scholarly journals Musical Control Gestures in Mobile Handheld Devices: Design Guidelines Informed by Daily User Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Alexandre Clément ◽  
Luciano Moreira ◽  
Miriam Rosa ◽  
Gilberto Bernardes
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Handheld Devices ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Mobile Music ◽  
User Data ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Tool Set ◽  
And Control

Mobile handheld devices, such as smartphones and tablets, have become some of the most prominent ubiquitous terminals within the information and communication technology landscape. Their transformative power within the digital music domain changed the music ecosystem from production to distribution and consumption. Of interest here is the ever-expanding number of mobile music applications. Despite their growing popularity, their design in terms of interaction perception and control is highly arbitrary. It remains poorly addressed in related literature and lacks a clear, systematized approach. In this context, our paper aims to provide the first steps towards defining guidelines for optimal sonic interaction design practices in mobile music applications. Our design approach is informed by user data in appropriating mobile handheld devices. We conducted an experiment to learn links between control gestures and musical parameters, such as pitch, duration, and amplitude. A twofold action—reflection protocol and tool-set for evaluating the aforementioned links—are also proposed. The results collected from the experiment show statistically significant trends in pitch and duration control gesture mappings. On the other hand, amplitude appears to elicit a more diverse mapping approach, showing no definitive trend in this experiment.

Disaster and Digital Libraries in Developing Countries

2016 ◽  
pp. 534-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goodluck Ifijeh ◽  
Jerome Idiegbeyan-Ose ◽  
Chidi D. Isiakpona ◽  
Julie Ilogho
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Information Generation ◽  
And Control ◽  
And Storage

Digital libraries have become a modern day phenomenon. Their roles in information generation,organization, dissemination and storage cannot be overemphasized. This chapter articulates the importance of digital libraries and the need to preserve them from disasters. It highlights the causes and effects of disasters in digital libraries. Prevention and management of disasters were also discussed. Issues and challenges around information and communication technology (ICT), that has direct bearings on digital libraries and disaster management in developing countries were raised. In addition, recommendations were made on how to improve on disaster prevention and control.

scholarly journals Impact of Information and Communication Technology Limitations on Microgrid Operation

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 2926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Saleh ◽  
Yusef Esa ◽  
Mohamed El Hariri ◽  
Ahmed Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Matlab Simulation ◽  
Dc Microgrid ◽  
Operational Conditions ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Dc Bus ◽  
Bus Voltage ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

This paper provides an extensive review of the conducted research regarding various microgrids (MGs) control techniques and the impact of Information Communication Technology (ICT) degradation on MGs performance and control. Additionally, this paper sheds the light on the research gaps and challenges that are to be explored regarding ICT intrinsic-limitations impact on MGs operations and enhancing MGs control. Based on this assessment, it offers future prospects regarding the impact of ICT latencies on MGs and, consequently, on the smart grid. Finally, this paper introduces a case study to show the significance and examine the effect of wireless communication technologies latency on the converters and the DC bus voltage of a centralized controlled DC MG. A DC microgrid with its communication-based control scheme was modeled to achieve this goal. The MATLAB simulation results show that the latency impact may be severe on the converter switches and the DC bus voltage. Additionally, the results show that the latency impact varies depending on the design of the MG and its operational conditions before the latency occurs.

scholarly journals ICT advancements and its undesired ramifications

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.34) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Abdul Haseeb Ansari
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Business Executives ◽  
Social Wellbeing ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
International Importance ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Control ◽  
Globalized World

Information and communication technology (ICT) has the credit to be relatively more closely related to the society facilitating economic transactions to be easy and fast and social wellbeing in all walks of life. It has had global and international importance, as it has worked as an important tool in globalizing the world, and has become a pressing necessity of the globalized world. Moreover, its relevance in the globalized world is intensifying, as its constructive role is every day spiraling. Its vale in that sense will go on mounting. On the other hand, its evil-ridden uses and abuses are menacing the people and countries around the world. Delinquent people and rogue countries are using the technology for achieving their sinister objectives. This aspect of the technology is bothering policymakers, business executives and individuals in the society. In view of this, two pertinent questions arise: one, which of the two aspects of the information and communication technology is dominant; and second, what preventive and punitive measures should we adopt in order to mitigate the evil use of the technology. A vivid comparison of both, which has been carried out in the paper, demonstrates that the beneficial use of the information and communication technology is predominantly high. Thus, our strategy, as the paper suggests, should be to support the useful aspect of the technology with useful conditionality so that it could abate and control its evil use, and to adopt preventive and punitive measures in order to defeat the evil-doers. For that, both legal and extralegal tools should be adhered to. Towards these, the paper offers some useful suggestions.

scholarly journals En offentlig hemmelighed: Når sikkerhedspolitik går fra statsmandskunst til allemandseje

Politik ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Lund Petersen ◽  
Vibeke Schou Tjalve
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Intelligence Services ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Control

New forms of information and communication technology, surveillance and data collection have blurred the boundary between public and private responsibility: whereas it used to be only the statesman and his selected few who made decisions regarding national security, it is, in the age of unpredictability and resilience, a very wide range of both state and civilian actors who, on a daily basis, participate in the national intelligence practice. is article argues that a new security politics, driven by the notion of unpredictable risks and made possible by new data and surveillance technologies, has created a new kind of intelligence practice in which ethico-democratic questions about ownership, responsibility and control are urgent. e intelligence services’ current answer to these questions is more ‘method’ and better ‘procedures’. is is, however, not good enough. By identifying not just an ethos of rules but also an ethos of judgement in the Western tradition of state, this article recommends that we rediscover and democratise the line of thinking in our bureaucratic ethos that emphasises the ability to make (self-)critical judgements. 

Disaster Management in Digital Libraries

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goodluck Ifijeh ◽  
Jerome Idiegbeyan-ose ◽  
Chidi Segun-Adeniran ◽  
Julie Ilogho
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Disaster Prevention ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Control ◽  
And Storage

The role of digital libraries in information generation,organization, dissemination and storage cannot be overemphasized. This article articulates the importance of digital libraries and the need to preserve them from disasters. It highlights the causes and effects of disasters in digital libraries. Prevention and management of disasters were also discussed. Issues and challenges around information and communication technology (ICT), that has direct bearings on digital libraries and disaster management in developing countries were raised. In addition, recommendations were made on how to improve on disaster prevention and control.

scholarly journals Autonomy of human mind and personality development

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Adam Niemczyński
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Human Individual ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract A psychology of human individual development is proposed which argues against its reduction to the description and control of human behavior or to cognitive psychology in the model of information and communication technology. Instead the author’s earlier conceptualization of the autonomy of human individual development is now elaborated further. The foundational premise to this end rests in Macnamara’s (1999) explication of Brentano’s (1874) notion of intentionality, i.e., referring to something as an object. It reveals the access of the mind to the ideal objects and to the kinds which provide for identity and individuation of the objects of human cognition (Macnamara and Reyes, 1994). It converges with the anti-irrationalism postulate which was put forward by Ajdukiewicz (1934). The reduction of the mind in psychology to something else proves unable to meet the anti-irrationalism postulate, regards perception and cognition to be of one piece, and it excludes intuition and ideals. In contrast to this, the notions of the spontaneous and self-sustainable perception and the self-determined mind open a way for psychology without the reduction of it to anything else. The same route has been taken earlier (Niemczyński, 2007) with a study of personality development from adolescence to the late ages.

scholarly journals Penilaian Pemanfaatan Teknologi E-Business pada Industri UMKM

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1216
Author(s):  
Noerlina Noerlina ◽  
Siti Elda Hiererra
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Adoption Of Innovations ◽  
Business Application ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
And Control ◽  
Business Technology

Contribution of MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises) in the economy is significant enough. It indicates the importance of support for MSMEs to maintain and double the capacity their businesses. In conducting its business, 76% of respondents already use the Internet (e-business) but still not optimally because the average does not have a website as a forum for the promotion and selling activity. Total mean score of 4.2 in adoption of innovations indicates that it has been realized, done, evaluated and adopted as a whole. Therefore, it is necessary to perform an assessment on what extent of e-business application that has been done by reviewing the readiness of MSME industries and the aspects of the utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) by MSMEs particularly of those located in Jabodetabek. The purpose of this assessment is to get an overview, status and position of the support of implementation of e-business owned and how the adoption process of e-business application can run in Jabodetabek. With the assessment of e-business technology use, we expect the planning, implementation and control of programs as well as the implementation of e-business can be conducted more directedly and controlled.

scholarly journals A novel e-Government Framework using Blockchain

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Haitham ASSIRI ◽  
Priyadarsi NANDA ◽  
Manoranjan MOHANTY
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Government Services ◽  
User Data ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

The e-Government system leverages Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to transform the relationship between government bodies and citizens, businesses and other government ministries, departments, and agencies. The primary aim is to make government services more seamless, efficient and timely for every citizen and organisation. However, e-Government systems are now faced with security threats and cyber attacks, and these challenges have raised concerns about users’ privacy as well as the confidentiality and integrity of user data.

scholarly journals CuVIS: An interactive tool for instructors to create effective customized learning designs with visualizations

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gargi Banerjee ◽  
Sahana Murthy
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Interactive Tool ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Customized Learning

Instructors face difficulty in creating student-centred, customized learning designs (LDs) for teaching with information and communication technology (ICT) tools such as visualizations (animations, simulations or videos). This problem is compounded for tertiary-level instructors teaching in instructor-mediated classrooms. In such classrooms, common in many parts of the developing world, students may not have 1:1 access with the visualization and have to interact with it via the instructor. Here, the instructors’ pedagogy becomes an important factor determining effective learning with the visualization. To address this problem, a set of design impediments faced by instructors in this context were first identified. Design guidelines were created to address these impediments. These guidelines evolved into the Customized Visualization Integration System (CuVIS). It is a wizard-like interactive tool that provides guidelines to instructors on how to create effective LDs that incorporate the principles of constructive alignment and meaningful learning with ICT, and is customized to instructors’ requirements. The effectiveness of CuVIS has been tested with instructors along multiple dimensions: usefulness and usability, impact on instructors’ pedagogical practice and impact on student learning when taught with CuVIS-generated LDs.

scholarly journals Experimental research on the effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the instructive-educational process

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 288-299
Author(s):  
Elena Mădălina Dedu ◽  
Alecxandrina Deaconu ◽  
Lavinia Rașcă
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
And Control

Abstract This research aims to highlight the efficacy of the use of Information and Communication Technology as a didactic teaching, learning and evaluation method for improving the instructionaleducational process within the tourism high school. Our research, which took place in 12 high schools with classes in Tourism and Nutrition in the County of Constanta between 2013 and 2016, was based on two variables: the independent variable - represented by the continuous, systematic use of ICT methods in teaching and learning content at the disciplines included in the curriculum Tourism and Nutrition at different levels of study and the dependent variable - which depends and changes according to the independent variable: the specific skills, the degree of understanding and assimilation of the specialized contents. In this article we will present the experimental phase in which the actual research was carried out on two parallel groups of subjects: an experimental group (where ICT methods were used - the coordinating teachers created virtual classes on the educational platform www.easyclass.com) and a control group (in which classical didactic methods were used) and the postexperimental phase in which tests of knowledge assessment were applied to both the experimental classes and the control classes. The post-experimental step allowed the measurement of the dependent variable in the two samples of subjects, experimental and control, and the comparison of the initial data with the final ones. For this purpose, tests for assessing the knowledge acquired by the pupils in the experimental and control classes as a result of each unit of learning included in the content sample were applied. These tests were created depending on the specific and derived competences of each unit of learning, following the extent of their development at the pupils in the two samples.

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