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Quality education leading to potential employment is essential for the growth of a nation. This still remains a challenge in India despite much contemporary technological advancement. It is also an evident fact that, the major hiring sectors like IT and manufacturing are facing a slow-down and hence an immediate impact on unemployment. The issue of excess of educated unemployed students must be addressed,...
In this paper, we present a new variations of the popular nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) approach to extend it to the data with negative values. When a NMF problem is formulated as μ ≈μμ, we try to develop a new method that only allows μ to contain nonnegative values, but allows both μ and μ to have both nonnegative and negative values. In this way, the original NMF is extended to be used...
This conceptual paper is a preliminary part of an ongoing study into take-up of electronic personal health records (ePHRs). The purpose of this work is to contextually ‘operationalise’ Grönroos' (2012) model of value co-creation in service for ePHRs. Using findings in the extant literature we enhance theoretical and practical understanding of the potential for co-creation of value with ePHRs for relevant...
Learning by demonstration is a useful technique to augment a robot's behavioral inventory, and teleoperation allows lay users to demonstrate novel behaviors intuitively to the robot. In this paper, we compare two modes of teleoperation of an industrial robot, the demonstration by means of a data glove and by means of a control object (peg). Experiments with 16 lay users, performing assembly task on...
In this key-note presentation I will reflect on GQM, its' starting principles and lessons learned, and will evolve to the relevance in todays' fast moving world and clarify how GQM is there to serve its' purpose. GQM is now more relevant and more suitable than it has ever been.
There have been numerous studies involving research and development, for detecting falls exhibited by the elderly. Considering that the prevention of a falling elderly is much more complex to address and estimate, very little research has been done. In fact research is often strictly limited resourceful medical organizations that have specialized clinical tools. Human locomotion, particularly “Walking”...
We present the results of the third phase in a three part study developing an application to reduce obesity levels in adolescents with a mobile fitness application that encourages youth to engage in fitness activity by providing social networking tools to facilitate motivation. In the first phase, we studied effecting positive attitudinal changes towards fitness. The second phase studied physical...
Experienced professionals are capable of spotting an impossible estimate at a glance. This ability, which some will call "expert knowledge" is acquired over years of practice and observation of what works and does not work. Expert knowledge is mostly tacit and in consequence difficult to pass on. Fermi questions, named after Enrico Fermi - a Nobel Laureate in Physics, seek to produce a quick,...
The concept of cycle slipping was introduced by J.J. Stocker for the mathematical pendulum with friction. After an impact, the pendulum make several revolutions around the suspension point before settling down in the lower stable equilibrium. The number of those revolutions is referred to as the number of cycles, slipped by the solution. In general, the number of slipped cycles may be defined for...
Recent technological trends on mobile/wearable devices and sensors have been enabling increasing number of people to collect and store their “life-logs” easily in their daily lives. Beyond exercise behavior change of individual user, our research focus is on the behavior change of teams, based on life-logging technologies and information sharing. In this paper, we propose and evaluate six different...
Augmented reality is a promising technology for both entertainment and education. However, educators need systems to help them tailor the delivery of content for their specific curricula. In this paper we present the iterative design of an AR editing tool and game to allow educators and students alike to engage with their content in a novel way. The tool and game were iteratively refined over a period...
Lecturers of Calculus at Civil Engineering School at the Universität Politècnica de Catalunya think Enginering students have to master mathematics to have a solid math foundation for their future studies and jobs as well as for developing and maintaining life-long mathematics learning skills. Our experience shows us that it is a difficult task but which can be achieved if we work to motivate and encourage...
A considerable body of research examines people's perceptions of the nature of science. There is also extensive research about what those perceptions are for teachers, and what strategies can be used to change them. There is, however, very little information about what these perceptions may be in the case of computer science. In fact, computer scientists struggle to agree on a definition of their...
Community engagement is a pedagogy that integrates engagement with a community, local or global, with academic content. In engineering and computer science the engagement is often the design, delivery and support of projects for NGO's, human service agencies, educational institutions and governmental agencies. Community engagement has been supported in the literature for enhancing learning and motivation...
When new faculty arrive for a new position at a college or university, they are typically flooded with information on all the "things to know and do" before the start of their first semester. They often participate in orientation sessions that give them snapshots on human resources, research protocol, departmental requirements, getting a computer account, using the library, using the course...
The need for more sustainable solutions makes design an increasingly complex task. New supportive tools and methods are thereby required to stimulate creative thinking to generate new sustainable proposals. Multi-disciplinary design teams need especially in the conceptual design phase more support. Therefore a design method was developed which focuses on the creation of proposals in the conceptual...
A broad array of efforts have focused on multiplying student pathways to engineering, particularly for groups that have been historically underrepresented such as ethnic minorities in the United States. Among such efforts, summer programs have been a widely used mechanism to stimulate and nurture engineering identity and agency in students from a relatively young age. At a large Midwestern University...
A National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored project was initiated in 2011 at the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (MME), Miami University, with the aim of creating online learning modules to increase the efficacy of the coursework. The modules were designed to instil proficiency in computational and experimental analysis, and were grouped along five thematic lines in the form...
Mission trips from Ohio Northern University to the Dominican Republic during the past three years have involved running engineering workshops for teachers in secondary-level schools. These workshops included design challenges often found in a first year engineering course, discussions on learning styles, and methods of integrating an engineering mindset into the Dominican curriculum. Given the great...
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