This paper discusses how Turkish Cypriot orthopedically impaired learners who are living in North Cyprus use social networking as a tool for leisure and education, and to what extent they satisfy their personal development needs by means of these digital platforms. The case study described, conducted in North Cyprus in 2015 followed a qualitative research methodology: semi-structured interviews...

In this paper, we propose a personal navigation approach to Semantic Wikis. In semantic wikis, wikis pages are annotated with semantic data to facilitate research and navigation. The navigation is collaborative designed and shared by every user. However, individuals involved in a collaborative knowledge building activity need to customize the navigation according to her personal needs. In order...

Rehabilitation from cardiologic dominated diseases include physical training supervised by professional medical personal. This work will provide a platform to interchange vital data (e.g. heart rate), gathered during physical exercises, between a patient and medical personal without further interaction by the patient. Based on the analysis of data by medical professionals, the personal health p...

UNLABELLED For an employee with a disability, reasonable accommodation can make the difference in finding work, maintaining employment, and succeeding on the job. Today, employers and employees alike are more aware that appropriate accommodation, including workplace personal assistance services (PAS) as well as assistive technology, improves an employee's ability to succeed. While assistive tec...

Personal information archives (PIAs) can include materials from many sources, e.g. desktop and laptop computers, mobile phones, etc. Evaluation of personal search over these collections is problematic for reasons relating to the personal and private nature of the data and associated information needs and measuring system response effectiveness. Conventional information retrieval (IR) evaluation...

This study examines the relationship of consumer values, needs and behavior in order to efficiently and effectively position and target the market. The purpose is to identify those motivational factors and variables that influence the consumer to make the purchase decision and types of personal values, motives, emotions and moods directing them. The empirical research is based on a survey with ...

This article will focus on the use of desktop (or personal) video conferencing to link groups of special needs children from three secondary schools in a rural area of Wales. The collaboration developed out of a Superhighways project which introduced video conferencing to a network of schools and which was aimed mainly at supporting geography teaching through the use of satellite images of the ...