This workshop will explore and discuss geopolitical issues in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as a field of knowledge practice. These are mainly seen at two levels: (1) on discourses surrounding motivations value HCI sociotechnical field, (2) concepts diffusion, maturity diversity articulated by global local networks. Since the beginning HCI, discussions democracy have been around. It may even...

Vehicles are nowadays provided with a variety of new sensors capable of gathering information about themselves and from their surroundings. In a near future, these vehicles will also be capable of sharing all the harvested information, with the surrounding environment and among nearby vehicles over smart wireless links. They will also be able to connect with emergency services in case of accide...

One of the crucial tasks towards the realization of the Semantic Web vision is the efficient encoding of human knowledge in ontologies. The proper maintenance of these, usually large, structures and, in particular, their adaptation to new knowledge (ontology evolution) is one of the most challenging problems in current Semantic Web research. In this paper, we uncover a certain gap in current on...

The Azkar research project focuses on the remote control of a mobile robot using the emerging Web technologies WebRTC for real time communication. One of the use cases addressed is a remote visit of the French Museum of the Great War in Meaux. For this purpose, we designed an ontology for describing the main scenes in the museum, the objects that compose them, the different trails the robot can...

In the paper we introduce intermediate results of building domain ontology for describing food and food products. The ontology we’re building extends the most powerful ontology for product and service domains GoodRelations which is used by big companies such as Google, Yahoo, Best Buy and others. We give an overview of the relevant conceptual entities and relationships in the domain.

staphylococcus aureus produces a particular morphological variant called small colony variant (scv) which is responsible for persistent subclinical infections in predisposed individuals and is usually resistant to aminoglycosides and cell wall active antibiotics. infections by scv of s. aureus are an upcoming problem due to difficulty in laboratory diagnosis and resistance to antimicrobial chem...