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Evacuation Traces Mini Challenge: User Testing to Obtain Consensus - Discovering the Terrorist
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An Experience about User Involvement for Successful Design
No full textThis paper describes the experience in designing and developing the CET system according to user-centred and participatory approaches. CET is a web-based system used by industries and experts of the regional government that monitor air quality. With CET, industries can officially declare their pollutant emissions in the atmosphere, while air quality experts can easily visualize how the industries are distributed in the regional territory, the type and quantity of emis- sions coming from their production processes and other important information to support their decision-making process. The experience provides hints about proper user involvement for designing successful systems
Sharable multitouch screens in cultural heritage and tourism applications
No full textCultural heritage assets keep alive the history of a territory and of its inhabitants. Several systems have been developed to support people during their visits to historical sites and museums, with the goal of improving the overall user experience. In many cases, people travelling together would appreciate the possibility of collaborating in gathering information and planning a personalized itinerary. Large sharable multitouch screens may offer this possibility. This paper is about ongoing research that is investigating possible applications of large multitouch screens in cultural heritage and tourism. In particular, an application is described, which aims at allowing tourists to get information about a territory and create itineraries for their visits by interacting together on a large scree
Visualizing data to support tracking in food supply chain
No full textFood tracking has become an important issue in recent times. In light of recent events such as the various outbreaks of food related epidemics, both governmental regulations and increased customer attention, push the demand for systems able to provide knowledge about a supply chain. Tools supporting the traceability and tracking of foods can go a long way towards preventing these unfortunate events or, at the very least, help in minimizing the damage that may occur, thanks to improved and faster intervention possibilities. The study presented in this paper concerns the development of a web application which visualizes supply chain data collected from various companies that are part of the supply chain
Combining Multimedia Resources for an Engaging Experience of Cultural Heritage
No full textICT technologies have a great potential not only for preserving and increasing awareness about cultural heritage, but also for allowing people to better experience this huge legacy. Various application tools have already been developed which provide different types of multimedia resources, such as 3D representations of objects and places, videos, graphics, sounds, in order to augment the physical context by providing virtual, location-specific information, so that people can experience some aspects of ancient life which would otherwise be very difficult to figure out. The effort spent to create multimedia resources is considerable; therefore, it is worth reusing them to produce applications suited to other types of visitors. In this paper, we present our on-going work to provide tailored applications that support different types of visitors. Such applications are developed according to a model that describes how multimedia resources can be combined, also depending on the type of users and devices. Examples of these solutions are briefly illustrate
EUD Software Environments in Cultural Heritage: A Prototype
No full textThis paper describes the prototype of a framework for designing interactive applications for cultural heritage sites by following an end-user development approach. The framework is devoted to all design stakeholders, i.e. software engineers, HCI experts, cultural heritage experts and visitors, and provides them with tailored design environments for contributing their expertise to shaping the final applications. The design is guided by application templates, which provide the rules for assembling the basic components, called building blocks, whose result is the final application
Multitouch wall screen challenges in cultural heritage and tourism
No full textIn this paper we address some challenges that came out during the design of software applications for multitouch wall displays in the domains of cultural heritage and tourism. These challenges are related to the collaboration possibilities offered by such displays, to the identification of who is touching a certain screen point of the wall display as well as to social aspects of public interaction space
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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