Sept'19
Focus
Ubiquitous computing has resulted in proliferation of smart devices in everyday
life. Effective usage of these devices requires user-friendly interface and simple
interaction with them. Traditional interface design of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) fails to address the issues prevalent in smart systems environment due to different levels of sophistication in these systems. Today, HCI is a socio-technical discipline which aims at improving the interaction between the users and the computing systems, making them more user-friendly. It focuses on minimizing the gap between the user's cognitive model to carry out a task and the computing system's understanding the user task. Hence, the design of interface and interaction between humans and computing systems attracts ample research attention. The first paper, "Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Smart Home Applications", by Alao O D, Joshua J V and Akinsola J E T, presents applications of smart home and issues in designing user interfaces for smart home applications. The authors hope that the future of HCI design should harness the promises of augmented and virtual reality to make life comfortable and enjoyable.
Cloud computing is an on-demand access to a multitude of remote computing resources over the Internet in order to reduce the cost of computing. There is growing popularity of cloud computing among the organizations, and a significant worldwide growth of market for cloud services as underlying technologies is bound to happen over the years. Gartner, a leading research and advisory company, forecasts exponential growth of cloud services market for the next half-a-decade. While cloud computing promises to offer several advantages to organizations, it poses several operational risks and security challenges. Consequently, Information Technology (IT) governance plays an important role in cloud computing. The second paper, "Information Governance for the Implementation of Cloud Computing: A Review", by Sourav Mukherjee, provides a broad introduction to cloud computing and outlines information governance guidelines for the organizations.
Opinion mining is a data mining approach that discovers credible patterns behind a piece of text. It has several important applications such as understanding customer perception towards a business offering, using public opinion in government policy making, drawing public sensitivity towards an incident happening in the society, etc. The third paper, "Opinion Mining and Real-World Challenges", by C M Sharma, Akshita Aggarwal, Rohit Meghwal and Kunark Khewal, presents different challenges faced in dealing with opinion mining and highlights the scope for further research and development in the field.
As the education system moves towards student-centric and outcome-based education, use of technology in teaching becomes more relevant. The last paper, "The Impact of Digital Learning Tools on Student Performance", by Rekha Attri and Pooja Kushwaha, investigates the impact of the usage of digital learning tools on academic grades and placement packages of students. It reveals that a student's securing high grades not necessarily leads to a high placement package.
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Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Smart Home Applications |
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Information Governance for the Implementation of Cloud Computing: A Review |
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Opinion Mining and Real-World Challenges |
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The Impact of Digital Learning Tools on Student Performance |
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Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Smart Home Applications
The advent of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Man-Machine Interaction or Interfacing (MMI), has ushered in a lot of innovations, bringing about greater development in relation to smart homes. These developments were sparked by ubiquitous computing. HCI is a process that involves users as well as technology in the design which must satisfy the usability and functionality requirements. Smart home technology allows users to have control over their homes through automation of lighting system, security system, and electronic devices, among others. Many tools that are used in computer systems can also be integrated in smart home systems. Ubiquitous computing has transformed the way we live and relate in a wireless communication environment. This paper provides insights on areas of application of smart homes and HCI. Furthermore, requirements for smart home and HCI are examined. Also, the study considers issues in HCI and the future of HCI technology in relation to multimodality, intelligent, adaptive interfaces and active interfaces.
Information Governance for the Implementation of Cloud Computing: A Review
Information governance has become gradually an important area due to the explosion of data in numerous formats at diverse levels of any organization. An information governance platform may have the capability to improve the data quality and may also support in leveraging strategic decision making. There is a growing trend to move the data from on-premise software to the new on-demand cloud-based solutions to support the growing needs of the business computing services, which has the potential to lower the costs and mitigating the risks. Cloud computing is considered as a utility that is massively scalable and can be readily modified, the way we may control the temperature in the furnace using the thermostat, which has the potential to save energy. Information governance for the implementation of cloud computing organizations is migrating applications and storage to the cloud at a faster rate. Cloud computing lets the users access and use shared data and computing services and resources via the Internet or a VPN link which is encrypted for the security purpose. Therefore, Information Technology (IT) governance is a necessary method which needs to be applied to cloud computing information security to manage the risks associated with cloud computing information security. This study develops the required knowledge by outspreading IT governance to cloud computing and information security governance. This paper offers a study on applying IT governance policies and processes for the application of a tenable cloud computing platform.
Opinion Mining and Real-World Challenges
Along with the increase in internet use and e-commerce, there is a great spark off of the opinions and expressive comments. These reviews are very beneficial for government, merchandises in trade and users involved. They give a broad insight into multiple facets of the product and details of the user. However, things are not as effortless as they seem. There are lots of challenges faced in dealing with the decoding of a single statement or sentiment. The paper focuses on these challenges and highlights the scope for further research and development in the field of opinion mining or sentiment analysis.
The Impact of Digital Learning Tools on Student Performance
A lot of emphasis in the present times is on transiting towards student-centric learning which aids in creating authentic student experiences by engaging them in higher order thinking as compared to traditional instructional teaching in classrooms. A knowledge of how students engage in digital learning tools can play a vital role in managing and leveraging technology for enhancing the student learning. Studies on the effect of the usage of digital technology on the academic performance and subsequent placement of the students graduating from higher education institutions are very limited. This study explores the impact of the usage of digital learning tools on the academic performance and placement package of the students. This exploratory study involved primary data analysis of 240 students enrolled and passed out from two years' business management course in a B-school in India. Academic performance is strongly correlated with the time spent on digital learning tools. However, a very weak and insignificant correlation is observed between the time spent on digital learning tools and the final placement package received. The regression model is significant for the impact of usage of digital learning tools on the academic performance of the students (adjusted R2 = 0.659). However, the model is not significant (adjusted R2 = -0.004) for the impact of usage of digital learning tools on the placement package received by the students.