Print news agencies have been under pressure from falling sales and advertising revenue and increased competition. As the Internet became the dominant medium, news agencies invested heavily in their websites and apps, ...

Between speakers and addressees, the perception of offensiveness in natural language may diverge distinctly to the potential for divergence of understanding of lexical content. Historically, the perception of offensiveness ...

Context awareness is a vital element in pervasive and ubiquitous systems. While most existing research has focused on designing context-aware systems to integrate into the environment, less attention has been placed on ...

Pervasive computing is a developing area. Due to significant technological developments, assistive devices that were impossible to make or that were not even considered for manufacture are now available. The creation of ...

This work in progress reports on the initial findings of a significant study that aims to explore the evolution of programming teaching practice in non-formal, volunteer-led clubs where young people are ...

Lack of bandwidth and network latency are known to be major impediments to achieving realism in distributed virtual world (vw) applications with a large number of, potentially geographically dispersed, entities. This paper ...

Several parallel trends, including the growing number of Internet reliant devices/services, increasing Internet penetration rates, and the continuing popularity of bandwidth-hungry multimedia content contribute to the ...

Many recent curriculum reforms aim to address shortfalls with regard to student engagement with mathematics by harnessing the affordances of technology, social constructivist pedagogies, contextual scenarios, and/ or ...

Tasks and difficulties inherent in the largely open problem of temporal information extraction from legal text are outlined. We demonstrate the efficacy of tools and concepts available ?off-the-shelf? and suggest refinements ...