This paper presents a framework dedicated to support the acquisition of useful and usable scientific knowledge that can be transferred to industrialists. It exposes the seven corpora of knowledge (Initial data, Problem, Hypothesis, Tests, Results, Interpretation and Conclusion) necessary both to acquire and to structure relevant scientific knowledge. The framework is used in the domain of desig...

The authors propose a novel book-shaped device for flipbooks called Paranga that embodies both physical features of paper and e-book interactivity. Paranga detects how quickly a user is riffling and provides the user with visual, tactile, and auditory feedbacks of turned pages by employing an LCD monitor and a rotatable roller mechanism with pieces of real paper. Using this device, the authors ...

Purpose – The purpose is to bring together all bibliographic references of the published literature on electronic books (e-books) and related technologies in one source so that it will save time for others in conducting literature searches and reviewing the developments. Design/methodology/approach – The information included in this bibliography is collected systematically from all the publishe...

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We are developing a voice-enabled, mobile and customizable electronic communication book (e-Commu-Book) as an aid for people with speech impairment. When a user touches an image icon on the e-Commu-Book, the caption under the image icon will be read out by speech synthesis. The caregivers of the users can help customize contents to fit the users’ needs. The record of a user’s behavior can be up...

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. Modeling bounded rationality / Ariel Rubinstein. p. cm. — (Zeuthen lecture book series) Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.