Volunteer and Technical Communities (V&TCs) with expertise in the collection, analysis and presentation of data and the development of supporting technologies, have potential to inform humanitarian aid organizations and help increase the efficiency of their operations. This study analyzes the role of V&TCs during recent response efforts and identifies a number of challenges of organizational na...

The number of multi-sourced heterogeneous spatial datasets continues to grow and the fragmentation of organizational arrangements has caused much technical and non-technical heterogeneity. Spatial Data Infrastructures aim to facilitate spatial data use and sharing, and can be an effective platform to aid in data integration. This paper discusses the technical and non-technical heterogeneities o...

The history of education includes the educational aids and resources that teachers have used to transmit knowledge best through years. objective this article is review some devices aid from an anecdotal personal point view. I it in my academic life, many equipment. initial teaching experiences world were probably developed one instructor a unique person and, after time, included more people unt...

Meeting the needs of the elderly presents important technical challenges. In this research, a system concept for a robotic aid to provide mobility assistance and monitoring for the elderly and its enabling technologies are being developed. The system, called PAMM (Personal Aid for Mobility and Monitoring), is intended to assist the elderly living independently or in senior Assisted Living Facil...

Society is demanding larger and more complex information systems to support increasingly complex and critical organisational work. Whilst troubleshooting socio-technical issues in small-to-medium scale situations may be achievable using approaches such as ethnography, troubleshooting enterprise scale situations is an open research question because of the overwhelming number of socio-technical e...

Enterprises face increasing challenge in the designing stage which needs to turn the customer’s needs into technical characteristics. In order to enhance the competitiveness of products, a demand-oriented innovative design model was proposed. This model integrates user demand accessing, technology feature mapping, quality function deployment and innovative solutions generation. During the desig...

A number of speech-producing technical aids are now available for use by disabled individuals. One system which produces synthetic speech is described and its application in technical aids discussed. These applications inclde a communication aid, a symbol-to-speech system, talking terminals and a daily newspaper. A pattern-matching speech recognition system is also described and its future in t...

This paper discussed the use of Conceptual Graphs (CGs) for implementing tasks employed in web-based educational systems that aid terminology learning. Specifically, we focus on two critical issues in intelligent tutoring student diagnosis and generation of adaptive explanations. Both tasks are demonstrated in terminological domains where learners have to familiarize themselves with concepts in...