Within OASIS, a set of detailed Use Cases have been developed, after capturing the specific needs of elderly users on the use and acquisition of services for the support of their every day life. These use cases offer direct input to the design and development of the user interaction elements in terms of key characteristics, such as self-adaptivity and personalisation parameters that abide to th...

This descriptive exploratory study was conducted to describe the health care needs and identify unmet needs of the caregivers of cancer patients in Jordan. A total of 82 caregivers accompanying patients to an outpatient chemotherapy clinic completed the 90-item caregiver need scale. Caregivers reported 75.6% of scale items as needs and rated these as "very important" needs on all 6 areas of the...

music is a social phenomenon that is in conjunction with many aspects of human beings’ life today. in recent years, some forms of music have become widespread that are not from indigenous origins. indeed, these are new forms that challenge iranian cultural values. meanwhile, youth are the main consumers of these forms of music. because many of youth who are heavy consumers of music are living i...

Personal learning environments (PLEs) hold the potential to address the needs of formal and informal learners for multi-sourced content and easily customisable learning environments. This chapter presents an overview of the European project ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environments), which specialises in the development and evaluation of learning environments that can be personalised by indiv...

Need fulfillment has been found to be associated with numerous positive relationship outcomes, but its impact on stay-leave behavior is less clear. In the current study, we considered whether the fulfillment of different needs might differentially affect stay-leave behavior. We distinguished between needs that are personal in nature and those that are relational in nature. Central to our theore...

Purchase decisions are complex processes that follow economic, psychological and consumer behaviour models. These processes have been largely explored and subsequent marketing strategies have been derived from them. Selling products and services over the Internet complicates the process introducing a technical intermediary into this system. To facilitate a maximum of transactions initiated via ...

Understanding the needs of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) enables the design of adaptable user interfaces addressing multiple sources of heterogeneity such as personal skills, work environments and context of use given their interaction with system and technology. Applying the humancentered design approach places the needs and limitations at a higher priority, creating a multi-...

This study focuses on the tourism websites that are doing destination marketing for some remote areas. This study proposes that when interactivity is put into the website to create users‘ virtue experience with the remote areas, different user may response differently. Two kinds of user‘s personal factors are investigated in this study: Susceptibility to Interpersonal Influence and Personal Inv...

This paper describes a Natural Language Generation system (NLG), How was School Today? that automatically creates a personal narrative from sensor data and other media (photos and audio). It can be used by children with complex communication needs in schools to support interactive narrative about personal experiences. The robustness of story generation to missing data was identified as a key ar...