Evolutionary Service Composition and Personalization Ecosystem for Elderly Care

Current demographic trends suggest that people are living longer, while the ageing process entails many necessities, calling for care services tailored to the individual senior’s needs and life style. Personalized provision of care services usually involves a number of stakeholders, including relatives, friends, caregivers, professional assistance organizations, enterprises, and other support entities. Traditional Information and Communication Technology based care and assistance services for the elderly have been mainly focused on the development of isolated and generic services, considering a single service provider, and excessively featuring a techno-centric approach. In contrast, advances on collaborative networks for elderly care suggest the integration of services from multiple providers, encouraging collaboration as a way to provide better personalized services. This approach requires a support system to manage the personalization process and allow ranking the {service, provider} pairs. An additional issue is the problem of service evolution, as individual’s care needs are not static over time. Consequently, the care services need to evolve accordingly to keep the elderly’s requirements satisfied. In accordance with these requirements, an Elderly Care Ecosystem (ECE) framework, a Service Composition and Personalization Environment (SCoPE), and a Service Evolution Environment (SEvol) are proposed. The ECE framework provides the context for the personalization and evolution methods. The SCoPE method is based on the match between the customer´s profile and the available {service, provider} pairs to identify suitable services and corresponding providers to attend the needs. SEvol is a method to build an adaptive and evolutionary system based on the MAPE-K methodology supporting the solution evolution to cope with the elderly's new life stages. To demonstrate the feasibility, utility and applicability of SCoPE and SEvol, a number of methods and algorithms are presented, and illustrative scenarios are introduced in which {service, provider} pairs are ranked based on a multidimensional assessment method. Composition strategies are based on customer’s profile and requirements, and the evolutionary solution is determined considering customer’s inputs and evolution plans. For the ECE evaluation process the following steps are adopted: (i) feature selection and software prototype development; (ii) detailing the ECE framework validation based on applicability and utility parameters; (iii) development of a case study illustrating a typical scenario involving an elderly and her care needs; and (iv) performing a survey based on a modified version of the technology acceptance model (TAM), considering three contexts: Technological, Organizational and Collaborative environment

Intellectual Property Ownership, Technology Transfer, And Entrepreneurship Education: University Student And Administrator Perspectives

This mixed methods study was designed to investigate student knowledge and attitudes concerning university intellectual property (IP) ownership, and the reaction of campus IP experts to the student perspective. Study participants included 226 students from a Midwestern research university and three employees with IP commercialization experience from that same university. A paper questionnaire was completed by students and the survey results were used to construct questions for semi-structured interviews with the campus IP professionals. The student survey included demographic questions, Likert-type questions, and open-ended questions. The Likert-type questions were organized into three constructs: Student Knowledge, Student Fears, and Student Attitudes. Survey results showed that students had low levels of campus IP policy and IP commercialization knowledge. Students also indicated that they worried about the university potentially owning their ideas or projects with commercial value. Qualitative data from the recorded, transcribed interviews was coded, categorized, and themed. Thirteen codes were organized into three categories: Communication Inadequacies, Student IP Disconnects, and IP Culture on Campus. Three qualitative data themes were defined, leading to a discovery assertion: Inadequacies in communicating IP policy and processes to students perpetuates misunderstandings between students and Technology Transfer Office intentions, impeding the development of a more transparent and productive student IP culture on campus. Final recommendations included more robust and proactive IP policy and IP commercialization communication activities, and an expanded IP-related training program for faculty. Several suggestions concerning new lines of student IP and IP commercialization research inquiry were also presented

Spartan Daily, November 4, 1980

Volume 75, Issue 46https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6682/thumbnail.jp

Spartan Daily, November 4, 1980

Volume 75, Issue 46https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6682/thumbnail.jp

Attitudes and perceptions regarding Internet-based electronic data interchange in a public organization in Saudi Arabia

This study examined the attitudes and perceptions of staff members and administrators in the General Directorate for Private Institutes & Centers (GDPI&C), Training institutes, and Centers in Saudi Arabia toward Internet-based Electronic Data Interchange (I-EDI) in a public organization. A survey was conducted of a group of GDPI&C members and randomly selected Institutes and Centers. The 339 respondents participated anonymously by providing demographic information and completing the attitudes and perceptions section of I-EDI questionnaire. The survey response rate was 82.6%. An attitude survey was distributed to staff members, administrators, and faculty members in the Saudi Arabian GDPI&C, Training Institutes, and Centers. The study was designed to (a) measure the attitudes and perceptions of staff members, administrators, and faculty members in GDPI&C toward the use of computers, the Internet, and the implementation of I-EDI within the organization and (b) describe Institute/Center administrators\u27, staff members\u27, and faculty members\u27 attitudes and perceptions toward the use of computers, the Internet, and the implementation of I-EDI. The study also examined the expectations of GDPI&C staff members/administrators/faculty members and those of Institute and Center staff members, administrators, and faculty members regarding the potential benefits of implementing a new system (I-EDI). It was found that the participants in GDPI&C, Training Institutes, and Centers across Saudi Arabia did understand and appreciate the value to the organization of I-EDI. It was also found that they did not hold significant fears about using computers and the Internet in the organization. It was further found that they would not be likely to fear the implementation of I-EDI in the organization. Based on these findings, it was concluded that implementation of I-EDI in GDPI&C, Training Institutes, and Centers across Saudi Arabia is a necessary project and that fears of personnel are unlikely to interfere with the implementation I-EDI. It was recommended that the GDPI&C proceed to a stage of intensive planning for the implementation of I-EDI in the organization

VIRTUAL TOUR: TOURISM COMMUNICATION MEDIA DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN INDONESIA

The covid-19 outbreak that currently hits Indonesia and the world has remained the community to be active to anticipate the spread of this virus. This condition certainly has an impact on tourism destinations and also stakeholders in the tourism sector with no tourist visits in the destination. To face these conditions related to The Covid-19 pandemic, tourism actors must start aggressively looking for new strategies to survive and rise from adversity.  Switching to digital media and making new innovations in digital use is considered to be the most suitable choice during this pandemic. One of the digital innovations that can be made by tourism actors is creating a virtual tour. Virtual tours provide the sensation of traveling for tourists without having to leave the house so that they can prevent the spread of this virus. By using a qualitative descriptive method, this research is a phenomenological study that tries to find out about the perceptions of these virtual tourists in experiencing the virtual tour as a tourism communication medium during the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia. As a result, even though they cannot feel the sensation and satisfaction of carrying out real tourism activities, virtual tour phenomena activities are quite enough to foster people's to be able to travel again when the conditions are back to normal