It is argued that Electronic Commerce (EC) platforms can be seen as artefacts—tools that are made, used, inherited and studied within a cultural context. This context encompasses economic, historical, technical, and social values and assumptions that are focused on particular ideas and definitions (relating to the example of B2C activities and processes contained within Electronic Grocery Syste...

Electronic channels of communication and social networking are effective tools in the process of teaching and learning and have increasingly improved the quality of students’ learning outcomes in higher education in recent years. The process encourages students’ active engagement, collaboration, and participation in class activities and group work and provides a flow of information disseminatio...

This chapter begins with a historical view of the development of electronic collaboration (e-collaboration) technologies, and a look at past research on e-collaboration. It then provides a discussion of fundamental theories of electronic communication (e-communication) and e-collaboration, and of fundamental concepts in e-collaboration. This is followed by a discussion of key issues in connecti...

Valency in the PDTs For Czech PDT-Vallex http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/lindat/PDT-Vallex.html For English EngVallex: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/lindat/EngVallex.html PDTs (ID -> val. frame) LEXICONS to give: ACT(.1) PAT(.4) ADDR(.3) Valency and MWEs Valency: ability of words to combine themselves with other lexical units FGD Valency theory MWEs: “idiosyncratic interpretations that cross word boundaries...

We present a tool for annotation of se­ mantic inter­sentential discourse rela­ tions on the tectogrammatical layer of the Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT). We present the way of helping the annotators by several useful features implemented in the annotation tool, such as a possibility to combine surface and deep syntactic representation of sen­ tences during the annotation, a possibili­ ty to ...

Several groups have notably contributed to existing desktop and browser based tools that can aid in participatory electronic knowledge elicitation. Examples include the GUIR team at Berkeley, who has produced tools such as Denim and Silk that are used for eliciting knowledge in prototyping fidelity development and NIST’s Web Metrics suite of tools [2] were constructed for web based usability te...

Participants Avatar Animated characters that are graphical representation of people (Davis, et al. 2009) Animated characters Avatar Virtual world(s) (VW(s)) An electronic environment that visually mimics complex physical spaces, where people can interact with each other and with virtual objects, and where people are represented by animated characters (Bainbridge 2007, p. 472) Digital world, soc...

OBJECTIVE Given the complexities of the healthcare environment, efforts to develop standardized handoff practices have led to widely varying manifestations of handoff tools. A systematic review of the literature on handoff evaluation studies was performed to investigate the nature, methodological, and theoretical foundations underlying the evaluation of handoff tools and their adequacy and appr...

Asian languages, such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) have one thing in common: they exhibit different linguistics characteristics from English and other western languages. This poses special difficulties since current term representation techniques used in English cannot be applied directly to these languages. Instead, segmentation is a first process in CJK information processing. Segmen...