We propose an interactive learning environment for Human-Computer-Interaction design based on a new form of reusable design components organized in a knowledge repository . Our repository focuses on reusability and accessibility to share design knowledge among students. We evaluate how these reusable components impact student knowledge of the design domain and their reuse of HCI knowledge. Resu...

BACKGROUND Governments, multinational organisations, and charities have commenced the distribution of sanitary products to address current deficits in girls' menstrual management. The few effectiveness studies conducted have focused on health and education outcomes but have failed to provide quantitative assessment of girls' preferences, experiences of absorbents, and comfort. Objectives of the...

From experience, a significant number of recent computer breakins perhaps the majority can be traced back to an instance of a poorly-chosen reusable password. Once a system intruder has gained access to one account by breaking a password, it is often a simple matter to find system flaws and weaknesses that thereafter allow entry to other accounts and increasing amounts of privilege. The OPUS pr...

Designing systems of asynchronous web services is challenging. Addressing the design in terms of component reuse helps address important questions that need to be answered if dynamic configuration of business solutions from web services is to be achieved. The fact that the components are web services doesn’t mean that all the problems of reuse have been solved. An architecture for dealing with ...

Developers need to evaluate reusable components before they decide to adopt them. When a developer evaluates a component they need to understand how that component can be used, and the behaviour that the component will exhibit. Existing evaluation techniques use formal analysis, sophisticated classification/search functionality, or rely on the presence of extensive component documentation or ev...

In this paper we describe a proposal to define adaptive rules that adjust learning designs to learner’s knowledge and learning styles, using a collection of sets based mostly on the IMS Learning Design (IMS LD) specification. Authors will use this collection to define adaptive statements, which also could be used to define adaptive techniques and students stereotypes. The goal is to provide a f...

Over the past 10 years, the Software Engineering Research Department in A T@T has been engaging in a research program to build a collection of highly portable advanced software tools known as Ast, Advanced Sofiware Technology. A recent monograph, “Practical Reusable UNIX Software” (John Wiley ~ Sons, Inc., 1995), summarizes the philosophy and components of this research program. A major compone...

i. The paper will try to identify the various concurrent factors which, in the last years, have contributed to the increasing attention paid to the issue of reusable linguistic resources for natural language processing. The role of various major Organisations (EEC, Council of Europe, DARPA, NEH, etc.) will be examined, taking into account the reasons which seem to have stimulated their active p...

Open source has become the de facto community process for the Internet. The success of this process has primarily been in software development, starting with its roots in Linux (http://www.linux.org/), and has spread to hundreds of diverse projects ranging from designing a better intravenous system for third world patients (http://www.thinkcycle.org/), improving cooking recipes (http://www.ibib...

The Application of Reusable Software Components Project has constructed a reuse testbed for conducting software engineering experiments in software reusability. The hardware and system software of the testbed will provide a distributed computing environment with file-server capability for the storage of reusable components and other artifacts of the development process. The testbed will support...