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Measuring Mobile Text Entry Performance and Behaviour in the Wild with a Serious Game

Entering text is a fundamental part of how we interact with computing devices. The predominant form of text input on smartphones are virtual keyboards, which provide greater flexibility and customization options compared to hardware keyboards. Mobile …

Challenges in re-platforming mixed language PL/I and COBOL IS to an open systems platform

Re-platforming - the transfer of a legacy system to a new target platform - is often seen as a first cost-reduction step to enable a long term reengineering effort of a legacy system. However, recreating a functionally equivalent ecosystem on a …

Generating Structured AutomationML Models from IEC 62264 Information

AutomationML provides a versatile modeling environment for the description of production systems. However, when starting a new AutomationML project, or when serializing existing data with the AutomationML format, there are no rules on how to …

Towards a Multi-party, Blockchain-Based Identity Verification Solution to Implement Clear Name Laws for Online Media Platforms

Online communication has increased steadily over the past decades. It has become common practice that the identities of content creators do not have to be revealed. The use of abbreviations or pseudonyms is a de facto standard in online communities. …

Reha@Stroke - A Mobile Application to Support People Suffering from a Stroke Through Their Rehabilitation

Stroke is affecting a lot of people worldwide through different age groups. Although it is affecting more older people, stroke within younger people is on the rise and is a big problem for the affected. They have to undergo rehabilitation to …

Production Planning with IEC 62264 and PDDL

Smart production systems need to be able to adapt to changing environments and market needs. They have to reflect changes in (i) the reconfiguration of the production systems themselves, (ii) the processes they perform or (iii) the products they …

Quantitative Requirement Evaluation for a European Refugee Management System serving conflicting Needs of Migrants, GOs, and NGOs in correct and fair operative Form

The so-called "refugee crisis" in 2015 overstrained the European authorities and people seeking for help. Many refugee camps in Europe were not adequately prepared and had to process a large number of people. There was no standardized way to handle …

Ethical Issues Arising Through Identification and Registration Systems Applied in a European Refugee Camp

The refugee crisis in 2015 was one of the biggest challenges for the European Union. The refugee camps had to face an enormous organization and coordination effort in several Member States. Furthermore, no standardized way for registering and …

Distributed Kanban with Limited Geographical Distance: Analyzing Lean Principles Pull, Work in Progress and Kaizen

Although the software development methodology Kanban, which refers and relates to the concepts and ideas of Lean Manufacturing originating in the Japanese automobile industry, was initially developed and used within distributed teams, correlating …

Hyper Typer: A Serious Game for Measuring Mobile Text Entry Performance in the Wild

In this paper we introduce Hyper Typer, a serious Android game for collecting text entry performance data on a large scale in an unsupervised manner. Publishing the game on the Google Play Store resulted in a total of 1,917 usable transcribed phrases …