This paper explores the issues surrounding the evolution of wearable technology and the principle of taking a platform based approach and what could be done to make wearable technology easier to develop and more accessible. The paper suggests definitions of where the boundary lies between what constitutes wearable technology and technology that is carried rather than worn. The main areas highli...

This article locates the frequent call for public participation in the governance of technology within a theory of democratic representation. The article examines several modes of representation—symbolic, formal, delegate, trustee, and descriptive—in light of their potential contribution to a democratic theory of publicly representative technology. Publicly representative technology depends on ...

Aiming at the current status of the agricultural information service business, this paper elaborates the characteristics of the agricultural short-message resources, and puts forward a kind of framework and a design method that sets up the agricultural short-message management system, and the key technique of carrying out the system. Especially in the upper-level applications of analyzing, proc...

The objective of this workshop was to discuss current tools and environments for learning object-oriented concepts and to share ideas and experiences about the usage of computer support to teach the basic concepts of object technology. Workshop participants presented current and ongoing research. During the discussions the participants developed a general “package” of requirements for such tool...

Acknowledgment I want to give thanks to my mother, father, sisters and brothers for their permanent support, motivation, enthusiasm, and guidance on my life. I want to thank also to SENACYT and IFARHU who gave me the opportunity to study for an advanced degree in a prestigious international institution. I would also express my gratitude to Dr. Gerald J LaHoste for his professionalism, guidance ...

Melanie Clark is Architecture Image Librarian, Kimberly Vardeman is Reference Librarian, and Shelley Barba is Metadata Librarian at Texas Tech University; e-mail: [email protected], kimberly.vardeman@ ttu.edu, [email protected]. © 2014 Melanie Clark, Kimberly Vardeman, and Shelley Barba, AttributionNonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC The Imposter Phen...

This paper revisits the induced innovation literature of the 1960s to which Phelps was a major contributor (Drandakis and Phelps, 1965). This literature was the first systematic study of the determinants of technical change and also the first investigation of the relationship between factor prices and technical change. I present a modern reformulation of this literature based on the tools devel...

Today’s tech-savvy boomers will remain comfortable with technology as they age, though they may need different interfaces. They need help with evaluating technical resources, but they will continue to adapt, tailor, configure, and program those resources. They need assistants, not supervisors”.

At present, the design of computer-supported group-based learning (CSGBL) is often based on subjective decisions regarding tasks, pedagogy and technology, or concepts such as ‘cooperative learning’ and ‘collaborative learning’. Critical review reveals these concepts as insufficiently substantial to serve as a basis for CSGBL design. Furthermore, the relationship between outcome and group intera...

One of the most heralded features of group support systems (GSSs) is their ability to democratize group processes. Through minimizing barriers to communication, GSSs are proposed to create greater opportunities for member influence than those created in groups meeting face-to-face. To test this notion, a meta-analysis was conducted examining the aggregate impact of GSS use on six influence vari...