Effective, agile and trusted eServcies Co-creation needs to align the formalized business procedures with the need for innovating business genuinely on the spot, or ad-hoc, namely understanding the real needs of users. An emerging innovation approach called “Living Lab” is such a ‘in-vivo’ and ‘in-situ’ approach, which emphasizes understanding users’ needs in their real life contexts. Living La...

Nowadays very different people use computer systems for their daily working activities, but also for fun and entertainment or only to satisfy their information needs. Designers are doing their best to create computer systems that work as end users expect, but it must be honestly admitted that they often fail and end users have all rights to complain. In order to improve this situation and creat...

Purpose. To explore the associations and interactions among ecological factors and explain the psychosocial quality of life of children with complex needs. Methods. In this cross-sectional survey consenting parents were identified by the Children's Treatment Network. Families were eligible if the child from 0 to 19 years, resided in Simcoe/York, and there were multiple family needs. Regression ...

objective: previous studies have shown that menopausal women are more likely to experience depression. however, there are few studies that investigated the cognitive mechanism that may have a role in developing depression in menopausal women. thus, the present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of life satisfaction in the relation between subjective evaluation of stressors and depres...

We report on the results of a project which applied LOTOS to safety-critical case studies, determined the veriication needs of real life applications, and developed tools for ASN.1 to LOTOS translation and equational reasoning.