Previous research on the care-giver burden experienced by adult children has typically focused on the adult child and parent dyad. This study uses information on multiple informal care-givers and examines how characteristics of the informal care-giving network affect the adult child's care-giver burden. In 2007, 602 Dutch care-givers who were assisting their older parents reported on parental a...

This study aims to check if a Virtual Museum (VM) is tool for learning science in an informal environment lower basic grades from the perspective of parents and children. The followed mixed method quantitative qualitative data collected main field-testing stage user (children parents) educational Research Development (R & R&D) methodology, evaluation tools used as instruments parents, o...

Existing group decision support systems focus on complex or enterprise decision-making, much of it pre-Web. There is little research that takes this work and applies it to support a new type of lightweight, informal decision-making made popular by the amount of information on the Web. We examine related work and undertake an online survey and formative study to examine how people currently use ...

There are the notes of rather informal lectures given by the first co-author in UPMC, Paris, in January 2017. Practical goal is to explain how to compute or estimate the Morse index of the second variation. Symplectic geometry allows to effectively do it even for very degenerate problems with complicated constraints. Main geometric and analytic tool is the appropriately rearranged Maslov index....

We describe some tools to support distributed cooperative design and validation of software systems. Workers at di erent sites can collaborate on tasks including speci cation, re nement, validation, veri cation, and documentation. A distributed database supports alternative and incomplete activities, and can be read using any web browser; remote proof execution, animation, and informal explanat...

Communities of Practices (CoPs) are informal structures within organizations that bind people together through informal relationships and the sharing of expertise and experience. As such, they are effective tools for the creation and sharing of organizational knowledge, and, increasingly, organizations are adopting them as part of their knowledge management strategies. In this paper, we examine...

This video presents the Hello.Wall artefact in a mixedmedia set-up to support spontaneous, informal encounters in two remote lounge spaces of a distributed team. The Hello.Walls are used as awareness tools to know more about the remote team’s state and at the same time as a tool to smoothen transitions to place-based video communication among the remote teams’ members. This connecting-remote-te...

Model-driven development of user interfaces has become increasingly powerful in recent years. Unfortunately, model-driven approaches have the inherent limitation that they cannot handle the informal nature of some of the artifacts used in truly multidisciplinary user interface development such as storyboards, sketches, scenarios and personas. In this chapter, we present an approach and tool sup...

Failure detection protocols—a fundamental building block for crafting fault-tolerant distributed systems—are in many cases described by their authors making use of informal pseudo-codes of their conception. Often these pseudo-codes use syntactical constructs that are not available in COTS programming languages such as C or C++. This translates into informal descriptions that call for ad hoc int...