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Elderly people comprise the highest proportion of television viewers. Elderly people often struggle with new technology and reject it due to complexity. We propose a system to help people keep up with certain new technologies, such as IPTV and social networks with reduced efforts. We specifically propose a system to integrate IPTV with Twitter, a social networking website with an aid of a mobile phone. The system uses speech to text technology on mobile phone, as input to reduce the difficulty involved in the interaction with Twitter, while viewing television. As speech is a more convenient and natural way of expression than text, we anticipate that people from other age groups can also benefit from the system.

The development of fine grid geolgocial models has attracted great attention in the past decades. Meanwhile, the need for reliable upscaling and coarsening techniques is continuing. Besides the computational efficiency, upscaling can also offer other advantages. The desire for the assessment of risk and uncertainty in reservoir performance is another key issue that is attracting the researchers. Predictions are necessarily of a statistical character because uncertainty is involved in almost all the aspects of the reservoir characterization. Significantly upscaled models are desired when the full assessment of project risk and uncertainty are to be accomplished. The problem of upgridding fine scale models into the coarsened ones is still an attractive and challenging topic demanding much more effort in the reservoir simulation field. We proposed a modified static coarsening algorithm that has better performance without introducing extra computation cost. This algorithm combines adjacent layers based on static calculations such that the heterogeneity measure of a defined static property is minimized within the layers. In addition, the geological model coarsening will also rely on preserving geological marker information. This combination of static calculation and geological information enables this algorithm to generate models more closely to the true ones. The power and utility of our approaches have been demonstrated using both synthetic and field examples. To assist the optimal coarsening procedures, we developed and implemented a GUI (Graphical User Interface), named MARS. We focused on building up a C++ based user interface which enables users to handle access the upgridding simulation visually. This MARS software package is a general purpose GUI for applications that make use of graphs as an underlying data model. MARS, which allows user to create simulation cases, import and modify data, and generate graphical geological figures, is developed to facilitate the operation of this coarsening procedures and the interpretation of the results obtained by this model. The user of MARS will be graphically guided through the entire process of creating coarsening simulations.

Hypermedia systems are designed to allow links, or connections, to be made between different media objects. Key issues tackled in early hypermedia systems included developing tools to help guide users through the material and tools to help authors maintain the material that they create. The open approach to hypermedia emerged, where links were separated from the content of documents, allowing a more modular approach to hypermedia services. The ease of integration of tools in these open systems promoted the creation of many different types of navigational aids, designed to help users of the systems to access and maintain the information contained within them. The openness and modular nature of such systems creates its own problems however. Users will often have to interact with a number of disparate interfaces to manipulate the navigational information. A new approach is presented which provides an open framework for these interfaces, allowing for a co-ordinated strategy and the modular addition of tools to help manage the screen interface and reduce the complexity of the interaction for users. A second approach to the problem is to provide the different hypermedia information within a unifying visualisation. A novel framework is presented which allows more open access to the underlying navigational information of hypermedia systems. Visualisation tools can be connected to this framework in a modular fashion to provide flexible visualisations of the underlying information. By generating a number of different visualisations, the openness and flexibility of the visualisation framework approach is demonstrated.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1992 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / The design and development of user interfaces for telemetry data processing systems is undergoing a period of rapid change. The migration to graphics workstations is raising expectations and redefining requirements for user interfaces in the nineties. User interfaces which present data in crude tabular form on alphanumeric terminals are on a path to extinction. Modem telemetry user interfaces are hosted on graphics workstations rich with power and software tools. This paper summarizes the evolution of user interfaces for telemetry systems developed by Computer Sciences Corporation, highlighting key enhancements and use of third-party software. The benefits of prototyping and the trend toward programmable interface behavior are explored.

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