Organizations now routinely collect information about the needs of their consumers/users, but this information is not sufficiently utilized. This research investigates how encapsulating the user needs in a persona affects the resulting design decisions. Personas put a face on the target users and create a vivid design target by using a narrative, picture, and name. In our study, we examine whet...

Introduction 1 Rationale 2 Goals and objectives 4 Impact pathways 8 Activities 10 A. Collection of sex-disaggregated data and gender analysis 10 B. Partnerships and alliances to enhance gender inclusiveness 11 C. Knowledge sharing for gender-responsive policy and practice 12 D. Adaptive learning for gender-responsive research and analysis 13 Capacity for gender research and analysis 14 Monitori...

Behavior tables are a design formalization intended to support interactive design derivation for hardware and embedded systems. It is a reformulation of the DDD transformation system, bridging behavioral and architectural forms of expression. The tabular representations aid in visualizing design aspects that are subject to interactive refinement and optimization. These ideas are illustrated for...

This paper presents the design of the visualisation and interaction in Topolor 2, an online learning system that supports social e-learning using adaptation and personalisation techniques. The main goal of this study is to investigate if and how the visualisation and interaction design based on selfdetermination theory (SDT) can improve the learning experience and learning efficiency. The goal ...

This paper presents the design of the visualisation and interaction in Topolor 2, an online learning system that supports social e-learning using adaptation and personalisation techniques. The main goal of this study is to investigate if and how the visualisation and interaction design based on selfdetermination theory (SDT) can improve the learning experience and learning efficiency. The goal ...

Acknowledgments. Introduction Background Research questions Review of the literature Methods and procedures Context of study Study rationale Statistical analysis. Results Demographic profile of sample Ethnic summary of survey respondents Discussion and conclusion Study strengths and limitations Findings and implication Recommendations and prevention strategies Conclusions References List of tables

Airlines today use robust scheduling to plan ahead for unforeseeable disruptions. We empirically examine three common robust scheduling practices: flexibility to swap aircraft, flexibility to swap gates, and scheduled downtime. To do so, we characterize efficient operating practices in the airline industry by estimating a multiple-outcome, multiple-input production frontier. Estimates of how ro...

In this paper we present a framework for analysing how and when students are engaged in a specific form of interactive knowledge elaboration in CSCL environments: broadening and deepening understanding of a space of debate. The framework is termed “Rainbow” since it comprises seven principal analytical categories, to each of which a colour is assigned, thus enabling informal visualisation by th...

Physical activity (PA) is important to prevent and lessen the risks of various diseases as well as progress in physical and mental health. Employees expend a lot of time at their workplace such as office environment. Working efficiency may be harmfully affected if the worker is physically inactive. The purpose of this study was to design a system model to guide employees at their workplace on t...

In this paper it is examined how the relational approach may be used, not only in storing, but also in constructing, tilling in, validating and consulting decision tables. This integration of a decision table system and the relational concept is studied in the context of an existing decision table engineering workbench,PROLOGA (PROcedural LOGic Analyzer), an interactive rule-based design tool f...