In today's healthcare system, there is an imbalance between what patients expect of caregivers' care and their perception of the care they get. How is it possible to reduce this imbalance? The aim of this paper was to describe attributes associated with meaningful encounters in the Swedish healthcare system based on patients' and caregivers' written narratives and to note the differences and si...

Abstract Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from vessels is one of the greatest challenges maritime industry currently facing. International Maritime Organization has set goal reducing CO2 emissions international shipping by at least 40% 2030, compared to 2008. regulations are also leading a progressive reduction ships life span, together with decrease in economic value. To cope these challenges...

Sentiment analysis and emotion detection are tasks with common features but rarely related because they tend to categorize the objects of their studies according to different categories, i.e. positive, negative and neutral values in SA, and emotion labels such as “joy”, “anger” etc. in emotion detection. In this paper we try to bridge this gap, reporting on three crowdsourcing experiments to co...

We present a system that displays travel time predictions in real time on changeable message signs (CMS) in California. Using loop detector data, this system calculates predicted travel times on designated routes every five minutes. An automated process displays the current travel time predictions on the appropriate CMS’s. We demonstrate the benefits of real time travel time prediction. Histori...

PURPOSE Moral orientation can affect ethical decision-making. Very few studies have focused on whether medical education can change the moral orientation of the students. The purpose of the present study was to document the types of moral orientation exhibited by medical students, and to study if their moral orientation was changed after preclinical education. METHODS From 2007 to 2009, the M...

In this chapter, the authors introduce SequenceBook system, an interactive picture book that consists of a paper book with very thin IC (Integrated Circuit) tags embedded in each page and an RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) antenna. This system uses a traditional paper book as an interface and realizes natural interface that keeps the affordance of traditional book and thus smoothly prompt...