{"title":"Perceptions and Attitudes of Future Primary Education Teachers on Technology and Inclusive Education: A Mixed Methods Research","authors":"A. M. Pinto-Llorente, M. Sánchez-Gómez","doi":"10.4018/JITR.2020070103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/JITR.2020070103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43429,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology Research","volume":"45 1","pages":"37-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90050531","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}
Helena Alvelos, L. Teixeira, Ana Luísa Ferreira Andrade Ramos, A. R. Xambre
{"title":"SysSensory","authors":"Helena Alvelos, L. Teixeira, Ana Luísa Ferreira Andrade Ramos, A. R. Xambre","doi":"10.4018/jitr.2020040104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.2020040104","url":null,"abstract":"Sensory analysis is an area of the food industry to evaluate products' organoleptic characteristics. It encompasses a tasting process that produces large amounts of data used both in decisions about the products and to evaluate the tasters. In this context, some tools that usually support Industrial Engineering processes, can help making more reliable and timely decisions. The aim of this work is then to present a decision support system – SysSensory – developed to help food companies' deal with that data, by means of collecting, processing and visualizing it. Therefore, some statistical techniques incorporated in the system are explained, the specification of the system is described and some of the system's user interfaces are presented. SysSensory is considered a valuable contribute for researchers on Sensory Analysis, Statistics, as well as Information Technologies, and also for the food industry, for which it can be an innovative tool.","PeriodicalId":43429,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology Research","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75756951","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}
T. Adão, L. Pádua, David Narciso, J. Sousa, Luís Agrellos, Emanuel Peres, Luís Magalhães
{"title":"MixAR","authors":"T. Adão, L. Pádua, David Narciso, J. Sousa, Luís Agrellos, Emanuel Peres, Luís Magalhães","doi":"10.4018/jitr.2019100101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.2019100101","url":null,"abstract":"MixAR, a full-stack system capable of providing visualization of virtual reconstructions seamlessly integrated in the real scene (e.g. upon ruins), with the possibility of being freely explored by visitors, in situ, is presented in this article. In addition to its ability to operate with several tracking approaches to be able to deal with a wide variety of environmental conditions, MixAR system also implements an extended environment feature that provides visitors with an insight on surrounding points-of-interest for visitation during mixed reality experiences (positional rough tracking). A procedural modelling tool mainstreams augmentation models production. Tests carried out with participants to ascertain comfort, satisfaction and presence/immersion based on an in-field MR experience and respective results are also presented. Ease to adapt to the experience, desire to see the system in museums and a raised curiosity and motivation contributed as positive points for evaluation. In what regards to sickness and comfort, the lowest number of complaints seems to be satisfactory. Models' illumination/re-lightning must be addressed in the future to improve the user's engagement with the experiences provided by the MixAR system.","PeriodicalId":43429,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4018/jitr.2019100101","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70494336","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":"ISEkFT","authors":"Mamta, B. Gupta, Syed Taqi Ali","doi":"10.4018/jitr.2019070108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.2019070108","url":null,"abstract":"Public-key encryption with keyword search (PEKS) is a well-known technique which allows searching on encrypted data using the public key system. However, this technique suffers from the keyword guessing attack (KGA). To address this problem, a modified version of PEKS called public key encryption with fuzzy keyword search (PEFKS) has been introduced where each keyword is associated with an exact search trapdoor (EST) and a fuzzy search trapdoor (FST) which is provided to the cloud server. PEFKS prevents KGA in such a way that two or maximum three keywords share the same FST. Hence, even if the cloud server knows the FST it cannot link it to the corresponding keyword. But, with a probability of 1/3 the malicious cloud server can still guess the keyword corresponding to FST. Therefore, in this article, the authors present an approach which can improve the security of the PEFKS technique by reducing the probability of guessing the keyword to 1/k where k is the number of keywords that share the same FST, thus enhancing the overall reliability. In addition, the authors have used an identity-based encryption (IBE) as an underlying technique to construct the searchable encryption scheme and proved its security in the standard model.","PeriodicalId":43429,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology Research","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82632503","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":"Designing High Accuracy Statistical Machine Translation for Sign Language Using Parallel Corpus","authors":"Achraf Othman, M. Jemni","doi":"10.4018/JITR.2019040108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/JITR.2019040108","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the authors deal with the machine translation of written English text to sign language. They study the existing systems and issues in order to propose an implantation of a statistical machine translation from written English text to American Sign Language (English/ASL) taking care of several features of sign language. The work proposes a novel approach to build artificial corpus using grammatical dependencies rules owing to the lack of resources for sign language. The parallel corpus was the input of the statistical machine translation, which was used for creating statistical memory translation based on IBM alignment algorithms. These algorithms were enhanced and optimized by integrating the Jaro–Winkler distances in order to decrease training process. Subsequently, based on the constructed translation memory, a decoder was implemented for translating English text to the ASL using a novel proposed transcription system based on gloss annotation. The results were evaluated using the BLEU evaluation metric.","PeriodicalId":43429,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4018/JITR.2019040108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47910754","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}
R. Costaguta, Pablo Santana-Mansilla, Germán Lescano, Daniela Missio
{"title":"Mining Associations Between Collaborative Skills and Group Roles in Collaborative E-Learning Environments","authors":"R. Costaguta, Pablo Santana-Mansilla, Germán Lescano, Daniela Missio","doi":"10.4018/JITR.2019040109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/JITR.2019040109","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays it is quite common for universities to use computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) systems to favor group learning and teaching processes. CSCL systems provide communication, coordination and collaboration tools that ease group dynamic regardless space-time location of group members. However, forming a group and having the technology to support group tasks is not enough to guarantee students collaboration. Effective collaboration supposes the manifestation of specific roles by group members. Considering that group roles are conditioned (among other factors) by collaborative skills that students manifest, this article explores relations between collaborative skills and group roles by means of the application of association rules over a dataset of university students' interactions during CSCL sessions. The discovered knowledge might be used for automatic recognition of student roles based on collaborative skills that students manifest in their groups. Furthermore, the discovered association rules could be used for forming groups with a balanced combination of roles.","PeriodicalId":43429,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4018/JITR.2019040109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70494220","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":"User experience of an institutional repository in a private university in Mexico A fundamental component in the framework of Open Science","authors":"Laura Icela González Pérez, M. R. Montoya","doi":"10.4018/JITR.2019100104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/JITR.2019100104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43429,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology Research","volume":"12 1","pages":"67-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70494414","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-Layer Agent Based Architecture for Internet of Things Systems","authors":"Kouah Sofia, Kitouni Ilham","doi":"10.4018/JITR.2018100103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/JITR.2018100103","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, the Internet of things (IoT) is becoming a promising technology which revolutionizes and simplifies our daily life style. It allows interaction and cooperation between a large variety of pervasive objects over wireless and wired connections, in order to achieve specific goals. Moreover, it provides a concise integration of physical world into computer systems through network infrastructure. This paper provides an agent-based architecture for developing IoT systems. The proposed architecture is multi-layer and generic. It encompasses four layers: Physical Component Management, Local Management -Coordination, Global Management-Coordination and Specialized Operative Management Layers. The first one can be seen as a smart layer that ensures connection and communication between things and the system. The second one constitutes the intelligent core of the system which acts locally to ensure coordination and further internal functioning. The third layer ensures coordination between the local system and the externals ones. The last layer supports additional behaviors which are domain dependent. The architecture is illustrated by an IoT system diagnosis.","PeriodicalId":43429,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4018/JITR.2018100103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70494380","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":"Geometric Representations Built with GeoGebra for Improving the Visualization and Reasoning Cognitive Process","authors":"C. Rodríguez, E. M. Morgado","doi":"10.4018/JITR.2017010104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/JITR.2017010104","url":null,"abstract":"It is well known that Mathematical Software can be an appropriate tool to improve the teaching-learning mathematic process. This Software allows the teacher and student to build certain geometric facts and consequently, to visualize them. This makes possible to concretize certain abstract mathematic concepts and facilitate their comprehension. However, some are expensive and some people do not have access to it. This paper presents the use of geometric configurations built with GeoGebra as a tool for teaching the definition of vector and its operations. These are Open Educational Resources OERs, and they were built under the Open Knowledge scheme, so everyone to have access to them. The goal is to investigate, in this context, the possible implicit effects that these OERs have as a didactic strategy to improve the visualization and reasoning cognitive processes. The results of the tests performed show that, in this case, the use of the proposal favored the learning of the presented concepts.","PeriodicalId":43429,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"39-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4018/JITR.2017010104","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70494135","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}