The basis of directional stimulus-response compatibility was studied using a task in which 128 participants moved a cursor into targets with a joystick, resembling the operation of certain industrial and construction equipment. Compatible and incompatible versions of three alternative compatibility principles were compared in all combinations. Visual Field (VF) compatibility was present if curs...

Compatibility between items, such as clothes and shoes, is a major factor among customer’s purchasing decisions. However, learning “compatibility” is challenging due to (1) broader notions of compatibility than those of similarity, (2) the asymmetric nature of compatibility, and (3) only a small set of compatible and incompatible items are observed. We propose an end-to-end trainable system to ...

Objective: The study focuses on potential compatibility relationships when simple lever tools are used. Background: Spatial compatibility between stimuli and responses determines performance. However, many tasks require the use of simple tools, such as levers that transform hand movements into tool movements. We explore with such a tool whether and how the correspondence or noncorrespondence be...

We investigate the impact of the intergenerational nature of services, via backward compatibility, on the adoption of multi-generational platforms. We consider a mobile Internet platform that has evolved over several generations and for which users download complementary services from third party providers. These services are often intergenerational: newer platform generations are backward comp...

This research explores the factors that could influence telemedicine success in two hospitals involved in a rural setting in New Zealand. Findings from the cases revealed that telemedicine utilising the video conferencing technology (TMVC) was adopted based on its cost-benefit to the hospitals. This is necessary but considering the impact of other factors, specifically the compatibility factor ...

The distribution of services spanning across organizational boundaries raises problems related to intellectual value that are less explored in service oriented research. Being a way to manage the rights between service consumers and service providers, licenses are critical to be considered in services. As the nature of services differs significantly from traditional software and components, ser...

A bio-inspired language is presented. Its terms are processes enclosed into boxes with typed interaction sites. The main feature of the formalism lays in the fact that the key-lock communication mechanism typically adopted by process calculi is partially relaxed in favour of a paradigm driven by a (parametric) notion of compatibility of interaction types. Two simple modelling examples are repor...

We describe a process-algebraic approach to verifying process interactions for business collaboration described in Business Process Modelling Notation. We first overview our process semantics for BPMN in the language of Communicating Sequential Processes; we then use a simple example of business collaboration to demonstrate how our semantic model may be used to verify compatibility between busi...