In May 2016 Bear Family Records will release its third of three boxed sets documenting the three commercial location recording sessions conducted in east Tennessee during the years 1927-1930. Each of the three sessions was held in a different city by a different record company, and each was unique in terms of the specific musicians and types of music recorded; the three sessions had in common the fact that they were all conducted in east Tennessee and that they ultimately documented a broad range of the musical sounds, styles, and repertoire of Appalachia. More

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a single-session group music therapy songwriting session on grief processing in hospice clinicians. The study design was quasi-experimental. Participants were cluster randomized into a control group and a treatment group. The researcher led a 50-minute songwriting session focused on sharing and processing experiences of grief-related stress and burnout in hospice work. Grief processing was measured using a self-report survey for n=25. Overall differences between control and treatment groups were not found to be statistically significant. Significant differences were also not found in treatment score differences for type of hospice clinician or years of experience. For future research with hospice clinicians, a new measurement tool should be developed that is more specific to measuring an actual difference before and after a treatment. The current measurement tool is best used as an inventory for stress and grief levels that result from caregiving. Any new measurement tool should be kept under twenty questions. A single-session, though convenient for busy hospice clinicians, may not provide a complete treatment for grief and stress. Further research with hospice clinicians may require several treatment sessions to achieve a more complete grief processing experience.

Le but fondamental de la recherche d'information (RI) contextuelle consiste à combiner des sources d'évidences issues du contexte de la requête et du contexte de l'utilisateur dans une même infrastructure afin de mieux caractériser les besoins en information de l'utilisateur et améliorer les résultats de la recherche. Notre contribution porte sur la conception d'un système de RI personnalisé intégrant la caractérisation du type de recherche véhiculé par la requête ainsi que la modélisation et construction de profils sémantiques des utilisateurs. Nous exploitons le contexte de la requête dans un mécanisme de prédiction du type de recherche en tant qu'informationnel lié à la recherche par contenu, navigationnel lié à la recherche des sites d'accueil et transactionnel lié à la recherche des services en ligne. Notre approche de prédiction du type de recherche consiste à combiner des sources d'évidences issues des caractéristiques morphologiques de la requête d'une part et le profil de la session défini par le type de recherche porté par la session de recherche d'autre part. Nous nous intéressons ensuite à exploiter, dans un premier temps, le profil de l'utilisateur à court terme dans un processus d'accès personnalisé à l'information. Le profil à court terme traduit généralement un centre d'intérêt de l'utilisateur construit sur la base d'une ou plusieurs sessions de recherche traitant un même besoin en information. Ce profil est construit en exploitant les documents jugés pertinents par l'utilisateur et une ressource sémantique, en l'occurrence une ontologie de base, servant à la représentation conceptuelle du profil. Dans un second temps, le profil à long terme de l'utilisateur est construit par agrégation des profils utilisateurs à court terme construits au cours des sessions de recherche de l'utilisateur. Nous exploitons le profil de l'utilisateur à long terme dans l'initialisation du profil dans une session de recherche traitant un besoin en information récurrent. Le profil de l'utilisateur créé ou qui évolue dans une même session de recherche est utilisé dans le ré-ordonnancement des résultats de recherche des requêtes appartenant à la même session. Nous avons validé notre approche de prédiction du type de recherche sur une collection de requêtes annotées de TREC par comparaison à un classifieur classique. En outre, vu qu'il n'existe pas des cadres d'évaluation standards d'accès personnalisé à l'information, plus particulièrement adaptés à la personnalisation à court terme, nous avons proposé des cadres d'évaluation orienté-contexte basé sur l'augmentation des collections de la campagne TREC par des profils utilisateurs et des sessions de recherche simulés. Nous avons exploité ces cadres d'évaluation pour valider notre contribution dans le domaine. Nous avons également comparé expérimentalement notre contribution à une approche de personnalisation reconnue dans le domaine et avons montré que notre approche est à l'origine d'un un gain de performance significatif.

La Voix sur IP (VoIP) est devenue un paradigme majeur pour fournir des services de télécommunications flexibles tout en réduisant les coûts opérationnels. Le déploiement à large échelle de la VoIP est soutenu par l'accès haut débit à l'Internet et par la standardisation des protocoles dédiés. Cependant, la VoIP doit également faire face à plusieurs risques comprenant des vulnérabilités héritées de la couche IP auxquelles s'ajoutent des vulnérabilités spécifiques. Notre objectif est de concevoir, implanter et valider de nouveaux modèles et architectures pour assurer une défense préventive, permettre le monitorage et la détection d'intrusion dans les réseaux VoIP.<br /><br />Notre travail combine deux domaines: celui de la sécurité des réseaux et celui de l'intelligence artificielle. Nous renforcons les mécanismes de sécurité existants en apportant des contributions sur trois axes : Une approche basée sur des mécanismes d'apprentissage pour le monitorage de trafic de signalisation VoIP, un pot de miel spécifique, et un modèle de corrélation des évenements pour la détection d'intrusion. Pour l'évaluation de nos solutions, nous avons développés des agents VoIP distribués et gérés par une entité centrale. Nous avons développé un outil d'analyse des traces réseaux de la signalisation que nous avons utilisé pour expérimenter avec des traces de monde réel. Enfin, nous avons implanté un prototype de détection d'intrusion basé sur des règles de corrélation des événements.

<p>With the constant development of wireless technologies, the usageof wireless devices tends to increase even more in the future.Wireless multi-hop networks (WMNs) have emerged as a keytechnology to numerous potential scenarios, ranging from disasterrecovery to wireless broadband internet access. The distributedarchitecture of WMNs enables nodes to cooperatively relay othernode's packets. Because of their advantages over other wirelessnetworks, WMNs are undergoing rapid progress and inspiringnumerous applications. However, many technical issues still existin this field. In this thesis we investigate how Voice over IP(VoIP) and peer-to-peer (P2P) application are influenced bywireless multi-hop network characteristics and how to optimizethem in order to provide scalable communication.We first consider the deployment of VoIP service in wirelessmulti-hop networks, by using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)architecture. Our investigation shows that the centralized SIParchitecture imposes several challenges when deployed in thedecentralized wireless multi-hop environment. We find that VoIPquality metrics are severely degraded as the traffic and number ofmultiple hops to the gateway increase. In the context ofscalability, we further propose four alternative approaches whichavoid current limitations.In the second part of this thesis we tackle the network capacityproblem while providing scalable VoIP service over wirelessmulti-hop networks. The performance evaluation shows the influenceof intra and inter-flow interference in channel utilization, whichdirect impacts the VoIP capacity. In order to avoid the small VoIPpacket overhead, we propose a new adaptive hop-by-hop packetaggregation scheme based on wireless link characteristics. Ourperformance evaluation shows that the proposed scheme can increasethe VoIP capacity by a two-fold gain.The study of peer-to-peer applicability over wireless multi-hopnetworks is another important contribution. A resource lookupapplication is realized through structured P2P overlay. We showthat due to several reasons, such as characteristics of wirelesslinks, multi-hop forwarding operation, and structured P2Pmanagement traffic aggressiveness the performance of traditionalP2P applications is rather low in wireless multi-hop environments.Therefore, we suggested that a trade-off between the P2P lookupefficiency and the P2P management traffic overhead can be achievedwhile maintaining the overlay network consistency in wirelessmulti-hop networks.</p>

<p>This thesis is a collection of seven papers reporting a research effort that started in January 1999. The theme of the thesis is interaction support for mobile CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work). The interest in this theme is motivated by the trend towards a networked and nomadic society, the technical trends towards embedded, ubiquitous, and mobile technology, and the emergence of mobile CSCW settings. It is also motivated by current trends within the area of CSCW to focus on actual work practices, invisible and ubiquitous computer support, and mobile work settings where interaction with others is critical to get the work done.</p><p>For some time now mobile technology has been widely used to support dispersed mobile interaction, and recently the importance of co-located ”mobile meetings” to get the work done, has been recognized in the area of CSCW. However, current technology is not well suited when it comes to support interaction in mobile work settings across co-located and dispersed settings. Here, this problem is approached from an informatics perspective. Informatics can be described as a theory and design oriented study of information technology use. The scope of this thesis can be defined as understanding transformations of work practice through the use of mobile technology, and how it might be supported. The overall research question is: What are the specific needs of interaction support related to mobile meetings and dispersed interaction, how might these be supported, and what are the implications for current interaction models and support within CSCW? To answer this question several activities have been undertaken. This thesis contains empirical studies of mobile work among service technicians at Telia Nära, models of mobility and mobile meetings, and design and evaluations of a prototype system called RoamWare.</p><p>The overall conclusions related to the question stated in this thesis are that mobile interaction can be described as ongoing across mobile meetings, including both co-located face-to-face and dispersed interaction. Further, the interaction is maintained by the mobile workers through their efforts of re-establishing different threads of interaction across co-located and dispersed settings. Overall: There is a need to bridge co-located and dispersed meetings with sustained interaction support. Concerning the second part of the overall research question one conclusion is that sustained interaction across co-located and dispersed settings can be supported with mobile physical/virtual meetings support systems through the use of personal and public interaction histories. To illustrate and test this idea a prototype system called RoamWare was developed. However, evaluations of RoamWare revealed that synchronous support for sustained interaction divides users’ attention between co-located and dispersed interaction. As a consequence a second version of RoamWare was developed as an unobtrusive support for sustained interaction in between mobile meetings through seamless reestablishment of different threads of interaction, by offering support for converting interaction histories into project contexts. Finally, and according to the last part of the question stated above, this thesis concludes that current session management models need to be extended to handle sustained and dynamic sessions of interaction across co-located and dispersed mobile meetings and that, techniques for addressing groups need to be extended to enable dynamic addressing of participants in co-located mobile meeting. Finally, the exploration of how to support sustained interaction in between mobile meetings reveals important aspects to consider when trying to automatically frame spontaneous interaction with mobile technology.</p><p>Directions for future work include questions of how to design filters to support: maintenance, participation in, and negotiation about participation in between, different mobile meetings. Further, more work is needed related to how to capture spontaneous face-to-face interaction technically. Finally, new methods are needed to enable good evaluations of the impact of IT in mobile work settings.</p>

This thesis is a collection of seven papers reporting a research effort that started in January 1999. The theme of the thesis is interaction support for mobile CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work). The interest in this theme is motivated by the trend towards a networked and nomadic society, the technical trends towards embedded, ubiquitous, and mobile technology, and the emergence of mobile CSCW settings. It is also motivated by current trends within the area of CSCW to focus on actual work practices, invisible and ubiquitous computer support, and mobile work settings where interaction with others is critical to get the work done. For some time now mobile technology has been widely used to support dispersed mobile interaction, and recently the importance of co-located ”mobile meetings” to get the work done, has been recognized in the area of CSCW. However, current technology is not well suited when it comes to support interaction in mobile work settings across co-located and dispersed settings. Here, this problem is approached from an informatics perspective. Informatics can be described as a theory and design oriented study of information technology use. The scope of this thesis can be defined as understanding transformations of work practice through the use of mobile technology, and how it might be supported. The overall research question is: What are the specific needs of interaction support related to mobile meetings and dispersed interaction, how might these be supported, and what are the implications for current interaction models and support within CSCW? To answer this question several activities have been undertaken. This thesis contains empirical studies of mobile work among service technicians at Telia Nära, models of mobility and mobile meetings, and design and evaluations of a prototype system called RoamWare. The overall conclusions related to the question stated in this thesis are that mobile interaction can be described as ongoing across mobile meetings, including both co-located face-to-face and dispersed interaction. Further, the interaction is maintained by the mobile workers through their efforts of re-establishing different threads of interaction across co-located and dispersed settings. Overall: There is a need to bridge co-located and dispersed meetings with sustained interaction support. Concerning the second part of the overall research question one conclusion is that sustained interaction across co-located and dispersed settings can be supported with mobile physical/virtual meetings support systems through the use of personal and public interaction histories. To illustrate and test this idea a prototype system called RoamWare was developed. However, evaluations of RoamWare revealed that synchronous support for sustained interaction divides users’ attention between co-located and dispersed interaction. As a consequence a second version of RoamWare was developed as an unobtrusive support for sustained interaction in between mobile meetings through seamless reestablishment of different threads of interaction, by offering support for converting interaction histories into project contexts. Finally, and according to the last part of the question stated above, this thesis concludes that current session management models need to be extended to handle sustained and dynamic sessions of interaction across co-located and dispersed mobile meetings and that, techniques for addressing groups need to be extended to enable dynamic addressing of participants in co-located mobile meeting. Finally, the exploration of how to support sustained interaction in between mobile meetings reveals important aspects to consider when trying to automatically frame spontaneous interaction with mobile technology. Directions for future work include questions of how to design filters to support: maintenance, participation in, and negotiation about participation in between, different mobile meetings. Further, more work is needed related to how to capture spontaneous face-to-face interaction technically. Finally, new methods are needed to enable good evaluations of the impact of IT in mobile work settings.

Θα περιγράψουμε τις βασικές λειτουργίες ενός VoIP δικτύου, τα συστατικά του μέρη, καθώς και τα πρωτόκολλα που είναι υπεύθυνα για την εγκατάσταση, τον έλεγχο και τον τερματισμό μιας VoIP υπηρεσίας-συνομιλίας. Τα πρωτόκολλα αυτά ονομάζονται πρωτόκολλα σηματοδοσίας. Τα πρωτόκολλα σηματοδοσίας για VoIP εφαρμογές και ιδιαίτερα το πρωτόκολλο SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) είναι το βασικό θέμα της παρούσας εργασίας. Συγκεκριμένα, έγινε ανάπτυξη ενός SIP User Agent, το λογισμικό του οποίου θα εκτελείται στο δικτυακό επεξεργαστή IXP425 της Intel, μαζί με τα απαραίτητα πρωτόκολλα για την κωδικοποίηση-αποκωδικοποίηση και μετάδοση δειγμάτων φωνής σε μορφή πακέτων δεδομένων. Το αποτέλεσμα αναμένεται να είναι ένα ολοκληρωμένο προϊόν (VoIP phone) για την πραγματοποίηση VoIP κλήσεων. / -

Les réseaux de capteurs sans fils sont de plus en plus utilisés dans des applications de surveillance de grands systèmes (feux de forêt, gaz dans les galeries minières, éthologie, ...). Une caractéristique de ces applications est que la topologie du réseau va être dynamique : soit les capteurs sont géographiquement mobiles (dispersion d'une nappe de pétrole), soit les conditions environnementales évoluent et modifient les capacités de communication des capteurs entre eux. Aussi, d'un système connexe, on peut évoluer vers un système clustérisé qui présente une rupture de la connectivité globale, et donc du système d'information. Une solution consiste à utiliser un (ou des) collecteur(s) des mesures (par exemple un robot mobile) qui va rétablir une connectivité discrète pour reconstituer à des échéances fixes un système d'information cohérent. Nous avons proposé un algorithme de clustering du réseau de capteurs sans fils adapté à la dynamique de sa topologie. La métrique choisie prend en compte la densité et la mobilité des nœuds, ainsi que leur énergie résiduelle. Ensuite, nous avons conçu un protocole de couche session permettant au collecteur de reconstruire le contexte de communication avec les clusters précédemment visités, sachant qu'ils ont pu évoluer en nombre, dispersion, fusion, ... Pour ce faire, il faut générer dynamiquement une trajectoire optimale du collecteur, en se basant sur un modèle d'estimation de la topologie, en prenant en compte les exigences applicatives (fréquence et volume des informations remontées). Pour la validation de l'algorithme de clustering et du protocole de couche session proposés, nous avons défini un modèle de nœud capteur que nous avons intégré à l'environnement de simulation Opnet.

This mixed-method case study examined effects of high school musicians' participation in the jam session, a student-directed, extracurricular music activity. The single case study site was a rural British Columbia high school exceptional for its support of jamming. Forty-four subjects, including 21 who fully met stated criteria for jammers, and 13 non-jamming subjects, were studied over a period of four months. The general research question was: Does participation in a band room jam session benefit students cognitively and motivationally? Specific research questions were: Do students who informally jam on various forms of music enhance their music skills in the perception and meaningful manipulation of music elements, and if so, how? In what ways does Csikszentmihalyi's flow theory explain the continued participation of students in the jam session? Three quantitative instruments were administered to 13 jammers capable of playing a Bb Concert scale on a melody instrument as well as to a comparable group of 13 non-jammers. These instruments included Gordon's Advanced Measures of Music Audiation (AMMA), Froseth's Test of Melodic Ear-to-Hand Coordination (TMEHC), and a researcher-developed test of ear-to-hand coordination (SOR). An ANOVA test showed no significant difference between jammer and non-jammer groups on AMMA scores (p<0.05). ANOVA showed a notable but not significant difference (p<0.056) between groups on the TMEHC, while a Repeated Measures Analysis of pre/post test TMEHC scores showed no effect of jamming over a period of 10 weeks. ANOVA showed a very clear difference between groups on the SOR (p<0.001). Qualitative data collected via journaling, interviews, observation, and participant-observer tasks indicated that jammers were perceiving and manipulating music elements in meaningful ways, and also supported Csikszentmihalyi's flow theory as an explanation for jam session participation. In particular, flow characteristics including transformation of time, loss of self-consciousness, and challenge/skill balance were both observed and reported. The role of the teacher, the presence of a music subculture, and the pseudo-curricular nature of jamming were noted as possible topics for further research.