In global software development (GSD) projects, distributed teams collaborate to deliver high-quality software. Project managers need to control these development projects, which increasingly adopt agile practices. However, in a distributed project a major challenge is to keep all team members aware of recent changes of requirements and project status without providing too little or too much inf...

Popular mobile apps use push notifications extensively to offer an “always connected” experience to their users. Social networking apps use them as a real-time channel to notify users about new private messages or new social interactions (e.g., friendship request, tagging, etc.). Despite the cryptography used to protect these communication channels, the strict temporal binding between the actio...

OBJECTIVES China is one of the 22 tuberculosis (TB) high-burden countries in the world. As TB is a major public health problem in China, spatial analysis could be applied to detect geographic distribution of TB clusters for targeted intervention on TB epidemics. METHODS Spatial analysis was applied for detecting TB clusters on county-based TB notification data in the national notifiable infec...

Beyond ubiquitous computing, is the advent of disposable computing, occurring when the price of an embedded computer becomes insignificant compared to the cost of goods. Current software and network architectures and their associated programming paradigms will not scale to this new world. The necessity of catering for the constant change in number and type of devices of interest to a user, as w...

Bioinformatics can be considered as a new field of study and it promises a vast exploration area (Carzaniga., Rosenblum., Wolf ., 2001). In order to expedite the maturity in this area, a proper and supportive portal where all researchers could gather and cooperate in conducting their research need to be established. One of the features in a portal that can assist Bioinformatics researchers in p...

Our research explores how interruptive notifications support task management in a desktop environment. We conducted two user studies with a community of open source software users and developers to explore their experience with interruptive notifications. We found that certain kinds of notifications support multitasking, task prioritization, task management, as well as influence task disruption...

OBJECTIVE To see if, in the diagnosis of infant infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Zambia, turnaround times could be reduced by using an automated notification system based on mobile phone texting. METHODS In Zambia's Southern province, dried samples of blood from infants are sent to regional laboratories to be tested for HIV with polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Turnaround ...

This study investigates the use of cognitive architectures for usability and software engineering of notification system user interfaces. These interfaces, which are special in that they are used in a divided-attention situation, require careful study of multi-tasking support of the information design. Cognitive architectures appear promising for this type of research, since they attempt to mod...

We propose a system for notification of source code changes potentially affecting the functionality of developerdefined use cases in a source-controlled software project. When a programmer makes a change to a code file in a large software project, they may not be aware how the change affects the execution of use cases that rely on the modified code. We believe that by bringing the notification ...

Early and consistent detection of abnormal conditions is important to the safe and efficient operation of complex industrial processes. Our research focuses on enabling the operators and engineers who control and maintain such systems to describe process conditions to software agents, deploy such agents to continuously monitor live process data, and receive appropriate notification from their p...