10 research outputs found

    Telecommunication Systems

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    This book is based on both industrial and academic research efforts in which a number of recent advancements and rare insights into telecommunication systems are well presented. The volume is organized into four parts: "Telecommunication Protocol, Optimization, and Security Frameworks", "Next-Generation Optical Access Technologies", "Convergence of Wireless-Optical Networks" and "Advanced Relay and Antenna Systems for Smart Networks." Chapters within these parts are self-contained and cross-referenced to facilitate further study

    Digital life stories: Semi-automatic (auto)biographies within lifelog collections

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    Our life stories enable us to reflect upon and share our personal histories. Through emerging digital technologies the possibility of collecting life experiences digitally is increasingly feasible; consequently so is the potential to create a digital counterpart to our personal narratives. In this work, lifelogging tools are used to collect digital artifacts continuously and passively throughout our day. These include images, documents, emails and webpages accessed; texts messages and mobile activity. This range of data when brought together is known as a lifelog. Given the complexity, volume and multimodal nature of such collections, it is clear that there are significant challenges to be addressed in order to achieve coherent and meaningful digital narratives of our events from our life histories. This work investigates the construction of personal digital narratives from lifelog collections. It examines the underlying questions, issues and challenges relating to construction of personal digital narratives from lifelogs. Fundamentally, it addresses how to organize and transform data sampled from an individual’s day-to-day activities into a coherent narrative account. This enquiry is enabled by three 20-month long-term lifelogs collected by participants and produces a narrative system which enables the semi-automatic construction of digital stories from lifelog content. Inspired by probative studies conducted into current practices of curation, from which a set of fundamental requirements are established, this solution employs a 2-dimensional spatial framework for storytelling. It delivers integrated support for the structuring of lifelog content and its distillation into storyform through information retrieval approaches. We describe and contribute flexible algorithmic approaches to achieve both. Finally, this research inquiry yields qualitative and quantitative insights into such digital narratives and their generation, composition and construction. The opportunities for such personal narrative accounts to enable recollection, reminiscence and reflection with the collection owners are established and its benefit in sharing past personal experience experiences is outlined. Finally, in a novel investigation with motivated third parties we demonstrate the opportunities such narrative accounts may have beyond the scope of the collection owner in: personal, societal and cultural explorations, artistic endeavours and as a generational heirloom

    A complex systems approach to education in Switzerland

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    The insights gained from the study of complex systems in biological, social, and engineered systems enables us not only to observe and understand, but also to actively design systems which will be capable of successfully coping with complex and dynamically changing situations. The methods and mindset required for this approach have been applied to educational systems with their diverse levels of scale and complexity. Based on the general case made by Yaneer Bar-Yam, this paper applies the complex systems approach to the educational system in Switzerland. It confirms that the complex systems approach is valid. Indeed, many recommendations made for the general case have already been implemented in the Swiss education system. To address existing problems and difficulties, further steps are recommended. This paper contributes to the further establishment complex systems approach by shedding light on an area which concerns us all, which is a frequent topic of discussion and dispute among politicians and the public, where billions of dollars have been spent without achieving the desired results, and where it is difficult to directly derive consequences from actions taken. The analysis of the education system's different levels, their complexity and scale will clarify how such a dynamic system should be approached, and how it can be guided towards the desired performance

    Transforming Culture in the Digital Age International Conference in Tartu 14-16 April 2010

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    A short history of cultural participation by Nico Carpentier Accessible Digital Culture for Disabled People by Marcus Weisen Understanding Visitors’ Experiences with Multimedia Guides in Cultural Spaces by Kamal Othman, Helen Petrie & Christopher Power Can you be friends with an art museum? Rethinking the art museum through Facebook by Lea Schick & Katrine Damkjær On Scientific Mentality in Cultural Memory by Raffaele Mascella & Paolo Lattanzio Paranoid, not an Android: Dystopic and Utopic Expressions in Playful Interaction with Technology and everyday surroundings by Maaike de Jong Theorizing Web 2.0: including local to become universal by Selva Ersoz Karakulakoglu How Web 3.0 combines User-Generated and Machine-Generated Content by Stijn Bannier & Chris Vleugels Artificial Culture as a Metaphor and Tool by Kurmo Konsa Playful Public Connectivity by Anne Kaun Habermasian Online Debate of a Rational Critical Nature: Transforming Political Culture. A case study of the “For Honesty in Politics!” message group Latvia, 2007 by Ingus Bērziņš Transformation of Cultural Preferences in Estonia by Maarja Lõhmus & Anu Masso Taste 2.0. Social Network Site as Cultural Practice by Antonio Di Stefano Online Communication A New Battlefield for Forming Elite Culture in China by Nanyi Bi Internet, blogs and Social Networks for Independent and Personal Learning of Information Theory and Other Subjects in Journalism, Advertising and Media by Graciela Padilla & Eva Aladro The Artist and Digital Self-presentation: a Reshuffle of Authority? by Joke Beyl Communicative Image Construction in Online Social Networks. New Identity Opportunities in the Digital Age by Bernadette Kneidinger Digital Identity: The Private and Public Paradox by Stacey M. Koosel Mystory in Myspace Rhetoric of Memory in New Median by Petra Aczél Life Publishing on the internet – a playful field of life-telling by Sari Östman From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Internet Galaxy. Digital Textuality and the Change of Cultural Landscape by Raine Koskimaa The “Open” Ideology of Digital Culture by Robert Wilkie Digital Poetry and/in the Poetics of the Automatic by Juri Joensuu Re: appearing and Disappearing Classics. Case Study on Poetics of Two Digital Rewritings by a Finnish Poet by Marko Niemi, Kristian Blomberg Cybertextuality meets transtextuality by Markku Eskelinen Metafictionality and deterritorilization of the literary in the hypertexts by Anna Wendorff The Public Sphere of Poetry and the Art of Publishing by Risto Niemi-Pynttäri Solitude in Cyberspace by Piret Viires & Virve Sarapik Reprogramming Systems Aesthetics: A Strategic Historiography by Edward A. Shanken Stepping towards the immaterial: Digital technology revolutionizing art by Christina Grammatikopoulou Creativity in Surveillance Environment: Jill Magid and the Integrated Circuit by Amy Christmas Audience Interaction in the Cinema: An Evolving Experience by Chris Hales Delay and non-materiality in telecommunication art by Raivo Kelomees Robot: Ritual Oracle and Fetish by Thomas Riccio Digital art and children’s formal and informal practices: Exploring curiosities and challenging assumptions by Steven Naylor Locative Media and Augmented Reality: Bridges and Borders between Real and Virtual Spaces by Marisa Luisa Gómez Martíne

    Advances in Human Factors in Wearable Technologies and Game Design

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