This paper discusses the philosophy behind utilizing blogs to engage Postgraduate learners at the College of Fine Arts (COFA) University of New South Wales (UNSW). Digital diaries (Gleaves, Walker & Grey, 2007) were established to enable a reflexive and collaborative space in which students could discuss and reflect on their personal experiences while completing a compulsory arts industry Inter...

Digital Addiction (DA) is an emerging behavioural phenomenon that denotes an obsessive and problematic usage of digital media. Such usage could meet various criteria of an addictive behaviour such as salience, conflict, tolerance and withdrawal symptoms and, hence, it would raise new challenges and ethical considerations on the way we engineer software. Luckily, software as a medium for such ad...

elcome to SDCS 2005, the 2nd International Workshop on Security in Distributed Computing Systems. Cyber security is a research area of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, securing a large-scale networked system has become a great challenge. Interest has increased in the field of security of parallel and distributed systems, which include specification, analysis, and de...

Student’s learning happens where the learner is, rather than being constrained to a single physical or digital environment. It is of high relevance for the LAK community to provide analytics support in blended learning scenarios where students can interact at diverse learning spaces and with a variety of educational tools. This workshop aims to gather the subcommunity of LAK researchers, learni...

A base B of a space X is called an OIF base when every element of B is a subset of only a finite number of other elements of B. We will explore the fundamental properties of spaces having such bases. In particular, we will show that in T2 spaces, strong OIF bases are the same as uniform bases, and that in T3 spaces where all subspaces have OIF bases, compactness, countable compactness, or local...

This paper examines the differences in narrative presented in the lore (the canonical history, aims and personality) and the digital representation of characters in the game League of Legends. We use a combination of close media analysis and broader trend analysis of the champion roster in order to demonstrate this ludonarrative dissonance, alongside metanarrative discussion from the community ...

The widespread use of XML prompted the development of appropriate searching and browsing methods for XML documents. This explosion of XML retrieval tools requires the development of appropriate testbeds and evaluation methods. As part of a large-scale effort to improve the efficiency of research in information retrieval and digital libraries, the INEX initiative organises an international, coor...

This paper presents an overview of the PAN/CLEF evaluation lab. During the last decade, PAN has been established as the main forum of digital text forensic research. PAN 2016 comprises three shared tasks: (i) author identification, addressing author clustering and diarization (or intrinsic plagiarism detection); (ii) author profiling, addressing age and gender prediction from a crossgenre persp...

With the convergence of mobile communication, sensors and online social networks technologies, we are witnessing an exponential increase in the creation and consumption of personal data. Paper-based interactions (e.g., banking, health), analog processes (e.g., photography, resource metering) or mechanical interactions (e.g., as simple as opening a door) are now sources of digital data that can ...