The student used various media technologies during the research, planning, and evaluation stages of creating a music video, digipak, and poster advertisement. YouTube, Wikipedia, and Google were used for research on music videos, genres, existing products, and conventions. A camera, Sony handycam, and Apple Mac computer were used for filming and editing. Final Cut Express, Photoshop, Facebook, Vimeo, and blogger were used for editing the music video and ancillary tasks, sharing work, and evaluating feedback.
Framework For Evaluating Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting In Sovere...icgfmconference
Framework for Evaluating Internal Controls over Financial Reporting in Sovereign Governments This paper develops a proposed framework for evaluating government financial reporting systems. It is based on an international study of financial reporting and their associated internal controls. The framework provides a generic model for evaluating internal controls over financial reporting at three different levels. Sovereign governments publish their financial statements which have far reaching implications. The size and scale of economic activity of sovereign governments means that their financial reports are more susceptible to errors. Their significance has also increased with globalization. The challenge is greater than for private sector accounting because of the lack in uniformity in government accounting. In contrast, most private enterprises produce accounts based on commercial principles and a double entry accounting system. Government accounting ranges from modified cash based systems in most countries to full accrual accounting in New Zealand and a few other countries. We would welcome a debate over our proposed framework.
My presententation at the 4 th edition of the IEEE Ubi-Media Conference (uMedia) held at São Paulo - Brazil in 3-4 of July.
The title is uP: A lightweight protocol for services in smart spaces
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Designing Great Products: The Power of Design and Leadership by Chief Designe...
Question 4
1. Question 4 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
2. Research… Our task was to create a music video as well as a digipak cover and a poster advertisement. This is how we used media technologies during our research stage. YouTube We used YouTube to search through many different song and music videos. This is how we found the song Lifehouse - ‘Halfway Gone’ by looking at the alternatives to the songs we were originally looking at. YouTube was also used to look at real media conventions that real music videos had used t gain inspiration for our own music video. Furthermore, YouTube was used to find tutorials to help with the editing process during Final Cut as there were ideas that we were not 100% sure of how to carry out. Wikipedia We used Wikipedia to research about the genre ‘Pop Rock’. This helped us to understand everything about this genre and why this type of genre was given to the song we chose. Wikipedia also helped me to research into existing products, such as digipaks and posters which helped massively when creating our ancillary tasks. Google Google is the search engine which I used throughout the research process because it always came out with the best results. It helped in finding images from existing media materials and websites with the important information which I needed when researching conventions.
3. Digipak… I looked into previous digipaks which already existing to gain inspiration towards ideas for our own. Using the internet I also researched into the connection between the music videos, digipaks and poster advertisements. Our Digipak Existing Digipaks
4. Poster Advertisement… When creating our poster advertisement we had to consider the similarities of the digipak too. This would then create a sense of house style for that particular song. Existing Posters Our Poster
5. Hardware… Camera The camera was used throughout the filming stage of the coursework so we could capture the filming crew in action. It was also used to take photos for our ancillary tasks. Sony Handy Cam The Sony handy cam was used throughout the filming process to film all of our footage for the music video. It was also used with a tripod to keep the camera steady and therefore the footage would remain straight. Apple Mac Computer The Apple Mac computer contain all of the software for us to edit our footage and create out music video. It also allowed us to create our ancillary tasks.
6. Software… Blogger Blogger was used to display my entire coursework on a blog. I was able to update my blog by posting new posts. Final Cut Express Final cut express was used to edit the music video. I allowed me to use many tools to edit the shots, including, transitions, adding music, video filters and adding texts to the shots. Photoshop Photoshop was used to create both the ancillary tasks, the advertisement poster and the digipak. We added all of the images that we were going to use in the program and then edited them using the tools available. Facebook Once our video was completed we uploaded the final cut onto Facebook to gain feedback from friends and family. This enabled us to view comments and opinions of people who were not media students. Vimeo To be able to upload our rough cut or our final cut onto blogger, we firstly had to create a Vimeo account and upload it via this.
7. Editing the Poster… Changing the colour of the image. Creating a clouds effect for the background. Adding a drop shadow to the image.
10. Editing the Music Video… Adding soft edges to the dream sequence. Adding an MTV sign to the beginning shot to add realism to the music video. Reversing a shot to suit the music video.
11. Editing the Music Video… Desaturating a shot to create a past effect. Adding a cross dissolve transition to make the sequence flow. Editing the brightness and contrast of a shot.
