Requirement Engineering (RE) research has evolved in the last decades, addressing new challenges emerging from advanced software development methodologies, and from extending the user population to special groups of users. Although more and more products are developed for special needs user groups, only few research works address the unique challenges of eliciting requirements for users with wh...

While requirements elicitation has been established as a crucial phase of the systems development process, empirical research on the topic of requirements elicitation is sparse. In this paper we present a requirements elicitation scenario that can be used by researchers to evaluate different methods of eliciting a set of requirements. This scenario consists of an elicitation tasks, a system fea...

Episodic memory retrieval is thought to involve reinstatement of the neurocognitive processes engaged when an episode was encoded. Prior fMRI studies and computational models have suggested that reinstatement is limited to instances in which specific episodic details are recollected. We used multivoxel pattern-classification analyses of fMRI data to investigate how reinstatement is associated w...

Much of speech therapy involves the clinician guiding the therapeutic process (e.g., presenting stimuli and eliciting client responses). However, this Brief Communication describes a different approach to speech therapy delivery. Clinicians at Waldo County General Hospital (WCGH) use high definition audio and video to engage clients in telepractice using interactive web-based virtual environmen...

Individuals with Internet addiction (IA) show loss of control and recurring maladaptive Internet use. This condition has negative consequences and causes significant psychosocial distress. Here, we review neurobiological changes in four key paradigms in cognitive domain in IA including reward processing, impulsivity, cue reactivity, and decision-making. IA is associated with alterations in pref...

This study uses a novel application of priming to provide experimental evidence that aspirations and social comparisons may be influenced by non factual sources. A textual narrative eliciting social comparison is shown to dramatically alter material aspirations. This is despite the narrative not presenting any new information, relying instead on participants’ existing knowledge. However the e↵e...

Analysis was made of disagreement expressions in dialogues recorded in a cooperative task experiment. A disagreement expression is de ned as the latter utterance of consecutive utterances, which shows disagreement with the former. Subjects used two types of disagreement expressions: to the partner's utterance, and to their own. These were classi ed into three subtypes according to part of speec...

The elicitation of private information from individuals is crucially important to many tasks, ranging from scientific research to corporate decision-making. Eliciting private information is particularly challenging when objective truth is inaccessible when there is no “anwer key” available. To address this challenge, we present the Knowledge Free Peer Prediction mechanism (KFPP). KFPP induces t...

Internet has opened the access to an overwhelming amount of data, requiring the development of new applications to automatically recognize, process and manage information available in web sites or web-based applications. The standard Semantic Web architecture exploits ontologies to give a shared (and known) meaning to each web source elements. In this context, we developed MELIS (Meaning Elicit...

Across industries, organizations operate in increasingly complex and uncertain environments. To succeed in such environments, organizations require their members to think creatively and integrate conflicting demands. We propose that the adoption of paradoxical frames—mental templates that encourage individuals to recognize and embrace contradictions—increases creativity. In four laboratory stud...