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Searchers often judge the webpage quality by the visual appearance, even for tasks where the content quality is more important such as health information. We propose a search user interface (UI) that makes searchers reflect on their webpage selection ...

Loss of autonomy is a problem that researchers have been trying to solve for the last two decades thanks to technologies that facilitate the prolongation of home care. In order to ensure the well being and security of residents in loss of autonomy, it ...

Citizen science projects rely on volunteers to contribute time and effort to solve scientific problems, but the majority of citizen science users typically contribute to only one or two projects. Recommender systems have been recently used in citizen ...

This paper proposes two search user interfaces (UI) to provide web search users with comprehensive information about to whom web browsing histories could be shared and how much. The two UIs aim to encourage web searchers to consider the trade-off ...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced many educational institutions to transition to online learning activities. This significantly impacted various aspects of students’ lives. Many of the studies aimed at assessing the impact of the online instruction on ...

Usability, accessibility and inclusion are major concerns and have a huge impact for many people with special abilities. Specifically, people who are Deaf have a serious and unfair disadvantage in regards to different social aspects of everyday life. ...

In order to extend ambient assisted living technologies for semi-autonomous people from smart homes to smart cities, it is necessary to recognize vulnerable people in the city. Gait-based approaches have been used to perform soft biometrics recognition,...

Many studies showed that COVID-19 global pandemic had a negative impact on the mental health of post-secondary students over the world. To date, very few studies have been conducted in a university setting, not only with students but also with ...

Exercise beginners often use recommender systems, such as fitness apps, to form new exercise habits. However, it is difficult for individuals with little training experience to estimate the costs and benefits of the recommended exercise goals and to ...

In this paper, we present the INFORMA software platform, designed to administer therapy to people with a neurocognitive disorder (NCD). The platform includes an app for tablets through which people with NCD can access, while at home, personalized ...

Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are becoming a standard to represent unique and valuable items, such as a piece of art, a videogame item, or other digital or physical goods, and keep track of their provenance. Thanks to blockchain technology and the power ...

Parents struggle with configuring the settings of web content filters on digital devices, such as smartphones, which limit time use, to protect them from security threats, to minimize addictions to digital device usage, or to avoid trouble with social ...

The unprecedented growth of online citizen science projects provides growing opportunities for the public to participate in scientific discoveries. Nevertheless, volunteers typically make only a few contributions before exiting the system. Thus a ...

Non-consensual intimate images (NCII) violence, also known as “non-consensual pornography” or “revenge pornography”, is the disclosure or sharing of sexually explicit images/videos without the consent of the people depicted or a legitimate purpose. ...

Due to climate change and resulting natural disasters, there has been a growing interest in measuring the value of social goods to our society, like environmental conservation. Traditionally, the stated preference, such as contingent valuation, ...

Although the adoption and use of cloud computing in large, medium and small enterprises is increasing every year, statistics show that medium and especially small enterprises have a much slower adoption than large enterprises. This suggests that various ...

Intelligent edge orchestration has become a vital component within next generation communication networks, such as 5G. They offer optimal resource allocation and service distribution, hence allow for full utilization of the opportunities provided by ...

We present an individual-centric agent-based model and a flexible tool, GeoSpread, for studying and predicting the spread of viruses and diseases in urban settings. Using COVID-19 data collected by the Korean Center for Disease Control & Prevention (...

Every year more than one billion people are infected and more than one million people die from vector-borne diseases including malaria, dengue, zika and chikungunya. Mosquitoes are the best known disease vector and are geographically spread worldwide. ...

We live in an era characterized by unprecedented communication possibilities; yet significant parts of the world’s population are left behind and at increased vulnerability of harm due to low digital literacy, poverty, war, surveillance, gender and ...

COVID-19 gave rise to discussions around designing for life during the pandemic, in particular related to health, leisure and education. In 2020, an online survey aimed at university students (N=225) pointed the authors to various challenges related to ...

Quantifying the moral narratives expressed in the user-generated text, news, or public discourses is fundamental for understanding individuals’ concerns and viewpoints and preventing violent protests and social polarisation. The Moral Foundation Theory ...

We here verify whether a quantitative approach, i.e., a deep learning-based one, may be used to synthesize a model apt to perform specific qualitative analyses. To this aim, we leverage a previous contribution, where we approached the concrete problem ...

Accessibility is still an open issue since, despite the increasing attention at a legislative, academic, and social level, a wide range of sites are still not able to meet the minimum level of accessibility requirements. For this reason, we implemented ...

What happened on social media during the recent pandemic? Who was the opinion leader of the conversations? Who influenced whom? Were they medical doctors, ordinary people, scientific experts? Did health institutions play an important role in informing ...

The crisis induced by the Coronavirus pandemic severely impacted educational institutes. Even with vaccination efforts underway in 2021, it was not clear that sufficient confidence will be achieved for schools to reopen soon. This paper considers the ...

From the late 19th to the first 20th centuries, the Brendel Company produced three-dimensional botanical models as teaching aids. Meant to be observed and physically manipulated by entire classes of students, the models embody both artistic and ...

Smartwatches are reaching more people every year and have long since found their way into research. When monitoring the health of people with neurological conditions, it is crucial to detect disease progression as early as possible. These can be ...

Due to the prevalence of COVID-19, providing safe environments and avoiding exposure to the virus play a pivotable role in our daily lives. As a well-established measurement, contact tracing is widely applied to suppress its spread. Most of the digital ...

Population growth and rapid climate change are leading to a reduction in arable lands and this requires an immediate solution. Hydroponic cultivation is one of the best approaches developed in recent years since this method requires water as a means of ...