Automated Readability Assessment for Spanish e-Government Information

This paper automatically evaluates the readability of Spanish e-government websites. Specifically, the websites collected explain e-government administrative procedures. The evaluation is carried out through the analysis of different linguistic characteristics that are presumably associated with a better understanding of these resources. To this end, texts from websites outside the government websites have been collected. These texts clarify the procedures published on the Spanish Government"s websites. These websites constitute the part of the corpus considered as the set of easy documents. The rest of the corpus has been completed with counterpart documents from government websites. The text of the documents has been processed, and the difficulty is evaluated through different classic readability metrics. At a later stage, automatic learning methods are used to apply algorithms to predict the difficulty of the text. The results of the study show that government web pages show high values for comprehension difficulty. This work proposes a new Spanish-language corpus of official e-government websites. In addition, a large number of combined linguistic attributes are applied, which improve the identification of the level of comprehensibility of a text with respect to classic metrics.Work supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, (CSO2017-86747-R)

Sustainable technologies for older adults

: The exponential evolution of technology and the growth of the elderly population are two phenomena that will inevitably interact with increasing frequency in the future. This paper analyses scientific literature as a means of furthering progress in sustainable technology for senior living. We carried out a bibliometric analysis of papers published in this area and compiled by the Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus, examining the main participants and advances in the field from 2000 to the first quarter of 2021. The study describes some interesting research projects addressing three different aspects of older adults’ daily lives—health, daily activities and wellbeing—and policies to promote healthy aging and improve the sustainability of the healthcare system. It also looks at lines of research into transversal characteristics of technology. Our analysis showed that publications mentioning sustainability technologies for older adults have been growing progressively since the 2000s, but that the big increase in the number of research works in this area took place during the period 2016–2021. These more recent works show a tendency to study those factors that improve healthy aging, ensure the social inclusion of the elderly through technology and prolong the time in which they can live independent lives thanks to smart environments. Current research gaps in the literature are also discussed.: This work was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, (CSO2017-86747-R) and supported in part by the FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades-Agencia Estatal de Investigación, through the Smartlet and H2O Learn Projects under Grants TIN2017-85179-C3-1-R and PID2020-112584RB-C31, and in part by the Madrid Regional Government through the e-Madrid-CM Project under Grant S2018/TCS-4307

Development of an Information and Documentation Games Portal-UCM

El proyecto “Desarrollo de un Portal de Juegos Información y Documentación-UCM” es continuación anteriores proyectos que trabajaban de uno de los aspectos del proyecto “Desarrollo de un entorno de aprendizaje virtual aplicado a la búsqueda y gestión de información iniciado en del año 2016. El objetivo principal de este proyecto ha sido desarrollar un portal web de juegos y actividades lúdicas para que los alumnos de la UCM y usuarios internautas interesados. El sitio web se dirige al objetivo de entretener aprendiendo y favoreciendo memorizar de un modo lúdico los contenidos de diferentes temas asignaturas del Grado de Información y Documentación mediante el uso de dispositivos móviles.The project "Development of an Information and Documentation Games Portal-UCM" is a continuation of previous projects that worked on one of the aspects of the project "Development of a virtual learning environment applied to the search and management of information started in 2016. The main objective of this project has been to develop a web portal for games and recreational activities for UCM students and interested Internet users. The website is aimed at the objective of entertaining by learning and favoring memorizing in a playful way the contents of different subjects of the Information and Documentation Degree through the use of mobile devices.Depto. de Biblioteconomía y DocumentaciónFac. de Ciencias de la DocumentaciónFALSEVicerrectorado de Calidad de la Universidad Complutense de Madridsubmitte