Mit dem User Experience Questionnaire wurde ein Fragebogen entwickelt, der eine schnelle Messung verschiedener Kriterien der Softwarequalität erlaubt. Die Relevanz der Kriterien für die Beurteilung wurde durch eine empirische Selektion sichergestellt. Experten sammelten und reduzierten eine große Menge potenziell relevanter Begriffe und Aussagen, die sowohl „harte“ Usability-Kriterien als auch ...

Computer representation of human knowledge must be approached using the human ability to assign different meanings to information according to our perceptions, which at the same time are constructed and constitute the interpretative context in which possible meanings acquire varying degrees of validity. This work proposes that humans construct our perceptions based on the context of our past ex...

In this position paper we identify and discuss design issues involved in future nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics interfaces and services based on connecting heterogeneous data from food flows (farm to fork) to food consumption and body interaction of nutrients with DNA, microbiome etc. How to connect data from farm to fork to phenotype and what type of user experiences these data enable? What sh...

Teaching larger groups of students is a growing phenomenon in HE and this brings with it, its own challenges not least for the students themselves but also their lecturers. Demographic factors as well as the experiences that characterise us as individuals will impact upon our ability to learn. The pilot study reported here considered the “academic engagement” of a diverse group of students wher...

This study distinguishes multinational firm (MNE) technology-spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, the model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers and add it to experienced ones to prevent them from moving to local competitors. Hence, the national wage bill is unaffected by the presence of MNEs. In cont...

asha, meaning order and honesty as apposed to anarchy and hypocrisy is the most significant principle of the anciant persian religion . there are some events and tales they are coloured by the asha principle . the manifestation of asha in such cases is the result of a certain religious experience known as the exegetic experience . the exegetic experience is in fact a religious interpretation an...

This paper investigates the trend and characteristics of trade in services in two fertile regions where different forms of trade integration have taken place: East Asia and Latin America. To that end, the World Bank data are utilized to categorize services trade in order to put on view the national and regional positions on dynamic sectors, and to compare East Asia and Latin America in terms of...

As the quantity of human knowledge increasing rapidly, it is harder and harder to evaluate a knowledge worker’s knowledge quantitatively. There are lots of demands for evaluating a knowledge worker’s knowledge. For example, accurately finding out a researcher’s research concentrations for the last three years; searching for common topics for two scientists with different academic backgrounds; h...

Introduction Internet technology illuminates some potential ways of innovations in education. Currently, it is very common for teachers to search some on-line information to enrich their instruction. However, they may find a plethora of information on-line but not always find something very useful for teaching. The Internet opens another avenue for teachers to enhance their instruction; that is...

We have developed and successfully applied a technique to build a high integrity compiler from Pasp, a Pascal-like language, to Asp, the target language for a high integrity processor designed for the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston. We overview the technique itself, including a description of how it can be extended to separate compilation. We also describe some of our experien...