Design creativity involves developing novel and useful solutions to design problems. The research in this article is an attempt to understand how novelty of a design resulting from a design process is related to the kind of outcomes, described here as constructs, involved in the design process. A model of causality, the SAPPhIRE model, is used as the basis of the analysis. The analysis is based...

Software metrics have a reputation in industry of not being very useful. I believe one reason for this is that for most metrics one important aspect of them is usually not provided, namely the “entity population model”. In measurement theory, an entity population model defines the typical values for measurements from a metric for a given set of entities. Having these models is necessary in orde...

Test and evaluation of users ́ interaction with computers, oftenemploy Think Aloud. The assumption is that we get access to what goes onin the users ́ minds. But interfaces are multi modal with visualizations as theessential feature, and what happens when users are required to verbalisetheir visual perceptions and interactions? Reflecting upon Think Aloud, weargue that it may ...

Multiword units (MWUs) are critical in processing and understanding texts and have been extensively studied in relation to their occurrences in texts. MWUs also play an essential role in organising vocabulary, which is most prominently visible in domain-specific terminologies. There has been, however, a limited and mostly theoretical concern with the latter aspect of MWUs; researchers intereste...

For learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Indonesia, encountering unfamiliar words can be a major roadblock in reading comprehension, especially if they happen to be keywords in a particular text. To overcome the vocabulary problem, learners generally resort to a dictionary, hardly realizing that other strategies exist. The strategy of inferring word meaning from context, for insta...

In this talk I will review the present status and future perspectives of some popular extensions of the conventional three-neutrino oscillation scenario, from a purely phenomenological point of view. For concreteness I will focus only on three specific scenarios: non-standard neutrino interactions with matters, models with extra sterile neutrinos, and neutrino decay and decoherence.

An experimental validation is presented of a novel method for usability testing that entails the playback of dynamic eyetracking data to cue the elicitation of retrospective verbal reports. Participants in our study produced: (1) think-aloud reports during an online search task, and (2) retrospective reports during another online search task, with reports being cued by the playback of either th...

This paper describes a reflection-based approach for open learner modeling (OLM). Tutoring dialogues are used by learners to explicitly reveal their own knowledge state to themselves. Dewey's theory of reflective thinking is used to create tutorial strategies which govern these dialogues. Drake's specification of critical thinking, associated to a defined set of skills, is used to define tutori...

Eugene Charniak (Brown University) EM (the Expectation Maximization Algorithm) is a well known technique for unsupervised learning (where one does not have any hand labeled solutions available, but instead one must learn from the raw text). Unfortunately EM is known to fail to find good solutions in many (most?) applications on which it is tried. In this talk I present work on using EM to learn...

This presentation outlines the development and evaluation of two online brief personalized feedback interventions for alcohol use (http://www.Unitcheck.co.uk and http://www.ChangeDrinking.com). By pulling together results from five individual studies, we aim to enable the audience to explore how the overall narrative enables additional insight in to our understanding of development, effectivene...