Human culture changes over time and varies across space. Two main approaches to study cultural evolution have developed in the last fifty years: human behavioural ecology a suite of perspectives centred on role transmission. The latter are often confusingly referred with name phenomenon they trying explain, ‘cultural evolution’. We argue that this is unhelpful generating confusion, as evident a...

The more hand-held computing and nomadic systems become popular and significantly address the market, the more the design of applications based on such systems need new metaphors and interaction paradigms to fit user needs in new contexts of use. On the one hand emerging technologies like Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) offer new opportunities of use, on the other hand the applications that t...

Globalisation can be a major force for prosperity only if it is backed by adequate national policies and conducive social and economic environment. This paper will give an overview of what the forces of globalisation have in store for the women of India. A large group of working women of India are in the rural and unorganised sectors. Socially the majority of Indian women are still tradition bo...

Information Retrieval (IR) systems try to identify documents relevant to user queries, which are representations of user information needs. Interaction, context, and document structure are three important and active themes in IR research. We present how we propose to model the task of Structured IR (SIR) based on a QT inspired framework, with a focus on how to exploit user contextual informatio...

Service is an intangible artifact. While manufacturing industry provides functionality through physical products they produce, what service industry provides through their services is experience and processes. How providers and users of a service interact with one another is a key to achieve a high quality service experience. During the service, a user needs to actively engage in the interactio...