Are quoted sources in online news as psychologically meaningful us those in printed and broadcast news ? A within-suhjects experiment was designed to answer this question. On a web site,forty-eight subjects read three online news stories with cjuotes and three stories without source attribution. They rated stories with quotes significantly higher in credibility and quality than identical storie...

In this short paper we present the conceptual framework underlying research projects in a newly established research studio concerned with the design of technology-augmented creative environments. The studio investigates design-oriented collaborative environments for inspirational learning with demands on discovery and creative spaces. This is integrated with inquiries into artistic performance...

Two textile research projects (one completed and one ongoing) are described, where physical inspirational tools are developed and tested with the aim of stimulating textile creativity and invention, i.e. the use of textile materials in new kinds of products, thus bringing textiles into new contexts. The first research project (completed) concerns how textile designers use new responsive materia...

A non-neglectable amount of information shared in social networks has quotes to literary works that, most of the times, is not linked to the original work or author. Also, there are erroneous quotes that do not fully match the original work, for example by including synonyms and slang words. Moreover, users sometimes associate their quotes to the wrong author, which creates misleading informati...

We study the price discovery in a foreign exchange electronic limit order market on a daily basis, by examining the informativeness of ask and bid quotes in the process of price formation. Using the data of prices and trades in the Euro–Dollar spot market via Electronic Broking Services (EBS), we find bid quotes provide more price discovery. This dominance of bid quotes in price discovery is st...