On (computing) artifacts

Moral Responsibility for Computing Artifacts: "The Rules"

SmartTiles: Designing Interactive “Room-Sized” Artifacts for Educational Computing

Historically, the notion of design for educational computing has assumed that the “computer” in question is a desktop box. In this paper we describe a genre of educational computing in which the artifacts designed are “room-sized:” moderate-to-large-scale objects or furnishings with which children can interact in powerful or interesting ways. We describe a working prototype of one such system—S...

Exploring relationships between learning, artifacts, physical space, and computing

Despite the interest in physical interfaces, field studies directly informing development and field trials of prototypes are rare. Particularly rare are design projects that integrate the space and existing artifacts as a resource. We report on the development of an interactive learning environment in support of students of archit ecture and interaction design. Based on ethnographic fieldwork w...

Catheter related artifacts on bone scans: report of two cases

Bone scanning using the 99mTc-phosphate analogs is an established diagnostic modality and a commonly requested radioisotope examination for a variety of pathologies involving the skeleton, such as osteomyelitis, bony metastases, and occult fractures. The bone scan is one of the most commonly requested procedure in most nuclear medicine department. The images show areas of increased and de...

On Refining XML Artifacts

Step-wise refinement is a powerful paradigm for developing a complex program from a simple program by adding features incrementally where each feature is an increment in program functionality. Existing works focus on object-oriented representations such as Java or C++ artifacts. For this paradigm to be brought to the Web, refinement should be realised for XML representations. This paper elabora...