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A proposed approach supports the continual construction and evolution of model-based Internetware artifacts by a collective of Internet-connected stakeholders. The key mechanism is incremental graph superimposition (IGS), a refinement of stigmergy, the process that produces collective intelligence in social insects. Employing IGS, a collective of individuals collaboratively and continually construct...
The selection of resources within a university campus is not an easy task, due the multitude of physical and virtual resources available. By this fact, a person can easily select a set of resources that cannot attend their needs and interests in the best way. Such multitude of resources can leads to the problem of the person cognitive overload, which happens during the resources selection. This paper...
Recent technological developments can provide technical assistance to support disabled people in their everyday tasks and improve their quality of life. This paper presents the results of preliminary experiments focused on the design of a software-based system for assisting visually impaired individuals Saudi Arabia. The proposed system will help these users in experiencing safer and yet independent...
In recent years, the study of norm-regulated multi-agent systems (MAS) has attracted a lot of attention. The Kanger-Lindahl theory of normative positions has great potential of serving as the logical foundation for normative systems for MAS, but its generality, which allows for great freedom when interpreting the theory, may also become a challenge for practical applications. As an important step...
The objective of this paper was to develop an immersive Web-based learning model to assure the quality of learning through the flipped classrooms. The proposed model was guided theoretically by the flipped classroom as a new Web-based learning trend. It was also guided pedagogically by active and reflective learning principles that support transforming the teaching and learning practices from content...
Information systems projects nowadays often affect more stakeholders than before and the range of users is also more versatile. Thus, a need for a fine-grained conceptualization of involved actors, including users and developers as well as various other affected stakeholder groups, has been identified in the literature. Some studies have already discussed participatory processes for information infrastructure...
This year the Open and Participatory Government minitrack includes six papers that explore several issues related to participation and also to transparency and openness. As always, there is significant international representation. The papers include case studies of participation in budgeting and in redistricting, model building and testing in the contexts of crowd-sourced solutions and social capital...
Badges can provide a number of advantages to networked, self-directed learners, including making visible social networks of support and direction. If badges do allow for this, we would expect to see badge acquisition to be predicted by the presence of a particular badge among a learner's social connections. In examining the badges and "tags" used on the question-and-answer site Stack Overflow...
The advances of pervasive technology offer new standards for user comfort by adding intelligence to ubiquitous home and office appliances. With intelligence being the core of some newly constructed buildings, it is important to design a scalable, robust, context-aware architecture, which not only has enough longevity and evolving capabilities to sustain itself over the building's lifetime, but also...
With the wide application of ontology in the field of computer, ontology aroused people's concern. In order to conduct nubilous object, Fuzzy ontology is introduced. How to construct the fuzzy ontology becomes a meaningful work. It is known that the inaccuracy of information is high, which leads to inefficiency in the manual construction of fuzzy ontology. To solve this problem, conceptual distance...
Assessment is a crucial component of learning. Assessment activity is practical not only in formal learning, but also in view of employability and further lifelong training activities. In light of trends toward increased requirements for skilled workers, Web-based assessment presents today many challenges; It should address students' real performance in life. This paper considers the Competence-Based...
The behavioral experiment presented in this paper investigated deception tasks (both concealment and lying) undertaken in a public space. The degree of risk of deception detection and the demands of self-regulation when deceiving were manipulated. The results showed a significant interaction effect between veracity and risk of deception detection, emerged for the body movement of “hand(s) in pocket(s)”...
A novel partnership with community organizations serving older adults creates the opportunity for engineering students to practice design in a meaningful and unfamiliar but local service learning context. Students benefit from contextualization and user-centered design lessons typical of foreign design projects. Community members gain significant relationships and pride through these interactions.
Over the last decade, a growing number of initiatives have emerged to provide engineering students, faculty, and professionals with opportunities to work on service-oriented projects in developing contexts. And while these courses and programs provide needed resources and services to communities in far-flung locations, they also pose unique challenges and difficulties. For example, projects of this...
A new model of metacognition scaffolding, Metacognition in the Engineering Design Process (MCinEDP), which parallels instruction in engineering design processes (EDP), has been designed for use in pre-college, particularly 2–6, engineering classrooms. MCinEDP utilizes engineering as the context for implementation of metacognitive activities that are designed to aid students in building mastery of...
Popularity and affordability of mobile computers, especially tablets and smart phones, is considerably rising, providing an access capability for different user groups to various ICT services. Nevertheless, software solutions and hardware devices often seem not suitable enough for some target groups, like people with complex communication needs. In order to gain understanding of the challenges for...
More and more services rely on user localization, yet presenting a location information in an intuitive form hasn't really been studied to our knowledge. We present a method to calculate the best way to express a user's location, given a priori modeling of their knowledge about people and places, so that users can get "at a glance" information about the location of their relatives. Our approach...
Guided by design-based research and the notion of seamless learning, we have designed a learning activity in mathematics where mobile and web technologies support transitions between outdoor and indoor learning contexts. The students' initiatives during the self-regulated outdoor part of the activity are scaffolded by the use of mobile technologies and activity prompts which provide means and demands...
In the context of the development of Lingnan modern architectural education, analysis and comparison on the localized practice of Modern Architecture of three famous Lingnan architects, Lin Keming, Xia Changshi and Mo Bozhi will contribute to the in-depth understanding on the localization process of Modern Architecture in Lingnan region from individual perspective.
As an important means of developing human resources, domestic and foreign enterprises have set up a large number of corporate universities in recent ten years. However, Chinese traditional unlisted state-owned enterprises didn't make much achievement. This paper analyzes the reason therein and the need to establish corporate universities for Chinese unlisted state-owned enterprises from the perspective...
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