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- Faraon, Montathar, 1983-, et al.
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Positive but skeptical : A study of attitudes towards Internet voting in Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: CeDEM Asia 2014. - Münster : Donau-Universität Krems. - 9783902505712 ; , s. 191-205
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explored the attitudes of a broad sample of politically interested Swedish voters towards Internet voting. A total of 5683 participants completed a web-based survey concerning participation and security aspects of Internet voting. Attitudes towards Internet voting were positive on the whole and the acceptance of participation in democratic elections using Internet voting was spearheaded by: women, groups with relatively short education, the unemployed and the self-employed. Unlike previous studies, it was found that age was not a significant factor in determining the attitudes towards participation in elections by means of Internet voting. Concerning the security challenges of Internet voting, men were more optimistic than women and participants’ confidence in security increased with age and education length.
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- Faraon, Montathar, 1983-, et al.
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Using circumventing media to counteract authoritarian regimes
- 2011
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference ICT, Society and Human Beings 2011. - Rome, Italy : IADIS Press. - 9789728939366 ; , s. 251-254
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to reflect on how potential circumventing media and communication technologies could potentially assist the information flow when authoritarian regimes decide to block the main channels, such as the Internet and the mobile phone networks. The point of departure is the recent Internet blackouts in countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), such as Egypt, Bahrain and Libya. We discuss several applications that were developed as a response to state repression in these countries, and their future potential that would allow people to communicate more freely despite Internet and mobile network blackouts.
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- Berg, Mikko, et al.
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Exploring Political Agendas with Advanced Visualizations and Interface Tools.
- 2006
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Ingår i: e-Service Journal. - 1528-8226 .- 1528-8234. ; 4, s. 47-63
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With Web-based e-services called "election engines," citizens can search for and compare candidates in local and national elections using issue-based questionnaires. The results of such services are generally in the form of search engine lists. However, data on political issues andagendas is very complex, i.e., highly multidimensional. Hence, we argue that relevant votingdecisions should not be based on simple search engine results, but on more encompassing cognitive operations. In our project, the service was redesigned to extend the function from a meresearch engine to a navigation toolset with real-time feedback. Two types of visualization components, a similarity map and sector diagrams, help citizens to make sense of multidimensional political spaces by facilitating exploration at will. As the result of an extended researchproject, our redesigned service was published by a major commercial broadcasting company forthe Finnish EU elections in June 2004 and in local elections in October 2004.
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- Faraon, Montathar, 1983-, et al.
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Social media affordances in net-based higher education
- 2011
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on International Higher Education (IHE 2011). - Shanghai, China : IADIS Press. - 9789728939564 ; , s. 27-37
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores the attitudes, conceptions and use of social media in net-based higher education. By using statistical and content analysis of data generated by two surveys directed to students (n = 109) and teachers (n = 77) involved in net-based higher education, we explore how social media influence the design of learning context in net-based higher education courses. By applying the affordance theory, we describe actual as well as preferred use of social media from an educational, social, and technical perspectives. The results showed that the potential use of social media have not yet been fully found in the context of net-based higher education. However, the perceived benefit of using social media differs in relation to educational topics. The potential use of social media in net-based higher education courses is discussed.
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- Hynna, Kevin I., et al.
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Activation-based recursive self-organising maps : A general formulation and empirical results
- 2006
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Ingår i: Neural Processing Letters. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1370-4621 .- 1573-773X. ; 24:2, s. 119-136
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We generalize a class of neural network models that extend the Kohonen Self-Organising Map (SOM) algorithm into the sequential and temporal domain using recurrent connections. Behaviour of the class of Activation-based Recursive Self-Organising Maps (ARSOM) is discussed with respect to the choice of transfer function and parameter settings. By comparing performances to existing benchmarks we demonstrate the robustness and systematicity of the ARSOM models, thus opening the door to practical applications.
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- Kaipainen, Mauri, et al.
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Bringing knowing-when and knowing-what together : Periodically tuned categorization and category-based timing modeled with the Recurrent Oscillatory Self-organizing Map (ROSOM)
- 2000
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Ingår i: Minds and Machines. - 0924-6495 .- 1572-8641. ; 10:2, s. 203-229
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The study addresses the cyclically temporal aspect of sequence recognition, storage and recall using the Recurrent Oscillatory Self-Organizing Map (ROSOM), first introduced by Kaipainen, Papadopoulos and Karhu (1997). The unique solution of the network is that oscillatory States are assigned to network units, corresponding to their `readiness-to-fire'. The ROSOM is a categorizer, a temporal sequence storage system and a periodicity detector designed for use in an ambiguous cyclically repetitive environment. As its external input, the model accepts a multidimensional stream of environment-describing feature configurations with implicit periodicities. The output of the model is one or a few closed cycles abstracted from such a stream, mapped as trajectories on a two-dimensional sheet with an organization reminiscent of multi-dimensional scaling. The model's capabilities are explored with a variety of workbench data.
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- Kaipainen, Mauri, 1957-, et al.
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Enactive Systems and Enactive Media : Embodied human-machine coupling beyond interfaces
- 2011
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Ingår i: Leonardo. - 0024-094X .- 1530-9282. ; 44:5, s. 433-438
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper proposes the concept of enactive system as an alternative to the standard assumption of the human-computer-interaction and elaborates the idea of content mediation as enactive media. Our system consists of the two elements coupled in a holistic manner by means of bodily and spatial involvement, or enactment. It has two directions and is recursive by nature involving the impact of the technology on the human agent and the effect of the human experience on the technology. Instead of the standard explicit interface in the middle there is an implicit connecting surface, based on unconscious psychophysiological reactions. Our aim is not only to point out an analytic approach to existing media systems, but also to develop radically novel media concepts implied by the concept.
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