Product performance charts are commonly seen in the product reviews published on the relevant web sites, magazines, and other public media. They are aimed at helping consumers understand the similarities and differences among the gathered products. This study investigates whether the design style influences the perception of the product performance charts. And this paper presents the result of ...

In this paper we present PIERINO (PIattaforma per l’Estrazione e il Recupero di INformazione Online), a system that was implemented in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research to analyse the citizens’ comments given in #labuonascuola survey. The platform includes various levels of automatic analysis such as key-concept extraction and word co-occurrences. Eac...

Despite the increasing importance of the Internet, there is little work that addresses the degree to which the models and theories of Internet diffusion in developed countries can be applied to Internet diffusion in developing countries. This paper presents the first attempt to address this question through modeling Internet diffusion via a set of variables from social, technical, and environme...

The radar chart approach is one of a number of special analytical tools that have been developed in connection with benchmarking in the private and public sectors. Although well established as a management tool, the radar chart approach has to our knowledge never been applied to benchmarking labour market performance. This paper assesses the usefulness of the radar chart approach in this policy...

This paper describes an effort to make Microsoft Excel Chartsline, pie, bar/column, radar, scatteraccessible using NVDA screen reader. This solution fetches chart informationaxis, axis title, series, trend line, chart title, chart area, plot area, legend, legend entry, legend keyusing Excel Native APIs and presents the information for each element type as separate navigable object. User study r...

When describing complex characteristics of a specific genre, specialist expressions are often used. This can become quite a problematic situation for an inexperienced person, as expressions not used in everyday language are difficult to understand. This is particularly apparent when trying to describe wines, known as winespeak, as a range of specialist expressions are used in a subjective manne...

When engineering different decentralised autonomic computing solutions for a certain application there is a lack of a common and usable evaluation and comparison approach. Useful metrics and measurements are mostly domain-specific and are hard to generalise. This paper proposes to use radar charts which allow to apply these domain-specific metrics in an overall evaluation and comparison approac...