bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
User-Centered Design Practices to Redesign a Nursing e-Chart in Line with the Nursing Process
Authors: Schachner María B.  , Recondo Francisco J.  , González Zulma A.  , Sommer Janine A.  , Stanziola Enrique  , Gassino Fernando D.  , Simón Mariana  , López Gastón E.  , Benítez Sonia E.
Published: February 2025

Regarding the user-centered design (UCD) practices carried out at Hospital Italiano of Buenos Aires, nursing e-chart user interface was redesigned in order to improve records' quality of nursing process based on an adapted Virginia Henderson theoretical model and patient safety standards to fulfil Joint Commission accreditation requirements. UCD practices were applied as standardized and recommended for electronic medical records usability evaluation. Implementation of these practices yielded a series of prototypes in 5 iterative cycles of incremental improvements to achieve goals of usability which were used and perceived as satisfactory by general care nurses. Nurses' involvement allowed balance between their needs and institution requirements.
Application of Text Mining in Cancer Symptom Management
Authors: Lee Young Ji  , Donovan Heidi
Published: February 2025

Fatigue continues to be one of the main symptoms that afflict ovarian cancer patients and negatively affects their functional status and quality of life. To manage fatigue effectively, the symptom must be understood from the perspective of patients. We utilized text mining to understand the symptom experiences and strategies that were associated with fatigue among ovarian cancer patients. Through text analysis, we determined that descriptors such as energetic, challenging, frustrating, struggling, unmanageable, and agony were associated with fatigue. Descriptors such as decadron, encourager, grocery, massage, relaxing, shower, sleep, zoloft, and church were associated with strategies to ameliorate fatigue. This study demonstrates the potential of applying text mining in cancer research to understand patients' perspective on symptom management. Future study will consider various factors to refine the results.
Granular Mereogeometry
Authors: Schmidtke Hedda Rahel
Published: February 2025

This paper presents a new mereological approach to formalizing geometric notions of incidence, congruence, and parallelism over extended regions. The axiomatization was built extending a decidable pre-mereological base language, showing where the geometric framework requires first-order extension. Important outcomes are in the investigation of how to define incidence between extended geometric objects that are suitable candidates to replace points, lines, and planes in a purely region-based first-order framework. Moreover, the mereogeometric approach proposed is shown to have a key advantage in allowing dimensionality to be a relative concept in contrast to it being an absolute concept encoded in the types of geometric entities. Especially this property, one may conclude, could make mereogeometry attractive for formalizing geometric relations in a cognitively adequate manner for applications that require the same flexibility of switching between conceptualizations of space of different dimensionality as human beings show in language use.
Examine Trustiness of Medical Information Through Social Networks Using Path Models
Authors: Pistolis John  , Diomidous Marianna  , Zimeras Stelios  , Chardalias Kostis  , Filntisis George
Published: February 2025

Social networks provide an alternative way to communicate and exchange of information with various people. Especially for Health Care Professionals, information ought to be exchanged and shared between individuals for diagnosis and proposed therapies. In this research, the important sources of medical information that people trust, through the exchange of information on social networks, were analyzed based on the perceived information quality using path models. A questionnaire was developed to run the survey. Based on the answers, it seems that the surveyed population does not trust heavily the content of social networks as source of information for healthcare issues. Further research is needed to examine the trustiness of social networks as a Source of Health Care Information.
Dealing with Imperfect Data in “Smart-Cities”
Authors: Ben Sta Hatem  , Ben Rejeb Amal  , Gattoufi Said
Published: February 2025

As a new form of sustainable development, the concept “Smart Cities” knows a large expansion during the recent years. It represents an urban model, refers to all alternative approaches to metropolitan ICTs case to enhance quality and performance of urban service for better interaction between citizens and government. However, the smart cities based on distributed and autonomous information infrastructure contains millions of information sources that will be expected more than 50 billion devices connected by using IoT or other similar technologies in 2020. Real-time data generated from autonomous and distributed sources can contain all sorts of imperfections regarding on the quality of data e.g. imprecision, uncertainty, ignorance and/or incompleteness. Any imperfection in data within smart city can have an adverse effect over the performance of urban services and decision making. In this context, we address in this article the problem of imperfection in smart city data. We will focus on handling imperfection during the process of information retrieval and data integration and we will create an evidential database by using the evidence theory in order to improve the efficiency of smart city.
Studying the Effects of Peer-to-Peer Sharing Economy Platforms on Society
Authors: Westerbeek Jakar  , Ubacht Jolien  , Van Der Voort Haiko  , Ten Heuvelhof Ernst
Published: February 2025

Peer-to-peer sharing economy platforms potentially have big effects on values in society. Policymakers need to develop governance arrangements to benefit from the positive effects, while simultaneously mitigate the negative effects. This requires having a structured overview of the effects of these platforms on the diversity of values that are involved. Currently no theoretical overview of these effects on values is available. The objective of this article is to structure the research into the effects of sharing economy platforms. We use a theoretical mapping that was developed by using a Grounded Theory approach. By positioning the literature onto the map, we derived an overview of the extend in which each effected value has been studied so far. Based on this mapping, we propose five research themes into specific effects of peer-to-peer sharing economy platforms: social values, consumer and societal risks, working conditions and labor market dynamics, environmental sustainability and innovation.
E-Services as an Electronic Government Strategy: Proposal of an Info-Communication Model for the Environment Department of the City of Manaus
Authors: Barbosa Danilo Egle Santos
Published: February 2025

The e-government as an option of administrative is a one-way street. The citizens that use its benefits are the ones that demand transparency and efficiency from the public administration. In Brazil, the e-services offered by the government aren't widely used, except when they are mandatory and directly linked to the finances. This document presents an ongoing study in the scope of the Doctoral Program in Information and Communication in Digital Platforms of Aveiro University and Porto University (Portugal), and has the objective to construct an info-communicational model that defines a platform to support the environmental complaint service of the Environment Department of Manaus (SEMMAS), in Brazil.
Towards an Implementation of an Interoperable Identity Authentication Framework in e-Government: Case of Malawi
Authors: Thangalimodzi Kondwani
Published: February 2025

E-government has brought a lot of opportunities to public services. However, alongside opportunities, there are many challenges with e-government implementations, one of which is security. Security incidents in e-government have resulted in loss of money, revenue, resources and trust by the users of the systems. There are a number of possible measures to mitigate such security incidents, these include: physical security and system security. In this research we focus on one of the elements of system security – authentication. We propose an interoperable Identity Authentication Framework for e-government. The research will adopt a qualitative case study and design science. This will be complemented with behavioural research approach. To achieve the main objectives, there are a number of activities planned for this research. These activities are: investigation of maturity level for e-government systems; assessing information security maturity level; evaluation of authentication systems in use; design the interoperable identity authentication framework; and evaluation of the proposed framework. The framework will go through a number iterations in design and evaluations.
Integrating Data Masking Standards and Applications into Open Government Data
Authors: Chen Yumei  , Hong Yuan  , Pardo Theresa A.
Published: February 2025

This poster will present our work in progress in the development of a series of data masking standards and applications for the compliance of security policies in the context of open government data. Our current efforts focus on the feasibility analysis to use data masking technologies in datasets processing, access and download.
The Human Factor: How Can Information Security Awareness Be Sustainably Achieved in E-Government?
Authors: Scholl Margit  , Fuhrmann Frauke  , Pokoyski Dietmar
Published: February 2025

With the comprehensive digitalization of the workplace and of privacy, we face complex challenges. Information Security awareness is a necessary response. In the workshop we demonstrate analogue game-based awareness learning in a three phases procedure for the digital world.
Inclusion and Privacy in E-Participation Platform Design
Authors: Schossböck Judith  , Terbu Oliver  , Sachs Michael  , Leitner Maria  , Heussler Vinzenz  , Wenda Gregor  , Bonitz Arndt  , Hötzendorfer Walter  , Parycek Peter  , Vogl Stefan  , Zehetbauer Sebastian
Published: February 2025

Austria has seen some efforts in e-participation initiatives during the last years. However, a single platform comprising many e-participation levels and activities for a broader target group is so far missing. In the project ePartizipation researchers and practitioners worked on a platform demonstrator that integrates multiple online identification methods and offers activities on different levels of e-participation. This paper describes the conceptualisation of the platform and the inherent design principles, the first project results, in particular related to strategies aiming at enhancing inclusion and privacy, and the experiences from the project team.
The Acceptance and Use of Open Data Infrastructures – Drawing upon UTAUT and ECT
Authors: Zuiderwijk Anneke  , Cligge Martijn
Published: February 2025

While governments and researchers often focus on the opening of data through open data infrastructures, the adoption and use of open data infrastructures has received less attention, despite the fact that this use should result in the envisioned benefits. This study aims to examine to which extent and by which factors the acceptance and use of open data infrastructures by researchers can be influenced. For this purpose we use an integrated model of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and the two-stage Expectation Confirmation Theory of Information Systems continuance (ECT). Our research confirms the hypothesis that Perceived Usefulness (PU), Effort Expectancy (EE), Social Influence (SI) and Trust (T) in the pre-usage stage can be used to predict PU, EE, SI and T in the post-usage stage, which may subsequently influence the acceptance and use of open data infrastructures. Nevertheless, not all of our findings show support for applying the combined UTAUT-ECT model, and the findings suggest that the model needs to be specified and adapted for the domain of open data. We recommend future research to develop models for the acceptance and use of technologies that are more specific to the context of open data.This paper is related to the H2020 VRE4EIC project (www.vre4eic.eu). The authors would like to thank their colleagues of this project for their input for this paper, although the views expressed are the views of the authors and not necessarily of the project.
On the Impact of Subproblem Orderings on Anytime AND/OR Best-First Search for Lower Bounds
Authors: Lam William  , Kask Kalev  , Dechter Rina  , Larrosa Javier
Published: February 2025

Best-first search can be regarded as anytime scheme for producing lower bounds on the optimal solution, a characteristic that is mostly overlooked. We explore this topic in the context of AND/OR best-first search, guided by the MBE heuristic, when solving graphical models. In that context, the impact of the secondary heuristic for subproblem ordering may be significant, especially in the anytime context. Indeed, our paper illustrates this, showing that the new concept of bucket errors can advise in providing effective subproblem orderings in AND/OR search.
Finding Diverse High-Quality Plans for Hypothesis Generation
Authors: Sohrabi Shirin  , Riabov Anton V.  , Udrea Octavian  , Hassanzadeh Oktie
Published: February 2025

In this paper, we address the problem of finding diverse high-quality plans motivated by the hypothesis generation problem. To this end, we present a planner called TK*that first efficiently solves the “top-k” cost-optimal planning problem to find k best plans, followed by clustering to produce diverse plans as cluster representatives.
Encoding Cryptographic Functions to SAT Using TRANSALG System
Authors: Otpuschennikov Ilya  , Semenov Alexander  , Gribanova Irina  , Zaikin Oleg  , Kochemazov Stepan
Published: February 2025

In this paper we propose the technology for constructing propositional encodings of discrete functions. It is aimed at solving inversion problems of considered functions using state-of-the-art SAT solvers. We implemented this technology in the form of the software system called TRANSALG, and used it to construct SAT encodings for a number of cryptanalysis problems. By applying SAT solvers to these encodings we managed to invert several cryptographic functions. In particular, we used the SAT encodings produced by TRANSALG to construct the family of two-block MD5 collisions in which the first 10 bytes are zeros. In addition to that we used TRANSALG encoding for the widely known A5/1 keystream generator to solve several dozen of its cryptanalysis instances in a distributed computing environment. Also in the present paper we compare the functionality of TRANSALG with that of similar software systems.
Decision-Making in Automotive Software Development – An Observational Study
Authors: Papatheocharous Efi  , Franke Ulrik
Published: February 2025

This paper reports results from an independent observational study of an automotive software development research project. The study is carried out as a monitoring activity of the project, which is inexpensive but still representative of real automotive software development cases, thus providing the basis for more rigorous studies. The objective is to take initial steps to improve our understanding of architectural decision-making in the development of software in the automotive domain. The key findings summarize issues surfacing during the development process related to the problem articulation and formulation, the impact of participant experience, the definition of requirements, the decision process, and the effect of the decisions made on the system architecture evolution. The paper offers some insights that can be useful to gain understanding of how decisions are typically made in real settings, i.e., based on gut-feeling, which is important when designing decision support systems for architectural design decisions.
Impact of a Computer System and the Encoding Staff Organization on the Encoding Stays and on Health Institution Financial Production in France
Authors: Sarazin Marianne  , El Merini Amine  , Staccini Pascal
Published: February 2025

In France, medicalization of information systems program (PMSI) is an essential tool for the management planning and funding of health. The performance of encoding data inherent to hospital stays has become a major challenge for health institutions. Some studies have highlighted the impact of organizations set up on encoding quality and financial production. The aim of this study is to evaluate a computerized information system and new staff organization impact for treatment of the encoded information.
Algorithmic Summaries of Perioperative Blood Pressure Fluctuations
Authors: Toddenroth Dennis  , Ganslandt Thomas  , Drescher Caroline  , Weith Thomas  , Prokosch Hans-Ulrich  , Schuettler Juergen  , Muenster Tino
Published: February 2025

Automated perioperative measurements such as cardiovascular monitoring data are commonly compared to established upper and lower thresholds, but could also allow for more complex interpretations. Analyzing such time series in extensive electronic medical records for research purposes may itself require customized automation, so we developed a set of algorithms for quantifying different aspects of temporal fluctuations. We implemented conventional measures of dispersion, summaries of absolute gradients between successive values, and Poincaré plots. We aggregated the severity and duration of hypotensive episodes by calculating the average area under different mean arterial pressure (MAP) thresholds. We applied these methods to 30,452 de-identified MAP series, and analyzed the similarity between alternative indices via hierarchical clustering. To explore the potential utility of these propositional metrics, we computed their statistical association with presumed complications due to cardiovascular instability. We observed that hierarchical clustering reliably segregated features that had been designed to quantify dissimilar aspects. Summaries of temporary hypotension turned out to be significantly increased among patient subgroups with subsequent signs of a complicated recovery. These associations were even stronger for measures that were specifically geared to capturing short-term MAP variability. These observations suggest the potential capability of our proposed algorithms for quantifying heterogeneous aspects of short-term MAP fluctuations. Future research might also target a wider selection of outcomes and other attributes that may be subject to intraoperative variability.
The Promise of the Internet of Things in Healthcare: How Hard Is It to Keep?
Authors: Marques Rita  , Gregório João  , Mira Da Silva Miguel  , Lapão Luís Velez
Published: February 2025

Internet of Things is starting to be implemented in healthcare. An example is the automated monitoring systems that are currently being used to provide healthcare workers with feedback regarding their hand hygiene compliance. These solutions seem effective in promoting healthcare workers self-awareness and action regarding their hand hygiene performance, which is still far from desired. Underlying these systems, an indoor positioning component (following Internet of Things paradigm) is used to collect data from the ward regarding healthcare workers' position, which will be later used to make some assumptions about the usage of alcohol-based handrub dispensers and sinks. We found that building such a system under the scope of the healthcare field is not a trivial task and it must be subject to several considerations, which are presented, analyzed and discussed in this paper. The limitations of present Internet of Things technologies are not yet ready to address the demanding field of healthcare.
Fast Subset Path Planning/ Replanning to Avoid Obstacles with Time-Varying Probabilistic Motion Patterns
Authors: Kiam Jane Jean  , Gerdts Matthias  , Schulte Axel
Published: February 2025

Many efficient path planners have been invented for finding paths while avoiding obstacles in a dynamic environment. However, most global path planning methods focus on problems where the knowledge of the environment is deterministic or that the states of the environment are stationary over time. This paper aims to introduce a path planning method to avoid obstacles which have a probabilistic moving pattern. Such approach can find its wide use in planning applications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which not only have to avoid no-fly zones delimited by the airspace, but also zones of hazardous weather conditions such as turbulences and clouds, which move over time. First a spatiotemporal state space is defined to provide a formal representation of the time-varying search problem. The benefit of a spatiotemporal state space for the path planning of a vehicle moving in a time-varying vector field is also highlighted. Then a linear probabilistic movement model based on Gaussian distribution is proposed to estimate the probability of a state being occupied by obstacles. This probability is subsequently used to compute the travel cost in a discrete shortest path search. Finally, a fast subset path planning/ replanning method is introduced. The planning method consists of performing the search on a selected subset of the state-space to reduce computation runtime. By adapting the subset of the state space, the efficiency of the search can be greatly increased and hence a fast global replanning is possible. An efficient replanning is necessary since the UAV cannot remain stationary while waiting for a new path planned.
Standard Lavatories for Wheeled Mobility Device Users
Authors: Ahosseini Alborz
Published: February 2025

In the contemporary world, building regulations and norms need to be updated to reflect the evolution in mobility devices. This research is suggesting new proposals for norms and standards for standard lavatories by taking the evolution in new wheeled mobility devices into account.
Interaction Design in the Built Environment: Designing for the ‘Universal User’
Authors: Dalton Cathy
Published: February 2025

Concepts of responsive architecture have to date largely involved response to environmental context, in order to mediate ambient environmental factors and modify internal conditions for the comfort of users, with energy efficiency and sustainability as the main impetus. ‘Smart’ buildings often address little other than technically functional issues, with any ideas of ‘design’ as a unifying factor being disregarded. At the same time, music and performance art have been in the vanguard of creating digital interaction that intimately involves the user in aesthetic outcomes, in the creation of what Umberto Eco describes as an ‘Open Work’. Environments made responsive through embedment of computational technologies can similarly extend usability and user-centred design towards universality, through careful consideration of the relationship between person, context and activity, and of the continuous and ultimately transactional nature of human occupation of built environment. Truly ‘smart’ environments will learn from and through usage, and can be conceived and designed so as to maximise environmental ‘fit’ for a wider variety of users, including people described as being ‘neurodiverse’. Where user response becomes a significant component in managing a smart environment, the transactional relationship between user and environment is made explicit, and can ultimately be used to drive interaction that favours ease-of-use and personalisation. Inclusion of affective computing in human interaction with built environment offers significant potential for extending the boundaries of Universal Design to include people with autism, people with intellectual disability, and users with acquired cognitive impairment, including that arising from dementia. The same users frequently have issues with sensory-perceptual sensitivity and processing. The resulting mismatch between their individual needs and abilities, and the environments they typically occupy, can give rise to states of chronic and acute anxiety. Analysis of the characteristics of such users gives rise to various ‘personas’, whose functional and psychosocial needs may be best met by responsive environments which take consideration of affective state, that is, of mood and emotion. Human-computer interaction which marries responsive architecture and affective computing offers a new paradigm for smart environments, which are intrinsically user-centred as a consequence. The technical complexity of designing such an environment must always be balanced by the absolute necessity of utilising Universal Design principles to reduce the underlying technological complexity to a usable interface. This paper is a preliminary exploration of the principles underlying the design of one such responsive environment: an interactive sensory room for children with autism spectrum disorders, (ASDs), which aims to promote relaxation and thus reduce anxiety.
Directional Tactile Pavings in a Universal Design Perspective
Authors: Deichmann Jacob
Published: February 2025

The topic of the presentation is the directional tactile pavings or tactile guidelines that are used by blind and visually impaired people for orientation, in this presentation primarily in the street environment. The focus is the difference between so-called natural and artificial tactile pavings, how they can and should be used, and how the tactile guidelines can be understood as devices of Universal Design. It is discussed whether guidelines based on foreign research can be transferred to the Danish context without additional Danish research. The tests that are known to have been made in Denmark have generally been conducted with a very low number of participants. A secondary focus is the architectural qualities of the tactile pavings, which is a subject for discussion among landscape architects in the Danish context.
Explanation for Case-Based Reasoning via Abstract Argumentation
Authors: Čyras Kristijonas  , Satoh Ken  , Toni Francesca
Published: February 2025

Case-based reasoning (CBR) is extensively used in AI in support of several applications, to assess a new situation (or case) by recollecting past situations (or cases) and employing the ones most similar to the new situation to give the assessment. In this paper we study properties of a recently proposed method for CBR, based on instantiated Abstract Argumentation and referred to as AA-CBR, for problems where cases are represented by abstract factors and (positive or negative) outcomes, and an outcome for a new case, represented by abstract factors, needs to be established. In addition, we study properties of explanations in AA-CBR and define a new notion of lean explanations that utilize solely relevant cases. Both forms of explanations can be seen as dialogical processes between a proponent and an opponent, with the burden of proof falling on the proponent.
An Argumentation Workflow for Reasoning in Ontology Based Data Access
Authors: Yun Bruno  , Croitoru Madalina
Published: February 2025

In this paper we demonstrate how to benefit from structured argumentation frameworks and their implementations to provide for reasoning capabilities of Ontology Based Data Access systems under inconsistency tolerant semantics. More precisely, given an inconsistent Datalog±knowledge base we instantiate it using the ASPIC+framework and show that the reasoning provided by ASPIC+is equivalent to the main inconsistent tolerant semantics in the literature. We provide a workflow that shows the practical interoperability of the logic based frameworks handling Datalog±and ASPIC+.
Perception of Audiovisual Speech Produced by Human and Virtual Speaker
Authors: Aller Sven  , Meister Einar
Published: February 2025

In this paper the experiments on the identification of the Estonian consonants in VCV nonsense words produced by a human speaker are presented. The test scenario involves audio-only and audiovisual speech stimuli in five noise conditions. The results confirm that in the presence of noise the scores of consonant identification of audiovisual stimuli are always higher than the scores of audio-only stimuli. In addition, we compare the results with the previous study [9] reporting the perception of similar stimuli produced by a virtual talking head.
Automatic Identification, Extraction and Application of Textual Amendments in Greek Legislative Texts
Authors: Garofalakis John  , Plessas Konstantinos  , Plessas Athanasios
Published: February 2025

The automatic analysis of legislative texts using Natural Language Processing techniques is able to facilitate several tasks related to the legislation lifecycle, such as the consolidation of different versions of legal documents. We present our work on the automatic identification, extraction and application of textual amendments in Greek legislative texts, based on pattern matching with regular expressions, which is part of a semi-automatic system for the consolidation of Greek laws.
Towards Data-Driven Style Checking: An Example for Law Texts
Authors: Sugisaki Kyoko
Published: February 2025

We present a novel approach to detecting syntactic structures that are inadequate for their domain context. We define writing style in terms of the choices between alternatives, and conducted an experiment in the legislative domain on the syntactic choice of nominalization in German, i.e. complex noun phrase vs. relative clause. In order to infer the stylistic choices that are conventional in the domain, we capture the contexts that affect the syntactic choice. Our results showed that a data-driven binary classifier can be a viable method for modelling syntactic choices in a style-checking tool.
InfoSAGE: Use of Online Technologies for Communication and Elder Care
Authors: Quintana Yuri  , Crotty Bradley  , Fahy Darren  , Orfanos Alex  , Jain Ruchira  , Kaldany Eli  , Lipsitz Lewis  , Engorn Diane  , Rodriguez Jorge  , Pandolfe Frank  , Bajracharya Adarsha  , Slack Warner V.  , Safran Charles
Published: February 2025

Aging creates new information and communication needs for families who are helping to coordinate care for frail parents. To identify how information and communication needs evolve with the aging process, we created a living laboratory of families, supported by an online private social network with tools for care coordination. Site registrants are invite to participate in a more in-depth survey-based longitudinal study. In year one, we assessed the feasibility of an online living laboratory. During this first year, 155 individuals registered on InfoSAGE, and 26% opted into the more in-depth longitudinal study. The survey response rate for those in the study was 61%. We present here a descriptive analysis of our early participants and networks, as well as barriers to participation that the study team encountered.
Clinical Simulation: Evaluating the Usability of a Health Information System in a Telenurse Call Centre
Authors: Tuden Danica S.  , Borycki Elizabeth M.  , Kushniruk Andre W.
Published: February 2025

Telenursing is a specialized subset of nursing practice that has emerged in response to the development of health care technology. Telenurses use health information systems (HIS) as their main source of health information in order to assist callers with their health related concerns on the telephone. In order to ensure that the telenurse-caller encounter supports a safe, appropriate and patient focused outcome, it was important to evaluate the usability of (HIS) that telenurses use. The purpose of this paper is to describe usability issues that emerged during a clinical simulation study of nurses working in a call centre. Clinical simulation was thus chosen as the most comprehensive methodology in this study and its benefits will be discussed.
National Monitoring and Evaluation of Health IT: Protocol for a Scoping Review
Authors: Villumsen Sidsel  , Nøhr Christian
Published: February 2025

Background: Monitoring the pace of Health Information Technology (HIT) adoption across states is critical for providing data to formulate future national and regional HIT policies. However, repeated monitoring of the progress on implementation of the strategies is often scarce. The lack of systematic monitoring of progress in availability and use of HIT has led to a need for an overview of the key concepts and methodologies used in the scattered scientific literature. The scoping study aims at achieving both in-depth and broad results, identifying all relevant material, regardless of the design. This paper presents and discuss a protocol for a scoping review.
Chat-App Decryption Key Extraction Through Information Flow Analysis
Authors: Dai Zhongmin  , Sufatrio  , Chua Tong-Wei  , Balakrishnan Dinesh Kumar  , Thing Vrizlynn L.L.
Published: February 2025

Recent years have seen a pervasive usage of mobile-based instant messaging apps, which are popularly known as chat apps. On users' mobile devices, chat logs are usually stored encrypted. This paper is concerned with discovering the decryption key of chat-log database files as they are used by popular chat apps like WhatsApp and WeChat. We propose a systematic and generalized information-flow based approach to recovering the decryption key by taking advantage of both static and dynamic analyses. We show that, despite the employed code obfuscation techniques, we can perform the key discovery process on relevant code portions. Furthermore, to the best of our knowledge, we are the first to detail the employed string de-obfuscation, encrypted database file structure, and decryption-key formulation of the latest WhatsApp with crypt12 database. We also demonstrate how our key-extraction techniques can decrypt encrypted WhatsApp and WeChat database files that originate from a target device. Additionally, we show how we can construct a version of WhatsApp or WeChat that simulates the key generation processes of a remote target device, and recover the keys. Lastly, we analyze why our technique can work on widely-popular chat apps, and mention measures that can be adopted by chat-app developers to better protect the privacy of billions of their users.
eHealth Networking Information Systems – The New Quality of Information Exchange
Authors: Messer-Misak Karin  , Reiter Christoph
Published: February 2025

Background: The development and introduction of platforms that enable interdisciplinary exchange on current developments and projects in the area of eHealth have been stimulated by different authorities.
Developing Interactive Plug-ins for tranSMART Using the SmartR Framework: The Case of Survival Analysis
Authors: Knell Christian  , Sedlmayr Martin  , Christoph Jan
Published: February 2025

Background: TranSMART has become an important and widely used platform for the translational research. Included features for analysing data have significant deficiencies concerning user interactivity with and export of the generated results. SmartR, a plugin for tranSMART, promises to close this gap with its interactive workflows.
Reducing Length of Stay by Enhancing Patients' Discharge: A Practical Approach to Improve Hospital Efficiency
Authors: Khalifa Mohamed
Published: February 2025

For years, hospitals have responded to inefficiencies by adding more resources, whereas research suggests that it is a flow problem. King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center decided to improve efficiency and enhance patient flow through improving patient discharge and reducing length of stay. Eight interventions were implemented; dedicating slots in diagnostic services for discharges, improving communication, eliminating pending exams, identifying discharges the day before, prioritizing laboratory tests, coordinating discharge medication processing and utilizing case management. 14.1% of discharges after improvement, compared to 21.7% before, experienced delays. Discharge cycle duration was reduced from 17.9 to 9.2 hours. 4.1% of discharges after improvement, compared to 14.8% before, experienced procedures delays. Procedure turnaround time was reduced from 46.9 to 15.3 hours. Average length of stay (ALOS) was reduced from 12 days to less than 10. Improving hospital efficiency is an integrated process and the responsibility of all hospital staff.
E-Health Readiness for Teams: A Comprehensive Conceptual Model
Authors: Phillips James  , Yu Dan  , Poon Simon K.  , Lam Mary  , Hines Monique  , Brunner Melissa  , Keep Melanie  , Power Emma  , Shaw Tim  , Togher Leanne
Published: February 2025

The use of information technology in the delivery of healthcare services is pervasive but faces many barriers. We propose a four-factor comprehensive conceptual model to provide a measure of interdisciplinary healthcare readiness to provide healthcare services using e-health. We incorporate factors from a series of focus group studies and the wider literature and construct a conceptual model. We utilise the Delphi method to establish content validity and use a series of Q sorts for initial construct validity. This model will improve patient outcomes through healthcare teams identifying barriers to using e-health effectively and efficiently.
Remote Health Care Provision in Care Homes
Authors: Newbould Louise  , Mountain Gail  , Hawley Mark  , Ariss Steve
Published: February 2025

A survey was developed to map provision, knowledge, attitudes and views towards videoconferencing in care homes in Yorkshire and The Humber. The survey was sent to 859 care homes, with a 14% response rate. Twelve homes reported using videoconferencing. Non-users appeared skeptical, managers using the system reported improvements in outcomes.
Restoring Speech Following Total Removal of the Larynx
Authors: Gonzalez Jose A.  , Cheah Lam A.  , Green Phil D.  , Gilbert James M.  , Ell Stephen R.  , Moore Roger K.  , Holdsworth Ed
Published: February 2025

By speech articulator movement and training a transformation to audio we can restore the power of speech to someone who has lost their larynx. We sense changes in magnetic field caused by movements of small magnets attached to the lips and tongue. The sensor transformation uses recurrent neural networks.
Introducing ZORA to Children with Severe Physical Disabilities
Authors: van den Heuvel Renée  , Lexis Monique  , de Witte Luc
Published: February 2025

The aim of the present study was to explore the potential of a ZORA-robot based intervention in rehabilitation and special education for children with (severe) physical disabilities from the professionals perspective. The qualitative results of this study will be presented. Professionals indicated meaningful application possibilities for ZORA. Overall, ZORA was able to improve motivation, concentration, taking initiative and attention span. Three domains could be identified to be most promising for application of ZORA: (re)learning of movement skills, cognitive skills and communication/social interaction skills.
A Derivation of Factors Influencing the Concept Development of Virtual Reality Products by Hybrid MADM Methods
Authors: Huang Chi-Yo  , Cheng Jeng-Chieh
Published: February 2025

The Virtual Reality (VR) devices have become one of the future dominant electronics products which can drive the growth of electronics industries. The appropriate selection of a design concept is one of the key successful factors for the success of VR products. However, the selection of a specification and a design concept of a VR product is not easy. An electronic product should fulfill as many customer needs for various market segments as possible. Meanwhile, the lead time for an evaluation and selection of the concepts are usually very limited. Further, the availability of key components is very limited. Therefore, an evaluation framework is very critical for selecting a concept for a VR product. Based on the opinions being provided by experts with experiences of more than 15 years, the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) based Network Process (DANP) will be introduced for deriving the influences between the factors; and then, weights being associated with the factors can be derived accordingly. The empirical study results can serve as a basis for research and development as well as marketing strategy definitions for next generation VR products. In addition, the DANP based analytic framework can be used for deriving factors influencing disruptive innovations in the future.
Using KMoS-RE
Authors: Rodas-Osollo Jorge  , Olmos-Sanchez Karla  , Ortiz-Chow Yadira  , Ochoa-Ortiz Alberto
Published: February 2025

Objective – To present the Knowledge Management on a Strategy for Requirements Engineering (KMoS-RE) as a systematic way to elicit, structure and explicit Specialized Knowledge as convenient requirements of Informally Structured Domains that have Distributed Tacit Knowledge often associated with an ad hoc Collaborative Network.
The circular pathfinder: development and evaluation of a practice-based tool for selecting circular design strategies
Authors: van Dam S.S.  , Bakker C.A.  , de Pauw I.  , van der Grinten B.
Published: February 2025

The Circular Pathfinder tool, which provides guidance to companies looking for appropriate circular design strategies, was developed based on OEM (original equipment manufacturer) case studies. Ease of use was one of the main requirements during development of the tool, resulting in a software-based guide that asks a maximum of ten product-related questions, after which it gives a recommendation for one or more specific circular design strategies. The advantage of a practice-based tool is that the practical relevance is, in all likelihood, high. The disadvantage, however, is the lack of scientific validation. This paper presents a literature review of the decision variables and heuristics of the Circular Pathfinder, with the aim to uncover any discrepancies between practice and literature. The main finding is that the focus on practical usefulness of the tool has led to excessive reduction of the complexity inherent in strategic circular design decisions. Recommendations for improving the Circular Pathfinder tool are given.
Clothing fit and sizing for women can be improved to increase the lifespan and durability by including the bust cup size as a new independent measurement
Authors: Dove T.
Published: February 2025

The inability of many consumers to find good fit in mass-produced clothing has long been recognized as a major problem in providing quality apparel products to consumers (Labat, 2007). Howarton and Lee (2010) state that fit is one of the first things that individuals consider in evaluating a garment, it is also the number one customer complaint and reason for clothing returns. The ultimate goal of manufacturers and retailers of clothing, is to provide clothing for the whole range of their target market that consistently fits well to increase customer satisfaction, and ultimately sales (Apeagyei, 2013). Pisut and Connell (2007) estimated that 80 percent of garments produced using current standards would not fit consumers. Their respondents were asked to evaluate the fit of garments at specific body locations, and to identify where garments were tight, of those reporting fit problems in specific areas, tightness was the predominant fit problem at the bust, 79.4 percent.
Design framework for emotionally durable products and services
Authors: Haines-Gadd M.  , Chapman J.  , Lloyd P.  , Mason J.  , Aliakseyeu D.
Published: February 2025

The lighting industry is currently undergoing a systems shift; a bulb, once a consumable, is now a long-life object. However, is this how these products are regarded by consumers—as durable, potentially long-term companions within the home? Or insignificant items easily discarded, without thought? Moreover, with developments within lighting technology these products are able to provide more advanced, enhanced illumination experiences, yet this in turn has resulted in a more technologically complex object, a factor that producers and consumers must be mindful of when considering the lifespan of a product. Emotion and meaning-driven sustainability research offer a vehicle in which to explore these issues within design and the product development process. This paper presents an ‘Emotionally Durable Design Framework’ developed over the past 18 months in partnership with Philips Lighting. It defines and reveals which strategies are the most crucial when looking to extend both the emotional and physical lifetime of a given product. Our analysis relates nine themes to 38 specific strategies for Emotional Durability, and we conclude by showcasing three lighting concepts, developed using the framework which were exhibited at the University of Brighton and at Philips Lighting Headquarters in Eindhoven.
Circular added value: business model design in the circular economy
Authors: Hofmann F.  , Marwede M.  , Nissen N.F.  , Lang K.D.
Published: February 2025

The current linear production and consumption structures, which build upon the intensive use of natural resources and cheap energy, are crucial drivers for the rapid economic development in the last sixty years. Biodiversity loss, climate change, conversion of the planet earth's surface and resource depletion force researchers, policy-makers, business representatives, and consumers to think about alternative economic approaches and lifestyles. The circular economy concept has recently attracted increased attention from academic, political, and economic institutions. The transformation to an economy characterized by cyclical and cascading usage of natural and physical capital requires disruptive and systemic innovations. On business level, integrated strategies consisting of sufficiency, consistency, and efficiency factors are needed to implement the idea of circularity in the architecture of enterprises. Business developers have to restructure value creation processes, dematerialize value propositions, rethink and demerge global supply chains or consider ecological and social aspects in their cost-benefit analyses. Currently, the most business modeling tools and methods do not consider characteristics that are crucial for designing circular business models. This study is built upon a five-step systematic literature review methodology, which focused on circular economy, conventional as well as circular business model literature. The insights gained from the extensive literature analyses were used to redefine the logic, composition, elements, and potential element attributes of the Business Model Canvas in the context of circular economy.
Considering the user in the circular economy
Authors: Lofthouse V.A.  , Prendeville S.
Published: February 2025

This paper reflects on how much of the dialogue and literature regarding a move towards a circular economy tends to focus on production and that this language reflects a technological narrative around innovation for a future circular economy. The authors argue that there is a need for a more profound consideration of users in both the research activity and practical implementation of the circular economy, where the real needs, desires and values of the end user are incorporated from the outset, whether as part of research agendas, theories, frameworks or business models. The paper concludes by arguing that changing the way that the circular economy is framed so that it is more inclusive of the consumption side of the development process would open up greater opportunities for success.
Slow fashion in retail environments: why storytelling is critical for product longevity
Authors: Matheny R.  , Hernández A.
Published: February 2025

This paper presents a series of case studies examining selected slow fashion retailers' use of storytelling elements within their respective store environments to communicate their brand's sustainable process and mission. The term slow fashion, coined by Kate Fletcher, informs and encourages conscious consumers on responsible product sourcing and manufacturing, allowing them to feel connected to their local and global community. For slow fashion brands, fostering a strong and nurturing relationship between consumer and producer is invaluable, however few of these retailers capture that goal within their retail experience. Striving to educate and entice consumers towards more sustainable consumption, this paper presents case studies examining how storytelling elements are utilized within the retail environment to forge the consumer-producer connection.