Experiences in developing a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) for dry mouth revealed that traditional approaches for creating clinical applications are not suitable because of the lack of structured knowledge in the domain and the complex nature of existing knowledge. Nevertheless, openEHR offers various benefits. This paper presents the issues related to developing an openEHR-based CDSS ...

There is a lack of guidelines for designers to use when creating sounds for their interfaces. This paper proposes a set of general guidelines for the creation of earcons based upon six experiments we have performed. Using them a designer will be able to create effective earcons.

The sparse application of the Semantic Web Rule Language is partly caused by a lack of intuitive rule editors. This applies both from a human user’s, as well as from a software interoperability perspective, as creating and modifying rules is currently hard in distributed Web applications. We introduce a Representational State Transfer-based approach that enables online rule editing to overcome ...

There is a lack of autonomy on traditional RobotAssisted Therapy systems interacting with children with autism. To overcome this limitation a supervised autonomous robot controller is being built. In this paper we present a multilayer reactive system within such controller. The goal of this Reactive system is to allow the robot to appropriately react to the child’s behavior creating the illusio...

in developing countries such as iran it was after economic crises and the increase in price of energy carriers and primary resources that industrial ecology was taken into consideration as a method in industrial states. 941 industrial states in iran have a high potential in creating material and energy flow networks with the industrial ecology approach to prevent massive energy loss and valuabl...

background: although nursing faculties may believe that they possess a core of knowledge about ethical interactions with students, they may unwittingly risk crossing an ethical boundary in the learning environment. the ethical dimension in education exists because the instructor has authority to contribute to or impede the students’ acquisition of knowledge. therefore, this study aimed to deter...