This short paper relates the main features of LELIE, phase 1, which detects errors made by technical writers when producing procedures or requirements. This results from ergonomic observations of technical writers in various companies.

The purposes of this paper are two: first of all, to show that blind-following of a oversimplistic model of emotions like happens with Ekman’s one is a bad situation for contemporary researchers from different disciplines. The author has called this situation, the Ekman’s paradox; at the same time, the complexity and divergence of ideas, concepts, methodologies and evidences among emotion resea...

A design project was carried out which began with the study and critique of office paper attachment systems, such as paperclips and staples. A set of criteria for an ideal system of attachment was then developed. This led to the design of an improved system and the manufacture of a prototype to prove the concept behind it. The concept that was developed and pursued was a ratcheting clip. The ra...

Playing a business game needs to be both educational and entertaining. Thus, evaluation of the experience of playing games needs to incorporate both effective and affective dimensions. This experiment compared the experience of playing the conventional MIT beer game with a prototype electronic version, which had been developed to reduce the complexity and costs associated with the original game...