Visually explaining ethnography. Communicating complexity

Visually Communicating Bayesian Statistics to Laypersons

Effectively communicating Bayesian statistics to laypersons has been an open challenge for many years. Recent research in psychology proposed that there is a direct correlation between comprehension and representation. Specifically, a series of studies suggests that pictorial representations with icon arrays may be better suited for communicating Bayesian statistics than Euler diagrams. Though ...

Ethnography of Development Sociology

Development sociology as a distinct area of study gained prominence in the post-world war era with the evolving interest in political and economic progression of the post-colonial world. The emerging discipline from the mainstream sociology have been particularly interested in development paths and strategies adopted in nations in the various regions of the world with greater emphasis in develo...

Communicating complexity: using a diagnostic classification system for edentulous patients.

A significant number of edentulous patients with complex treatment needs are seen in private practice and faculties of dentistry. The American College of Prosthodontists has developed a classification system for complete edentulism that can be used to guide overall treatment planning and management of patients with complete dentures. The system focuses on specific diagnostic variables and uses ...

Democratic Processing: Mastering the complexity of communicating systems

The Complexity of Explaining Negative Query Answers in DL-Lite

In order to meet usability requirements, most logic-based applications provide explanation facilities for reasoning services. This holds also for DLs, where research has focused on the explanation of both TBox reasoning and, more recently, query answering. Besides explaining the presence of a tuple in a query answer, it is important to explain also why a given tuple is missing. We address the l...