BACKGROUND Graphs are often used in medical communication, both in clinical practice and health management. They can help the processing of quantitative information but may also contribute to drawing wrong conclusions. The aim of the survey is to study the graphical perception of the data at the management level and its possible effects, showing how some criteria of appraisal of a phenomenon ar...

In recent years, the opinion existed that end user developers create more applications than professional developers. Therefore special development environments are needed to support the end user developer as best as possible. In this paper, I present parts of the HOTAGENT component development environment especially arranged for end users. The focus of the investigation is on developing reliabl...

1. Background and purpose With the development of economy and society, as well as the growing demands on quality of life, the improvement of residential environment quality has become the key targets of city policy and urban planning, where the research on residential environment evaluation is the important first step. The study on Environment Quality Index (EQI) for residential area is one of ...

This paper describes how and why our department chose to integrate a sophisticated visual programming environment (DELPHI) into the introductory programming course (CS101/2) of the first-year undergraduate engineering curriculum. It also reports on the outcome of this venture, which involved a switch from a conventional lecture-based approach to teaching CS102 to a project-based approach. While...

The embodied experience of nursing practice is rarely studied. Drawing on data from an internationally relevant larger study conducted in 2013-14, here we explore the sensory dimension of the embodied experiences of nursing staff working on two acute NHS hospital wards before and after a move to all-single room inpatient accommodation. We undertook a secondary analysis of 25 interviews with nur...

We describe a set of visual tools for specifying and generating multi-view visual environments. JComposer provides an architecture description language for defining environment repositories, view models, and view-repository mappings. A visual event-flow language permits annotation of JComposer diagrams with event handlers specifying environment semantics. BuildByWire supports constraint-based v...

The purported advantages of Visual Programming, as applied to general purpose programming languages, have remained largely unfulfilled. The essence of this thesis is that functional programming languages have at least one natural visual representation, and that a useful programming environment can be based upon this representation. This thesis describes the implementation of a Visual Functional...

This study illustrates how obstacle avoidance can emerge from a visual homing strategy, caused by the intrinsic geometric structure of the environment. An example is shown where an agent performs visual homing in a virtual environment with several obstacles which also serve as visual landmarks. The agent has omnidirectional vision similar to many prey animals. The applied visual homing strategy...

∗ This work is supported by National Project and Tsinghua Science Research Foundation. Abstract− In this paper, a visual VHDL integrated design environment VIDE for high level design is presented. In VIDE, there are several graphical and textual mixed design entry tools (VDES) and a graphical objectoriented debugger (VDBG). VDES consists of several diagram editors and a visual text editor, whil...

That the already vast and ever-increasing amounts of data still do present formidable challenges to effective and efficient acquisition of knowledge is by no means an exaggeration. The knowledge discovery process entails more than just the application of data mining strategies. There are many other aspects including, but not limited to: planning, data preprocessing, data integration, evaluation...