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To Share or Not to Share SHARE-it: Lessons Learnt

The purpose of this position paper is to discuss the authors’ reflections on the use of Assistive Technologies to support user’s autonomy to perform the necessary Activities of Daily Living (ADL). In special, we will address the use of Agent-based robotic services.

You Can Wear It, But Do They Want to Share It or Stare at It?

Wearable technologies are often used for supporting our daily lives instead of aiming to be entertaining. Yet it is in our daily lives that clothing is used to highlight our personas and engage others. In this paper, we describe what type of social acceptance issues might be worth to consider when it comes to entertaining and engaging wearable technology. Our user study with 10 participants was...

Is It Possible to Legislate Fair Share?

Lost in the debate surrounding net neutrality is the assumption that all end hosts play nice and “fair share” the limited network bandwidth. Traditionally, “fair share” is enforced through a combination of forces: there is a general consensus on the TCP congestion control algorithm, operating system vendors implement such algorithm in the kernels and it cannot be changed, applications use TCP a...

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

For reprints and permission queries visit SAGE’s Web site, http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav. © 2016 The Author(s) March 2016 | NASN School Nurse 81 I feel like the newspaper street vendor, selling papers on the corner—yelling out the breaking news, “Extra! Extra! Read all about it! School nurses are included in the language of Every Student Succeeds Act.” After years of advocating...

Don't mention it: Why people don't share job information, when they do, and why it matters