http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy/handle/10488/31 Search the Channel search http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy/simple-search http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy/handle/10488/6805 Title: Semantic hyper/multimedia adaptation: schemes and applications<br/><br/>Authors: Tsapatsoulis, Nicolas; Anagnostopoulos, Ioannis; Bielikova, Maria<br/><br/>Abstract: Nowadays, more and more users are witnessing the impact of Hypermedia/ Multimedia as well as the penetration of social applications in their life. Internet was designed in order maximize user choice and innovation, while Web, as the ultimate service over thismulti-layered structure, created a global software environment for millions of users worldwide. Both technological attainments are continuously revolutionizing the way we process, use, exchange and disseminate information.Through this revolution, many real-life applications in the fields of communication,commerce, education, government, and entertainment are redefined.Parallel to the evolution of Internet and Web, several Hypermedia/Multimedia schemes and technologies bring semantic-based intelligent, personalized and adaptiveservices to the end users. More and more techniques are applied in media systems in order to be user/group-centric, adapting to different content and context features of a single or a community user. In respect to all the above, researchers need to explore and study the plethora of challenges that emergent personalisation and adaptation technologies bring to the new era.This edited volume aims to increase the awareness of researchers in this area. It includes thirteen (13) articles authored by researchers from eight (8) different Europeancountries, namely Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, Spain,and UK. All accepted contributions provide an in-depth investigation on researchand deployment issues, regarding already introduced schemes and applications inSemantic Hyper/Multimedia and Social Media Adaptation. Moreover, the authors provide survey-based articles, so as potential readers can use it for catching up therecent trends and applications in respect to the relevant literature. Finally, the authorsdiscuss and present their approach in the respective field or problem addressed.For consistency purposes and in order to further highlight the authors’ contributions,we divided this edited volume to four (4) separate chapters, which cover most of the topics announced in our open call for papers. The chapter titles are:– Chapter 1: Semantics Acquisition and Usage,– Chapter 2: Reasoning for Personalization and Recommendation,– Chapter 3: Social and Context-aware Adaptation, and– Chapter 4: Multimedia and Open Standards The reader can also find analytical prefaces of each chapter, which summarise the aims of each article, and how the work described is related with the chapter topic.From our part, as Guest-Editors, we would like to thank all authors for theirsubmitted contributions and the opportunity they gave us to edit this volume. We hope that all the contributions that appear in this edited volume will contribute towardsa deeper understanding of the key problems in this area, and that they will help researchers and developers to find new solutions to existing problems, openingin parallel new research paths in related topics. We also would like to explicitly acknowledge the help of all referees involved during the review phases. Their valuable comments and suggestions improved the quality of the published works.Last but not least, we would like to express our gratitude to Prof. Dr. Janusz Kacprzyk, and Dr. Thomas Ditzinger, Editor and Senior Editor of Springer SCI book series respectively, for the all the support and guidance provided to us, as well as, the fruitful cooperation we had http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy/handle/10488/6069 Title: E-learning in art and design : perceptions and practices of lecturers in undergraduate studio-based disciplines and the rhetoric of innovative practices<br/><br/>Authors: Souleles, Nicos<br/><br/>Abstract: The objective of this research is to compare the noticeably prevalent perceptionamong undergraduate studio-based art and design lecturers that elearning cancontribute little or nothing to teaching and learning, against the rhetoric and literatureof elearning associated with competencies for the knowledge economy. The inferenceis that elearning is unsuitable for the instructional strategies associated with art anddesign education. This anecdotal evidence together with the limited studies on theimplementation of online learning technologies in art and design education, triggeredthis research. The significance of this study is that it seeks to contribute to the presentre-evaluations of art and design education in the context of the knowledge economy.The core question is: how do the perceptions and practices of teaching staff in art anddesign disciplines compare and contrast with the associated rhetoric and literature ofelearning and innovative practices? Consistent with the phenomenographic approachto research, this study pursues a second-order perspective, i.e. through a qualitativeanalysis of interviews this research deals with people’s experiences of aspects of theworld. It considers the pedagogies associated with elearning for the premise is that thecompetencies required for the knowledge economy cannot be provided for unlessthere is a corresponding change in teaching and learning methods. This researchconfirms the prevalence of the perception that elearning can contribute little ornothing to teaching and learning and attributes this to the historical evolution of artand design pedagogies, the persistence of didactic methods, the false understanding ofelearning as replacing rather than enhancing teaching and learning practices and thelack of sufficient and appropriate professional development and training opportunitiesfor teaching staff. The implication is that there is a noticeable misalignment betweenperceptions and practices of elearning and the associated rhetoric and literature ofelearning and innovative teaching and learning practices. http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy/handle/10488/5921 Title: Theory and practice of digital libraries<br/><br/>Authors: Zaphiris, Panayiotis; Loizides, Fernando; Rasmussen, Edie<br/><br/>Abstract: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2012 - the successor of the ECDL (European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries) - held in Paphos, Cyprus, in September 2012. The 23 full papers, 19 short papers, 15 posters and 8 demonstrations presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on user behavior, mobiles and place, heritage and sustainability, preservation, linked data, analysing and enriching documents, content and metadata quality, folksonomy and ontology, information retrieval, organising collections, as well as extracting and indexing. http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy/handle/10488/5920 Title: Human factors in online communities and social computing<br/><br/>Authors: Zaphiris, Panayiotis; Ozok, Ant A.<br/><br/>Abstract: This chapter contains sections titled: •Introduction•Definition of Online Communities•Brief History of Communities in Society and their Function•Today's Online Communities and their Functions•Types of Computer-Mediated Communication and Online Communities•Analyzing Online Communities: Frameworks and Methodologies•Case Studies•Future Issues in Online Community Design•References