Abstract It is generally acknowledged that onomatopoeia poses challenges for translation. However, there little research into the translation of in Pragmatics. This study seeks to examine nature and its implications from perspective relevance theory, addressing, particular, following questions: (i) Can notions pragmatics help account perceived involved translating onomatopoeia? (ii) Would showi...

Prosumerization is the enabling of users to act as producers. Prosumerization of content for the mobile internet, in which users are consumers and producers of content, is a recent trend. However, user-generated mobile services are the next big step for mobile service provision emerging from the prosumerization of content. Benefits for platform and telecommunication providers can be significant...

With the advent of ubiquitous connectivity and a constant flux of user-generated content, people’s online information seeking behaviors are rapidly changing, one of which includes seeking information from peers through online questioning. Ways to understand this new behavior can be broken down into three aspects, also referred to here as the three M’s – the modalities (sources and strategies) t...

Nowadays the huge amount of video material stored in multimedia repositories makes the search and retrieval of such content a very slow and usually difficult task. The existing video abstraction systems aim to ease the multimedia access problem by providing short versions of the original content which ease the search and navigation process by reducing the time spent in content browsing. There a...

The creation of user-generated content is an approach which is used to activate learners. This paper presents an approach supporting mobile collaborative use of user-generated e-flashcards within small ad-hoc learning communities. The application of this approach to support cooperative work and workplace learning is discussed too.

The use of analogical arguments is most often associated with political argumentation. However, our previous studies have found that analogical arguments are not as convincing as factual arguments. Should politicians rethink their rhetorical techniques ? In this paper, several possible criticisms of previous findings are considered, to determine whether analogical arguments might be considered ...

The significant growth of media and user-generated content online has allowed for the widespread adoption of recommender systems due to their proven ability to reduce the workload of a user and personalise content. In this paper, we describe our prototype system called Buzzer, which harnesses real-time micro-blogging activity, such as Twitter, as the basis for promoting personalised content, su...

We report on MobiDics, a mobile learning platform for professors, lecturers and tutors. In a survey with 100+ participants, we revealed that young, inexperienced teaching personnel at universities rarely use specific didactic methods to plan and structure courses. Such methods play an important role in learning processes since they, for example, activate students and contribute to more profound...