The use of digital technologies is now widespread and increasing, but is not always optimized for effective learning. Teachers in higher education have little time or support to work on innovation and improvement of their teaching, which often means they simply replicate their current practice in a digital medium. This paper makes the case for a learning design support environment to support an...

The proceeding globalization in combination with an increasing competition in research conducted at universities and other research institutes as well as in industry, emphasises the necessity of identifying trends at an early stage, not only in industry but by universities and governments. One of the resources to be considered are patents, as most of the information contained therein is not pub...

This study is built on the prior work done on a proposed knowledge-based tool in facilitating course exemption process in Institution of Higher Learning in Malaysia. In this study, an experiment is carried out in the faculty and the purpose of the experiment is to allow end users to evaluate the prototype, at the same time gather further requirements from the end users. This experiment is carri...

To reach a product’s business objectives, the requirements of all relevant stakeholders have to be analyzed and considered in the product definition. This paper focuses on the processes applied to analyze and consider the needs and expectations of two of these stakeholder groups, namely the customers and the users of a product. The processes to produce customer centered product definitions and ...

Robust Hybrid Control Systems

Current user-centred software engineering (UCSE) approaches provide many techniques to combine know-how available in multidisciplinary teams. Although the involvement of various disciplines is beneficial for the user experience of the future application, the transition from a user needs analysis to a structured interaction analysis and UI design is not always straightforward. We propose storybo...

Usability expresses how well a computerised system supports human activity. The humancomputer interaction occurs via the user interface, which is constituted by a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to a great extent. The issue is to integrate GUI design and usability engineering with traditional system development in order to slide on the man-machine scale. The purpose of writing this thesis was to...

Some functions in ambient assistance systems are enabled by sensors gathering data from the surroundings. While many prototypes are developed to prove technical concepts, for creating an acceptable, usable product additional facets need to be considered. Therefore, we present an approach to develop a functional ubiquitous system to support the monitoring and assistance of elderly family members...

A KADS based requirement analysis for the management of stock trading portfolios is presented. This provides a theoretical foundation for a stock trading system. This system is designed around portfolio management tasks that include eliciting user profiles, collecting information on the user’s portfolio position, monitoring the environment on behalf of the user, and making decision suggestions ...

The Desktop metaphor has repeatedly been declared antiquated in various ways. It nevertheless continues existing. Despite the widely pronounced critique, it is still not clear what functional requirements have to be met by a new none-desktop interface. In this context, we define and explain the functional requirements (paradigms) we think fundamental for upcoming generations of non-desktop user...