Decentralized command and control settings like those found in the military are rife with complexity and change. These settings typically involve dozens, if not hundreds to thousands, of heterogeneous players coordinating in a distributed fashion in a dynamically networked battlefield laden with sensor data, intelligence reports, communications, and plans emanating from many different perspecti...

The current challenge in surgical residency education, preserving a sense of accountability in an era of limited work hours and multiple transitions of care, can be accomplished through the promotion of effective handovers. Approaches include increasing the transparency of handovers, enhancing the 'situational awareness' of individuals involved, and incorporating narratives and social interacti...

Is visual awareness graded or binary? Experimental work has provided support for both possibilities, leading to two coexisting but contradictory theoretical accounts. Here we propose a promising candidate factor through which to integrate both accounts: the depth of stimulus processing required by the task. We compared color identification (a low-level task) with numerical judgements (a high-le...

During the years of college and university education students are exposed to different kinds of stress, especially during the difficult studying periods like final exams weeks or project deadlines. Stress on a long run is dangerous and can contribute to illness through its physiological effects or maladaptive health behaviors. Many students admit, or are self-aware, that they become stressed un...

In this paper we present the architecture of a platform with the goal to support social, context-aware and adaptive/persuasive services aimed at stimulating the elderly to stay active/occupied in life. The platform is Webbased and consists of several modules whose main features are presented and discussed in the paper. Author

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We present a context awareness framework to assist a Museum visitor’s learning process by providing an enriched tour experience. We adapt the information a visitor receives about an artwork based on their interests and knowledge. We show how this is achievable by implementing a system that passively and unobtrusively gathers information using physical and virtual context. We also allow the visi...

The study tries to quantify and measure two abstract phenomenon of awareness and usability with respect to IT-initiatives. Indexes have been developed to measure both and a thorough analysis revealed a gap between the two. Further the effects training on the two variables were studied and it revealed a significant pre and post training gap.