abstract introduction: introduction: traditionally, the central library of any university is the main source of scientific data retrieval for respective faculty members. exploration of rate and pattern of such usage makes it possible to promote the quantity and quality of library services and increasing the efficacy of faculty members' activities. objective: to determine the rate of usage ...

based on a new approach to the holly qur'an and to the behavior of the wise, the present paper studies political taghiyyeh (act of concealing one's own belief). after elaborating on the concept of taghiyyeh briefly, personal and socio-political taghiyyeh are explained. with respect to personal taghiyyeh, there is a discussion over the obligatory precepts of the types of taghiyyeh base...

In the PIA project, a new approach to develop applications concerning personal information is proposed. It is based on the concept of a personal cloud that will provide easy and secure access to a variety of personal information from various devices and services. A semantic-based middleware that supports development of novel applications that can relate and combine personal information is the c...

In this paper we advocate the use of personal informatics systems for self-reflection on personal values. We describe the role values play as guiding principles in people’s lives. We then describe ValueSensitive Design, an approach to the design of technology that aims to account for values throughout the design process. We subsequently argue that personal informatics, in its focus on self-refl...

Integrated Personal Mobility Architecture (IPMoA) is a personal mobility framework that supports personal mobility in both the areas of personal communications and personalising operational environments [11]. In this paper, we describe in detail one aspect of IPMoA that is unique, namely the use of mobile agents to assist users in personal communications. In particular, we describe the function...

In the scientific literature, the Personal Environment has been described as a “new” resource to the learning process and named Personal Learning Environment. However, it has not yet been demonstrated in what way and to what extent Personal Environments contribute significantly and efficiently to the learning processes and outcomes framed by Higher Education programs. Our position paper aims fi...

Traditional information retrieval has focused on the task of finding information or documents in a largely unknown space such as the Web or a library collection. In this paper we propose that the space of Personal Information Management (PIM) holds a great number of problems and untapped potential for research at the intersection of HCI and IR. In this position paper we focus on the problem of ...