ACUTA Journal of Telecommunications in Higher Education

In This Issue President\u27s Message From the ACUTA CEO Snapshots: What ls Your Campus Doing in the Cloud? Security in the Cloud Why ls My Head in the Clouds? Unified Communications: Challenge and Opportunity for Education 2015 ResNet lnfographic How Light Can Change the World A Case for Hybrid Cloud Snapshots: What ls Your Campus Doing in the Cloud? Cloud Hurdles Shift from Security to Contracts 201 5 lnstitutional Excellence Award Snapshots: What ls Your Campus Doing in the Cloud? 2015 Awards Honor lndividual

Setting the relationship between human-centered approaches and users? Digital well-being: A review

With the advancement of technology and advent of the new digital era, the society is getting increasingly exposed to novel technologies, digital platforms, or smart devices. This reality opens a wide range of questions about the benefits and challenges of technology and its impact on humans. In this context, the present study investigates the relationship between human-centered approaches and their application to achieve users' digital well-being, as well as explores whether marketing and business industry are sufficiently considering human-centered approaches in their implementation of practices that care for users' digital wellbeing. To this end, we conduct a systematic literature review. The exploratory results confirm that the implementation of human-centered approaches makes it possible to achieve a greater user well-being in the marketing and management sector. Additionally, we also identify and dis-cuss seven more relevant areas. Our review concludes with a discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of our findings for further research on the use of human-centric and digital well-being concepts.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Augmented reality applied to language translation

Being a tourist in a foreign country is an adventure full of memories and experiences, but it can be truly challenging when it comes to communication. Finding yourself in an unknown place, where all the road signs and guidelines have such different characters, may end up in a dead end or with some unexpected results. Then, what if we could use a smartphone to read that restaurant menu? Or even find the right department in a mall? The applications are so many and the market is ready to invest and give opportunities to creative and economic ideas. The dissertation intends to explore the field of Augmented Reality, while helping the user to enrich his view with information. Giving the ability to look around, detect the text in the surroundings and read its translation in our own dialect, is a great step to overcome language issues. Moreover, using smartphones at anyone’s reach, or wearing smartglasses that are even less intrusive, gives a chance to engage a complex matter in a daily routine. This technology requires flexible, accurate and fast Optical Character Recognition and Translation systems, in an Internet of Things scenery. Quality and precision is a must, yet to be further developed and improved. Entering in a realtime digital data environment, will support great causes and aid the progress and evolution of many intervention areas

Human-centred computer architecture: redesigning the mobile datastore and sharing interface

This dissertation develops a material perspective on Information & Communication Technologies and combines this perspective with a Research through Design approach to interrogate current and develop new mobile sharing interfaces and datastores. through this approach I open up a line of inquiry that connects a material perspective of information with everyday sharing and communication practices as well as with the mobile and cloud architectures that increasingly mediate such practices. With this perspective, I uncover a shifting emphasis of how data is stored on mobile devices and how this data is made available to apps through sharing interfaces that prevent apps from obtaining a proper handle of data to support fundamentally human acts of sharing such as giving. I take these insights to articulate a much wider research agenda to implicate, beyond the sharing interface, the app model and mobile datastore, data exchange protocols, and the Cloud. I formalise the approach I take to bring technically and socially complex, multi-dimensional and changing ideas into correspondence and to openly document this process. I consider the history of the File abstraction and the fundamental grammars of action this abstraction supports (e.g. move, copy, & delete) and the mediating role this abstraction – and its graphical representation – plays in binding together the concerns of system architects, programmers, and users. Finding inspiration in the 30 year history of the file, I look beyond the Desktop to contemporary realms of computing on the mobile and in the Cloud to develop implications for reinvigorated file abstractions, representations, and grammars of actions. First and foremost, these need to have a social perspective on files. To develop and hone such a social perspective, and challenge the assumption that mobile phones are telephones – implying interaction at a distance – I give an interwoven account of the theoretical and practical work I undertook to derive and design a grammar of action – showing – tailored to co-present and co-located interactions. By documenting the process of developing prototypes that explore this design space, and returning to the material perspective I developed earlier, I explore how the grammars of show and gift are incongruent with the specific ways in which information is passed through the mobile’s sharing interface. This insight led me to prototype a mobile datastore – My Stuff – and design new file abstractions that foreground the social nature of the stuff we store and share on our mobiles. I study how that stuff is handled and shared in the Cloud by developing, documenting, and interrogating a cloud service to facilitate sharing, and implement grammars of actions to support and better align with human communication and sharing acts. I conclude with an outlook on the powerful generative metaphor of casting mobile media files as digital possessions to support and develop human-centred computer architecture that give people better awareness and control over the stuff that matters to them

ACUTA Journal of Telecommunications in Higher Education

In This Issue President\u27s Message From the ACUTA CEO Legislative/Regulatory Update Technology Supports Learning at the University of Illinois App Development as a Learning Tool Death by Popcorn It\u27s a Bird...lt\u27s a Plane...lt\u27s a Drone! Beating the Cell Capacity Crunch Flipping the Classroom Saving College Dropouts Hybrid lT-The new Campus Landscape The George Washington University lntroduces CAAREN Flipping Classrooms to Change College STEM Teaching Project Fi-the Wi-Fi-First Cell Phon