Currently wearable computing is still a technology of niches and in a laboratory stage. With wearIT@work a project dedicated to applications was launched by the European Commission (EC IP 004216). The first 18 months of the project are over and the first demonstrators and results were achieved. In this paper the concept of the project is introduced and results are presented. As the project stro...

Research for the evaluation of web-sites has already begun, however it is proceeding at a very slow rate. The main reasons for this are, in our opinion, the attempt to adapt existing methodologies to the particularities of the web, the individual structure of web-sites and the issue of finding the appropriate evaluators. This study copes exactly with these points and suggests a heuristic approa...

In this paper, we describe the shaping factors, which simplify and help us understand the multi-dimensional aspects of designing Wearable Expressions. These descriptive shaping factors contribute to both the design and user-experience evaluation of Wearable Expressions.

Cache attempts to improve performance in P2P systems in three ways: improve response time, availability and load balancing. Despite their benefits, some proposals are very coupled with the application level and cannot be easily implemented in other environments, other use pre-defined structures difficult to maintain, or assume peers are physically homogeneous. So, the search for portable and fl...

All societies face the need to make judgments about what interventions (both public health and personal medical) to provide to their populations under reasonable resource constraints. Their decisions should be informed by good evidence and arguments from health technology assessment (HTA). But if HTA restricts itself to evaluations of safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness, it risks being vie...

From October each year to the following May, the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC) maintains a program for the national surveillance of influenza. This program is supported by a number of laboratories and provincial and territorial epidemiologists who collaborate by exchanging information on cases, laboratory identifications and outbreaks. During the 1994-1995 season these surveillan...

implementing information technology projects requires a calculated process to prevent failure. at the same time application of information technology in organizations faces various potential risks. exploring information technology environment in organizations reveals the potential risks and provides a structure for comprehensive risk management. there are various methods available for risk mana...

BACKGROUND Evaluations of diagnostic tests are challenging because of the indirect nature of their impact on patient outcomes. Model-based health economic evaluations of tests allow different types of evidence from various sources to be incorporated and enable cost-effectiveness estimates to be made beyond the duration of available study data. To parameterize a health-economic model fully, all ...

BACKGROUND Health technology assessments (HTA) generally, and economic evaluations (EE) more specifically, have become an integral part of health care decision making around the world. However, these assessments are time consuming and expensive to conduct. Evaluation resources are scarce and therefore priorities need to be set for these assessments and the ability to use information from one co...