Toolkit or Tinderbox? When Legal Systems Interface Conflict

Legal Conflict Detection in Interacting Legal Systems

The human reasoning process used in conducting arguments to resolve conflicts and reach a decision is an interdisciplinary study. Modelling argumentation has a great impact on the development of theories and applications in AI especially in critical domains that involve richness of reasoning such as Law. Therefore, argumentation has been recognised as a core topic in AI and Law. Developing comp...

The LegoTM Interface Toolkit

This paper describes a rapid prototyping system for physical interaction devices in immersive virtual environments. Because of the increased complexity of 3D interactive environments and the lack of standard interactive tools, designers are unable to use traditional 2D hardware in 3D virtual environments. As a result, designers must create entirely new interaction devices, a both slow and expen...

Land & Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention

When Conflict Helps Learning

We describe techniques, implemented in a junior software engineering course, for creating an environment of safety and for regulating the amount of conflict so that students can learn how to use conflict to benefit their learning and the project instead of being overwhelmed or discouraged by it. Inter-personal and intra-personal conflicts are inevitable in our lives and in the workforce, so lea...

Cannabis use when it's legal.

This paper addresses the question of whether alcohol and tobacco are "gateways" for cannabis use. To investigate this the relationships between the starting rates in the use of alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis are analyzed. The starting rate for cannabis use appears to be higher for smokers and lower for users of alcohol. Indeed, tobacco use seems to be a gateway for cannabis use. The main policy...