............................................................................................................................... 6 Acknowledgments................................................................................................................ 7 Table of

Drama project is a multidisciplinary research project funded by the Academy of Finland and run by HIIT (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology) and Helsinki Polytechnic degree programme in Performing arts. Projects focus is people over fifty years and at their attitudes and opinions about retirement. Members of four work communities consisting of 178 users have been studied. In this pape...

This research looks at design methods for children technologies. It takes a User-Centred Design approach, where the involvement of the users is essential to the achievement of satisfactory products.

This article explores the use of various learning technologies as tools for facilitating learner-centered teaching. The article offers another perspective on the scholarship of teaching with technology—through discussion of various theoretical models of learner-centered teaching, the role of technology on the student/instructor relationships, the impact on technology in different educational se...

We describe a system which ranks humanprovided paraphrases of noun compounds, where the frequency with which a given paraphrase was provided by human volunteers is the gold standard for ranking. Our system assigns a score to a paraphrase of a given compound according to the number of times it has co-occurred with other paraphrases in the rest of the dataset. We use these co-occurrence statistic...

Pilot application projects will be the major means for stimulating collaboration between users, suppliers and researchers. Building on the successful LRE scheme, these projects will provide a more user-centered context and encourage a coordinated and market-driven approach to RTD tasks, and at the same time demonstrate and validate the integration of language components within information and c...

Goal: The use of an online game for learning in higher education aims to make complex theoretical knowledge more approachable. Permanent repetition will lead to a more in-depth learning. Objective: To gain insight into whether and to what extent, online games have the potential to contribute to student learning in higher education. Experimental Setting: The online game was used for the first ti...

This paper presents the practical experience gained in the process of implementing the human-centered automation design methodology to an electric power utility management automation function, along with the analytical discussions on the implementation challenges. This report of implementation challenges and the discussions made on the methods devised to conquer those challenges lead to an alte...

The performance of interactive systems is determined in relation to the context in which the system and users interact for task execution. It is obvious that the significance and complexity of contextual information require systemic approaches for managing it in the design process. As the system complexity and diversity of types and ranges of use context increase, context sensitivity becomes a ...

Recently, design researchers have been interested in observation-analysis approach to study design activities. This is how the annotation and annotation tools have been introduced into the design research. This paper describes the annotation process as an approach in design activity studies and proposes a sequential structure for the annotation process. The research objective is to characterize...