Don't Make Me Puke

don ’ t make me draw !

This paper describes the development of a software tool to support knowledge acquisition by means of rich pictures, for Object Oriented Analysis (OOA). Transposition of manual rich picture practise into software proved difficult, therefore we decided to follow a user-centered approach, design and implement a prototype with basic functionalities, then run a usability test with a few students and...

Help me make it through the night.

Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match.

Effective marriage matching, i.e. forming specific couples from pools of potential marriage partners, is vital for the success of dynamic longitudinal microsimulation models. This paper identifies some problems with a deterministic algorithm previously used in CORSIM, and in its “child” models, e.g., DYNACAN and POLISIM, for matching prospective marriage partners. It describes an alternative, s...

“You make me feel...”: Affective Causality in Language Communication

In this paper we analyse linguistic structures, such as “You make me feel angry”, which imply the possibility that a person can cause another person’s affect. We illustrate the concept of “affective causality”, based on an implicit-naïve theory of interpersonal relations linked to common sense. We present two theoretical alternative viewpoints (deriving from psychology and psychotherapy) which ...

Make Me Laugh: Recommending Humoristic Content on the WWW

Humoristic content is an inherent part of the World Wide Web and increasingly consumed for microentertainment. However, humor is often highly individual and depends on background knowledge and context. This paper presents an approach to recommend humoristic content fitting each individual user's taste and interests. In a field study with 150 participants over four weeks, users rated content wit...