a set of Augmented Reality (AR) Headsets that are securely and communicatively connected to the privacy-preserving whiteboard device are used to ensure the confidentiality of the contents of the collaboration session.

Privacy-preserving collaborative whiteboard using augmented reality

A method includes building a well-being profile for a given user based on data obtained from one or more sources associated with the given user. One or more personalized incentives for the given user are identified based on the well-being profile. A personalized route is generated based on the one or more identified personalized incentives, with the personalized route being designed to improve a well-being of the given user. A notification is transmitted to a given client device associated with the given user over a network, with the notification causing the given client device to display the personalized route.

Generating personalized routes for one or more users to improve user well-being

A refreshable Braille display device includes a housing having a surface containing a set of tactile markers thereon; a carriage in cooperation with the housing, the carriage having a surface containing a tactile marker thereon and a series of individual refreshable Braille cells positioned above the tactile marker for tactile reading by a user; and a moving mechanism for moving the carriage relative to the housing such that the tactile marker on the surface of the carriage is aligned with one of the tactile markers in the set of tactile markers on the surface of the housing.

Refreshable braille display device

Automatically capturing information and performing content searching may include extracting features from data content, for example, captured via an image capturing device or by another method. Features extracted from the data content are structured into an ontology graph representing keywords and contextual relationships. Search queries are generated based on the ontology graph, by inputting the ontology graph to a query generating machine learning model trained to predict one or more search queries. The search queries are executed and one or more search results are presented on a user interface, for example, a display device. Based on received feedback on the search results, the machine learning model is retrained.

Image and data capture and machine learning for automatic generation of search queries

A hybrid keyboard and associated systems and methods. A disclosed hybrid keyboard includes a set of interactive keys, each having an integrated refreshable braille display, wherein each interactive key includes a momentary switch for detecting a keystroke and includes a actuator system for selectively extending pins through a surface of the interactive key; and a keyboard controller that includes a keystroke input handler for receiving and processing signals associated with detected keystrokes and includes a braille display handler that processes received messages and transmits message signals to selected interactive keys to output braille characters.

Keyboard with integrated refreshable braille display

A method includes registering a given client device with a server to receive personalized routing for a given user, building a user model for the given user, the user model being based on personal attributes for a plurality of users including the given user, identifying patterns of personal attributes for the given user, generating a personalized route for the given user based on matching the patterns of personal attributes with one or more route attributes, identifying one or more personalized incentives for the given user based on the personal attributes of the given user and the route attributes, modifying the personalized route for the given user to generate an incentivized personalized route for the given user, and transmitting a notification from the server to the given client device over a network, wherein the notification causes the given client device to display the incentivized personalized route for the given user.

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Nicholas I Waywood