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User-driven Customization (UDC) is a promising concept to react on current developments in the markets. However, until now no successful applications of UDC for technical products exist. Therefore, this paper develops and implements a continuous toolchain for UDC from the customization toolkit via an OI-platform to the production back-end. The resulting prototype achieves the proof of concept for...
Restructuring legacy code to improve its structure and understandability is difficult and adequate tool support is required. While the advantages of the Null Object pattern are widely recognized, the first tool support has only recently emerged. We complement it with NullTerminator, a prototype tool to assist developers in the instantiation of the Null Object design pattern in Java programs. We describe...
Design thinking framework is a powerful framework for innovation and design. It involves design specific cognitive activities such as Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test (EDIPT). In this paper we present an implementation of EDIPT framework by novice educational technology (ET) researchers and investigate if the quality of research problems generated by the novice researchers is comparable...
In batch systems monitoring information at the level of individual jobs is crucial to optimize resource utilization and prevent misusage. However, especially the usage of network resources is difficult to track. In order to understand usage patterns in modern computing clusters, a more detailed monitoring than existent solutions is required. A monitoring on job level leads to dynamic graphs of processes...
Visitors of museums and cultural heritage sites are not different from other types of citizens and, hence, they are getting more and more engaged into a participatory culture that encourages them to play an active role and not only acting as information consumers. In this paper we describe a technological platform that makes it possible to enable such proactive behavior by supporting social storytelling...
The BASAR project offers a repository of blended learning scenarios. This project aims to reuse and capitalize good teaching practices. A teacher-designer would have the ability to choose a scenario that matches his needs, to be modified, used and refined. Specializing the scenario to a given context often improves the learning quality. On the other hand, it increases the difficulty to reuse it in...
Entrepreneurial opportunities are a crucial starting point of the entrepreneurial process. However, reliable and replicable methods for systematically searching, framing, developing and assessing opportunities are still undeveloped. This article describes an action-research case study based on an experimental workshop performed in Beijing, China, in the context of an entrepreneurial platform called...
The development of software systems inevitably involves the detection and handling of inconsistencies. These inconsistencies can arise in system requirements, design specification and quite often in the descriptions that form the final implemented software product. Now days we see requirement engineers focusing their attention to achieve a solid system and user requirements. This involves requirement...
Coupling in an object-oriented context is often defined in terms of access to instance variables and methods of other classes. JavaScript, however, lacks static type information and classes, and instead features a flexible object system with prototypal inheritance. In order to determine coupling in JavaScript, we infer object types based on abstract interpretation of a program. Type inference depends...
Requirements elicitation research is reviewed using a framework categorising the relative ‘knowness’ of requirements specification and Common Ground discourse theory. The main contribution of this survey is to review requirements elicitation from the perspective of this framework and propose a road map of research to tackle outstanding elicitation problems involving tacit knowledge. Elicitation techniques...
The global mobile application market is booming and business giants, viz. Google and Apple, have acknowledged the huge expansion in their respective application market. There is a demand though for a system that can elevate the momentum of context-aware mobile applications, where application behavior can be customized according to various context information. This paper proposes AppaaS, a context-aware...
In most Service-Oriented frameworks service selection is based on provider-centric information despite well-known shortcomings (trustworthiness, incompleteness, subjectivity). We propose to allow consumers and third-party modules to extend information about providers and their services directly into the service registry. The knowledge is organized and shared via access controlled groups of interest...
Workspace awareness tools facilitate coordination among developers in a team by informing them of emerging conflicts due to parallel development. Several such tools have been introduced recently. However, evaluating such (collaborative) tools through user studies is nontrivial because it depends on the group dynamics and their development behavior. In this paper, we present the challenges in evaluating...
In order to optimize the number of controls in semiconductor manufacturing, a Permanent Index per Context (IPC) has been developed to evaluate in real-time the risk on production tools. Depending on the context which can be defined at tool level, chamber level or recipe level, the IPC allows a very large amount of data to be managed and helps to compute global risk indicators on production. A prototype...
This paper presents a novel supposition, One Sense Per N-gram (N > 1), which we believe is appropriate for more linguistic phenomena and can serve as a general version instead of the celebrated One Sense Per Collocation supposition, at least in Chinese language. This new supposition is based on our observation of the error detection process of annoted sense in People's Daily that are tagged by...
With the latest advances in information and communication technologies, learners can now engage in continuous and rich learning-sessions that characterize today's digital learning ecosystems. In these ecosystems, learning resources are pervasive and dynamic. A key challenge is to develop a scalable learning system that addresses the inherent complexity of learning sessions and cater for the specific...
One of the main challenges in context-aware systems is representing and reasoning about changes in context. In this paper, conceptual spaces provide basis for representing contexts and motion classes, defined for spatial reasoning, provide the tools necessary to reason about context evolution in conceptual spaces. The work also explores the consequences of integrating motion classes in conceptual...
This paper outlines a project aimed at addressing the issue of the scalability of online academic support. This project is being run during the Autumn semester at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) Toowoomba Australia, in conjunction with the Australian Digital Futures Institute. The study attached to the project will use Design-Based Research to evaluate the effectiveness of a simple, but...
In this paper, we contribute to the work on design thinking and learning by examining students' creativity within engineering design activities. In particular, we investigate how students explore novel solutions while exploiting prior knowledge. We present findings from a field study of a nine-week long design project where student design teams worked on renewable energy solutions for a farm in New...
Emotional requirements capture the game designer's vision for the player's emotional experience and are used to facilitate communication between pre-production and production teams. However, production-phase deficiencies in emotional requirements have been identified. In this work, we extend the definition of emotional requirements to include emotion prototypes and emotion markers and present improved...
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