Group brainstorming is a very popular technique for the creation of ideas, although the state of the art in psychological research backs from this kind of brainstorming. Electronic brainstorming overcomes some of the drawbacks and regains some value. Unfortunately, the electronic brainstorming still is in infantile state and lacks some modern techniques which may make the whole approach more ef...

preliminary design ideas, mostly not manifest, are generated in the designers’ minds at the very early stages of their encounter with the design problems. this paper reports a study of the sources from which these ideas are originated, and the corresponding role each source plays in the process of designing. the study was undertaken through the analysis of semi-structured interviews with eight ...

Every single false positive that an automated design flaw detection tool presents to a developer places a cognitive burden on him and should thus be avoided. A preliminary yet already quite comprehensive catalog of false positives was recently presented in [1]. We elaborated in [5, 4] that developers accept design flaws in the context of specific design ideas, e.g. feature envy in the context o...

New foundational ideas are used to define a novel approach to generic visual pattern recognition. These ideas proceed from the starting point of the intrinsic equivalence of noise reduction and pattern recognition when noise reduction is taken to its theoretical limit of explicit matched filtering. This led us to think of the logical extension of sparse coding using basis function transforms fo...

In this paper we discuss design issues for a domestic table-top display application supporting co-located collaboration. We present an application scenario dealing with manipulation of picture collections and illustrate some preliminary ideas.

The municipalities of Sweden are offering an increased amount of e-services to their population. The ambition of the municipalities is to offer a wide range of e-services and at the same time have good quality. One of the municipalities is Uppsala Kommun and one of the services they are offering is a school choice e-service called eBarnUngdom. The e-service is currently used for a few types of ...

The Knowledge Modeler Description Language KMDL is able to represent the creation, use and necessity of knowledge along common business processes. So KMDL can be used to formalize knowledge-intensive processes with a focus on certain knowledge-specific characteristics and to identify weak points in these processes. For a computer-aided modeling and analyzing the tool K-Modeler is introduced.

security is one of the most critical factors affecting the quality of urban spaces. nowadays, most of these spaces have become merely pathways with neither social life nor sense of belonging to it. insufficiency of public surveillance along with weak sense of control and surveillance results in spaces with high crime rate. in the late 60s and early 70s, high crime statistics in open urban space...