Oscillator models may be used for modeling synchrony between gestures and speech, or timing of backchanneling and turn-taking in dialogues. We find support for the hypothesis that oscillator networks can better predict rhythmic events on the syllable and foot level than single oscillators, but we do not find support for the hypothesis that phase resetting oscillators perform better that phase a...

Discharge summaries serve a variety of aims, ranging from clinical care to legal purposes. They are also important tools in patient empowerment, but a patient’s comprehension of the information is often suboptimal. Continuing in the tradition of focusing on automated approaches to increasing patient comprehension, The CLEFeHealth2014 lab tasked participants to visualize the information in disch...

The transition from a communist to a democratic society has affected the entire social map of Moldova, including the library network. For over two and a half decades, Moldovan libraries have undergone major changes and reforms: from closed-to open-access stacks; from ideological institutions serving political platforms to public squares in support of democracy; from repositories of propaganda b...

Purpose – Aiming to ensure that everyone obtains the rich rewards available in today’s information-centred society, this paper sets out to explore how the curious problem of “information malnutrition” in an era of plenty might be overcome to bring about the true information enfranchisement of today’s enthusiastic digital consumer. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the insights gained from ...

This paper describes an ongoing project which seeks to contribute to a wider understanding of the realities of bridging the semantic gap in visual image retrieval. A comprehensive survey of the means by which real image retrieval transactions are realised is being undertaken. An image taxonomy has been developed, in order to provide a framework within which account may be taken of the plurality...

The purpose of the current study is to understand the nature of the challenges that sales representatives face as a result of operating within a highly mobile and heterogeneous work environment. The paper also focuses on how the sales representatives manage their information needs and discusses the properties of mobile support systems that would enable them to work effectively despite their bei...

Users need useful mechanisms for sharing their Web 2.0 content with each other in a controlled manner across boundaries of content-hosting and service providers (CSPs). In this paper, we discuss open problems and research opportunities in the domain of Web 2.0 content sharing among users. We explore issues in the categories of user needs, current sharing solutions provided by CSPs, and distribu...

Nurses were found to be using computers mainly for carrying out administrative tasks, such as updating records, rather than as information tools to support evidence based practice, or patient information needs. Nurses discussed the systems they used, the equipment provided, and their skills, or more often their lack of skills. The need for support was a frequent comment, most nurses feeling tha...

Voluntary behaviors (i.e., knowledge contribution and word of mouth) are important to the sustainability and growth of online knowledge communities. Although previous studies have identified various factors leading to knowledge contribution and related behaviors, the underlying psychological processes have rarely been examined. In particular, previous studies have not examined how characteristi...