Real-life listening experiences contain a wide range of music types and genres. We create the first model of musical mood using a data set gathered in-situ during a user’s daily life. We show that while audio features, song lyrics and socially created tags can be used to successfully model musical mood with classification accuracies greater than chance, adding contextual information such as the...

Renewing Health, a Pilot A, CIP/PSP project, funded from the European Commission, aims at implementing large-scale real-life test beds for the validation and subsequent evaluation of innovative telemedicine services using a patient-centric approach and a common rigorous assessment methodology. The services offered are designed to give patients a central role in the management of their own disea...

Video hyperlinking is regarded as a means to enrich interactive television experiences. Creating links manually however has limitations. In order to be able to automate video hyperlinking and increase its potential we need to have a better understanding of how both broadcasters that supply interactive television and the end-users approach and perceive hyperlinking. In this paper we report on th...

For modeling real-life situations where not only the intensity of the relation existing between elements but also its polarity is important, we have proposed (see [Marcus and Tataram 1987a]) a new type of graphs: the signed networks. In the present paper we study two of thier most important properties: connectivity and reachability, and try to use them in order to offer a strategy to improve co...

Pattern based task management has been proposed as a promising approach to work experience reuse in knowledge intensive work environments. This paper inspects the need of organisational work experience sharing and reuse in the context of a real-life scenario based on use case studies. We developed a task pattern management system that supports process knowledge externalisation-internalisation. ...

The C2Learn project aims to foster co-creativity in learning through digital gaming activities whose design and development is grounded on rigid theoretical foundations. The project is shaped as a progression from theoretical foundations to design, development, pilot implementation and evaluation in real life educational settings. Careful pedagogical and game designs have defined the elements o...

With an increasing awareness that many undergraduates are passive during teaching sessions, calls for instructional methods that allow students to become actively engaged have increased. Cooperative learning has long been popular at the primary and secondary level and, within recent years, higher education. However, empirical evidence of the impact of cooperative learning at the university leve...

But this is not real life! Suppose next that we are still moving in a straight line but the force is variable: indeed, the typical example of this is that of a spring: suppose we have a mass M on a spring, and we stretch the mass a distance of x units from its equilibrium position. The spring will pull back in the opposite direction, and the early British scientist Robert Hooke formulated a sim...

In subscription services, customers who leave the company can be divided into two groups: customers who do not renew their fixed-term contract at the end of that contract, and others who just stop paying during their contract to which they are legally bound. Those two separate processes are often modeled together in a so-called churnprediction model, but are actually two different processes. Th...