Notification service is a popular functionality provided by almost all modern smartphone platforms. To facilitate customization for developers, many smartphone platforms support highly customizable notifications, which allow the third party applications to specify the trigger events, the notification views to be displayed, and the allowed user operations on the notification views. In this paper...

Software professionals often face trouble when developing software products as it is a highly dynamic, knowledge-intensive complex process. The success of the software process heavily depends on the people involved, among other factors, making their education and training an interesting topic for research. The purpose of this study is to structure and characterize the state of the practice on s...

Contribution: Determine and analyze the gap between software practitioners' education outlined in 2014IEEE/ACM Software Engineering Education Knowledge (SEEK) industrial needs pointed by Wikipedia articles referenced Stack Overflow (SO) posts. Background: Previous work has uncovered deficiencies coverage of computer fundamentals, people skills, processes, human-computer interaction, suggesting ...

• automatic message reassembly even if packets arrive out of order, which allows use of adaptive-routing networks having greater throughput and fault-tolerance; • simple design: the interface can be implemented directly in hardware state machines for speed; • protection against node failures and rogue messages: eliminates need for per-message software checks; • a rich set of message-delivery no...

BACKGROUND Prevention and surveillance programs are key to contain Nosocomial Infections (Nis). At the European Institute of Oncology, surveillance based on ex-post data collection has been done since the inception of hospital activity; laboratory-based surveillance of microbiological alert was not standardized. This study describes the issues related to the recent introduction into the hospita...

Notification displays have the potential to make smartphone notifications easier to manage when a user is committed to a primary task. The authors investigate the impact of negotiating notifications with six notification displays on a typing task. The results from their lab experiment with 30 participants show that desktop pop-ups were preferred significantly most, the display choice that requi...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the Faster Access to Stroke Therapy (FAST) study was to determine the effect of educational intervention and the use of a prehospital stroke tool on the paramedic diagnosis of stroke. METHODS Paramedics in emergency medical service units servicing a university teaching hospital were divided into two groups: FAST study paramedics (n = 18) and non-FAST study paramedics (n =...