This discussion is presented by the Editors of the Journal in an effort to provide significant information about improvements in wheelchair design and evaluation of wheelchair standards, since this type of research is rarely reported in the current scientific/engineering literature. Dr. McLaurin is the Director of the Rehabilitation Engineering Center at the University of Virginia in Charlottes...

Report to the National Science Foundation based on the Standards for Facial Animation Workshop, November 11-12, 1993, sponsored by NSF’s Division of Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems, and the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. Comments University of Pennsylvania Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Technical Report No. IRCS-94-21. This technical report is available...

This paper gives a technical/scientiic survey of the mathematical semantics of the BSI/VDM Speciication Language, currently being standardised by the British Standards Institution. Following a background introduction , the notion of loose (nondeterministic and underdetermined) speciications and the implications for the underlying type (domain) universe is discussed. This is followed by technica...

The complexity of modern technology, especially its system character, has led to an increase the number and variety of standards that affect a single industry or market. Standards affect the R&D, production, and market penetration stages of economic activity and therefore have a significant collective effect on innovation, productivity, and market structure. Standards are classified into produc...

Actor-network theory, which is considered as a development of socio-technical structuralism school, observes reservation and stability of networks containing personal and impersonal components such as individuals, organizations, communication software and hardware, and infrastructural standards by examination of socio-technical dimensions concurrently.The goal of this research is studying the i...

Standards are an essential feature in an unregulated field such as computing. Thus, when computing and the healthcare environment are combined, the requirement for standards is imperative. For instance, the combination of sensitive information and mobile technology presents increased complexity in information security. Whilst we have many worldwide standards for information security including O...

A seamless support of information flow for increasingly distributed healthcare processes requires to integrate heterogeneous IT systems into a comprehensive distributed information system. Different standards contribute to ease this integration. In a research project focussing on the development of a reference architecture for inter-institutional health information systems, we identified concur...