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User feedback is crucial to improve software quality. For example, it can be used to identify missing features and clarify user trends and preferences for future improvement. However, obtaining user feedback is not a 'one-off' process which requires that developers need to gather user feedback in an on-going approach. The problem lies here: the majority of users are generally lack motivation and interest...
The huge amount of heterogeneous content available nowadays on the Web pushes towards approaches and tools to allow people, even non-technical ones, to retrieve, combine and manipulate such content, in order to satisfy their knowledge needs. In this paper we illustrate how composition technologies enable teacher and students to create, use and share interactive workspaces that can enhance their learning...
This paper is mainly concerned with the strong relation between knowledge Society and Smart Cities. KS allows SC to deploy and materialize all its potentialities and to take advantage of all its resources for the benefit of citizens; adversely, SC offers live, advanced, first-quality knowledge resources, whilst KS ensures optimal, also unexpected, semantic retrieval and connection of existing resources...
In the process of designing engineered systems, it is not uncommon for engineers to underestimate or altogether ignore the societal and cultural context of the problem. This is particularly true when designs are developed to solve world problems; a lack of societal consideration leads to implementation failures when engineers from developed countries attempt to design solutions "for" people...
Cybersecurity education does not only confine to the technical studies embodying network security, malware analysis and reverse reengineering, application security, and operating systems security. The increasing numbers of Cyberterrorism and incidents of hacktivism suggest that Cybersecurity pertains to politics, religion, and culture. Drawing on globalization shaped by the economic, legal, political,...
Understanding individual classroom culture is essential for constructing effective learning and teaching contexts. Largely underutilized in STEM classrooms to date, discourse analysis can serve as a tool to uncover, understand, and shape unique classroom culture. Used as a reflective tool, discourse analysis can enhance pedagogical understanding of quality and quantity of student participation and...
This paper describes work in progress to develop and evaluate a three-week program focusing on academic language and culture for international students beginning a two-year program of study in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We provide a rationale and theoretical background for the program, describe the curriculum, and summarize...
Engineering is becoming an increasingly global profession, requiring interaction with diverse sets of people from different countries, cultures, and traditions. This diversity introduces more social and ethical complexity to the profession and highlights the importance of enabling engineers to work collaboratively and develop strong ethical decision-making skills. This study examines the relationship...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been collaborating since 2010 with the Singapore Ministry of Education to help develop the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). One element of this collaboration, the Global Leadership Program (GLP), aims to provide SUTD students with the opportunity to interact with the MIT community and experience MIT's academic culture, while...
The increasing interest in the centenary of the Great War 1914–1918 motivates the development of a digital library to capture and access valuable cultural heritage artefacts that would otherwise be lost. We will present a prototype to make available the story of the First World War in the local context of a British town, as told by the people today. The core of our prototype is crowdsourced ingest...
We performed an experimental study (n=48) of the effects of context congruency on human perceptions of robotic facial expressions across cultures (Western and East Asian individuals). We found that context congruency had a significant effect on human perceptions, and that this effect varied by the emotional valence of the context and facial expression. Moreover, these effects occurred regardless of...
In recent years many projects have applied multimedia technology to support dissemination and new modality of digital museum resources access to meet the knowledge and interests of different users needs. Linked open data technology suggest to rethink access to digital cultural heritage resources and their dissemination in different contexts. This paper presents the results of project to develop learning...
To what extent is students' understanding of computer science culturally situated? This, possibly philosophical question, has come to the surface at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, where many Chinese students study computer science together with the local students. We did an exploratory study using email interviews to see if our intuitions could be relied on. We collected data from Chinese students...
Service Science, Management, and Engineering (SSME), or "service science" for short, is the interdisciplinary study of service systems, economic entities connected by value co creation relationships. Service science integrates methods from analysis, design, and more to understand value creation phenomena generally and to improve service systems specifically. The scope of service science...
There are a large number of foreign language learners in China. Lots of research has been done on how to improve foreign language learning efficiency, but in reviewing the foreign language learning researches, it can be easily seen that the cultural effects on foreign language learning have not been given its due attention. Much of the research has been done within the scope of particular theories...
The globalization of education and particularly engineering education often results in pedagogical instruction being given by instructors not speaking the native language of the audience. Today English is the language frequently selected to bridge this communication gap through traditional oral translation either simultaneous or interactive. This single avenue of communication is simply not adequate...
Tools for collaborating in distributed, virtual spaces support concepts of multidisciplinary authorship that challenge notions of individual production. Technical communicators are no longer able to control these new communication environments. But we can seek to understand content users who have now become content producers. This presentation will look at new tools for collaborative design work and...
The mechanism that team conflict on organizational citizenship behaviors is far from conclusive in the context of Chinese culture. In order to further clarify this mechanism, this study examines the role of organizational justice in the relationship between two types of team conflict and organizational citizenship behavior. Drawing on the samples of 138 management team members in the 14 colleges and...
Academics, artists and policymakers have recently been exploring the relationship between cultural participation and well-being and have suggested that promoting the consumption of cultural activities might be a route to improving consumers' perceptions of well-being. However, there is a paucity of studies that have attempted to examine the underlying mechanisms in the cultural consumption-consumer...
There have been many attempts to understand the phenomenon of user experience (UX), but a widely accepted theory is still missing. In this paper we present the results of our investigations on the practical and multidimensional side of user experience. We have studied how professional designers and novices with different backgrounds understand user experience. According to our findings there are three...
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