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Investigating the Usability and Quality of Experience of Mobile Video-Conferencing Apps Among Bandwidth-Constrained Users in South Africa 在南非带宽受限的用户中调查移动视频会议应用程序的可用性和体验质量

EPiC series in computing Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.29007/wwft

Dominique Oosthuizen, Taveesh Sharma, Josiah Chavula, Melissa Densmore

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Simple evolutionary algorithm for quantifying how medical history factors predict disease outcomes 用于量化病史因素如何预测疾病结果的简单进化算法

EPiC series in computing Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.29007/7pd1

J. Camp, H. Al-Mubaid

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Digital learning and teaching throughout the pandemic: learning from the digital experiences of students and staff during 2020 and 2021 大流行期间的数字化学习和教学:从2020年和2021年期间学生和工作人员的数字化经验中学习

EPiC series in computing Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.29007/b4hw

Clare Killen, K. Heywood

{"title":"Digital learning and teaching throughout the pandemic: learning from the digital experiences of students and staff during 2020 and 2021","authors":"Clare Killen, K. Heywood","doi":"10.29007/b4hw","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29007/b4hw","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on the digital experiences of almost 76,000 learners/students, teaching staff and professional services staff from UK further and higher education, this session will explore the successes and challenges of learning, teaching and working online throughout the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 and the enforced move to remote engagement meant that all needed to embrace digital practices. It galvanised colleges and universities to push forward with digital transformation projects that may otherwise have taken far longer.Understanding how students and staff use technology is essential. Jisc has been running the digital experience insights surveys to gather staff and students’ expectations and experiences of technology since 2016, providing valid, representative and actionable data to inform digital transformation.Alongside Jisc’s work on learning and teaching reimagined and shaping the digital future, the survey findings highlight current digital practices and provide data to inform strategic planning. Knowing what works, what the barriers are and listening to the voices of these key stakeholders as they describe their experiences will help us to further advance digital practice and develop effective models of hybrid and blended models.Key themes explored in this session include:* Infrastructure and access to technology* Support to learn, teach and assess/be assessed online* Actively engaging all stakeholders as partners in online digital education* Wellbeing when learning, teaching or working onlineDelegates will takeaway from the sessions:1. An overview of the findings from the learner/student, teaching staff and professional services surveys (with digital copies of each of the reports)2. Opportunities to reflect on how these findings align or differ from their own experiences, engage in discussions and share practice on approaches to digital transformation","PeriodicalId":93549,"journal":{"name":"EPiC series in computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69429887","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}

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Adaptive Step Size for a Consensus based Distributed Subgradient Method in Generalized Mutual Assignment Problem 广义互分配问题中基于一致性的分布子梯度方法的自适应步长

EPiC series in computing Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.29007/k1bg

Yuki Amemiya, Kenta Hanada, Kenji Sugimoto

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Practice Track: A Learning Tracker using Digital Biomarkers for Autistic Preschoolers 练习跟踪:使用数字生物标记的自闭症学龄前儿童学习跟踪器

EPiC series in computing Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.29007/m2jx

Gurmit S. Sandhu, A. Kilburg, A. Martin, Charuta Pande, Hans Friedrich Witschel, Emanuele Laurenzi, E. Billing

{"title":"Practice Track: A Learning Tracker using Digital Biomarkers for Autistic Preschoolers","authors":"Gurmit S. Sandhu, A. Kilburg, A. Martin, Charuta Pande, Hans Friedrich Witschel, Emanuele Laurenzi, E. Billing","doi":"10.29007/m2jx","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29007/m2jx","url":null,"abstract":"Preschool children, when diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), often ex- perience a long and painful journey on their way to self-advocacy. Access to standard of care is poor, with long waiting times and the feeling of stigmatization in many social set- tings. Early interventions in ASD have been found to deliver promising results, but have a high cost for all stakeholders. Some recent studies have suggested that digital biomarkers (e.g., eye gaze), tracked using affordable wearable devices such as smartphones or tablets, could play a role in identifying children with special needs. In this paper, we discuss the possibility of supporting neurodiverse children with technologies based on digital biomark- ers which can help to a) monitor the performance of children diagnosed with ASD and b) predict those who would benefit most from early interventions. We describe an ongoing feasibility study that uses the “DREAM dataset”, stemming from a clinical study with 61 pre-school children diagnosed with ASD, to identify digital biomarkers informative for the child’s progression on tasks such as imitation of gestures. We describe our vision of a tool that will use these prediction models and that ASD pre-schoolers could use to train certain social skills at home. Our discussion includes the settings in which this usage could be embedded.","PeriodicalId":93549,"journal":{"name":"EPiC series in computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69435447","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}

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Identification and Chaining of Water Accounting Data Stakeholders 水会计数据利益相关者的识别与链接

EPiC series in computing Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.29007/mjn2

Ryan Prater, Barbara Eisenbart

{"title":"Identification and Chaining of Water Accounting Data Stakeholders","authors":"Ryan Prater, Barbara Eisenbart","doi":"10.29007/mjn2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29007/mjn2","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – Multiple water accounting techniques exist and suffer from data gaps and mis- aligned stakeholders which creates standardization and consolidation problems in the data of the industry. This study identifies domain-based stakeholders and defines stakeholder data relationships to improve inter-stakeholder data efficiency.Design/methodology/approach – The research design follows an inductive data col- lection of qualitative cross-sectional data through semi-structured expert interviews. The recorded interviews were transcribed, thematically coded, and the findings summarized.Findings – The result is an improved specificity of water accounting data stakeholders which have different data input and output requirements. Our research found that these stakeholders can be chained together based on their data relationships which enables iden- tifying inter-stakeholder relationships and improved data efficiency.Social Implications – Water is a vital resource for humans and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. More precise description of stakeholders and data factors enable more efficient data flow which can improve the efficacy of terminal impact.Originality/value – The awareness of problem is refined by increasing stakeholder speci- ficity and identifying data input/output requirements. This enables chaining of stake- holders and data to clarify stakeholder data requirements and improve data efficiency for purposes such as collaboration and policy guidance.","PeriodicalId":93549,"journal":{"name":"EPiC series in computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69445801","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}

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the digitalization and strategic development of German universities 新冠肺炎疫情对德国大学数字化与战略发展的影响

EPiC series in computing Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.29007/p9lb

Maren Lübcke, Elke Bosse, Astrid Book, Klaus Wannemacher, Harald Gilch

{"title":"Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the digitalization and strategic development of German universities","authors":"Maren Lübcke, Elke Bosse, Astrid Book, Klaus Wannemacher, Harald Gilch","doi":"10.29007/p9lb","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29007/p9lb","url":null,"abstract":"The HIS-Institute of Higher Education Development (HIS-HE) conducted a nationwide survey among Higher Education leaders about the extent to which the push for digitalization at German higher education institutions related to the COVID-19 pandemic has promoted strategic engagement with digitalization and how such experiences have been integrated into concepts for the future of teaching and learning. The findings show that the effects of the pandemic are most evident in the digitalization of teaching formats, while many infrastructural and technical developments had already been initiated before the pandemic and were at most accelerated.When the COVID-19-related developments of digitalization are analyzed with regard to structural characteristics of the HEIs represented in the sample, it becomes apparent that there are no fundamental differences between universities and universities of applied sciences. Only the universities of arts and music are distinguished by the fact that the pandemic-related changes are generally smaller and fewer innovations are to be expected after the pandemic.The range of disciplines of the HEIs also proves to be relevant when comparing HEIs with and without STEM subjects, as the former group shows a significantly greater dynamic of change.Last but not least, differences can also be found with regard to the existence of a digitalization strategy. Universities with a digitalization strategy not only have a head start in terms of experience, since they already offered online teaching or hybrid formats before the pandemic. Rather, they have changed their teaching and examination formats particularly extensively in the course of the pandemic and are planning to a greater extent to use instruments and formats for digital teaching in the future.","PeriodicalId":93549,"journal":{"name":"EPiC series in computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69448370","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}

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Analyzing Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Nitrogen Fertilizer Management in Simulated Crop Growth 模拟作物生长过程中氮肥管理的强化学习算法分析

EPiC series in computing Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.29007/1v4x

Michael Vogt, Benjamin Rosman

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Do People in Low Resource Environments only Need Search? Exploring Digital Archive Functionalities in South Africa 低资源环境下的人只需要搜索吗?探索南非的数字档案功能

EPiC series in computing Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.29007/9cwr

B. I. Akhigbe, Khanyisa Mtombeni, Melissa Densmore, H. Suleman

{"title":"Do People in Low Resource Environments only Need Search? Exploring Digital Archive Functionalities in South Africa","authors":"B. I. Akhigbe, Khanyisa Mtombeni, Melissa Densmore, H. Suleman","doi":"10.29007/9cwr","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29007/9cwr","url":null,"abstract":"Existing user studies on how users use digital archives as information systems seldom focus on what influences users’ needs and expectations. Similarly, not much is known about how the low resource context influences users’ needs. What users expect from searching and other related functionalities is rarely addressed in the cultural heritage and historical digital archives. These gaps unveil the mismatch between users’ needs (and expectations) and deployed technologies in the low resource context. As a result, delivering novel services through these digital archives is impossible because of the gap between design and reality. Users in the low resource environment are thus constrained to use whatever functionalities are available. This paper presents the empirical result of a user study. We determined the study’s sample framing using the future determination analysis technique. This analysis also guided the scoping of the study’s survey. The study foregrounds the need to adapt to users’ ever-changing expectations by understanding their needs. This is critical for a better system design that meets users’ expectations. A key finding is that users strongly prefer simple search functionalities in low resource environments. Regardless, they would prefer to use advanced features if given the opportunity. However, the expertise (and sometimes funding) needed to satisfy this desire is scarce. The surveyed users are only end-users without the expertise to innovate and build digital archives to meet their needs. This dearth of “resource(s)” was found to be characteristic of the experience of low resource (or resource-poor) settings like South Africa.","PeriodicalId":93549,"journal":{"name":"EPiC series in computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69427643","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}

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Interpretable Image Classification Model Using Formal Concept Analysis Based Classifier 基于形式概念分析分类器的可解释图像分类模型

EPiC series in computing Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.29007/rp6q

Minal Khatri, Adam Voshall, S. Batra, Sukhwinder Kaur, Dr. Jitender S. Deogun

{"title":"Interpretable Image Classification Model Using Formal Concept Analysis Based Classifier","authors":"Minal Khatri, Adam Voshall, S. Batra, Sukhwinder Kaur, Dr. Jitender S. Deogun","doi":"10.29007/rp6q","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29007/rp6q","url":null,"abstract":"Massive amounts of data gathered over the last decade have contributed significantly to the applicability of deep neural networks. Deep learning is a good technique to process huge amounts of data because they get better as we feed more data into them. However, in the existing literature, a deep neural classifier is often treated as a ”black box” technique because the process is not transparent and the researchers cannot gain information about how the input is associated to the output. In many domains like medicine, interpretability is very critical because of the nature of the application. Our research focuses on adding interpretability to the black box by integrating Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) into the image classification pipeline and convert it into a glass box. Our proposed approach pro- duces a low dimensional feature vector for an image dataset using autoencoder followed by a supervised fine-tuning of features using a deep neural classifier and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). The low dimensional feature vector produced is then processed by FCA based classifier. The FCA framework helps us develop a glass box classifier from which the relationship between the target class and the low dimensional feature set can be derived. Further, it helps the researchers to understand the classification task and refine it. We use the MNIST dataset to test the interfacing between deep neural networks and the FCA classifier. The classifier achieves an accuracy of 98.7% for binary classification and 97.38% for multi-class classification. We compare the performance of the proposed classifier with Convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Random forest.","PeriodicalId":93549,"journal":{"name":"EPiC series in computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69450700","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}

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