This study investigates the role played by parents as mediators of young children's access and en... more This study investigates the role played by parents as mediators of young children's access and engagement with digital technologies. In Belgium, Germany, Latvia and Portugal, qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 families in each country, including one child between 6 and 7 years old. Our findings show that parents of young children mainly play the role of 'gatekeepers' when it comes to facilitating and constraining access to and use of digital technologies. Parents' perceptions of the efficacy of digital technologies as responsible entertainment and as educational tools influence the technologies available at home and
In the past years there has been a significant trend towards the establishment of distributed s o... more In the past years there has been a significant trend towards the establishment of distributed s oftware development activities, where different organizations cooperate to develop a composite software product. This trend originates in the geographical distribution of many companies, quite often spread over different countries and even continents. Another motivation for this phenomenon relates to the increasing number of projects that are carried out by consortia or clusters of companies, each of them contributing with specific expertise to the final result. This scenario demands for improved software development technology that is able to support both the software development process at each local site, and the global interaction of the different organizations. In particular, process technology must be able to guarantee the autonomy of each site as far as the local software development process, practices, and artifacts are concerned. At the same time, it must be able to s uperimpose a coordinating process across all organizations to consistently drive the distributed development activity. The issue is critical for the effectiveness of process technology in an industrial context. In this paper we provide a discussion of the issue and propose a tentative research agenda for the next years.
Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Task models and diagrams - TAMODIA '04, 2004
Abstract Currently very few techniques are available to support the design of Augmented and Mixed... more Abstract Currently very few techniques are available to support the design of Augmented and Mixed Reality (MR) systems. Task elicitation is more complex for MR systems than for traditional information systems. Having multiple sources of information and two worlds of interaction (real and virtual) involves making choices about what to attend to and when. Interaction based on traditional input and output devices is not effective in a mixed scenario. It distracts the user from the task at hand and may create a severe cognitive seam. ...
Medical Imaging 2007: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 2007
Medical information is evolving towards more complex multimedia data representation, as new imagi... more Medical information is evolving towards more complex multimedia data representation, as new imaging modalities are made available by sophisticated devices. Features such as segmented lesions can now be extracted through analysis techniques and need to be integrated into clinical patient data. The management of structured information extracted from multimedia has been addressed in knowledge based annotation systems providing methods to
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 2005
Compared to other hospital units, the emergency department presents some distinguishing character... more Compared to other hospital units, the emergency department presents some distinguishing characteristics of its own. Emergency health-care delivery is a collaborative process involving the contribution of several individuals who accomplish their tasks while working autonomously under pressure and sometimes with limited resources.
Avertissement en matière de Droits d'auteur Le matériel présenté ci-dessous sert à assurer l... more Avertissement en matière de Droits d'auteur Le matériel présenté ci-dessous sert à assurer la dissemination des études et des travaux techniques. Les droits de reproduction et les droits d'auteurs appartiennent aux auteurs ou à d'autres ayant-droits.
This paper presents a generic non-deterministic approach for the integration of multimodal semant... more This paper presents a generic non-deterministic approach for the integration of multimodal semantically grounded input commands, which we call multimodal high level fusion. The final goal is to develop a reference fusion framework of mul-tiple modalities for enhanced natural interaction. ...
The Medical Information System (MedISys) is a fully automatic 24/7 public health surveillance sys... more The Medical Information System (MedISys) is a fully automatic 24/7 public health surveillance system monitoring human and animal infectious diseases and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats in open-source media. In this article, we explain the ...
This paper presents a knowledge-based method of early-stage high level multimodal fusion of data ... more This paper presents a knowledge-based method of early-stage high level multimodal fusion of data obtained from speech input and visual scene. The ultimate goal is to develop a human-computer multimodal interface to assist elderly people living alone at home to ...
AbstractThis paper introduces a new methodology of multi-modal data fusion. Each modality is con... more AbstractThis paper introduces a new methodology of multi-modal data fusion. Each modality is considered as being an agent, capable of performing certain actions inside a given statespace. The different modalities form cooperative teams of agents in the same way as ...
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Children and young people are very active users of digital technology from an early ag... more Abstract:
Children and young people are very active users of digital technology from an early age. Recent research shows that children learn quickly from mirroring the behaviour of parents, of older siblings and peers. On one hand, children have acquired independency and skills within the digital world; on the other, they lack reflective and critical thinking as well as awareness about opportunities and risks such as cyber-bullying or digital identity theft. Active adult’s mediation would allow for the integration of values and critical thinking but so far, adults seem poor active mediators and in need of practical tools of empowerment. Therefore, we developed Happy Onlife, a game to support players towards a happy online life. This interactive video game aims at empowering teachers and parents to actively guide children to become smarter, responsible, and respectful when using digital media. We chose an experimental and empirical approach and the design of the game repeatedly undertook the elicitation, representation and validation steps. Happy Onlife presents key messages about children’s use, overuse, and risks of misuse of digital technologies and provides simple and clear strategies of prevention, mediation or remediation. Tests beds have proved the efficiency of the video game’s questions to prompt discussion between generations and drives the players towards a responsible and safe digital media use. Happy Onlife can be considered as an effective tool to support adults’ mediation to children for a healthy and safe internet and digital technology use.
Children and young people are very active users of digital
technology from an early age. Recent r... more Children and young people are very active users of digital technology from an early age. Recent research shows that children learn quickly from mirroring the behaviour of parents, of older siblings and peers. On the one hand, children have acquired independency and skills within the digital world; on the other, they lack reflective and critical thinking as well as awareness about opportunities and risks such as cyber-bullying or digital identity theft. Active adult’s mediation would allow for the integration of values and critical thinking but so far, adults seem poor active mediators and in need of practical tools of empowerment. Therefore, we developed Happy Onlife, a game to support players towards a happy online life. This interactive video game aims at empowering teachers and parents to actively guide children to become smarter, responsible, and respectful when using digital media. We chose an experimental and empirical approach and the design of the game repeatedly undertook the elicitation, representation and validation steps. Happy Onlife presents key messages about children's use, overuse, and risks of misuse of digital technologies and provides simple and clear strategies of prevention, mediation or remediation. Tests beds have proved the efficiency of the video game’s questions to prompt discussion between generations and to drives the players towards a responsible and safe digital media use. Happy Onlife can be considered as an effective tool to support adults’ mediation to children for a healthy and safe internet and digital technology use.
This study investigates the role played by parents as mediators of young children's access and en... more This study investigates the role played by parents as mediators of young children's access and engagement with digital technologies. In Belgium, Germany, Latvia and Portugal, qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 families in each country, including one child between 6 and 7 years old. Our findings show that parents of young children mainly play the role of 'gatekeepers' when it comes to facilitating and constraining access to and use of digital technologies. Parents' perceptions of the efficacy of digital technologies as responsible entertainment and as educational tools influence the technologies available at home and
In the past years there has been a significant trend towards the establishment of distributed s o... more In the past years there has been a significant trend towards the establishment of distributed s oftware development activities, where different organizations cooperate to develop a composite software product. This trend originates in the geographical distribution of many companies, quite often spread over different countries and even continents. Another motivation for this phenomenon relates to the increasing number of projects that are carried out by consortia or clusters of companies, each of them contributing with specific expertise to the final result. This scenario demands for improved software development technology that is able to support both the software development process at each local site, and the global interaction of the different organizations. In particular, process technology must be able to guarantee the autonomy of each site as far as the local software development process, practices, and artifacts are concerned. At the same time, it must be able to s uperimpose a coordinating process across all organizations to consistently drive the distributed development activity. The issue is critical for the effectiveness of process technology in an industrial context. In this paper we provide a discussion of the issue and propose a tentative research agenda for the next years.
Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Task models and diagrams - TAMODIA '04, 2004
Abstract Currently very few techniques are available to support the design of Augmented and Mixed... more Abstract Currently very few techniques are available to support the design of Augmented and Mixed Reality (MR) systems. Task elicitation is more complex for MR systems than for traditional information systems. Having multiple sources of information and two worlds of interaction (real and virtual) involves making choices about what to attend to and when. Interaction based on traditional input and output devices is not effective in a mixed scenario. It distracts the user from the task at hand and may create a severe cognitive seam. ...
Medical Imaging 2007: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 2007
Medical information is evolving towards more complex multimedia data representation, as new imagi... more Medical information is evolving towards more complex multimedia data representation, as new imaging modalities are made available by sophisticated devices. Features such as segmented lesions can now be extracted through analysis techniques and need to be integrated into clinical patient data. The management of structured information extracted from multimedia has been addressed in knowledge based annotation systems providing methods to
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 2005
Compared to other hospital units, the emergency department presents some distinguishing character... more Compared to other hospital units, the emergency department presents some distinguishing characteristics of its own. Emergency health-care delivery is a collaborative process involving the contribution of several individuals who accomplish their tasks while working autonomously under pressure and sometimes with limited resources.
Avertissement en matière de Droits d'auteur Le matériel présenté ci-dessous sert à assurer l... more Avertissement en matière de Droits d'auteur Le matériel présenté ci-dessous sert à assurer la dissemination des études et des travaux techniques. Les droits de reproduction et les droits d'auteurs appartiennent aux auteurs ou à d'autres ayant-droits.
This paper presents a generic non-deterministic approach for the integration of multimodal semant... more This paper presents a generic non-deterministic approach for the integration of multimodal semantically grounded input commands, which we call multimodal high level fusion. The final goal is to develop a reference fusion framework of mul-tiple modalities for enhanced natural interaction. ...
The Medical Information System (MedISys) is a fully automatic 24/7 public health surveillance sys... more The Medical Information System (MedISys) is a fully automatic 24/7 public health surveillance system monitoring human and animal infectious diseases and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats in open-source media. In this article, we explain the ...
This paper presents a knowledge-based method of early-stage high level multimodal fusion of data ... more This paper presents a knowledge-based method of early-stage high level multimodal fusion of data obtained from speech input and visual scene. The ultimate goal is to develop a human-computer multimodal interface to assist elderly people living alone at home to ...
AbstractThis paper introduces a new methodology of multi-modal data fusion. Each modality is con... more AbstractThis paper introduces a new methodology of multi-modal data fusion. Each modality is considered as being an agent, capable of performing certain actions inside a given statespace. The different modalities form cooperative teams of agents in the same way as ...
Abstract:
Children and young people are very active users of digital technology from an early ag... more Abstract:
Children and young people are very active users of digital technology from an early age. Recent research shows that children learn quickly from mirroring the behaviour of parents, of older siblings and peers. On one hand, children have acquired independency and skills within the digital world; on the other, they lack reflective and critical thinking as well as awareness about opportunities and risks such as cyber-bullying or digital identity theft. Active adult’s mediation would allow for the integration of values and critical thinking but so far, adults seem poor active mediators and in need of practical tools of empowerment. Therefore, we developed Happy Onlife, a game to support players towards a happy online life. This interactive video game aims at empowering teachers and parents to actively guide children to become smarter, responsible, and respectful when using digital media. We chose an experimental and empirical approach and the design of the game repeatedly undertook the elicitation, representation and validation steps. Happy Onlife presents key messages about children’s use, overuse, and risks of misuse of digital technologies and provides simple and clear strategies of prevention, mediation or remediation. Tests beds have proved the efficiency of the video game’s questions to prompt discussion between generations and drives the players towards a responsible and safe digital media use. Happy Onlife can be considered as an effective tool to support adults’ mediation to children for a healthy and safe internet and digital technology use.
Children and young people are very active users of digital
technology from an early age. Recent r... more Children and young people are very active users of digital technology from an early age. Recent research shows that children learn quickly from mirroring the behaviour of parents, of older siblings and peers. On the one hand, children have acquired independency and skills within the digital world; on the other, they lack reflective and critical thinking as well as awareness about opportunities and risks such as cyber-bullying or digital identity theft. Active adult’s mediation would allow for the integration of values and critical thinking but so far, adults seem poor active mediators and in need of practical tools of empowerment. Therefore, we developed Happy Onlife, a game to support players towards a happy online life. This interactive video game aims at empowering teachers and parents to actively guide children to become smarter, responsible, and respectful when using digital media. We chose an experimental and empirical approach and the design of the game repeatedly undertook the elicitation, representation and validation steps. Happy Onlife presents key messages about children's use, overuse, and risks of misuse of digital technologies and provides simple and clear strategies of prevention, mediation or remediation. Tests beds have proved the efficiency of the video game’s questions to prompt discussion between generations and to drives the players towards a responsible and safe digital media use. Happy Onlife can be considered as an effective tool to support adults’ mediation to children for a healthy and safe internet and digital technology use.
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Children and young people are very active users of digital technology from an early age. Recent research shows that children learn quickly from mirroring the behaviour of parents, of older siblings and peers. On one hand, children have acquired independency and skills within the digital world; on the other, they lack reflective and critical thinking as well as awareness about opportunities and risks such as cyber-bullying or digital identity theft. Active adult’s mediation would allow for the integration of values and critical thinking but so far, adults seem poor active mediators and in need of practical tools of empowerment. Therefore, we developed Happy Onlife, a game to support players towards a happy online life. This interactive video game aims at empowering teachers and parents to actively guide children to become smarter, responsible, and respectful when using digital media. We chose an experimental and empirical approach and the design of the game repeatedly undertook the elicitation, representation and validation steps. Happy Onlife presents key messages about children’s use, overuse, and risks of misuse of digital technologies and provides simple and clear strategies of prevention, mediation or remediation. Tests beds have proved the efficiency of the video game’s questions to prompt discussion between generations and drives the players towards a responsible and safe digital media use. Happy Onlife can be considered as an effective tool to support adults’ mediation to children for a healthy and safe internet and digital technology use.
technology from an early age. Recent research shows that
children learn quickly from mirroring the behaviour of parents,
of older siblings and peers. On the one hand, children have
acquired independency and skills within the digital world; on the
other, they lack reflective and critical thinking as well as
awareness about opportunities and risks such as cyber-bullying
or digital identity theft. Active adult’s mediation would allow
for the integration of values and critical thinking but so far,
adults seem poor active mediators and in need of practical tools
of empowerment. Therefore, we developed Happy Onlife, a
game to support players towards a happy online life. This
interactive video game aims at empowering teachers and parents
to actively guide children to become smarter, responsible, and
respectful when using digital media. We chose an experimental
and empirical approach and the design of the game repeatedly
undertook the elicitation, representation and validation steps.
Happy Onlife presents key messages about children's use,
overuse, and risks of misuse of digital technologies and provides
simple and clear strategies of prevention, mediation or
remediation. Tests beds have proved the efficiency of the video
game’s questions to prompt discussion between generations and
to drives the players towards a responsible and safe digital media
use. Happy Onlife can be considered as an effective tool to
support adults’ mediation to children for a healthy and safe
internet and digital technology use.
Children and young people are very active users of digital technology from an early age. Recent research shows that children learn quickly from mirroring the behaviour of parents, of older siblings and peers. On one hand, children have acquired independency and skills within the digital world; on the other, they lack reflective and critical thinking as well as awareness about opportunities and risks such as cyber-bullying or digital identity theft. Active adult’s mediation would allow for the integration of values and critical thinking but so far, adults seem poor active mediators and in need of practical tools of empowerment. Therefore, we developed Happy Onlife, a game to support players towards a happy online life. This interactive video game aims at empowering teachers and parents to actively guide children to become smarter, responsible, and respectful when using digital media. We chose an experimental and empirical approach and the design of the game repeatedly undertook the elicitation, representation and validation steps. Happy Onlife presents key messages about children’s use, overuse, and risks of misuse of digital technologies and provides simple and clear strategies of prevention, mediation or remediation. Tests beds have proved the efficiency of the video game’s questions to prompt discussion between generations and drives the players towards a responsible and safe digital media use. Happy Onlife can be considered as an effective tool to support adults’ mediation to children for a healthy and safe internet and digital technology use.
technology from an early age. Recent research shows that
children learn quickly from mirroring the behaviour of parents,
of older siblings and peers. On the one hand, children have
acquired independency and skills within the digital world; on the
other, they lack reflective and critical thinking as well as
awareness about opportunities and risks such as cyber-bullying
or digital identity theft. Active adult’s mediation would allow
for the integration of values and critical thinking but so far,
adults seem poor active mediators and in need of practical tools
of empowerment. Therefore, we developed Happy Onlife, a
game to support players towards a happy online life. This
interactive video game aims at empowering teachers and parents
to actively guide children to become smarter, responsible, and
respectful when using digital media. We chose an experimental
and empirical approach and the design of the game repeatedly
undertook the elicitation, representation and validation steps.
Happy Onlife presents key messages about children's use,
overuse, and risks of misuse of digital technologies and provides
simple and clear strategies of prevention, mediation or
remediation. Tests beds have proved the efficiency of the video
game’s questions to prompt discussion between generations and
to drives the players towards a responsible and safe digital media
use. Happy Onlife can be considered as an effective tool to
support adults’ mediation to children for a healthy and safe
internet and digital technology use.