Work–life balance: Lab life with kids

KIDS Lab at ImageCLEF 2012 Personal Photo Retrieval

The personal photo retrieval task at ImageCLEF 2012 is a pilot task for testing QBE-based retrieval scenarios in the scope of personal information retrieval. This pilot task is organized as two subtasks: the visual concepts retrieval and the events retrieval. In this paper, we develop a framework of combining different visual features, EXIF data and similarity measures based on two clustering m...

Work Life Balance – What Balance?

“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” Anonymous. This quote stands out because as we highlight our career goals and strategically plan for them, our personal lives often happen as an afterthought. To be successful at achieving a work–life balance, we should pay equal attention to planning all spheres of our life. While God and Family have been the bedrock in my own...

Beyond Work-Life "Balance".

T he desire for better work-life balance is a common concern among physicians and a key reason for choosing employed practice. But the term work-life balance has always struck me as problematic. In my experience, achieving a true balance between work and non-work activities is incredibly challenging and, when achieved, is fleeting. My moment of balance is quickly upended by a sick child, a pa...

Work-life balance.

Everyday Life Sensing by Living Lab Approach

Effective, agile and trusted eServcies Co-creation needs to align the formalized business procedures with the need for innovating business genuinely on the spot, or ad-hoc, namely understanding the real needs of users. An emerging innovation approach called “Living Lab” is such a ‘in-vivo’ and ‘in-situ’ approach, which emphasizes understanding users’ needs in their real life contexts. Living La...