Privacy and Curiosity in Mobile Interactions with Public Displays.

Personal multimedia devices like mobile phones create new needs for larger displays distributed at specific points in the environment to look up information about the current place, playing games or exchanging multimedia data. The technical prerequisites are covered; however, using public displays always exposing information. In this paper we look at these issues from the privacy as well as from the curiosity perspective with several studies showing and confirming users’ reservations against public interactions. Interactive advertisements can exploit this best using specific types of interaction techniques

The affirmative answer to existence in the work of Josef Weinheber

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityOne of the most controversial literary figures has been the Viennese novelist and lyricist Josef Weinheber. He experienced the misfortune to have that city's period of economic and political upheaval coincide with that of his literacy activity. The immediate post World War II era was extremely critical of him. However, since 1955, he has gained new recognition and is now considered by German and Austrian critics alike as one of the greater literary men of the century, though he is still relatively unknown in the United States [TRUNCATED]

Clamping, COKAM, KADS, and OMOS : the construction and operationalization of a KADS conceptual model

For a simplified version of the clamping tool selection problem in mechanical engineering, the knowledge acquisition tool COKAM is applied to obtain an informal knowledge base and explanation structures from technical documents and previously solved cases. The output of COKAM is used to construct a three layered KADS conceptual model, which is then transformed into an operational model in the language OMOS. The OMOS formalization allows to verify the informal KADS conceptual model and to check the completeness of the domain knowledge. The results of this analysis are utilized in the next knowledge elicitation session with COKAM

Integrated knowledge acquisition from text, previously solved cases, and expert memories

Within the model-based knowledge engineering framework, an integrated knowledge acquisition method was developed for a complex real-world domain with different traces of expertise. By having an expert constructively explain the previously solved cases with more general information from other traces of expertise (text, expert memories) a model-centered knowledge base is constructed. The proposed method allows for an early knowledge verification where the relevance, sufficiency, redundancy, and consistency of knowledge are already assessed at an informal level. The early knowledge verification efficiently prepares the consecutive knowledge formalization. Through a cognitively adequate model of expertise and the explanation-oriented knowledge elicitation procedures, user friendly second generation expert systems may be developed

Integrated knowledge acquisition for lathe production planning : a picture gallery

Diese Bildergalerie veranschaulicht den Einsatz der im ARC-TEC Projekt entwickelten integrativen Wissensakquisitionsmethode. Geleitet durch ein Modell der Expertise, wird das Wissen zur Fertigungsplanung für Drehteile aus Texten, Fallsammlungen und Expertenurteilen akquiriert. Drei aufeinander abgestimmte Tools unterstützen die Erhebung, Dokumentation, Überprüfung und Formalisierung des relevanten Wissens.This picture gallery illustrates the application of the integrated knowledge acquisition procedure which was developed in the ARC-TEC project. Guided by a model of expertise, the knowledge for lathe production planning is acquired from texts, previously solved cases, and expert memories. Three coordinated tools support the elicitation, documentation, verification and formalization of the relevant knowledge

Measurement of Stress with AC Magnetic Bridges

AC magnetic bridges have been used to detect applied stress in steel and aluminum test specimens. The data show effects of mechanical hysteresis. In the steel test specimens, changes in real and imaginary reluctance occur. In aluminum samples only changes in imaginary reluctance are observed. From these observations it is concluded that AC magnetic bridges can be used for the NDE of stress and could possibly be used to determine residual stress

Modified AC Magnetic Bridge Scanning Patterns of Samples Simulating Flaws in Aircraft Seams

Hidden corrosion in the seams or below the skin of an aluminum aircraft results in the loss of material and therefore affects the net conductance as measured at the seam or skin surface. This loss of conductance has been detected through the use of electromagnetic techniques, for example, eddy-current techniques [1]

A Functional Reference Model for Manufacturing Execution Systems in the Automotive Industry

Being confronted with IT strategic questions of how to constantlyreduce IT operating costs and at the same time live up to everincreasing manufacturing demands, automobile manufacturers areencountering problems to find appropriate IT support forproduction planning and execution. Moreover, they are facing thechallenge to clearly define and demarcate Enterprise ResourcePlanning (ERP) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)functionality. Despite the existence of a number of standardizationefforts addressing MES functionality, automobile manufacturersare still struggling to reach a common understanding for the termMES and a clear functional design. The paper addresses this needby developing a functional reference model for MES in theautomotive industry based on a multiple case study approach. Thecase studies examine the design and implementation ofmanufacturing-related functionality in four leading automotivemanufacturing companies

CSF lactate dehydrogenase activity in patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease exceeds that in other dementias

The diagnosis of Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease (CJD) is still made by exclusion of other dementias. We now evaluated lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) as a possible additional diagnostic tool. CSF LDH levels of patients with CJD ( n = 26) were compared with those in other dementias ( n = 28). LDH isoenzymes were determined in a subset ( n = 9). Total LDH and isoenzyme LDH-1 were significantly higher, whereas the fractions of LDH-2 and LDH-3 were significantly lower in CJD patients. We conclude that in addition to established CSF parameters, LDH and its isoenzymes might serve as a further help to discriminate between CJD and other dementias. Copyright (C) 2004 S. Karger AG, Basel

Using integrated knowledge acquisition to prepare sophisticated expert plans for their re-use in novel situations

Plans which were constructed by human experts and have been repeatedly executed to the complete satisfaction of some customer in a complex real world domain contain very valuable planning knowledge. In order to make this compiled knowledge re-usable for novel situations, a specific integrated knowledge acquisition method has been developed: First, a domain theory is established from documentation materials or texts, which is then used as the foundation for explaining how the plan achieves the planning goal. Secondly, hierarchically structured problem class definitions are obtained from the practitioners\u27 highlevel problem conceptualizations. The descriptions of these problem classes also provide operationality criteria for the various levels in the hierarchy. A skeletal plan is then constructed for each problem class with an explanation-based learning procedure. These skeletal plans consist of a sequence of general plan elements, so that each plan element can be independently refined. The skeletal plan thus accounts for the interactions between the various concrete operations of the plan at a general level. The complexity of the planning problem is thereby factored in a domain-specific way and the compiled knowledge of sophisticated expert plans can be re-used in novel situations