this study looks at the communication between users concerning health risks, with the aim of exploring their use of fora and assessing whether participants establish a niche with like-minded users during these exchanges. by integrating a corpus linguistic approach with content analysis and multiple studies on computer mediated health discourse, this study analyses the intense attention paid to ...

Creativity might be viewed as any process which results in a novel and useful product. People use computers for creative tasks; they flesh out ideas for text, graphics, engineering solutions, etc. Computer programming is an especially creative activity, but few tools for programming aid creativity. Most computers are used in solitude; however, people depend on social supports for creativity. A ...

Computer-related musculoskeletal disorders continue to increase in both developed and developing nations, as a result of increase of number of computer users. The objective of this study was to determine the pattern and factors associated with musculoskeletal disorders among computer users. The descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out using a structured questionnaire among 305 computer...

In order to develop computer competence, users need to understand principles of its operation in addition to memorizing where a particular operation is located in menus. Understanding a principle ease transfer of learning, hence the understanding helps learning a new application. These principles, e.g. functional dependency, are based in computer science, and are thereby precise and general. Tw...

Computer security has traditionally been assessed from a technical point of view. One other view is about the role played by legitimate users of systems in impairing the level of protection. In order to address this issue, we wish to adopt a multidisciplinary standpoint and investigate some of the human aspects involved in computer security. From research in psychology, it is known that people ...

One way to identify new and promising directions for Machine Learning research is to define an important challenge problem that has broad applicability, and then to identify what kind of machine learning capabilities are required to solve it. This paper introduces a great challenge problem, developing agents by typical computer users, that has far reaching consequences on our society, and raise...

The time people spend in front of computers has been increasing steadily due to the role computers play in modern society. Individuals who sit in front of computers for an extended period of time, specifically with improper postures may incur various health issues. In this work, individuals’ behaviors in front of computers are studied using web cameras. By means of non-rigid face tracking syste...

This research focuses on developing an intelligent, dynamically evolvable help facility which will offer appropriate assistance to the user while he/she is browsing the Internet.