Looks like I will change to http://soup.io:
Seems to be a good way to collect visual goodies all around the Web ;]
Online Communities im Kontext von Ambient Assisted Living
Januar 8, 2011Unser Beitrag zu Online Communities und Ambient Assisted Living in den APS+PC Nachrichten (GI) ist veröffentlicht (Heft 1, ISSN 0941-9519, Seiten 21-32, Dezember 2010):
Online Communities bieten einige Technologien, die Ambient Assisted Living in vielerlei Hinsicht unterstützen können. Neben allgemein bekannten, nützlichen Kommunikations- und Interaktionswerkzeugen in z.B. sozialen Netzwerken wie Chat, Nachrichtendienst, Dateiaustausch, persönlichem Profil oder Freundeverwaltung sehen wir insbesondere die folgenden übergreifenden Vorteile beim Einsatz sozialer Medien im Ambient Assisted Living als besonders interessant an:
- Verfügbarkeit einer kollektiven Wissensbasis für AAL mit frei-verfügbaren, nutzergenerierten Inhalten z.B. über Foren und Wikis.
- Förderung der Informationskompetenz: Förderung von Medienkompetenz und Informationsbeschaffung, Verbesserung des Selbstmanagements sowie der Kommunikations- und Dokumentationsfähigkeit.
- Vereinfachung des Informationszugangs über leicht zugängliche Web-2.0-Interaktionsformen wie z.B. Wikis, Chats, Foren oder Health Games in Online-Communities.
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CfC: Integrated Information and Computing Systems for Natural, Spatial, and Social Sciences
Januar 3, 2011Consider to contribute:
Call for Book Chapters, IGI Global
Objective of the Book
This book focuses on the current scope of research and practice for present and future integrated information and computing systems. This book will escalate the essentials and viewpoints of research, industry, and society for design, development, and implementation of multidisciplinary complex information and computing systems. The various contributions to this book will uncover the why, what, and who for the next generation of system architectures. Understanding of how the goal of integrated systems can be reached is one of the main issues of this book. We challenge potential authors to reveal the development stage of the universal solution to information and computing systems which would serve as a direct means for building the next generation of integrated information and computing systems.
11!
Januar 3, 2011A wonderful 2011 @all!
Yep, sorry for that but it is as it is
September 7, 2010…there are only some new pictures @Flickr, some more songs listened @Last.fm, some tweets @Twitter – ähem, down the right column. That is all I am doing for this blog. Sorry.
There are 6 weeks left. Preparing for the finish 
Final reports follow asap.
Thank you very much for your attendace 
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Web communities and running
Januar 21, 2010During the last month I checked some online communities for sports and running to play around with my new Garmin Forerunner device. I was looking for something suitable to document training progress and routes with community features for exchange and info:
- www.mobota.net
Very good device connectivity for automated GPS route up- and download. Extensive analyzing features and very detailed reporting functionality (daily values for slept hours, drinking amount, mood, …) next to training values. - connect.garmin.com
Standard community for Garmin users with dashboard, activity overview, calendar, goals and health section. The automated upload for GPS routes did well so far. I like the clear and simple design, but the health section offers only manual weight input (without further body monitoring devices). - www.dailymile.com
This „social training log“ is my favourite. I like the mixture between clear design, good functionality and loosening Web 2.0 community features like motivations, challenges, events and groups. Only disadvantage is, that they aren’t ready for Garmin connectivity yet (only Nike Sports so far). Dailymile doesn’t have an extra health section. Activities can be synchronized with Facebook and Twitter.
There are several more communities like www.sportics.net or www.gps-sport.net. They didn’t catch me, but this is a matter of taste.
qKAI in Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems
Dezember 2, 2009The International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems just posted its new issue (Volume2/Nr2&3). qKAI is part of it with a contribution titled „Utilizing Open Content for Higher-Layered Rich Client Applications“ (pp. 303 – 316).
First, we introduce some background regarding the qKAI application framework. In Section 2 follows what we see as prerequisite to utilize Open Content for higher-layered applications. Section 3 gives an overview of the qKAI application frameworks’ system design. Section 4 offers some more details concerning the qKAI hybrid data layer as one system level of the 4-tier design. Section 5 shows further services and components, Section 6 exemplifies use cases and further application scenarios. At least this contribution ends up with a conclusion and future work in Section 7.
Paper about enhanced user interaction and information quality accepted
November 12, 2009The DigitalWorld 2010 (eLmL) accepted our paper “Towards Enhanced User Interaction to Qualify Web Resources for higher-layered applications“.
In this contribution we present our adaption of information quality aspects to qualify Web resources. We selected knowledge-related iq-criteria and take it now as tool to implement iq-mechanisms stepwise into the qKAI framework. We exemplify some criteria of information quality like relevance, accuracy or response time and then derive assessment methods for certain iq-criteria enabling rich, game-based user interaction and semantic resource annotation.
Hyperland …
Oktober 8, 2009… lange her (1990) aber immernoch aktuell und sehenswert:
…“Hyperland is a 50 minute long documentary film about hypertext and surrounding technologies written by Douglas Adams and produced by BBC Two in 1990. It stars Douglas Adams as a computer user and Tom Baker, with whom Adams already had worked on Doctor Who, as a software agent.“…
