The effective management of information and its associated infrastructure is critical in electronic business. Failure to exercise due diligence in information assurance and security may lead to lost revenue or business opportunities, brand and reputation erosion, adverse media publicity, scrutiny from consumer advocates and even lawsuits. Traditionally, information security was approached in te...

Recent years have seen a growing interest in creating virtual agents to populate the cast of characters for interactive narrative. A key challenge posed by interactive characters for narrative environments is devising expressive dialogue generators. To be effective, character dialogue generators must be able to simultaneously take into account multiple sources of information that bear on dialog...

BACKGROUND Patients with multiple chronic diseases are usually treated according to disease-specific guidelines, with outcome measurements focusing mostly on biomedical indicators (e.g. blood sugar levels or lung function). However, for multimorbidity, a goal-oriented approach focusing on the goals defined by the individual patient, may be more suitable. Despite the clear theoretical and concep...

Abstract This paper is a critical appreciation of some Gunther Kress’s central (social) semiotic notions: i.e., motivation , materiality rhetorical aptness and mode versus medium . These will be discussed in relation to four landmark models sign-making semiosis by Saussure, Peirce, Bühler Jakobson. Based on these comments, the identifies persistent difficulties current multimodality research fa...

Defining useful metrics to measure the goals of a software organisation is difficult. Defining useful metrics to measure the causes of the (failure) to fulfil those organisational goals is even more difficult, as the diversity of potential causes makes their measurement illusive. In this article, we describe a method to select useful software metrics based on findings from qualitative research....

Defining user experience goals to guide the design of industrial systems Eija Kaasinen, Virpi Roto, Jaakko Hakulinen, Tomi Heimonen, Jussi P. P. Jokinen, Hannu Karvonen, Tuuli Keskinen, Hanna Koskinen, Yichen Lu, Pertti Saariluoma, Helena Tokkonen & Markku Turunen To cite this article: Eija Kaasinen, Virpi Roto, Jaakko Hakulinen, Tomi Heimonen, Jussi P. P. Jokinen, Hannu Karvonen, Tuuli Keskine...

Accurate cardiovascular risk evaluation is a prerequisite for devising cost-effective therapeutic strategies in patients with essential hypertension. In fact, the knowledge of concomitant risk factors, diabetes, target organ damage, or associated clinical conditions may be useful when deciding both treatment and BP goals. Thorough evaluation of target organ damage is the key to sensitive assess...