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Journal Articles

Fan, Danyang; Siu, Alexa Fay; Rao, Hrishikesh V.; Sung-Ho Kim, Gene; Vazquez, Xavier; Greco, Lucy; O'Modhrain, Sile; and Follmer, Sean. [2023]. The Accessibility of Data Visualizations on the Web for Screen Reader Users: Practices and Experiences During COVID-19. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 16, 1, Article 4 (March 2023), pp 1-29.

Algargoosh, Alaa; Soleimani, Babak; O’Modhrain, Sile; Navvab, Moji. (2022). The impact of the acoustic environment on human emotion and experience: A case study of worship spaces. Building Acoustics Journal. Volume 29, Issue: 1. January 2022, pp. 85 – 106.

Algargoosh, Alaa; Soleimani, Babak; O’Modhrain, Sile; Navvab, Moji. [2022]. The impact of the acoustic environment on human emotion and experience: A case study of worship spaces. Building Acoustics Journal. Volume 29, Issue: 1. January 2022, pp. 85 – 106.

Pandey, Maulishree; Kameswaran, Vaishnav; Rao, Hrishikesh V; O'Modhrain, Sile; Oney, Steve. [2021]. Understanding Accessibility and Collaboration in Programming for People with Visual Impairments. Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Human-Computing Interaction. Volume 5, Issue: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Article 129 (April 2021), pp 1-30.

Kameswaran, Vaishnav; Gupta, Jatin; Pal, Joyojeet; O' Modhrain, Sile; Veinot, Tiffany; Brewer, Robin; Parameshwar, Aakansha; Yellareddy, V; O'Neill, Jacki.  [2018]. We can go anywhere: Understanding Independence through a case study of ride-hailing use by people with visual impairments in metropolitan India. Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Human-Computer Interaction. Volume 2, Issue: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Article 85 (November 2018), pp. 1–24.

Morash, V.; Russomanno, A.; Gillespie, R. B.; and O’Modhrain, S. ,[2017] “Evaluating approaches to rendering braille text on a high-density pin display,” IEEE Trans. Haptics. 2017

Russamanno, A.; O'Modhrain, S.; Gillespie, R.B.; Rodger, M.W.M., [2015]"Refreshing Refreshable Braille Displays," in Haptics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.8, no.3, pp.287-297, July-Sept. 1 2015

O'Modhrain, S.; Giudice, N.A.; Gardner, J.A.; Legge, G.E.,[2015] "Designing Media for Visually-Impaired Users of Refreshable Touch Displays: Possibilities and Pitfalls," in Haptics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.8, no.3, pp.248-257, July-Sept. 1 2015

R. L. Alexander, S. O'Modhrain, D. A. Roberts, J. A. Gilbert and T. H. Zurbuchen. [2014]"The Bird's Ear View of Space Physics: Audification as a Tool for the Spectral Analysis of Time Series Data." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, vol. 119, no. 7, pp. 5259–5271, July 2014.

M. W. Rodger, S. O'Modhrain and C. M. Craig. [2013] "Temporal guidance of musicians’ performance movement is an acquired skill." Experimental Brain Research, vol. 226, no. 2, p. 221, April 2013.

M. W. Rodger, C. M. Craig and S. O'Modhrain. [2012] "Expertise is perceived from both sound and body movement in musical performance." Human Movement Science, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 1137-1150, Oct. 2012 .

S. O'Modhrain. [2011] "A Framework for the Evaluation of Digital Musical Instruments." Computer Music Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, p. 28-42, Spring 2011.

R. Kuber, W. Yu and M. S. O'Modhrain. [2011] "The Evaluation of Haptic Mappings Derived from a Novel Methodology." ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, vol. 3, no. 4, Article 12, April 2011.

S. Zhu, R. Kuber, M. Tretter and M. S. O'Modhrain. [2011] "Identifying the Benefits of Haptic Devices for Non-Visual Access to the Web." Interacting with Computers, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 565-581, Nov. 2011.

G. Essl and S. O'Modhrain. [2006] "An Enactive Approach to the Design of New Tangible Musical Instruments." Organised Sound, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 285-296, Dec. 2006.

E. Farella, S. O'Modhrain, L. Benini and B. Ricco. [2006]"Gesture Signatures for Ambient Intelligence Applications: a Feasibility Study" Proceedings of PERVASIVE 2006, vol. 3968, pp. 288-304, May 2006.

S. O'Modhrain. [2004] "Touch and go - designing haptic feedback for a hand-held mobile device" BT Technology Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 139-145, Oct. 2004.

A. T. Woods, S. O'Modhrain and F. N. Newell. [2004] "The effect of temporal delay and spatial differences on cross-modal object recognition." Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 260-269, June 2004.​​​​​​​

E. Gunther and S. O'Modhrain. [2003]"Cutaneous Grooves: Composing for the Sense of Touch" Journal of New Music Research, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 369-381, Dec. 2003.

Book Chapters​​​​​​​

Pandey, Maulishree; Oney, Steve; Bondre, Sharvari; Kameswaran, Vaishnav; Rao, Hrishikesh V; O’Modhrain, Sile. [2023]. UI Development in Mixed-Ability Software Engineering Teams.” in: EDI 2023 (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering: Best Practices and Insights).

O'Modhrain, S. and Gillespie, B. [2018] "Once More, With Feeling: Revisiting the Role of Touch in Performer-Instrument Interaction" In Papetti, S., and Saitis, C. (Eds.) Musical Haptics; Springer, 2018​​​​​​​

O'Modhrain, S. [2017] "Music for Sleeping & Waking Minds: To Sleep, Perchance To Dream" In M. Lyons & A. Refsum Jensenius, eds. A NIME Reader, London: Springer, PP377-378.

O'Modhrain, S. and Essl, G. [2017] "Tactile Interfaces for Granular Synthesis". In M. Lyons & A. Refsum Jensenius, eds. A NIME Reader, London: Springer, PP149-162

Essl, G. & O'Modhrain S. [2013] "Perceptual Integration of Audio and Touch: A Case Study of PebbleBox." Sonic Interaction Design. Cambridge: MIT, 2013. 203-211.

Editorships

Paradiso, J & O'Modhrain, S. (Eds) (2003). "Journal of New Music Research, Special Issue: New Interfaces for Musical Performance and Interaction", 32(4), Swets & Zietlinger, December 2003

O'Modhrain, S., Newell, F. & Oakley, I. ,  (Editors) "Proceedings of EuroHaptics 2003", Dublin, Ireland​​​​​​​

Keynote Talks

  • O’Modhrain, S. “Malleable Bits and Mutable Atoms:  Toward Expressive Representation for Tangible User Interfaces.” TEI2021 - 17 February, 2021
  • O’Modhrain, S. “Malleable Media:  Defining Interaction Paradigms for Full-page Tactile Arrays,” Eurohaptics 2020 - 6th September, 2020
  • O’Modhrain, S. “Unnatural selection:  Survival in the digital age.” TED Talk, TEDxLondonBusinessSchool , London Business School, London, May 2017
  • O’Modhrain, S. “Once more, with feeling:  Revisiting the role of touch in performer-instrument interaction.” Keynote Address, International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME2015), Baton Rouge, June4-7 2015
  • O'Modhrain, S. "Rekindelling the Search for the Holy Braille"; Keynote address, IEEE Haptics Symposium 2014, Houston, February 24-26 2014
  • O'Modhrain, S., (2006) "Movement and music: designing gestural interfaces for computer-based musical instruments". Keynote address: in Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Multimodal interfaces Banff Canada. November 2006
  • O'Modhrain, S.,“Motion and Action, Gesture and Touch” International workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design - Glasgow, August31-September 1, 2006.
  • O'Modhrain, S., "Gestural Control of Handheld Mobile Devices" International Conference on Perception and Action, Monterey, CA, July 2005
  • O'Modhrain, S.,“Reflections on the use of computer-generated haptic feedback in learning tools for the blind.” 3rd Congresso Ibero- Americano de Informática na Educação Especial (CIIEE2002) Brazil, August 2002.

Conference Papers

2023

Baez, Hannah; Bhardwaj, Akshay; Costa, Jean; Gideon, John; O; Modhrain, Sile; Sarter, Nadine; and Gillespie, Brent. (2023). “Communication is a Two-Way Street: Negotiating Driving Intent through a Shape-Changing Steering Wheel.” To appear in Proceedings of the IEEE World Haptics Conference, Delft, The Netherlands, July 10-13 2023.

2022

Pandey, Maulishree; Bondre, S., O’Modhrain, Sile; and Oney, Steve. [2022]. Accessibility of UI Frameworks and Libraries for Programmers with Visual Impairments. 2022 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Roma, Italy, 2022, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/VL/HCC53370.2022.9833098.

Siu, Alexa; Kim, Gene S-H; O’Modhrain, Sile; Follmer, Sean. [2022]. Supporting Accessible Data Visualization Through Audio Data Narratives. Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article: 476 (April 2022), pp. 1 – 19. New York, NY, USA.

Fan, Danyang; Siu, Alexa F.; Law, Adrienne W-S; Zhen, Raymond R.; O’Modhrain, Sile; Follmer, Sean. [2022] Slide-Tone and Tilt-Tone: 1-DOF Haptic Techniques for Conveying Shape Characteristics of Graphs to Blind Users. Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article: 477 (April 2022), pp. 1 – 19. New York, NY, USA.

2020

Fan, Danyang; Siu, Alexa F.; O’Modhrain, Sile; Follmer, Sean. [2020]. Constructive Visualization to Inform the Design and Exploration of Tactile Data Representations. Proceedings of the 22nd International Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on ACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Article: 60 (October 2020), pp. 1 – 4. . New York, NY, USA.

  • Rao, H. V., and O’Modhrain, S. [2020] “2Across: A Comparison of Audio-Tactile and Screen-Reader based Representations of a Crossword Puzzle.” Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Pages 1–12, April 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376207
  • Pandey, M., Subramonyam, H., Sasia, B., Oney, S., O'Modhrain, S. [2020] “Explore, Create, Annotate: Designing Digital Drawing Tools with Visually Impaired People” Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Pages 1–12, April 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376349

2019

  • Rao, H.V. and O’Modhrain, S. [2019] “Multimodal Representation of Complex Spatial Data.” Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Pages 1–12, Glasgow, May 2019

2018

Kameswaran, V., Gupta, J., Pal, J., O'Modhrain, S., Veinot, T., Brewer, R., Parameshwar, A., Yellareddy, V., O'Neill, J. [2018] “'We can go anywhere': Understanding 'Independence' through a case study of ride-hailing use by people with visual impairments in metropolitan India,” CSCW 2018 (Best Paper Award)

Russomanno, A., Rao, H., Tantivirun, T., O'Modhrain, S. and Gillespie, R. B. [2018] A Tactile Display with Touch Sensing using a High-Density Microfluidic Chip. In proceedings of IEEE Haptics Symposium, March, 2018

2017

Russomanno, Z. Xu, O’Modhrain, S., and Gillespie, R.B. [2017] “A Pneu Shape Display: Physical Buttons with Programmable Touch Response,” in World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2017

Pal, J., Vishwanathan, A., Chandra, P., Kameswaran, V., Subramonyam, H., Johri, A., Ackerman, M., O'Modhrain, S. [2017] Choosing to adapt: Agency in technology adoption for blind mobile smartphone users, In Proceedings of CHI, May 2017​​​​​​​

Subramonyam, H., Lee, B., O’Modhrain, S. and Adar, E. [2017] Data Dialog: Facilitating Collaborative Decision Making Through Data-Driven Conversations, In PervasiveHealth '17 Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. Pages 440-443 Barcelona, Spain - May 23 - 26, 2017

  • 2016

Lin, Y, and O'Modhrain, S. ,[2016] "Reducing Visual Dependency with Surface Haptic Touchscreens", Proceedings of Eurohaptics 2016, London July 2016​​​​​​​

Russomanno, A., O'Modhrain, S., Gillespie, R. B. and Burns, M. A. [2016]"Modeling Latching Fluidic Circuits to Determine Clocking Limits for a Refreshable Braille Display". Proceedings of the IEEE Haptics Symposium, Philadelphia, April 2016

Michon, R., Chafe, C., Gang, N., Johns, M., O’Modhrain, S., Wright, M., Sirkin, D., Ju, W. and Gowda, N. [2016] "A Faust Based Driving Simulator Sound Synthesis Engine", Proceedings of Sound and Music Computing (SMC2016) Hamburg, September 2016

2015

A. Russamanno, R. Gillespie, S. O’Modhrain, and M. Burns,[2015] “The design of pressure-controlled valves for a refreshable tactile display,” in IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Chicago, June 2015. ​​​​​​​

E. Sheffield, S. O'Modhrain, M. Gould, and B. Gillespie, , [2015] “The Pneumatic Practice Pad”,   In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME2015), Baton Rouge, June 2015  

Huang, C. C., Lin, Y. J., Zeng, X., Newman, M., & O'Modhrain, S. (2015, January). Olegoru: A Soundscape Composition Tool to Enhance Imaginative Storytelling with Tangible Objects. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (pp. 709-714). ACM

2014

Alexander, R. L., S. O'Modhrain, J. A. Gilbert, and T. H. Zurbuchen (2014), Auditory and Visual Evaluation of Fixed-Frequency Events in Time-Varying Signals, in proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2014), New York, June 2014.​​​​​​​

Russamanno, A., Gillespie, R. B., O’Modhrain, S., and Barber, J., "Modeling Pneumatic Actuators for a Refreshable Tactile Display," In proceedings: Eurohaptics (Versailles, France June 24-­26), 2014.

Morreale, F. , De Angeli, A. , & O'Modhrain, S. (2014) Musical interface design: An experience-oriented framework. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (pp. 467472). London, UK: Goldsmiths, University of London.

  • Russamanno, A., Gillespie, R. B., O’Modhrain, S., and Barber, J., "A Tactile Display Using Pneumatic Membrane Actuators," In proceedings: Eurohaptics (Versailles, France June 24-­26), 2014.

2011

Gillespie, R. B. and O'Modhrain, S. "Embodied Cognition as a Motivating Perspective for Haptic Interaction Design: A Position Paper," In Proceedings of IEEE World Haptics, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2011.​​​​​​​

Gillian, N., Knapp, R. B., and O'Modhrain, S. "Recognition of Multivariate Temporal Musical Gestures Using N-Dimensional Dynamic Time Warping," In Proceedings of NIME 2011, Oslo, Norway, May 2011.

Gillian, N., Knapp, R. B., and O'Modhrain, S. "A Machine Learning Toolbox for Musician Computer Interaction," In Proceedings of NIME 2011, Oslo, Norway, May 2011.

Bennett, M., McCarthy, K., O'Modhrain, S. and Smyth, B. "SimpleFlow: Enhancing Gestural Interaction with Gesture Prediction, Abbreviation And Autocompletion," In Proceedings of INTERACT 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011.

2010

  • Heinz, S. and O'Modhrain, S. (2010) "Designing a Shareable Musical TUI". in Proceedings of NIME 10, Sidney, Australia, June 2010
  • 2009

Gillian, N., Knapp, R. and O'Modhrain, S. (2009) "The SARC EyesWeb Catalog: A Pattern Recognition Toolbox for Musician-Computer Interaction" Proceedings of NIME 09, Pittsburgh, June 2009​​​​​​​

Gillian, N. O'Modhrain, S. and Essl, G. (2009) "Scratch-Off: A gesture based mobile music game with tactile feedback" Proceedings of NIME 09, Pittsburgh, June 2009

2008

Bennett, P. & O'Modhrain, S. (2008) "The BeatBearing: a Tangible Rhythm Sequencer", In Proceedings of NordiCHI 2008: 5th Nordic Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (electronic proceedings), 2008

Chuchacz, K. Woods, R. O'Modhrain, S. (2008) "Novel Percussive Instrument Design - Converting Mathematical Formulae into Engaging Musical Instruments" International Computer Music Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 24-29, 2008

Chuchacz, K. Woods, R. O'Modhrain, S. (2008) "Towards a Real-Time Implementation of a Physical Modelling Based Percussion Synthesizer" 124th AES Convention, Amsterdam, May 15-18, 2008

2007

Strachan, S. Murray-Smith, R. and O'Modhrain S. (2007) "BodySpace: inferring body pose for natural control of a music player", In Proceedings of CHI 07, San Jose, Calafornia

Bennett, P., Ward, N., O'Modhrain, S. and Rebelo, P. (2007) "DAMPER: a platform for effortful interface development"  in Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression, New York, June 2007

Chuchacz, K., O'Modhrain, S. and Woods, R. (2007) "Physical models and musical controllers: designing a novel electronic percussion instrument" In Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression, New York, June 2007

Bennett, P. and O'Modhrain, S. (2007) "Towards Tangible Enactive Interfaces". in Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Enactive Interfaces (Enactive '07), Grenoble, 2007

2005

Oakley, I. & O'Modhrain, S., (2005). "Tilt to Scroll: Evaluating a Motion Based Vibrotactile Mobile Interface" in IEEE Proceedings of the World Haptics Conference, Pisa, Italy            download pdf

Essl, G. & O'Modhrain, S., (2005). "Scrubber: An Interface for Friction-induced Sounds" in Proceedings of Nime 05, Vancouver, Canada            download pdf

Strachan, S., Eslambolchilar, P., Murray-Smith, R., Hughes, S. and O'Modhrain S. (2005) "GpsTunes: controlling navigation via audio feedback" In Proceedings of the 7th international conference on human computer interaction with mobile devices & services (Mobile HCI) PP275-278

2004

Hughes, S. Oakley, I & O'Modhrain, S., (2004). "MESH: Supporting Mobile Multi-modal Interfaces" in Proceedings of ACM UIST'04, Santa Fe, NM            download pdf

O'Modhrain, S. & Essl, G., (2004). "PebbleBox and CrumbleBag: Tactile Interfaces for Granular Synthesis" in proceedings of NIME'04, Hamamatsu, Japan            download pdf

Hughes, S. Cannon, C. O'Modhrain, S., (2004). "Epipe : A Novel Electronic Woodwind Controller" in proceedings of NIME'04, Hamamatsu, Japan            download pdf

Oakley, I.,  Angesleva, J., Hughes, S & O'Modhrain, S., (2004). "Tilt and Feel: Scrolling with Vibrotactile Display" in proceedings of EuroHaptics'04, Munich, Germany            download pdf

O'Modhrain, S. & Oakley, I., (2004). "Adding Interactivity: Active Touch in Broadcast Media" in proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems, Chicago, Il            download pdf 2003 Angesleva,

J., Oakley, I., Hughes, S. & O'Modhrain, S. , (2003). "Body Mnemonics: Portable device interaction design concept" in proceedings of UIST'03, Vancouver, Canada            download pdf

Angesleva, J., O'Modhrain, S., Oakley, I., & Hughes, S., (2003). "Body Mnemonics" in proceedings of Physical Interaction (PI03) - Workshop on Real World User Interfaces, a workshop at the Mobile HCI Conference 2003, Udine, Italy.            download pdf Hughes,

S., Oakley, I. Brady, A. & O'Modhrain, S. , (2003). "Exploring Dynamic Haptic Cues in Vehicle Teleoperation" in proceedings of EuroHaptics 2003, Dublin, Ireland            download pdf

Oakley, I. & O'Modhrain, S. , (2003). "Cross-modal perception of motion-based visual-haptic stimuli" presented at the International Multisensory Research Fourm 2003 (IMRF 2003), Hamilton, Canada            download presentation (ppt)

Cannon, C., Hughes, S. & O'Modhrain, S., (2003). "EpipE: Exploration of the Uilleann Pipes as a potential controller for computer-based music" in proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME'03), Montreal, Canada            download pdf

O'Modhrain, S. & Oakley, I., (2003). "Touch TV: Adding Feeling to Broadcast Media" in proceedings of the European Conference on Interactive Television: from Viewers to Actors?, Brighton, UK Awarded best paper in conference            download pdf

2002

Oakley, I. & O'Modhrain, S., (2002). "Contact IM: Exploring Asynchronous Touch Over Distance" in proceedings of CSCW 2002, New Orleans, LO            download pdf

Brady, A., MacDonald, B., Oakley, I., Hughes, S., O'Modhrain, S., (2002). "RELAY: A Futuristic Interface for Remote Driving" in proceedings of EuroHaptics 2002, Edinburgh, UK            download pdf

Gunther, E., Davenport, G. & O'Modhrain, S., (2002). "Cutaneous Grooves: Composing for the Sense of Touch" in proceedings of NIME 2002, Dublin, Ireland

Selected Publications from Previous Lives

Chang, A., O'Modhrain, S., Jacob, R., Gunther, E., Ishii, H., (2002). "ComTouch: Design of a Vibrotactile Communication Device" in proceedings of DIS 2002, London, UK            download pdf 2000 Chafe, C., O'Modhrain, S., (2000). "The Performer-Instrument Interaction: A Sensory Motor Perspective" in proceedings of the IMCA, Menlo Park.

O'Modhrain, S., Chafe, C., (2000). "Incorporating Haptic Feedback into Interfaces for Music Applications" in proceedings of ISORA, World Automation Conference 2000

Wies, E., Gardner, J.A., O'Modhrain, M.S., Hasser, C.J. and Bulatov, V.L. (1999)"Web-Based Touch Display for Accessible Science Education." in S. Brewster, R. Murray-Smith (Eds.): Haptic HCI 2000, LNCS 2058, pp. 52-60, 2001.

O'Modhrain, S., (1998). "Restricted Access: Exploritory Procedures and Object Properties" in proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress: Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 2 (Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems) DSC-Vol. 61.            download MS Word version 1998

Gillespie, R.B., O'Modhrain, S., (1998). "The Virtual Teacher" in proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress: Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 2 (Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems) DSC-Vol. 60.            download postscript 1997

O'Modhrain, S., Gillespie, R.B., (1997). "The Moose: A Haptic User Interface for Blind Persons" in proceedings of Third WWW6 Conference, Santa Clara, California.            view full paper 1996

Chafe, C., O'Modhrain, S., (1996). "Musical Muscle Memory and the Haptic Display of Performance Nuance" in proceedings of ICMC, Menlo Park.            download postscript More information More information on Sile O'Modhrain's research prior to Media Lab Europe can be found at:
www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~sile/

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