The OCareCloudS project: toward organizing care through trusted cloud services

The increasing elderly population and the shift from acute to chronic illness makes it difficult to care for people in hospitals and rest homes. Moreover, elderly people, if given a choice, want to stay at home as long as possible. In this article, the methodologies to develop a cloud-based semantic system, offering valuable information and knowledge-based services, are presented. The information and services are related to the different personal living hemispheres of the patient, namely the daily care-related needs, the social needs and the daily life assistance. Ontologies are used to facilitate the integration, analysis, aggregation and efficient use of all the available data in the cloud. By using an interdisciplinary research approach, where user researchers, (ontology) engineers, researchers and domain stakeholders are at the forefront, a platform can be developed of great added value for the patients that want to grow old in their own home and for their caregivers

Online zoekstrategieën : efficiënt zoeken naar wetenschappelijke informatie in online bronnen

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Google binnen handbereik : snelcursus doelgericht zoeken op het internet.

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Snel en efficiënt leren zoeken op het internet

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Online zoekstrategieën: efficiënt zoeken naar wetenschappelijke informatie in online bronnen

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Goochelen met Google: efficiënt leren zoeken met de grootste internetzoekmachine

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Examining the Use of Peer-to-Peer Networks from an Activity Perspective

The convergence of Internet and TV, i.e., the Over-The-Top TV (OTT TV) paradigm, created opportunities for P2P content distribution as these systems reduce bandwidth expenses for media companies. This resulted in the arrival of legal, commercial P2P systems which increases the importance of studying economic aspects of these business operations. This chapter examines the value networks of three cases (Kontiki, Zattoo and bittorrent) in order to compare how different actors position and distinguish themselves from competitors by creating value in different ways. The value networks of legal systems have different compositions depending on their market orientation – Business-to-Business (B2B) and/or Businessto- Consumer (B2C). In addition, legal systems differ from illegal systems as legal companies are not inclined to grant control to users, whereas users havemost control in value networks of illegal, self-organizing file sharing communities. In conclusion, the OTT TV paradigm made P2P technology a partner for the media industry rather than an enemy. However, we argue that the lack of control granted to users will remain a seed-bed for the success of illegal P2P file sharing communities. Portions reprinted, with permission, from (De Boever, J. (2008). Value Networks of Peer-to-Peer TV: An Analysis of Actors and their Roles. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, Athens, Greece). ©2008 IEEE.status: publishe

Supporting the Social Uses of Television: Sociability Heuristics for Social TV

Various social television systems and applications, enabling remote communication and interaction between viewers, are currently in development. Although usability guidelines exist for interactive television to ensure a usable system, there are no sociability guidelines for designing or evaluating the social interaction these systems. enable. In this paper we present twelve sociability heuristics for evaluating social TV, based on several user studies with social TV systems.status: publishe