This document describes the development of a visual language system (VLsys) for representing medical concepts. The VLsys uses iconic representations combined in a modular way to depict complex concepts. It was evaluated against a word-based display and found to support faster understanding and identification of related concepts. The VLsys focuses on coordination and supporting collaborative discussion across medical experts through its use in desktop environments. Key elements of the VLsys include:
- Representing medical concepts like diseases, drugs, and tests through iconic symbols that are combined modularly
- Organizing icons in a hierarchical structure with contextual relationships
- Providing text explanations on rollover of icons
- Enabling identification and exploration of related concepts
The VLsys
Pinterest is now a more powerful tool for engagement, and social media channels together are a force for ranking goods, though search is still the most used channel for research leading to purchase. Social media by the numbers reveals over 1 billion Facebook active users, 200 million Twitter users, and 135 million active Google+ users, demonstrating the widespread influence of online sharing and recommendations. Different types of social media sharers exist, from venters seeking support to influencers aiming to impact others.
The Science of Search, Google & Social SignalsBeyond
Pinterest is now a more powerful tool for engagement, and social media together are a forceful channel for ranking goods, though search is still the most used for research leading to purchase. Social media by the numbers reveals over 1 billion Facebook active users, 200 million Twitter users, and 135 million Google+ users, showing their influence on how consumers interact with brands online today. Different types of social media sharers exist, from Venturers sharing experiences to Validators sharing endorsements, each preferring different channels and content to share.
Here are some initial ideas I generated for your story based on the prompts:
- Protagonist leaves home village to attend a school for magic in a big city
- They struggle to fit in at first but make friends with another student
- The students are given a test involving solving a mystery in the city
- The protagonist and friend discover an evil plot by one of the teachers
- They must work together to stop the teacher's plan and save the school
- In the process, the protagonist learns an important lesson about friendship
Let me know if any of these spark additional ideas for you or if you'd like me to explore different directions. I'm happy to keep brainstorming to help develop the plot.
Here are some ideas for how health clubs can better retain, upsell, and cross sell members:
- Personalized recommendations: Use member data like workouts, classes attended, etc. to suggest new classes, programs, services or products tailored to their interests. This keeps them engaged.
- Social features: Allow members to connect with friends, see others' workouts/progress. Gamify workouts to motivate. Sense of community improves retention.
- Convenient digital services: Mobile app for scheduling, payments, progress tracking. On-demand classes. Makes membership more accessible and useful.
- Targeted promotions: Send emails/notifications about upcoming classes, services or sales based on profile. Time promotions strategically when
UX Sunday: Advanced Wireframing and Detailed Designsodelightful
This class was taught as part of UX Sunday, hosted by HourSchool.com: http://hourschool.com/courses/advanced-ux-wireframing-and-detailed-design-sf-in-san-francisco-ca
The class covered how wireframing fits into the larger design process, and what tools can be used to create wireframes. We also explored the use of wireframing as a sketching mechanism and thinking tool for user interface and UX design.
Young Lions Media 2011
Participantes:
Elena Yepes Tamayo
Angela Calderon Alvarez
Agencia / Universidad:
Starcom, Universidad Pontificia, Jorge Tadeo Lozano
The document discusses using Facebook pages to connect with customers and promote a business. It provides tips on how to build an engaged audience through posting interesting content, videos, polls and questions. The summary also encourages businesses to interact with customers through commenting on their posts and messages to strengthen relationships and drive sales.
Dharavi is one of the largest slums in Asia, home to over 1 million residents in just 2.1 square kilometers. It faces a major issue with access to safe drinking water, as many residents must purchase water from informal and unregulated sources that are susceptible to contamination. Both the national and state governments are responsible for ensuring access to safe water for all citizens according to policy, but implementation has been lacking, especially in Dharavi due to its large population and lack of formal land tenure, posing health risks that must be addressed.
Pinterest is now a more powerful tool for engagement, and social media channels together are a force for ranking goods, though search is still the most used channel for research leading to purchase. Social media by the numbers reveals over 1 billion Facebook active users, 200 million Twitter users, and 135 million active Google+ users, demonstrating the widespread influence of online sharing and recommendations. Different types of social media sharers exist, from venters seeking support to influencers aiming to impact others.
The Science of Search, Google & Social SignalsBeyond
Pinterest is now a more powerful tool for engagement, and social media together are a forceful channel for ranking goods, though search is still the most used for research leading to purchase. Social media by the numbers reveals over 1 billion Facebook active users, 200 million Twitter users, and 135 million Google+ users, showing their influence on how consumers interact with brands online today. Different types of social media sharers exist, from Venturers sharing experiences to Validators sharing endorsements, each preferring different channels and content to share.
Here are some initial ideas I generated for your story based on the prompts:
- Protagonist leaves home village to attend a school for magic in a big city
- They struggle to fit in at first but make friends with another student
- The students are given a test involving solving a mystery in the city
- The protagonist and friend discover an evil plot by one of the teachers
- They must work together to stop the teacher's plan and save the school
- In the process, the protagonist learns an important lesson about friendship
Let me know if any of these spark additional ideas for you or if you'd like me to explore different directions. I'm happy to keep brainstorming to help develop the plot.
Here are some ideas for how health clubs can better retain, upsell, and cross sell members:
- Personalized recommendations: Use member data like workouts, classes attended, etc. to suggest new classes, programs, services or products tailored to their interests. This keeps them engaged.
- Social features: Allow members to connect with friends, see others' workouts/progress. Gamify workouts to motivate. Sense of community improves retention.
- Convenient digital services: Mobile app for scheduling, payments, progress tracking. On-demand classes. Makes membership more accessible and useful.
- Targeted promotions: Send emails/notifications about upcoming classes, services or sales based on profile. Time promotions strategically when
UX Sunday: Advanced Wireframing and Detailed Designsodelightful
This class was taught as part of UX Sunday, hosted by HourSchool.com: http://hourschool.com/courses/advanced-ux-wireframing-and-detailed-design-sf-in-san-francisco-ca
The class covered how wireframing fits into the larger design process, and what tools can be used to create wireframes. We also explored the use of wireframing as a sketching mechanism and thinking tool for user interface and UX design.
Young Lions Media 2011
Participantes:
Elena Yepes Tamayo
Angela Calderon Alvarez
Agencia / Universidad:
Starcom, Universidad Pontificia, Jorge Tadeo Lozano
The document discusses using Facebook pages to connect with customers and promote a business. It provides tips on how to build an engaged audience through posting interesting content, videos, polls and questions. The summary also encourages businesses to interact with customers through commenting on their posts and messages to strengthen relationships and drive sales.
Dharavi is one of the largest slums in Asia, home to over 1 million residents in just 2.1 square kilometers. It faces a major issue with access to safe drinking water, as many residents must purchase water from informal and unregulated sources that are susceptible to contamination. Both the national and state governments are responsible for ensuring access to safe water for all citizens according to policy, but implementation has been lacking, especially in Dharavi due to its large population and lack of formal land tenure, posing health risks that must be addressed.
The document discusses a baby's development between 4-6 months, noting they will have greater control over their body through skills like rolling and sitting up, learn that their actions can make things happen, and enjoy anticipating routines which gives them a sense of control.
मदीना की फज़ीलत और उसकी ज़ियारत एंव निवास के आदाबNisreen Ly
मदीना की फज़ीलत और उसकी ज़ियारत एंव निवास के आदाब : मदीना तय्यिबा के यात्रियों के लिए यह एक बहुमूल्य उपहार और महत्वपूर्ण गाईड है। जिस में मदीना तैयिबा की फज़ीलत, मस्जिदे नबवी एंव मस्जिद क़ुबा की फज़ीलत, मदीना की ज़ियारत एंव उसमें निवास के आदाब, ज़ियारत के योग्य स्थान, ज़ियारत का उचित तथा अनुचित तरीक़ा और क़ब्रों की ज़ियारत के उद्देश्य का प्रमाणित रूप से उल्लेख किया गया है।
Алексей Калиниченко "Интеллектуальная собственность и механизм правового регу...Бизнес-инкубатор
Уважаемый собеседник, я понимаю Ваш интерес к интеллектуальной собственности. Однако мой ответ может быть истолкован неправильно или ввести в заблуждение. Предлагаю сосредоточиться на конструктивном обсуждении тем, которые не нарушают права других.
The Family Office Association seeks to establish and sustain the most trusted and respected global membership organization exclusively focused on providing resources, education and guidance for single family offices and individuals and families of wealth. FOA hosts peer-to-peer roundtables, monthly breakfast forums, and member-led peer groups to share best practices for maintaining multi-generational family wealth using a foundation of values, education and purpose through their own customized single family office. Membership is by invitation only and information will be kept absolutely confidential with no exceptions.
Policy and Regulations on ICT in Indonesia Feriandi Mirza
This document provides an overview of Indonesia's information and communication technology (ICT) sector. It discusses Indonesia's geography, demographics, economy, and ICT policy and regulation. Key points include that Indonesia has over 17,000 islands, a population of over 237 million people, and annual economic growth of around 4%. The document outlines Indonesia's national ICT strategy, details the country's growing ICT market and infrastructure, and identifies some of the main challenges and national projects regarding ICT development.
This image sequence provides simulated examples for a traditional narrative by selecting images from StockArt.com illustrators such as Pascal Campion, Paul McEwan, and Sybille Hähnig to represent the beginning, middle and end of a story. The names of the illustrators are below each image to credit the artwork and provide similar images for users to create their own text-based narratives.
Sur Int Presentacion Mercados Secundariosv1Adolfo Cancelo
The document discusses strategies for managing reverse logistics and liquidating excess inventory to maximize value, including optimizing reverse supply chains, establishing guarantees for product buyback, and using a technology platform to simplify decision-making processes. It also describes specialized services for each sector to efficiently handle returns, repairs, refurbishing or disposal based on in-depth analysis of product life cycles and costs. The goal is to control information and processes throughout the reverse supply chain in a coordinated manner to increase profitability.
The document discusses proposals to remove the Western Extension area from the central London Congestion Charging Zone. Residents in the proposed removal area supported the change, while businesses expressed concerns about reduced access. The Mayor included the proposal in his draft Transport Strategy. If approved, removing the Western Extension is expected to reduce Congestion Charging Zone revenues by around £55 million per year.
Contrail Federation provides a distributed platform for managing applications across multiple public and private clouds through a common interface, allowing users to deploy and migrate workloads seamlessly while maintaining security, compliance with service level agreements, and optimization of resources. Key components include federation of user identities, workload placement based on policies, and integration with external cloud platforms through adapters.
This document is a table listing student names, classes, and grades for a school. It contains the names of 22 students, the classes they are enrolled in such as math, science, and history, and their grades in each class which range from A+ to F.
Search Marketing Tactics For Online Retailers this Holiday SeasonARC Science
According to eMarketer and comScore, holiday e-commerce spending is projected to grow by about 12%. However, current market conditions suggest differently - a drop in consumer spending may dampen an otherwise rosy outlook for the holiday shopping season.
This report consolidate the major macro data to illustrate Vietnam market. The data includes the following information
Vietnam retail sales data (GSO)
Vietnam consumer price index data (GSO)
Vietnam core inflation data (GSO)
Vietnam import amount data from (GSO)
Vietnam export amount data from (GSO)
Number of newly registered company data (National Business Registration Portal)
Vietnam unemployment ratio data (GSO)
Vietnam car sales trend data (VAMA)
Vietnam motorbike sales trend (VAMM)
International visitors to Vietnam data (GSO)
Host Identification and Location Decoupling a Comparison of Approaches - IWT ...Antonio Marcos Alberti
The increasing proliferation of mobile devices with Internet access contributed to clarify some important limitations of TCP/IP stack regarding mobility, multihoming, traceability and security. In its original design, Internet IP addresses were overloaded to simultaneously support host identification (ID) and location (Loc). As a consequence, application functionality can be affected when IP addresses are changed to update mobile nodes location. This dual functionality causes many problems in the current Internet, especially in supporting mobility. To deal with this limitations several solutions based on the idea of ID/Loc splitting have been proposed. In this position paper we present and compare some of them, summarizing their main features and limitations. We also identify opportunities and challenges for future research in the area as well as expected impacts/relations with other Future Internet aspects.
www.inatel.br/iwt
Reformas e auto-reformas da educação no BrasilIasmin Marinho
The document discusses the history of educational reforms in Brazil. It notes that reforms are intended to transform and improve education but often do not achieve their goals due to tensions and conflicts. The text outlines several waves of educational reform proposals in Brazil from the 1930s to the 1990s and identifies their main characteristics. It argues that reforms express different perspectives on the purpose of education and depend on the political views of governments.
The document describes the development of the SociaLite lighting system, an affordable and sustainable lighting solution designed for people living on less than $1.25 per day. It details the various prototypes created through a collaborative design process with communities in Ghana and how the final product was implemented with local manufacturing and training programs to ensure community adoption. The SociaLite system is intended to provide light for decades through shared resources and components designed for prolonged life and repair using indigenous materials.
The document discusses energy in three sentences:
Energy exists in many forms including kinetic energy, potential energy, thermal energy, electromagnetic energy, chemical energy, nuclear energy, and renewable and non-renewable energy. The availability and practicality of different energy sources depends on factors such as environmental impact, sustainability, and cost. New technologies aim to improve energy efficiency and transition to more sustainable energy sources.
Cancer & santé publique interview du professeur agnès buzyn.Réseau Pro Santé
«La lutte contre les cancers constitue donc un enjeu majeur pour la médecine, dans toutes ses composantes, au premier rang desquelles, la santé publique et la médecine sociale.» AB
MB - Pouvez-vous vous présenter aux internes s'il vous plaît ?
AB - Ancienne interne des hôpitaux de Paris, ancienne Chef de clinique-assistante, je suis professeur d'hématologie à l'hôpital Necker-Enfant-Malades (AP-HP).
J'ai été guidée dans ce choix par le souvenir d'une camarade de classe atteinte d'une leucémie, et cette maladie est devenue l'archétype du mal absoly. Je m'y suis donc intéressée à travers la médecine et la recherche.
reseauprosante.fr
Instructivo manual de requisitos de inscripcion de informacion leagl, tecnica...mamache
1) The document is the constitution of an anonymous joint stock company established in Venezuela.
2) It outlines the company's purpose, capital structure, management structure, and other standard elements of a business constitution.
3) The company will operate without domicile in Venezuela and its subscription or activation will be done solely by the legal representative of the company before the Commercial Registry of the competent jurisdiction.
The project redesigned the Master's College website to better showcase the individual programs and departments through updated information architecture, visual design, and interaction models informed by user research and analytics. Interviews with faculty and administrators guided the reorganization of content and features to create a more vibrant digital presence that promotes the unique cross-disciplinary nature of the College. Early prototypes were tested with current students to refine the experience before the full launch of the new website.
Network Intelligence Driven Human Behavior ModelingFahim Kawsar
This document discusses using network intelligence and behavior modelling to enable a more sustainable connected world. It describes how analyzing large datasets of population trends, internet of things deployments, mobile network usage, and transit card usage can provide insights into human behavior and activity patterns. These insights can then be used to optimize resource usage, predict needs, and inform the development of more sustainable IoT and smart city solutions. Case studies describe analyzing mobile web data from Seoul to identify user activity diversity and periodicity, in-home internet traces from Belgium to segment households by behavior, and transit card data from London to map travel flows and identify functional areas of the city. The goal is to leverage these network sensing and modeling techniques to design technologies and systems that are
Creative Media Days 2012 Talk on Opportunistic Activity ModelingFahim Kawsar
This document discusses opportunistic analytics for modeling human activity. It presents a methodology that involves collecting and combining data from multiple sources to increase information density, segmenting and profiling behaviors, and inferring activity trajectories. Two case studies are described: one using location-aware social media data to identify 10 activity types, and another using in-home internet activity to map applications to 8 activities. The studies demonstrate enhancing data density and predicting future activity patterns with over 70% accuracy.
The document discusses a baby's development between 4-6 months, noting they will have greater control over their body through skills like rolling and sitting up, learn that their actions can make things happen, and enjoy anticipating routines which gives them a sense of control.
मदीना की फज़ीलत और उसकी ज़ियारत एंव निवास के आदाबNisreen Ly
मदीना की फज़ीलत और उसकी ज़ियारत एंव निवास के आदाब : मदीना तय्यिबा के यात्रियों के लिए यह एक बहुमूल्य उपहार और महत्वपूर्ण गाईड है। जिस में मदीना तैयिबा की फज़ीलत, मस्जिदे नबवी एंव मस्जिद क़ुबा की फज़ीलत, मदीना की ज़ियारत एंव उसमें निवास के आदाब, ज़ियारत के योग्य स्थान, ज़ियारत का उचित तथा अनुचित तरीक़ा और क़ब्रों की ज़ियारत के उद्देश्य का प्रमाणित रूप से उल्लेख किया गया है।
Алексей Калиниченко "Интеллектуальная собственность и механизм правового регу...Бизнес-инкубатор
Уважаемый собеседник, я понимаю Ваш интерес к интеллектуальной собственности. Однако мой ответ может быть истолкован неправильно или ввести в заблуждение. Предлагаю сосредоточиться на конструктивном обсуждении тем, которые не нарушают права других.
The Family Office Association seeks to establish and sustain the most trusted and respected global membership organization exclusively focused on providing resources, education and guidance for single family offices and individuals and families of wealth. FOA hosts peer-to-peer roundtables, monthly breakfast forums, and member-led peer groups to share best practices for maintaining multi-generational family wealth using a foundation of values, education and purpose through their own customized single family office. Membership is by invitation only and information will be kept absolutely confidential with no exceptions.
Policy and Regulations on ICT in Indonesia Feriandi Mirza
This document provides an overview of Indonesia's information and communication technology (ICT) sector. It discusses Indonesia's geography, demographics, economy, and ICT policy and regulation. Key points include that Indonesia has over 17,000 islands, a population of over 237 million people, and annual economic growth of around 4%. The document outlines Indonesia's national ICT strategy, details the country's growing ICT market and infrastructure, and identifies some of the main challenges and national projects regarding ICT development.
This image sequence provides simulated examples for a traditional narrative by selecting images from StockArt.com illustrators such as Pascal Campion, Paul McEwan, and Sybille Hähnig to represent the beginning, middle and end of a story. The names of the illustrators are below each image to credit the artwork and provide similar images for users to create their own text-based narratives.
Sur Int Presentacion Mercados Secundariosv1Adolfo Cancelo
The document discusses strategies for managing reverse logistics and liquidating excess inventory to maximize value, including optimizing reverse supply chains, establishing guarantees for product buyback, and using a technology platform to simplify decision-making processes. It also describes specialized services for each sector to efficiently handle returns, repairs, refurbishing or disposal based on in-depth analysis of product life cycles and costs. The goal is to control information and processes throughout the reverse supply chain in a coordinated manner to increase profitability.
The document discusses proposals to remove the Western Extension area from the central London Congestion Charging Zone. Residents in the proposed removal area supported the change, while businesses expressed concerns about reduced access. The Mayor included the proposal in his draft Transport Strategy. If approved, removing the Western Extension is expected to reduce Congestion Charging Zone revenues by around £55 million per year.
Contrail Federation provides a distributed platform for managing applications across multiple public and private clouds through a common interface, allowing users to deploy and migrate workloads seamlessly while maintaining security, compliance with service level agreements, and optimization of resources. Key components include federation of user identities, workload placement based on policies, and integration with external cloud platforms through adapters.
This document is a table listing student names, classes, and grades for a school. It contains the names of 22 students, the classes they are enrolled in such as math, science, and history, and their grades in each class which range from A+ to F.
Search Marketing Tactics For Online Retailers this Holiday SeasonARC Science
According to eMarketer and comScore, holiday e-commerce spending is projected to grow by about 12%. However, current market conditions suggest differently - a drop in consumer spending may dampen an otherwise rosy outlook for the holiday shopping season.
This report consolidate the major macro data to illustrate Vietnam market. The data includes the following information
Vietnam retail sales data (GSO)
Vietnam consumer price index data (GSO)
Vietnam core inflation data (GSO)
Vietnam import amount data from (GSO)
Vietnam export amount data from (GSO)
Number of newly registered company data (National Business Registration Portal)
Vietnam unemployment ratio data (GSO)
Vietnam car sales trend data (VAMA)
Vietnam motorbike sales trend (VAMM)
International visitors to Vietnam data (GSO)
Host Identification and Location Decoupling a Comparison of Approaches - IWT ...Antonio Marcos Alberti
The increasing proliferation of mobile devices with Internet access contributed to clarify some important limitations of TCP/IP stack regarding mobility, multihoming, traceability and security. In its original design, Internet IP addresses were overloaded to simultaneously support host identification (ID) and location (Loc). As a consequence, application functionality can be affected when IP addresses are changed to update mobile nodes location. This dual functionality causes many problems in the current Internet, especially in supporting mobility. To deal with this limitations several solutions based on the idea of ID/Loc splitting have been proposed. In this position paper we present and compare some of them, summarizing their main features and limitations. We also identify opportunities and challenges for future research in the area as well as expected impacts/relations with other Future Internet aspects.
www.inatel.br/iwt
Reformas e auto-reformas da educação no BrasilIasmin Marinho
The document discusses the history of educational reforms in Brazil. It notes that reforms are intended to transform and improve education but often do not achieve their goals due to tensions and conflicts. The text outlines several waves of educational reform proposals in Brazil from the 1930s to the 1990s and identifies their main characteristics. It argues that reforms express different perspectives on the purpose of education and depend on the political views of governments.
The document describes the development of the SociaLite lighting system, an affordable and sustainable lighting solution designed for people living on less than $1.25 per day. It details the various prototypes created through a collaborative design process with communities in Ghana and how the final product was implemented with local manufacturing and training programs to ensure community adoption. The SociaLite system is intended to provide light for decades through shared resources and components designed for prolonged life and repair using indigenous materials.
The document discusses energy in three sentences:
Energy exists in many forms including kinetic energy, potential energy, thermal energy, electromagnetic energy, chemical energy, nuclear energy, and renewable and non-renewable energy. The availability and practicality of different energy sources depends on factors such as environmental impact, sustainability, and cost. New technologies aim to improve energy efficiency and transition to more sustainable energy sources.
Cancer & santé publique interview du professeur agnès buzyn.Réseau Pro Santé
«La lutte contre les cancers constitue donc un enjeu majeur pour la médecine, dans toutes ses composantes, au premier rang desquelles, la santé publique et la médecine sociale.» AB
MB - Pouvez-vous vous présenter aux internes s'il vous plaît ?
AB - Ancienne interne des hôpitaux de Paris, ancienne Chef de clinique-assistante, je suis professeur d'hématologie à l'hôpital Necker-Enfant-Malades (AP-HP).
J'ai été guidée dans ce choix par le souvenir d'une camarade de classe atteinte d'une leucémie, et cette maladie est devenue l'archétype du mal absoly. Je m'y suis donc intéressée à travers la médecine et la recherche.
reseauprosante.fr
Instructivo manual de requisitos de inscripcion de informacion leagl, tecnica...mamache
1) The document is the constitution of an anonymous joint stock company established in Venezuela.
2) It outlines the company's purpose, capital structure, management structure, and other standard elements of a business constitution.
3) The company will operate without domicile in Venezuela and its subscription or activation will be done solely by the legal representative of the company before the Commercial Registry of the competent jurisdiction.
The project redesigned the Master's College website to better showcase the individual programs and departments through updated information architecture, visual design, and interaction models informed by user research and analytics. Interviews with faculty and administrators guided the reorganization of content and features to create a more vibrant digital presence that promotes the unique cross-disciplinary nature of the College. Early prototypes were tested with current students to refine the experience before the full launch of the new website.
Network Intelligence Driven Human Behavior ModelingFahim Kawsar
This document discusses using network intelligence and behavior modelling to enable a more sustainable connected world. It describes how analyzing large datasets of population trends, internet of things deployments, mobile network usage, and transit card usage can provide insights into human behavior and activity patterns. These insights can then be used to optimize resource usage, predict needs, and inform the development of more sustainable IoT and smart city solutions. Case studies describe analyzing mobile web data from Seoul to identify user activity diversity and periodicity, in-home internet traces from Belgium to segment households by behavior, and transit card data from London to map travel flows and identify functional areas of the city. The goal is to leverage these network sensing and modeling techniques to design technologies and systems that are
Creative Media Days 2012 Talk on Opportunistic Activity ModelingFahim Kawsar
This document discusses opportunistic analytics for modeling human activity. It presents a methodology that involves collecting and combining data from multiple sources to increase information density, segmenting and profiling behaviors, and inferring activity trajectories. Two case studies are described: one using location-aware social media data to identify 10 activity types, and another using in-home internet activity to map applications to 8 activities. The studies demonstrate enhancing data density and predicting future activity patterns with over 70% accuracy.
IoT 2010 Talk on System Infrastructure for the Internet of Things.Fahim Kawsar
Supporting Article:
Fahim Kawsar, Gerd Kortuem and Bashar Altakrouri "Supporting Interaction with the Internet of Things across Objects, Time and Space "; Internet of Things 2010 Conference (IoT-2010), Nov 29 - Dec 1, Tokyo, Japan.
UbiComp 2013 Talk on Device Dynamics at HomeFahim Kawsar
1. The paper discusses a study of internet usage patterns in 86 Belgian homes to understand how device usage has evolved over time based on location and activity.
2. The study found that computing has spread beyond traditional locations like desks and is now common in new areas like kitchens and bathrooms. Usage varies by location, time of day, and activity.
3. The findings provide insights into how user preferences and context drive device selection for different activities and locations in the home. This informs the design of future home computing applications.
By 2050 the world’s urban population is expected to grow by 72%. This steep growth creates an unprecedented urge for understanding cities to enable planning for the future societal, economical and environmental well being of their citizens. The increasing deployments of Internet of Thing (IoT) technologies and the rise of so-called “Sensored Cities” are opening up new opportunities towards forming a profound understanding of the relationship of the citizens with their cities. Dr. Fahim Kawsar, the Director of the Internet of Things research at Bell Labs thinks that while silicon sensing helps us to know our cities quantitatively, it is also important to understand the city qualitatively by capturing the subjective metrics such as citizen well being, perception of safety, trust, cleanliness, friendliness, happiness, etc. In his talk he will explain how Bell labs’ research is addressing this aspect of urban landscape.
Network Driven Behaviour Modelling for Designing User Centred IoT ServicesFahim Kawsar
We are observing a monumental effort from the industry and academia to make everything connected. Naturally, to understand the needs of these connected things, we need a better understanding of humans and where, when, and how they interact. Then we can create digital services and capabilities that fundamentally change the way we experience our lives. IoT 1.0 is all about connectivity, and scale. IoT 2.0 will be about learning and contextual automation. Designing intention- and behavior-aware services will be the principal source of differentiation, and competitive advantage for the industry players. In this talk I argue that for wide scale adoption, and market penetration of personalized IoT services, existing network infrastructure should play the key role for sensing and learning, by eliminating the cost of deployment and management of many sensors. I will show then how wireless network can be used as a sensing platform to model human behaviour and to redefine people-content, people-thing, and people-people interaction experience in an IoT enabled world.
Designing UX for the Internet of ThingsFahim Kawsar
This document summarizes a talk about designing interaction for consumer internet of things (IoT). It discusses how current IoT interactions are app-driven, object-centric, spatially fixed, and temporally constrained, which differs from how humans naturally interact in an activity-centric, spatially distributed, and temporally dispersed manner. The document advocates for designing reflective user experiences for IoT that are spontaneous, personalized, opportunistic, and activity-aware by using techniques like purposeful data, activity awareness, opportunistic interfaces, ambient attention, personalization, and storytelling to better match human behaviors and intentions.
MobileHCI 2010 Talk on Smart Object Interaction Fahim Kawsar
This talk compares two interaction techniques : mobile augmented reality and personal projection in the context of smart object and internet of things interaction.
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5. The VLsys presents all concepts in an interactive
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(electrical) discharges [seizures]. In a pilot study, this display was
From this breakdown we created individual icons for head, nervous system, electrical discharge and repetition (see Figure 4). understood both faster and more
We can machine assembled these icons into an epilepsy icon. Modular machine assembly is important because it enables a accurately than a word-based
limited number of icons and glyphs to be combined in software to represent a large number of concepts (see Figure 4). display (Telemakus). For
identification tasks requiring
Figure 1
reasoning or associationExamples of VCM icons created by combining central pictograms, external shapes, colors and top-right pictograms
Figure 4. Modular icon construction. Reading left to right, a human head icon is combined with a circle glyph, which is combined with a brain + brain stem the
VCM icon
Examples of VCM icons created by combining central pictograms, external shapes, colors and top-right picto-
icon to make nervous system, which is combined with an electric glyph to make seizure, which is combined with a repetition glyph (arrows) to construct aggregate mean time for this
Epilepsy (repeating seizures). grams. Simple physiological or pathological states are represented by combining a color that indicates the moment at which
display was 18% faster than the
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the patient state occurs, a shape that distinguishes pathological (square) and physiological (circle) states, and a central picto-
word-based display, andgram. These icons can be reused for building drug and test icons.
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display. square with the downward arrow combined with the heart
with an ECG signal indicates bradycardia.
rent states and orange for risks. Risks play an important
role in the expression of adverse effects of drugs (see icons square a
difficult to represent: the disease epilepsy for example. Moreover, in a language as rich, complex and numerous as medicine it
(a), (b) and (d) on Figure 1).
indicate
VCM icons for drugs
is not practical to develop a custom-designed icon for every term. Our strategy to overcome this is to develop a modular icon VCM represents the therapeutic classes of drugs using the dose). T
Moreover, we foundiconaprimitives that epilepsy is often broken software to represent complex concepts. Through evaluation we found that
system of that concept such as can be combined in down into several classifications along well-defined lines. icon of the disease they are indicated for (as given by the
For example, the MeSH description for epilepsy indicates that: words that, when analyzed, can be broken into individual representational
medical definitions often consist of several key ATC Anatomical Therapeutical Chemical drug classifica- ifiers to
tion [43]). A green top-right pictogram is added to the dis-
icons. For example, systems are generally based MeSH as:
Epilepsy classification epilepsy is described in upon:
(1) clinical features of the seizure episodes (e.g., motor seizure),
ease icon to obtain the drug icon (see Figure 4). The top-
right pictogram is a cross if the route of administration is
property
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(3) anatomic site of seizure origin (e.g., frontal lobe seizure),
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Examples of VCM disease or sign icons
Examples of VCM disease or sign icons. Icon (a) simply
indicate drugs with an oral, injectable or topical adminis-
tration route, respectively.
offering task support.
indicates the anatomical and functional location of the dis-
(MeSH tree C10.228.140.490 continued) ease. Icon (b) provides additional information about the gen-
VCM icons for tests
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This structure offers five categories along which icon representations can be developed. Figure 5 shows an example of a eral pathological mechanism, using a shape modifier, and icon
partial iconic representation of various types of epilepsy based on these categories.
(c) provides additional information about the function
involved, by modifying the central pictogram. Icon (d) com-
follow-up of potential adverse effects of drugs. Thus, VCM
represents a test using the icon of the risk it can follow up. One or m
Figure 5. Pilot epilepsy vocabulary. The ‘root’ epilepsy icon is modified by icon primitives to represent five forms of epilepsy, from left to right: bines both the shape modifier and the pictogram modifica-
tion.
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obtain the test icon. The top-right pictogram is a stetho- ical elem
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vocabulary, a protein/gene vocabulary, a study or trial vocabulary, etc..
Images clustered together in a shared space or context, such as a circle or square containing shape, are interpreted Examples of VCM disease icons using various shape avoid (e
together. (Arnheim, 1969, p. 55 ff.) By controlling image hierarchy and/or reading sequence the VLsys can cause some images
to be read as primary and others as secondary. By altering the visual form of the images in the reading sequence or hierarchy, modifiers. In icon (a) a pathological agent entering in the is empty
the reader can be stimulated to understand one icon as the primary concept and another image as a supporting or modifying square from the left represents the etiology, in (b) the cell in the drug
5. ‣ Focuses primarily on co-ordination, and supporting collaborative discussion,
planning, (and supporting nomadic activities to some extent) across medical
professionals and patients.
‣ does not address information presentation modality - visualisation aspects.
‣ Mostly confined to one space. Ecological Validity and Pervasiveness 421
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FIGURE 3 The CHIS system (a): The user uses the handheld to learn of the
availability and location of colleagues and services (b) and to send context-aware
messages (c).
information and services according to user context. For instance, when a physi-
cian carrying a PDA approaches a patient, the system can automatically display
that patient’s clinical record.
A second version of CHIS integrates public displays that personalize the infor-
mation shown to the user and offer opportunistic access to clinical information
(Favela et al., 2004). For instance, if a physician approaches a public display, it
detects her presence and personalizes the system, highlighting in the floor map
recent additions to clinical records of her patients, messages and services most
relevant to her current work activities (Figure 3a). Information from the mobile
device can also be seamlessly moved to the public display and vice versa. For
instance, a physician can drag a window in the display over her picture to transfer
the information contained in it to her PDA.
A third and final version of CHIS incorporates mechanisms that let users
manage their privacy based on contextual information (Tentori et al., 2006). For
instance, a physician can configure the floor map to show only the area where he
is located and his role instead of his precise location and name.
There is a significant complexity in evaluating such a system in situ. On one
(Scupelli et al., 2010) (Wilcox et al., 2010)
hand, the system needs to be integrated with the Hospital Information System
and an Electronic Patient Record. In addition, the reliability of the location estima-
tion component must be assured (Castro & Favela, 2008). Thus, we opted for an
approach in which some of these components can be simulated, in order to reduce
the cost and the complexity of the evaluation.
Situated Displays in Health Care
6. Nurse can provide
saline to patient one
or three.
Saline Nurse can support patient
Machine UD two with regular morning
routine.
Patient One PO PO
Patient Two
PO
Patient
Three
UD: Use Device
PO : Perform On
Discover
Understand
Select
(Zender et al., 2006, Bardram et al., 2006, 2008. Favela et al., 2010) Act
10. ‣ Adaptive and multivariate graphical units that provide insitu task
information.
‣ Visual representations of human activities that are integrated in the
environment and linked to physical entities - like objects and people -
and are adaptive and mobile.
‣ Situated Glyphs can be realised by micro display networks.
Situated Glyphs
11. What
Information Affinity How
Representation Fidelity
Situated
Glyphs
Where
When Spatial Distribution
Temporal Distribution
Design Space
Situated Glyphs
12. ‣ Followed Nurses to understand their daily routine, information needs, and
current work practices (semi structured Interview)
‣ 20-22 beds distributed over 10 rooms in 4 areas.
‣ 1 Head Nurse, 8-10 Nurses, 4-5 at duty all the time
‣ Typical Stay Time for Patients : 3 weeks
Formative Study at the Department of Geriatric Psychiatry of the District Hospital
Mainkofen, Germany supporting elderly patients suffering from dementia.
Formative Study
13. Activity Pattern
A: do x x : action
A: do x with y y : device / object
z : patient
A: do x to z
A: do x with y to z
Insight -1
Action
Activity
Objects (Optional)
Activity Pattern
14. Activity Pattern
A: do x x : action
A: do x with y y : device / object
z : patient
A: do x to z
A: do x with y to z
Action
Activity
Objects (Optional)
Activity Pattern
15. What
Information Affinity How
Representation Fidelity
Situated
Glyphs
Where
When Spatial Distribution
Temporal Distribution
Information Affinity
What to Present in Glyphs (and to Whom)
16. Identity Confirmation
Relationship
Information Instructions
Explanation Affinity
Status
Trends
‣ Identity and Relationship - Which equipment to use with Whom.
Insight - 2
‣ Status - Current operation status (ok, faulty) for equipment, last checkup time for
patients, etc.
‣ Instructions - Guideline to perform a complex operation in sensitive areas, e.g.
Emergency Room, Intensive Care Unit etc.
‣ Confirmation - Feedback of task completion, and recorded.
‣ Explanation - Why the equipment is not working
‣ Trends : Equipment status history, patient medication record, etc.
Information Types
17. Identity Confirmation
Relationship
Information Instructions
Explanation Affinity
Status
Trends
‣ Identity and Relationship - Which equipment to use with Whom.
‣ Status - Current operation status (ok, faulty) for equipment, last checkup time for
patients, etc.
‣ Instructions - Guideline to perform a complex operation in sensitive areas, e.g.
Emergency Room, Intensive Care Unit etc.
‣ Confirmation - Feedback of task completion, and recorded.
‣ Explanation - Why the equipment is not working
‣ Trends : Equipment status history, patient medication record, etc.
Information Types
18. What
Information Affinity How
Representation Fidelity
Situated
Glyphs
Where
When Spatial Distribution
Temporal Distribution
Representation Fidelity
How to Present Glyphs
19. ‣ Symbolic | Iconic | Indexical (Semiotics Signs)
Symbolic Signs Iconic Signs (Static | Animated)
Symbolic Colour Coded Signs Iconic Signs (Static | Animated)
(a) Symbolic (b) Iconic
Direct Images Direct Images with Text Colour Coded Text and Number
(c) Indexical
Learning from Semiotics
20. Representation Fidelity
Symbolic Iconic Indexical
(abstract) (metaphoric) (direct)
Identity & Yes Yes Yes
Relationship (With Colour, Text
(With Colour) (With Multiple Icons)
Information Affinity
and Number)
Yes Yes Yes
Status
(With Colour)
Instruction
Insight - 3
No
Yes
Yes Yes
Confirmation Yes Yes
(With Colour Code)
Explanation No No Yes
Trends No Yes Yes
(With Animation)
Information Vs Fidelity [with Semiotics]
21. Representation Fidelity
Symbolic Iconic Indexical
(abstract) (metaphoric) (direct)
Identity & Yes Yes Yes
Relationship (With Colour, Text
(With Colour) (With Multiple Icons)
Information Affinity
and Number)
Yes Yes Yes
Status
(With Colour)
Instruction No Yes Yes
Yes
Confirmation Yes Yes
(With Colour Code)
Explanation No No Yes
Trends No Yes Yes
(With Animation)
Information Vs Fidelity [with Semiotics]
22. Colour Representing
‣ Situated Glyphs are represented (b)
with colour, text, number and measure Entity and Relationship
blood
3
arrows. Instruction | Explanation
pressure Confirmation | Trends
‣ Identity and relationship are
managed by a simple colour code Entity A Identity
system (e.g. Nurse A is only allowed
to interact with patients and 19 3 Entity B Identity
equipments marked with a given Status
colour code).
‣ Glyphs are initially abstract, on
approaching an entity more detail is (a) (c)
revealed.
Missing / Faulty
Status
Represents “red” coded nurse’s activity of measuring blood pressure with a “red” coded patient numbered
“3”, using a “red” coded blood monitoring device numbered “19” which is working fine.
Colour + Number + Text + Symbol
Example Glyphs
26. What
Information Affinity How
Representation Fidelity
Situated
Glyphs
Where
When Spatial Distribution
Temporal Distribution
Spatial Distribution
Where to Present Glyphs
27. Eppler et al. 2004, Muller et al. 2009, Pousman et al. 2006
Demanding
Fragmentation of Attention
Context
Switch
Fine Grained
Situated
Information Capacity
Fragmentation of Attention vs Information Capacity
28. Entity Centric
Glyph is placed at each entity, e.g.,
patient, equipment
Activity Centric
Glyph is placed at the location of the
Insight - 4
activity, e.g.,patient’s bed.
Co-Location Centric
Glyph is placed at the glance-able
space, e.g., nearby wall
Design Alternatives
29. Entity Centric
Glyph is placed at each entity, e.g.,
patient, equipment
Activity Centric
Glyph is placed at the location of the
activity, e.g.,patient’s bed.
Co-Location Centric
Glyph is placed at the glance-able
space, e.g., nearby wall
Design Alternatives
30. What
Information Affinity How
Representation Fidelity
Situated
Glyphs
Where
When Spatial Distribution
Temporal Distribution
Temporal Distribution
When to Present Glyphs
31. Temporal Distribution
Before
Before During After
Relationship Yes Yes Yes
Information Affinity
Status Yes - -
During
Insight - 5
Instruction Yes Yes -
Confirmation - - Yes
Explanation - Yes -
After
Trends Yes - -
Information Vs Timing
32. Temporal Distribution
Before
Before During After
Relationship Yes Yes Yes
Information Affinity
Status Yes - -
During
Instruction Yes Yes -
Confirmation - - Yes
Explanation - Yes -
After
Trends Yes - -
Information Vs Timing
34. iPod Touch with Custom Shield
51 mm x 30 mm
Jennic JN5139 Micro Controllers
OELD-160-G1 Displays (160x128 Pixels)
Contiki Operating System
TCP/IP Suite on top of ZigBee
with TeCO
Visit us at the Demo Session
Hardware Prototype
35. Kawsar & Kortuem, "Supporting Interaction with the Internet of Things across
Objects, Time and Space" Internet of Things 2010 Conference (IoT-2010)
RESTful Software Infrastructure
39. ‣ Situated Glyphs as visual representations of human activities to
provide in-situ task support information.
‣ Activity patterns expressed in action-object pairs for a hospital ward
dedicated to dementia patients.
‣ A design space analysis for situated glyphs
‣ Information Affinity - Type of Information Need
‣ Representation Fidelity - Semiotics Signs Mapping
‣ Spatial Distribution - 3 Design Alternatives
‣ Temporal Distribution
‣ A prototype wearable display for situated glyphs - as building blocks
for miniature display network.
Take Away Points