Factors influencing feature usage in work-related communication

Two studies are presented. The first aimed to identify possible barriers to the uptake and use of commonly available telephony features and to determine whether greater knowledge of features/access codes and availability of user manuals could increase feature usage under certain conditions. Results showed that feature-usage patterns were not affected by any of the manipulations, but that they were determined by specific job demands. Using Constantine and Lockwood's (1999) conceptualization of user roles, a method to support feature bundling decisions for specific target markets was developed and tested in the second study. The method - Strategic User Needs Analysis (SUNA) - was shown to yield a useful balance between high- and low-level information about selected roles. SUNA provided sufficient information to distinguish between PDA feature usage patterns of two similar target user groups as well as to suggest additional features each of the two target groups would find useful. The development of SUNA and observational findings of actual PDA usage are reported.     

Forming the optimal union of multiple databases

Many organizations, best illustrated by libraries, have access to hundreds of databases possessing varying degrees of complimentary and overlapping records. While users may receive positive marginal benefits from data duplications, all databases and their services cannot be supported because of resource limitations. This paper attempts to conceptualize the problem of database collection in an environment of multiple databases, with differential content and performance characteristics, diverse users, and limited resources. It defines the database collection problem as a constrained zero-one integer programming problem and solves for the optimal combination or union of databases. Several extensions are shown, where special conditions are imposed on the relationships between databases and/or their availability.     

Dynamics of fluid circulation in coupled free and heterogeneous porous domains

Fluid flow in coupled free and porous domain, particularly when the porous medium is heterogeneous, is encountered in many hydro-environmental conditions, e.g., leakage from underground pipe, combined groundwater lake-subsurface interactions. One of the most difficult problems in the study of coupled flow behaviour has been the development of a universally applicable modelling scheme for combining the flow regimes. This is because the free/porous interfacial properties (e.g., shear-stress; velocity slip) that govern the coupled flow behaviour are difficult to determine experimentally under hydro-environmental conditions. On the other hand, the implications of various forms of heterogeneity in the porous media properties can be very different on the fluid-flow behaviour. Difficulties may also arise in direct coupling of the model equations that govern the fluid flow in the individual regions (e.g., Navier-Stokes for free-flow region and the Darcy's equation for the porous flow region). Consequently, models of coupled free and porous flow for hydro-environmental conditions are not very well developed at the moment. While there are some indications that fluids in coupled free and porous domains may circulate (i.e., development of flow cells), there is a lack of appropriate 3D analysis on how heterogeneities in porous media may affect such flow patterns. In this paper, we aim to analyse how porous media heterogeneity affects the dynamics of flow circulation in the porous side of a coupled free and porous domain. For this purpose, we analyse flow patterns in several model domains made up of two porous layers with differing permeabilities. The governing model equations are discretised and solved using the standard finite volume method on a staggered cell-centred mesh. The temporal discretisation is done using the explicit method. An in-house graphical user interface (GUI) has been created specifically to aid in the visualisation of otherwise complex flow patterns. The GUI contains many post-processing options and provides a comprehensive tool for the analysis of hydrodynamics and contaminant motion (not discussed in this paper) in coupled free and porous flow domains. This GUI is described in this paper briefly. The effects of altering the aspect ratio (i.e., multi-scale) of the domain on the coupled flow pattern have also been discussed.     

游戏产品有效粘合用户时间的策略研究

通过对游戏的分类、发展历程梳理以及用户的需求分析,结合游戏产生过程给出了游戏产品有效粘合用户时间的策略,最后预测了游戏的发展趋势。     

EDITORIAL

The process undertaken by an information seeker, in order to form relevance decisions regarding documents, is defined as “Document Triage.” To better facilitate users’ needs in their triage activities, interactive interfaces have begun to evolve within on-line academic repositories. In order to complement current work on interface design and interaction, and produce custom guidelines to inform the creation of triage interfaces, we examine how interfaces that alter the document presentation and structure affect information seekers’ visual and navigational attention. We present a set of heuristics for both creating and evaluating such interfaces.     

软件重用控件技术在地铁仿真系统中的应用

对软件重用技术进行了研究,报告了控件技术的现状.为了能简单实现控件的跨平台,并且能简单得利用控件代码实现升级,需要开发可重用控件.提出了跨平台的软件重用控件技术,其中包括控件的移植、升级和组装技术.并以其在地铁信号仿真系统中的应用为例做了具体阐述和进一步分析,指出了以上方法的优点和存在的缺陷及处理方法.软件重用控件技术在一定程度上体现了组态化软件思想的优越性.     

基于VSM的自适应信息过滤系统的研究与设计

为了从网络动态信息流中获得感兴趣的内容或过滤掉无关的垃圾信息,设计了一个基于向量空间模型的自适应信息过滤系统;描述了该系统的结构和工作流程;对该系统实现的关键技术,包括文本表示、用户模板与过滤阈值初始化、特征项选取、自适应过滤算法、模板更新和阈值调整等进行了深入的分析和研究。     

基于双Kohonen神经网络的Web用户访问模式挖掘算法

本文根据Kohonen自组织特征映射神经网络中学习阶段的性质,运用双Kohonen神经网络组合成新的自组织训练挖掘模型,先使用粗调整训练,加快模型学习速度,紧接着使用微调整训练,提高模型学习精度。实验结果表明,本文提出的双Kohonen神经网络挖掘模型,相对于标准Kohonen神经网络在训练速度和收敛效果上都有一定程度的提高,改善了聚类效果,为挖掘用户的多种兴趣提供了一种可行的方法。     

基于用户授权的安全移动存储模型研究

目前针对移动存储设备的信息安全防护需求非常迫切,防止移动设备中的隐秘信息泄露问题尤其突出。本文采用WindowsNT内核操作系统的驱动框架,基于文件系统过滤驱动技术对移动存储设备中的数据进行透明加/解密,同时加入用户参与授权应用程序可信性的机制来进一步提高移动存储设备的安全性。     

上海中产家庭食空间·新产品战略·角色原型开发

为了寻找上海中产阶级家庭的厨房和餐厅空间的新产品市场,本课题应用人种志的方法收集用户的真实数据,而后以角色法呈现这个用户群体中5种不同类型的典型原型用户,并对其一做了详细的介绍,从而指导未来的新产品市场战略。