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Knowledge Management methods, techniques and experience can bring a considerable help in preventing all kind of risks. The current economic context amplified the existing risks and introduced new ones such as environmental, political and social. Among the most critical risks of this century is this of lost of knowledge and “memory” in particular in industry involved in long-term activities. After...
Assessments constitute a crucial part of an academic learning process due to its importance in evaluating students' knowledge and forming a basis for their grade. The rapid evolution of technology has influenced the way assessments are now being conducted in academic institutions. Tertiary institutions are adopting Computer-Based Assessments (CBAs), in tandem with traditional Paper-Based Assessments...
As the availability of open-source information online increases, there are growing concerns regarding its reliability. This has led to renewed emphasis in quality-and trust-metrics research within the social computing space, to assist individuals in determining how reliable pieces of information actually might be. In this article, we take a step back to rigorously investigate the utility of trustworthiness...
This paper investigates how different individual and institutional factors pertaining to ICT readiness influence teachers' adoption of game-based learning technologies. The data were gathered from Finnish primary, lower secondary and upper secondary school teachers (N=1668) with an online survey. The results indicate that openness towards ICT, ICT attitude and the ICT compatibility with teaching positively...
This study aims to evaluate the impact of affective embodied agents (EAs) on students' learning performance in an online tutorial that teaches academic information seeking skills. A hundred and twenty tertiary students from two major universities participated in the between-subjects experiment. The results suggested that the use of affective EAs significantly increased students' learning motivation...
Service-oriented environments comprise a number of interconnected service providers and service consumers and are filled by vast numbers of services of various functionalities with different qualities. Finding the desirable services among others is a major problem for a typical user, who can optimize its performance by utilizing services with good qualities. This problem is sometimes addressed by...
Over the past few years, the relationship between attitudes and behavior has been of a major interest to educators. Previous studies have found varying degree of associations between attitudes, behavioral intention and perceptions and corroborate the fact that attitudes influence patterns of behavior. As computer technology is becoming pervasive in the society, researchers have attempted to explore...
With the development of 3D display technology, the effect of 3D display attracts more and more attention. Vertical parallax is one of main factors that cause visual fatigue, and its evaluation methods are all subjective. In this paper, we investigate the use of electroencephalography (EEG) as a tool to evaluate vertical parallax, measuring the EEG response signal by presenting a series levels of vertical...
This paper describes the critical (feared) scenarios derivation tool ESA_PetriNet (Extraction Scenarios Algorithm from Petri Net) available from : http://www.laas.fr/ESA. ESA_PetriNet allows to derive scenarios leading to critical (feared) situation in embedded systems. The system model is given by a Petri net. To derive critical scenarios and to avoid the state space explosion, the solution is to...
There is recent evidence that males and females view robots differently, from the way robots are conceptualized, to the way humans respond when they interact with them. In this paper, we further explore gender-based differences in human-robot interaction. Moreover, we provide the first available evidence for sex-related differences in reactions to gendered synthetic voices that are either disembodied...
Automatic inference of affect relies on representative data. For viable applications of such technology the use of naturalistic over posed data has been increasingly emphasised. Creating a repository of naturalistic data is however a massively challenging task. We report results from a data collection exercise in one of the most significant application areas of affective computing, namely computer-based...
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