Creation of new interfaces for musical expression can be especially challenging when targeted at end users having complex learning needs [1]. Such users have sensory, cognitive, or physical impairments, which affect their ability to play traditional instruments, leading to a diminished music making experience. Technology can often help bridge the gap between the user and their musical intention...

The demographic change has tremendous consequences for health care availability, with a growing mismatch between rising numbers of patients and the declining number of care personnel. As a consequence, considerable shortcomings in availability, accessibility, and quality of health care can be expected. Telemedicine and telemonitoring services are promising approaches to compensate this gap, esp...

The impact of information systems (IS) on organizational performance has gained enormous attention from both academics and practitioners. However, it is the post-acceptance IS use that actually help fully realize the IS potential. We identified three types of IS usage behaviors -routine use (RU), extended use (EU) and innovative use (IU), which can coexist in the post-acceptance stage and help ...

Pedestrians' road-crossing behavior can often interrupt traffic flow and cause vehicles queueing. In this paper, we propose some moving rules for modeling the interaction of vehicles and pedestrians. The modified visual angle car-following model is presented for the movement of vehicles with consideration of the lateral effect of waiting pedestrians. The pedestrians' behavior is summarized as c...

Despite the need expressed in the literature for shedding light upon the mechanisms that underpin the transformational process of t-Government, there is still research to be conducted regarding the critical factors that affect the citizens’ adoption of local government transformational services. To address this gap, this research reports on the findings of the use of the structured-case approac...

Process modelling has seen widespread acceptance, particularly in large IT-enabled Business Process Re engineering projects. It is applied, as a process design and management technique, across all lifecycle phases of a system. While there has been much research on alternative process modelling techniques, little attention has been focused on post-hoc evaluation of process modelling success. Thi...

Traditional teaching pedagogy has the young learning from the old. To improve learning in abusiness environment, generational differences have been identified as being potentialbarriers between people. There is a growing realisation that technology can be used to bridgethe gap between young and old using reverse mentoring. Moving beyond the confines ofusing reverse intergenerati...

The proposed cyclotron gas-stopping scheme for the efficient thermalization of intense rare isotope beams is examined. Simulations expand on previous studies and expose many complications of such an apparatus arising from physical effects not accounted for properly in previous work. The previously proposed cyclotron gas-stopper geometry is found to have a near null efficiency, but extended simu...

Due to betrayal aversion, people take risks less willingly when the agent of uncertainty is another person rather than nature. Individuals in six countries (Brazil, China, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United States) confronted a binary-choice trust game or a risky decision offering the same payoffs and probabilities. Risk acceptance was calibrated by asking individuals ...

Traditional database models are not sufficiently expressive for a variety of standard and non-standard database applications. Several models supporting greater abstraction have been proposed to 611 this gap, but no one model has gained wide acceptance. This paper delnes a model, based on the notion of molecules and non-jirat normal /arm relations, that provides a powerful abstraction mechanism ...