There has seen a strong demand for provenance in grid applications, which enables users to trace how a particular result has been arrived at by identifying the resources, configurations and execution settings. In this paper we analyses the requirements of provenance support and discusses the nature and characteristics of provenance data on the Grid. We define a new conception called augmented p...

The objective of the research is to build technological and methodological solutions to support the development of interactive applications that enable a fluid interaction with multimedia contents. The objective is pursued employing different paradigms of content presentation, interaction and control, supporting individual and social tasks, and through customization with respect to the characte...

System stakeholders fail to engage with security until comparatively late in the design and development process. User Experience artefacts like personas and scenarios create this engagement, but creating and contextualising them is difficult without real-world, empirical data; such data cannot be easily elicited from disengaged stakeholders. This paper presents an approach for engaging stakehol...

User centric interaction is an essential requirement in many types of web related applications. Always a basic expectation from the user is that the web interaction must be self-organizing and evolving in an organized pattern as the user interest progresses. This paper addresses such an expectation with an ontology pattern based Knowledge Advantage Machine [KAM]. It illustrates how this KAM sys...

Prior to building software to review meeting recordings it is important that we understand both the needs and current practices of meeting participants. Traditionally, such user requirements are collected by either examining current practices or by performing a user evaluation of new technology. The approach taken in the AMI project is to combine the results of the two approaches in order to pr...

This paper first looks at current methods of evaluating automated content-based media analysis systems. Several key deficiencies are identified, particularly with regard to test set creation and metric design. A new framework is proposed that better reflects real-world conditions and end-user requirements. This is based on the author’s experience as a professional filmmaker and researcher in th...

Learning and Using Requirements Representation Notations by Information Technology Professionals Ralph Rillman Miller III Michael Atwood, PhD This dissertation describes a unified system modeling approach and notation that accommodates the user view and a pilot study of the ability of information technology (IT) professionals to learn and use requirements notations to represent user interface r...

This paper presents a domain-level user, task and context analysis for response technology, based on sociological studies of disaster and disaster response. The analysis examines three dimensions of disasterscale, kind and anticipabilitythat have been linked to differences in response characteristics, including differences in individual and organizational responders and behaviors. It yields a...

Social media together with still growing social media communities has become a powerful and promising solution in crisis and emergency management. Previous crisis events have proved that social media and mobile technologies used by citizens (widely) and public services (to some extent) have contributed to the post-crisis relief efforts. The iSAR+ EU FP7 project aims at providing solutions empow...

Active involvement of end users in the development of interactive systems is both highly recommended and highly challenging. This is particularly true in settings where the requirements of a large number of geographically distributed users have to be taken into account. In this paper, we address this problem by introducing an integrated, web-based approach that enables users to easily express t...