We investigate the problem of influencing the preferences of players within a Boolean game so that, if all players act rationally, certain desirable outcomes will result. The way in which we influence preferences is by overlaying games with taxation schemes. In a Boolean game, each player has unique control of a set of Boolean variables, and the choices available to the player correspond to the...

There are a large number of studies about the designs of assistive Devices, but there is a serious lack of studies on the design procedures for assistive Devices. Most existing assistive Devices conduct pure customization for specific cases, but assistive Devices with pure customization creates even heavier economic burdens upon the disabled, who are already at an economic disadvantage. This st...

Seventh grade students were tested on their knowledge of sentences and nouns in a language arts classroom. The classes consisted of 28 males and 31 females. All students were Caucasian with the exception of two African-American males. Students were predominantly from middle class families. All three classes were grouped heterogeneously. During instruction for two units, classes were taught with...

BACKGROUND Knowledge about the relation between user involvement in the provision of assistive technology and outcomes of assistive technology use is a prerequisite for the development of efficient service delivery strategies. However, current knowledge is limited, particularly from low-income countries where affordability is an issue. The objective was therefore to explore the relation between...

OBJECTIVE To describe and explore parents' experiences when their children with severe physical impairments receive gaze-based assistive technology (gaze-based assistive technology (AT)) for use in daily life. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were conducted twice, with one year in between, with parents of eight children with cerebral palsy that used gaze-based AT in their daily activities. ...

Sustainable development is a three-pronged attack on the future. It is shorthand for a world in which economic progress, social equity and environmental quality are being integrated to provide fulfilling lifestyles for the planet’s inhabitants, both now and in the future. Technology will have to play an important role in the transition towards sustainable development, and technological changes ...

Previous work on Automatic Paraphrase Identification (PI) is mainly based on modeling text similarity between two sentences. In contrast, we study methods for automatically detecting whether a text fragment only appearing in a sentence of the evaluated sentence pair is important or ancillary information with respect to the paraphrase identification task. Engineering features for this new task i...

Computers have dramatically changed the social landscape and living practices in the 21st century. Most of those changes have empowered typically abled adults, while it is only in the last few years that platforms and frameworks have been developed to extend support to those with diminished cognitive capacity. In this paper we discuses the use of scaffolding and distributed intelligence in assi...