Studies in cognition [1, 2] have investigated the role of external visual representations in different domains in supporting reasoning, problem solving, and communication. These studies often are confined to domains that pose relatively well-defined problems [3], such as geometry [4] and physics [2], with fewer studies in domains where the problems are ill-defined [3], such as meteorology [5] a...

In this article we describe the fault-tolerance architecture of the PerDiS platform. This architecture results from the work that was done in the rst six months at INESC with strong interaction with the other partners of the project (mainly INRIA-SOR and INRIA-SIRAC). We describe the overall fault-tolerance architecture and its integration within PerDiS, the interfaces and implementation provid...

INTRODUCTION Ideas of reference (IOR), paranoia and social anxiety are features of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, which appear to be conceptually related; however, the precise nature of these relationships is unclear. These relationships may be partially explained by perceived intentionality (PI), a social-cognitive bias for perceiving other people's actions during unpleasant situations as b...

A methodology for development of intelligent user interfaces is presented which allows for programming by correcting behavior, rather than writing programs or scripts. The importance of incremental knowledge accumulation with contributing individuals cooperating over the network is pointed out. The experience of the authors with the prototype of an interface builder and prelimnary results are o...

A workshop for NIME 2013 is proposed on haptic interaction design for musical applications. The focus lies primarily on using physical models for programming haptic force feedback. During the workshop, participants will program the FireFader haptic device using the Synth-A-Modeler physical modeling framework, which combines elements from digital waveguide, mass-interaction, and modal synthesis....

Communities of practice have been studied widely in organizational science for knowledge sharing and learning process. Consequently, organizational systems have to be designed and engineered with communities as stakeholder in the continuous requirements engineering processes of modern service-based architectures. Here, we discuss preliminary ideas, how to represent the community context of ongo...

is a system for parallel evaluation of lazy functional programs implemented on a Sequent Symmetry. The distinguishing features of over previous implementations are propagation of Normal Form demand and memory reclamation via reference counting. In an earlier paper, the validity of these ideas was established based on a preliminary implementation. Our experience, based on extensive experimentati...

Intimacy is a crucial element of domestic life that has received insufficient attention from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers despite their rapidly growing interest in the design of interactive technologies for domestic use. Intimate acts differ from other activities, and there are unexplored opportunities to develop interactive technologies to support these acts. This paper present...

Aim of this paper is to search and find ways and methods of constructivism teaching and learning ideas inteaching the architectural design studio. The objective is to extract all the positive things constructivism has to offer the architectural design studio for efficient teaching and effective learning. Although there are similarities in the curricula of training architects all over the world,...