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Family farming is responsible for producing most of the food consumed in Brazil, occupying an important role in national development and at the reduction of social inequalities. The sustainability of these family communities depends heavily on the range of primary health care. The rational use of medicinal plants is recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an important element of healing...
This paper reports about a pilot study of a social media platform, based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 within a large international company, having different sites in Europe, Asia and the US. The platform should enhance the communication between departments and interdepartmentally. The goal of this pilot study is to accompany the introduction of this social networking tool in order to increase acceptability...
This paper analyzes Weiser's original definition of ubiquitous or pervasive computing (PerComp) and compares its presence in developed nations to the needs of emerging markets. The majority of PerComp research is targeted towards industrial nations, while users from resource constrained, low income and digitally unstable regions are often neglected. It is essential for the scientific community to...
The Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research field has developed more and more over the past 10 to 20 years. It is still a relatively young community, which is in the process of developing its characteristics, such as being interdisciplinary, innovative, responsible, technical, and many others. Similarly, like in the development of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community, being interdisciplinary...
Applications in public health and health services require access to a range of heterogeneous data, from environmental information in a region, to population-level data across regions, to more closely held personal health information, and, from reference scientific datasets to observational data and sensor streams. The cyber infrastructure support for such applications must include the ability to access...
In this paper we propose a social design focus in multidisciplinary engineering design courses as a paradigm that can develop the human and social capital needed in modern undergraduate engineering education facing the current global challenges. In particular we propose the Social Intelligence Design (SID) approach. Social Design Based Learning (SDBL) is a promising approach that we believe helps...
The following topics are dealt with: fuzzy systems and bioinformatics; data mining; Web services and eBusiness; information reuse; mobile networks and security; software testing; semantic Web and text mining; knowledge management; data visualization; human computer interface; formal methods and software development; schema mapping; database systems; ontology; Web engineering; and natural language...
A methodology is described to design and generate virtual environments that a) support the activities of practitioners skilled with the experimental knowledge of their specific domain; b) offer multimodal interaction styles customized to the culture and skills of the target community of practitioners; c) are tailorable, customizable and adaptive to the context of activity; d) support the exchange...
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