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Having implemented a Classroom Response System (CRS) “Tweedback” in style of Social Media, this instrument was supposed to be evaluated for further rework and refinements. However, systematic evaluation of such applications is rarely done and demands a determination of the issues to be considered within the evaluation. The scope of the approach presented in this paper is the evaluation with regard...
This paper highlights the importance of using a multidisciplinary approach in online classrooms, and how the use of social media, such as Facebook establishes a learner-centered environment with a clear focus on what is taught, why it is taught, and what competencies are expected. When the learning environment is learner-centered, it enables the educators to recognize the students' preconceptions,...
Almost every country have their own museum and standard procedure with different characteristics based on their state policies. In Indonesia itself until now, there are approximately 300 museum institutions. There are many problems currently faced by the museums include the management and processing data collection either structured or unstructured inside the institutions. Therefore, this research...
As one of aimed items at Smart Television (Smart TV) and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), it has been stressed to share watching and enjoying the programs among audiences by using social networks. There have been several proposals to use various approaches. However, the progress of standardization efforts, especially to define an appropriate reputational Ontology for improving the quality of IPTV...
Most studies on the perceptual quality evaluation of multi-media services are limited to short media samples or epi-sodes, although typical usage of services occurs in a more regular way over longer periods of exposure (weeks, months or years). So far, it is unclear how the experience of individ-ual episodic use is integrated to form an experience of one service as a whole, spanning over multiple...
Microblogging services are growing rapidly in the recent years. Twitter, one of the most popular microblogging sites, has gained more than 500 millions users. Thousands of developers are also using Twitter to communicate with one another and microblog about software-related topics such as programming languages, code libraries, etc. Understanding the behaviors of software microbloggers is one of the...
In recent years, with the expansion and extension of micro letter, we have entered the wonderful world of Being Digital. We are pleased to micro-channel positive energy, but also to guard against the spread of the process occurs in micro-channel relationships caused by indifference ethical issues. New times call for social responsibility of the media, networking media ethics system, have a great significance...
Effects of six different pesticides on the growth of Chlorella vulgaris were investigated in this paper. The results showed that when the chlorella were cultured in the media with carbendazim, procymidone, thiram, tebuconazole, prochloraz and fludioxonil repectively, lower concentrations(<1mg/L) promoted the growth of cells, higher concentrations inhibited cells growth, and the inhibition effect...
Big data has been around a long time,' said Byron Banks, VP of big data for SAP. 'Now with social media, the Internet of Things, sensor data, mobile devices -- new big data has transformed the business.' While in industry a new generation of products and services dealing with big data arise, it has also raised many fundamental research challenges and open issues in the context of BPM and existing...
Infographics, the word information graphics, use graphic visual representations to show information, data or knowledge. Infographics applied in education, especially the design education, become more challenging to design teaching. This paper analyzes the relationship between infographics and design education. Design education prepares designers for business and society. It takes time to develop and...
Patients are facing complex health care decisions everyday. They are given many different treatment paths and often do not understand or question if these are the best path for their health conditions. These patients often turn to the internet, including authorative healthcare web sites and social media, to explore which option is the best for them [1][2]. In their exploration of different treatment...
With the development of network and multimedia technique, the transfer of multimedia content becomes popular. The relations between distributors get hierarchical and diversified. As far as digital wholesale and retail are concerned, the traditional fingerprint which helps traitor tracing cannot achieve effective tracing of colluding middlemen. Therefore, we improve the multiple watermarking schemes,...
In order to investigate what type of experiences of robots influences negative attitudes toward them, an online survey (N = 1,200) was conducted in Japan, by using the Negative Attitudes toward Robots Scale (NARS). The results suggested that (1) there were almost no strong relationships between types of robot experiences and gender, and age, (2) the correlations between negative attitudes toward robots...
The sociological theory of entrainment accounts for the synchronization of human rhythmic modalities through social interactions: they coordinate in a variety of dimensions including linguistic styles, facial expressions, music pace, applause, and so on. Though highly relevant, emotion entrainment has received little attention to date. In addition, most previous studies on entrainment are done through...
Analysis and mining of social media has become an important research area. A challenging problem in this area consists in the identification of a group of users with similar patterns. In this paper, we propose the classification of users based on their activity profiles (e.g., periods of the day when the user is most and least active in online communications). Activity profiles can be useful for many...
The significance of social media has already been proven in provoking transformation of public opinion for developed countries in improving democratic process of elections. On the contrary, developing countries lacking basic necessities of life possess monopolistic electoral system in which candidates are elected based on tribes, family backgrounds, or landlord influences. They extort voters to cast...
This exploratory work studies hashtag diffusion in Twitter. The analysis is conducted from two aspects. From the macro perspective, we study general properties of hashtag diffusion, and classify hashtags into three main classes based on their temporal dynamics referred as “single spike”, “multi-spikes”, and “fluctuation”, and find that each of these classes has some unique characteristics. From the...
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