Research Scope of the Technical Committee on Healthcare and Medical Systems [Technical Activities]

The Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems

Wearable computing is getting increasingly integrated in our every day life and the evolution of our community continues. In addition to the IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, TC WIS co-sponsors the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) and a few other conferences and workshops. The TC helped initiate the IEEE Computer Society’s Pervasive C...

on the relationship between linguistic, visual-spatial, interpersonal intelligences and technical translation quality

abstract this study tried to investigate whether there was any significant relationship between technical translation quality of the senior english translation students and their levels of verbal-linguistic, visual-spatial and interpersonal intelligences. in order to investigate the research questions, the researcher selected a hundred senior english translation students from three universitie...

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research Technical Advisory Committee

Putting the technical back into socio-technical systems research

Socio-technical systems (STS) analysis has provided us with a powerful framework with which to analyse the reasons behind the poor acceptability, uptake and performance of many information or communication technology systems (ICT). However, for the contribution of STS thinking to be more than simply a means of critiquing current practices and ICT systems, it needs to also contribute to the proc...

the effects of cooperative versus individual directed reading thinking activities on students inferential and referential questions

two groups of students were assigned as experimental and control ones, and were given instruction on directed reading-thinking activities and after some treatment, they were post-tested. although the initial pre-test did not show any significant differences, the final post-test result revealed that the cooperative reading comprehension helped the experimental group. the cooperative students’...