89 research outputs found
Behavioural Change Support Intelligent Transportation Applications
This workshop invites researchers and practitioners to participate in
exploring behavioral change support intelligent transportation applications. We
welcome submissions that explore intelligent transportation systems (ITS),
which interact with travelers in order to persuade them or nudge them towards
sustainable transportation behaviors and decisions. Emerging opportunities
including the use of data and information generated by ITS and users' mobile
devices in order to render personalized, contextualized and timely transport
behavioral change interventions are in our focus. We invite submissions and
ideas from domains of ITS including, but not limited to, multi-modal journey
planners, advanced traveler information systems and in-vehicle systems. The
expected outcome will be a deeper understanding of the challenges and future
research directions with respect to behavioral change support through ITS.Comment: Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC) 2017 Worksho
LGBTI-people in Lithuania: creating connections within and outside community
Esta tesis es el resultado de la combinación en estudios de comunicación, género y relacionada con los derechos humanos. Muestra las conexiones que las personas LGBTI en Lituania han establecido dentro y fuera de su comunidad, tanto online cómo offline, con el propósito de saber qué otros grupos los apoyan o cuáles establecen presión sobre ellos.
La tesis está dividida en tres capítulos. El primero trata sobre el contexto histórico de las representaciones estereotípicas que existen alrededor de las personas LGBTI y cómo esto les afecta a la hora de construir su comunidad. El segundo se centra en el uso de las redes sociales por parte de las personas LGBTI en Lituania a la hora de crear su comunidad y nuevos espacios de interacción. El tercer capítulo es acerca de las actividades artísticas y eventos diseñados con el propósito de desafiar la LGBTI fobia en Lituania.
Los principales métodos de búsqueda de información han sido once entrevistas, tanto a expertos en temas LGBTI en Lituania, cómo artistas y activistas; y un cuestionario que ha sido rellenado por 65 personas. En los anexos es posible consultar la guía de entrevistas, la transcripción de las entrevistas, así como el cuestionario sin rellenar.This thesis is built on the crossing of media studies, gender studies and related to ideas of the human rights. It is about the connections the LGBTI people in Lithuania have established within and outside community, online and offline, in order to know which the supporting groups are or which the groups of pressure are.
The thesis is divided in three chapters. The first one is about the historical background of stereotypical representations around the LGBTI people and how it affects them in building community. The second one is centered on the use of the social media by the LGBTI people in Lithuania in creating community and new spaces of interaction. The third chapter is about artistic practices and events designed in order to challenge the LGBTI phobia in Lithuania.
The main methods of researching information have been eleven interviews either to experts in LGBTI issues in Lithuania, as artists or activists; and a questionnaire filled-in by 65 people. In the annexes there are the interview guide, the interview transcriptions as well as the empty questionnaire.Albert Pérez, A. (2013). LGBTI-people in Lithuania: creating connections within and outside community. Universitat Politècnica de València. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/36057Archivo delegad
Defeating Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: a priority for European science and society
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia,
and because the primary risk factor for AD is old age, the
prevalence of the disease is increasing dramatically with
ageing populations worldwide. Even in high-income
countries, the cost of medical care and associated societal
burdens of dementia threaten to become overwhelming
as more people live into old age. In view of the lack of
progress in developing a cure for AD and the rapidly
increasing costs of dementia, policy makers and
governments have a powerful incentive to provide more
resources to develop AD therapeutics. The Lancet
Neurology Commission was formed with the overarching
aim to provide information and expert recommendations
to policy makers and political leaders about the growing
problem of AD and related dementias of ageing.
The past two decades have seen remarkable
improvements in the quality of care for patients with AD,
with a research-driven shift to more personalised and
integrated team-oriented care. Epidemiological and
genetic studies have identifi ed many factors that increase
the risk of AD. Prevention studies have highlighted the
possibility of targeting risk and protective factors to delay
onset, with the promise of reducing the overall prevalence
of dementia. However, no treatment is yet available to halt
or reverse the underlying pathology of established AD.
Indeed, an eff ective therapy for AD is perhaps the greatest
unmet need facing modern medicine. Basic biomedical
research has provided insights into the causes and
pathogenesis of AD and other neurodegenerative
diseases, but improved understanding of disease
mechanisms will be needed to develop safe and eff ective
disease-modifying treatments. Nonetheless, several drugs
are currently in late phases of clinical development.
The Commission considered a range of challenges that
need to be addressed to reduce the burden of dementia,
and these challenges are discussed in detail in the main
sections of our report: health economics (section 1),
epidemiology (section 2), prevention (section 3), genetics
(section 4), biology (section 5), diagnosis (section 6),
treatment (sections 7, 8), care (section 9), and ethics
(section 10). In panel 1 we summarise the key fi ndings of
the Commission, with recommendations about how
patient care and related research—from basic to clinical—
in AD and other dementias should be organised in the
future. A concerted eff ort to tackle dementia is needed,
with a substantial overall increase in government and
private investment in the care of patients and the search
for AD therapeutics.
Europe is well placed to take the world lead, in
partnership with international organisations, to develop
new approaches to prevent or cure AD and other
dementias and to provide models of compassionate care
for patients. As the cost of care increases, funds must not
be shunted from basic research, clinical research, and
drug-discovery programmes. In fact, a substantial increase
in long-term funding for multidisciplinary research
programmes is absolutely essential to reduce the burden
of individual suff ering and the enormous societal cost of
AD. Only targeted increases in research investment will
provide any hope of fi nding a cure for AD or developing
strategies to delay the onset or slow the progression of the
disease
The material culture of Roman colonization: anthropological approaches to archaeological interpretations
This thesis will explore the agentive roles of material culture in ancient colonial encounters. It takes as a case study the Roman colonization of southern Britain, from the first century BC onwards. Using ethnographic and theoretical perspectives largely drawn from social anthropology, it seeks to demonstrate that the consumption of certain types of continental material culture by some members of communities in southern Britain, pre-disposed the local population to Roman political annexation in the later part of the first century AD.
Once the Roman colonial project proper commenced, different material cultures were introduced by colonial agents to maintain domination over a subaltern population. Throughout, the entanglement of people and things represented a reciprocal continuum, in which things moved people's minds, as much as people got to grips with particular things. In addition it will be suggested that the confrontations of material culture brought about by the colonial encounters affected the colonizer as much as the colonized.
The thesis will demonstrate the impact of a variety of novel material cultures by focusing in detail on a key area of southern Britain – Chichester and its immediate environs. Material culture will be examined in four major categories: Landscapes and Buildings; Exchange, Food and Drink; Coinages; Death and Burial. Chapters dealing with these categories will be preceded by an opening chapter on the nature of Roman colonialism, followed by an introductory one on the history and archaeology of southern Britain and the study area. The Conclusion will include some thoughts on the integration of anthropological approaches to archaeological interpretation. I intend that the thesis provides a contribution to the wider debate on the role of material culture in ancient colonial projects, and an example of the increasingly productive bidirectional entanglement of archaeology and anthropology
Advertising Progress
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleOriginally published in 1998. Drawing on both documentary and pictorial evidence, Pamela Walker Laird explores the modernization of American advertising to 1920. She links its rise and transformation to changes that affected American society and business alike, including the rise of professional specialization and the communications revolution that new technologies made possible. Laird finds a fundamental shift in the kinds of people who created advertisements and their relationships to the firms that advertised. Advertising evolved from the work of informing customers (telling people what manufacturers had to sell) to creating consumers (persuading people that they needed to buy). Through this story, Laird shows how and why—in the intense competitions for both markets and cultural authority—the creators of advertisements laid claim to "progress" and used it to legitimate their places in American business and culture
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Essays on the interaction between users and information systems
The role of information systems has evolved from providing decision support into enabling the majority of our daily operations, and the way users interact with information systems has changed dramatically as a result. The goal of this dissertation is to study phenomena that stem from the close interaction between users and information systems using empirical methodologies.
The first essay of this dissertation focuses on the issue of sentiment manipulation. We show that strategic players might be incentivized to manufacture content on social media platforms and opinion forums, in the context of the movie industry. We then identify unusual patterns on Twitter that are consistent with sentiment manipulation.
We study the effectiveness of social media advertising in the second essay. Advertisers on popular social media platforms such as Facebook are able to publish ads with popularity and social information. We design and conduct a randomized field experiment to study the extent to which these types of information have an effect on ad performance.
In the third essay we study how individuals might be biased toward contents that appear to be written more politely. We use data from an online question answering platform, StackExchange, to show that an individual who posts a question on the platform tends to prefer polite answers to clear answers.Information, Risk, and Operations Management (IROM
Modélisation d'une interaction système-résident contextuelle, personnalisée et adaptative pour l'assistance cognitive à la réalisation des activités de la vie quotidienne dans les maisons connectées
Alors que le nombre de personnes vivant avec des déficits cognitifs qui découlent d’un traumatisme craniocérébral (TCC) va en croissant, les technologies d’assistance sont de plus en plus développées pour résoudre les problèmes qu’ils induisent dans la réalisation des activités de la vie quotidienne. L’Internet des objets et l’intelligence ambiante offrent un cadre pour fournir des services d’assistance sensibles au contexte, adaptatifs, autonomes et personnalisés pour ces personnes ayant des besoins particuliers. Une revue de la littérature sur le sujet permet de constater que les systèmes existants offrent très souvent une assistance excessive, quand l’aide contient plus d’information que nécessaire ou quand elle est fournie automatiquement à chaque étape de l’activité. Cette assistance, inadaptée aux besoins et aux capacités de la personne, est contraire à certains principes de la réadaptation cognitive qui prônent la fourniture d’une assistance minimale pour encourager la personne à agir au meilleur de ses capacités. Cette thèse propose des modèles pour automatiser l’assistance cognitive sous forme de dialogue contextuel entre une personne ayant des déficits cognitifs dus au TCC et un système lui fournissant l’assistance appropriée qui l’encourage à réaliser ses activités par lui-même. Les principales contributions sont : (1) un modèle ontologique comme support de l’assistance cognitive dans les maisons connectées ; (2) un modèle d’interaction entre l’agent intelligent d’une maison connectée et une personne ayant subi un TCC, dans le cadre de l’assistance cognitive. Le modèle ontologique proposé s’appuie sur les actes de langages et les données probantes de la réadaptation cognitive afin que l’assistance reflète la pratique clinique. Il vise à fournir aux maisons intelligentes la sémantique des données nécessaires pour caractériser les situations où il y a besoin d’assistance, les messages d’assistance de gradations différentes et les réactions de la personne. Informé par le modèle ontologique, le modèle d’interaction basé sur des arbres de comportement (« behaviour trees ») permet alors à un agent intelligent de planifier dynamiquement la diffusion de messages d’assistance progressifs avec des ajustements si nécessaire, en fonction du profil et du comportement du résident de la maison connectée lors de l’accomplissement de ses activités. Une validation préliminaire montre l’applicabilité des modèles dans l’implémentation de scénarios relatifs à l’utilisation sécuritaire d’une cuisinière connectée dédiée aux personnes ayant subi un TCC
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