We are building a tool that helps children with Complex Communication Needs 1 (CCN) to create stories about their day at school. The tool uses Natural Language Generation (NLG) technology to create a draft story based on sensor data of the child’s activities, which the child can edit. This work is still in its early stages, but we believe it has great potential to support interactive personal n...

Based on social exchange theory, this study develops a research model to examine why people disclose personal information on health social networks. The observations collected from a survey study provide supporting evidence for most of the hypothesized relationships among emotional intensity, informational needs, social needs, informational privacy concerns, social privacy concerns and self-dis...

Formal description of concepts so that it may be processed by computers has great promises for people with special needs. By making use of ontologies, improved user interaction with personal information management system is possible for these people. An ontology using semantic web technology is proposed which formally describes the mapping information about user’s impairments, and the available...

The rapid development and extensive use of digital technologies, electronic mail, Internet and mobile communication systems, and electronic commerce applications lead to the collection and processing of huge amounts of personal data. The increasing reliance on the information systems conducts to the selection of security controls, that are driven by the business needs and the associated securit...

PURPOSE Students of health education are often offended by the transitions and challenges they face while encountering diverse people, ideas and academic workloads. They may be offended because of reasons not only related to their societal background but also to their basic competence in managing transitions. In the Asian scenario, students enter the first year of professional education in thei...

he basic definition of the word "catholic" as "universal" suggests, in the context of Catholic health care, a sincere effort to care for all people, certainly those within one's sphere of influence. Clearly, it follows that the mission of Catholic health care includes finding ways to care not only for patients within our institutions, but also for the souls of those who function as the basis of...

Modern information management technology is an effective means by which to provide access to large amounts of distributed and diverse information. Often information management systems provide functionality which is based on metadata, i.e. data describing data, in order to support users in searching for and retrieving data required to perform a specific task. This is especially true for environm...