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□□□□□ □□ □□□□□□□ □□□□□□□ □□□□□□□ INSTITUTO DE COMPUTAÇÃO UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS Evaluation of a Tablet PC image annotation and retrieval tool in the parasitology domain N. P. Kozievitch R. S. Torres S. M. Allegretti M. T. Ueta R. R. Madi T. Falcão E. Ramos F. Andrade U. Murthy E. A. Fox Y. Chen E. Hallerman Technical Report - IC-09-23 - Relatório Técnico July - 2009 - Julho The contents of this report are the sole responsibility of the authors. O conteúdo do presente relatório é de única responsabilidade dos autores. Evaluation of a Tablet PC image annotation and retrieval tool in the parasitology domain Nádia P. Kozievitch ∗ Ricardo da Silva Torres∗ Thiago Falcão∗ Evandro Ramos∗ Felipe Andrade∗ Silmara Marques Allegretti † Marlene Tiduko Ueta† Rubens Riscala Madi† Uma Murthy ‡ Eduard A. Fox ‡ Yinlin Chen ‡ Eric Hallerman § Abstract The project Deployment and Assessment of an Image Annotation and Retrieval Tool has the objective of specifying and implementing an application for image support annotation and search (based on a textual and a visual description) in the biodiversity domain. This technical report presents the activities related to the use of the tablet PC tool in the parasitology domain at Unicamp. The objective of this tool is to help the comparison of morphological characteristics among different species. The report is divided into activities accomplished, application setup and specific features, followed by experimental results and conclusion. Preliminary results showed that students regarded the tool as being very useful, contributing as an alternative learning approach. 1 Introduction The project Deployment and Assessment of an Image Annotation and Retrieval Tool, In- cluding Biodiversity, is a joint collaboration between the Institute of Computing at Unicamp and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. The main objective of this project is the specification and implementation of an ap