We are developing a tele-care system for the management of hypertensive type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients using spoken dialogue technology. This paper discusses the human factors which have been considered in the development and design of ‘DI@L-log’, with regard to the potential complexities posed by speech systems in the medical domain. To accomplish this goal, fine tuning of event hand...

Research indicates that music therapists are likely to make use of computer software, designed to measure changes in the way a patient and therapist make use of music in music therapy sessions. A proof of concept study investigated whether music analysis algorithms (designed to retrieve information from commercial music recordings) can be adapted to meet the needs of music therapists. Computati...

Abstract The number of seals in the Baltic Sea has increased dramatically recent years. While growing seal populations are associated with a thriving marine environment, interact coastal fisheries causing significant damages to catches and gears. One fishery that is severely affected cod where negative impact believed by many threaten existence fishery. This article empirically investigates wha...

Commercial aviation maintenance related incidents reported to the Aviation Safety Report System were investigated focusing on coordination problems. Among 1000 analyzed reports from a two-year period, 98 internal coordination issues within the maintenance team, and 24 external coordination issues between maintenance and other departments were discovered. Frequently established problematic inclu...

A new breed of engineering design tools are electronic design notebooks, which are electronic versions of the traditional engineer’s logbook. They capture design information as it is generated, providing a rich, unfiltered history of a design project. This presents great potential for accessing past design decisions and rationale. This paper examines ways of searching for design information by ...

The aim of the study was to describe influences, benefits, and limitations in using information and communication technology to meet chronically ill patients' needs when living at home. The study is a descriptive, exploratory designed pilot study and the intervention was performed using an electronic communication program enabling communication between ill persons and the district nurse in real...

In the refining industry, control room and field operators document their daily activities using shift logs. These logs are supposed to be an important part of the shift handover process and are the mechanism by which activities are coordinated across shifts. Previous research identified the need for a more structured approach to shift handover. However, the value of a structured approach has n...

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ritic Tanacs Ferenc has described “Hajónapló” [Logbook] (1987), a short story written by Ottlik Géza, as “a Borgesian exercise in transfictionalizing certain obsessive paradoxes of national identity, authorship, writing and language” (168). Certainly, Ottlik seems to have faithfully adopted the skewed world vision, the penchant for linguistic invention and a mode of tongue-in-cheek historical (...