In this paper we describe our method for the summarization of legal documents helping a legal expert determine the key ideas of a judgment. Our approach is based on the exploration of the document’s architecture and its thematic structures in order to build a table style summary for improving coherency and readability of the text. We present the components of a system, called LetSum, built with...

In this paper we describe our method for the summarization of legal documents helping a legal expert determine the key ideas of a judgment. Our approach is based on the exploration of the document’s architecture and its thematic structures in order to build a table style summary for improving coherency and readability of the text. We present the components of a system, called LetSum, built with...

This paper looks at the concept of transformation in digital games and posits it as a core pleasure of digital games that can be positioned within a new discourse of “transformative play”. The poetics of transformation are uniquely suited to particular forms of narrative play, and the power of transformative play has significant implications for the design of persuasive games. Transformative pl...

Methods In situ questionnaires were delivered face-to-face to 1108 users (54% response rate) of urban riverscapes in Sheffield, UK. First mentioned responses to an openended question about how they felt after leaving the area were content analysed. Resultant codes were grouped into themes and domains and quantified. Using Chi-square tests, response-patterns were compared across age, gender, vis...

This article offers two innovations. First it proposes a new method, “virtual curating”, which is an extension to methods (such as content analysis and discourse analysis) deployed to interrogate written texts. In this case the texts are works of art and virtual curating elaborates and evaluates a method for using these works to understand tourism. Second it mounts a virtual exhibition in touri...

Hospitalized children often experience physical changes that negatively affect their bodily perceptions, thereby adding to the stress of being sick. Existing approaches to supporting hospitalized children such as those promoted by the Clown Doctors use play to distract the child from negative bodily perceptions. In contrast, we propose reframing the bodily perception of these children through b...

With a growing trend in usage of mobile navigation devices, there is also a need for an intelligent pedestrian navigation system. As an example, one might think of a visit to a large commercial center or a theme park, where the visitor must be efficiently guided to accomplish his tasks. In order to efficiently schedule a visit in such a scenario, the system not only needs to simulate and determ...

A large family of real-world applications are influenced by geospatial features and known relationships between them. Also, a very large volume of geospatial data is currently available from different sources, prepared for different applications, and with different levels of uncertainty. This paper presents a brief analysis about spatial, thematic, technical and temporal aspects of uncertainty ...

The ideas in this book revolve around a central theorem, the horotube surgery theorem, which is mainly of interest to specialists in complex hyperbolic geometry; see Section 6 below. This book is the culmination of several important papers by Schwartz in this area, which we describe in Section 4 below. As well as the main theorem, this book contains background material and applications. It may ...

The paper provides a personal view of the implications of computational concepts and technologies on art practice. It draws upon 40 years of such practice by the author. As the title implies, the paper concentrates on the themes of structure within the artwork, time-based art, correspondences between different media that the computer enables, and interaction with the audience. The paper draws a...