{"title":"Transmeta design: Adding transparency and meta-communication to Web services design","authors":"T. Onorati, A. Malizia, J. Kuljis","doi":"10.2498/iti.2013.0585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2498/iti.2013.0585","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an approach for enhancing the usability of Web services. Our approach is based on a set of common interaction characteristics permeating through several interaction design methodologies, such as User-Centred Design, Participatory Design, Meta-Design and Semiotic Engineering. We identified transparency and meta-communication as two characteristics of user interfaces that can be effective in enhancing Web services usability. We call the new design approach, based on the aforementioned characteristics, Transmeta Design. Finally, we present a case study that demonstrates the application of our approach.","PeriodicalId":262789,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ITI 2013 35th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129542276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ECG based system for arrhythmia detection and patient identification","authors":"B. Vuksanovic, M. Alhamdi","doi":"10.2498/iti.2013.0532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2498/iti.2013.0532","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a system to detect arrhythmia by automatically classifying normal and two types of abnormal ECG signals is presented. ECG signals are first pre-processed to reduce the baseline drift, noise and other unwanted components that might be present in the signal. The autoregressive modelling of the signals is then applied to extract small set of signal features - coefficients of autoregressive (AR) signal model. Groups of extracted AR parameters for three different ECG types are well separated in feature space which provides for perfect signal classification and heart condition detection for every ECG signal from the test set. In order to assess the accuracy of developed technique for individual patient identification, feature sets are extended with additional parameter - power of AR modelling error. A new ECG based biometric system is proposed and initial patient recognition results presented in the conclusion of the paper.","PeriodicalId":262789,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ITI 2013 35th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127840884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NLTK tagger for Albanian using iterative approach","authors":"A. Kadriu","doi":"10.2498/iti.2013.0565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2498/iti.2013.0565","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a research done about a model of tagging for Albanian texts, using the NLTK toolkit. The model uses cascading of three taggers with backoff. We use a dictionary of around 32000 words, together their correspondent POS tags and a set of regular expressions rules too. A lemmatize module is implemented in order to convert nouns and verbs to their lemma. The text is tagged initially with a unigram tagger based on the dictionary. This is used as a baseline tagger for a regular expressions tagger. A correction is made for not correct lemmatized words, creating a third lookup tagger. This tagger will be used with the first and second tagger as backoff.","PeriodicalId":262789,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ITI 2013 35th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121285199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Achilleos, C. Mettouris, G. A. Papadopoulos, Katja Neureiter, C. Rappold, C. Moser, M. Tscheligi, L. Vajda, András Tóth, P. Hanák, Omar Jimenez, Robbert Smit
{"title":"Developing an effective social presence system for older adults: The Connected Vitality Network","authors":"A. Achilleos, C. Mettouris, G. A. Papadopoulos, Katja Neureiter, C. Rappold, C. Moser, M. Tscheligi, L. Vajda, András Tóth, P. Hanák, Omar Jimenez, Robbert Smit","doi":"10.2498/iti.2013.0559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2498/iti.2013.0559","url":null,"abstract":"Communication over distance via the use of communication technologies aims to offer and enable contact for older adults, who are typically restricted in terms of mobility and tend to suffer from loneliness due to the lack of social inclusion. Technologies enable communication over distance but suffer greatly in terms of providing the feeling of being connected, lacking also social presence during a remote contact. The Connected Vitality Network puts older adults at the centre of attention to study their needs for designing suitable human computer interaction methods and implement a social (tele)-presence system, which enables closeness and promotes social inclusion. Key research studies, workshop results, design principles and implementation details are presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":262789,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ITI 2013 35th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124327762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Hearne, D. Kelly, Avimanyou K. Vatsa, Wade Mayham, T. Kazic
{"title":"Statistical linkage across high dimensional observational domains","authors":"L. Hearne, D. Kelly, Avimanyou K. Vatsa, Wade Mayham, T. Kazic","doi":"10.2498/iti.2013.0554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2498/iti.2013.0554","url":null,"abstract":"Many experimental sciences collect different kinds of high-dimensional data on the same experimental units. When comparing relationships among homogeneous regions in one high dimensional domain with regions in another high dimensional domain, the number of possible comparisons may be extremely large and their set complexity unknown. We outline procedures for identifying possible relationships among regions in two different high-dimensional domains. If the data are dense enough, then statistical measures of association can be estimated. These procedures can identify and measure the probability of inter-domain associations of mixed complexity.","PeriodicalId":262789,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ITI 2013 35th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124987648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A support system for probability learning based on scaffolding approach","authors":"Yuki Ishikawa, Y. Hirai, K. Kaneko","doi":"10.2498/iti.2013.0527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2498/iti.2013.0527","url":null,"abstract":"An educational course in mathematics usually consists of a system of course units. If a learner does not understand the preceding course units in a mathematical course, he/she may not understand a new course unit. In this study, we have developed a support system for probability learning by which a learner can learn the course units such as “permutation” or “combination”. Scaffolding, one of learning theories, was introduced into the system. A pilot experiment has been also carried out to evaluate a potential of the system. The experimental results indicated that usability of the system was significantly high.","PeriodicalId":262789,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ITI 2013 35th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129962659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-criteria software component allocation on a heterogeneous platform","authors":"Ivan Svogor, I. Crnkovic, N. Vrcek","doi":"10.2498/iti.2013.0558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2498/iti.2013.0558","url":null,"abstract":"A recent development of heterogeneous platforms (i.e. those containing different types of computing units such as multicore CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs) has enabled significant improvements in performance processing large amount of data in realtime. This possibility however is still not fully utilized due to a lack of methods for optimal configuration of software; the allocation of different software components to different computing unit types is crucial for getting the maximal utilization of the platform, but for more complex systems it is difficult to find ad-hoc a good enough or the best configuration. In this paper we present an approach to find a feasible and locally optimal solution for allocating software components to processing units in a heterogeneous platform.","PeriodicalId":262789,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ITI 2013 35th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122353270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital repositories of scientific information at the Croatian universities: Developing the bridge towards e-science","authors":"Radovan Vrana","doi":"10.2498/iti.2013.0502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2498/iti.2013.0502","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents findings from the nationwide research about the current state of development of scientific digital repositories in the Croatian academic libraries. Although digital repositories of scientific information have become popular information resources in scientific community, only a small number of the Croatian academic libraries have such a digital repository active. The quantity of scientific content in libraries is sufficient for starting digital repositories; however libraries still don't have adequate financial, technical and political support at their universities. Libraries are well aware of these problems and are prepared to improve current conditions regarding development of these important information systems.","PeriodicalId":262789,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ITI 2013 35th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129658151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statistical variability vs. probabilistic uncertainty","authors":"K. Ziha","doi":"10.2498/iti.2013.0512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2498/iti.2013.0512","url":null,"abstract":"The concepts of variability and uncertainty came from experience and coexist with different connotations. First, the article reviews the statistical methods for variability assessments of probability distributions. Next, it sums up the entropy concept of uncertainty of systems of events in probability theory. The two concepts are brought closer together on the basis of common experience of predictability. The article also considers the concept of average number of equally probable events based on entropy. Then, it introduces the concept of equivalent number of outcomes based on variability of probability distributions. Finally, the link between variability and uncertainty is illustrated with examples.","PeriodicalId":262789,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ITI 2013 35th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114266014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating speech synthesis in a mobile context: Audio presentation of Facebook, Twitter and RSS","authors":"M. Aylett, Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez, L. Baillie","doi":"10.2498/iti.2013.0537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2498/iti.2013.0537","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an evaluation of a podcast service that aggregates data from Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds, using speech synthesis. The service uses a novel approach to speech synthesis generation, where XML markup is used to control both the speech synthesis and the sound design of a resulting podcast. A two-phase evaluation was carried out: 1) participants listening to the podcasts on desktop computers, 2) participants listening to the podcasts while walking. Our findings show that participants preferred shorter podcasts with sound effects and background music, and were affected by the surrounding environmental noise. However, audio advertising which is part of the service did not have a significant negative effect. Another finding was that the advantage of using multiple voices for content segmentation may have been undermined by difficulties in listener adaptation. The work is part of a new approach to speech synthesis provision, where its style of rendition forms a part of the application design and it is evaluated within an application context.","PeriodicalId":262789,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ITI 2013 35th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127308283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}