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Over the years, User Experience (UX) becomes a main term in designing an interactive product. The term itself lacks proper theoretical definition and is used in many different ways especially in academic and industry. This paper reviews and explores various existing approaches to conceptualize and understand user experience better. It covers both theories from the academics as well as studies conducted...
In designing BYOB and Snap/, we wanted to extend the Scratch idea of visual metaphors for control structures to include anonymous procedures and higher order functions. We describe the iterations in the design leading to the current "grey ring" notation.
In Seleskovitch's interpretive theory of translation, the construct of sense is the core of the triangular process of translation. Taking this as a starting point, the present paper argues that the construct of sense is only part of the truth of the reality in translation. The translator in a translation not only constructs sense at the stimulus of the source text, but also makes meaning for the readers...
Multi Criteria Decision Making methods have been developed to solve complex real-world decision problems. The Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is currently one of the most popular methods and has been shown to provide helpful outputs in various application areas. In recent years, a variety of extensions, including fuzzy extensions of TOPSIS have been proposed...
The research context of this paper further expands the probable understanding on the use of corrective feedbacks among online English teachers and their underlying cognition given the computer-mediated communication context of their online class discourse. By installing new probable component and contextual computer-mediated communication features on teacher cognition in corrective feedbacks research,...
Spoken dialogs represent a considerable challenge for language technology for at least two reasons: (a) due to the frequent incompleteness of syntactic structure a given sequence of words cannot often undergo satisfactory parsing, (b) as a result, the associated fragmented prosody may not be used to substitute for missing elements. However, spoken dialogs are essentially multimodal with nonverbal...
In this paper, I outline the scope and methodology of cultural studies and the possible applications in HRI. It is not just robots that interact with humans, but humans who interact with humans through the medium of robots. Culture is the context that informs all our actions. Cultural theory's eclectic methodology is useful for sifting through a large, multidisciplinary and cross-cultural field like...
Requirements elicitation is challenging in research oriented projects which usually focus on innovations in terms of providing boundary-pushing solutions that potentially change current work practice for the users in the domain of interest. Hence, requirements engineers need to find a way to bring together the diverse expectation and interests within the context of fast moving technologies and conservative...
This paper introduces normalized Google distance into the study of word sense disambiguation and presents a novel unsupervised method of word sense disambiguation. The normalized Google distance is a theory of similarity between words and phrases, based on information distance and Kolmogorov complexity by using the world-wide-web as database, with its page counts derived from a search engine such...
Identifiers are an important source of information during program understanding and maintenance. Programmers often use identifiers to build their mental models of the software artifacts. We have performed a preliminary study to examine the relation between the terms in identifiers, their spread in entities, and fault proneness. We introduced term entropy and context-coverage to measure how scattered...
Ontologies is playing an increasingly important role in knowledge management and the Semantic Web. The tourism information ontology is becoming a core research field in the realm of information retrieval. An ontology construction method based on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) to extract domain ontology from unstructured text documents is proposed. Under the framework of our ontology construction method,...
To support programmers during program maintenance we present an approach which extracts concepts and relations from the source code. Our approach applies natural language parsing to sentences constructed from the terms that appear in program element identifiers. The result of parsing can be represented as a dependency tree. Then, we automatically extract an ontology by mapping linguistic entities...
Tacit knowledge in requirements documents can lead to miscommunication between software engineers and other stakeholders. One way in which the presence of tacit knowledge is signalled in text is by linguistic presuppositions. In this paper, we present a brief introduction to tacit knowledge, presuppositions and the links between them. Our aim is to build a theoretically grounded system which is able...
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