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The specialised lexicographic treatment of oenology and viticulture usually consists in the compiling of articles describing the language of wine in general language dictionaries, or presenting professional knowledge of wine in specialised multi-field dictionaries and encyclopedias. This treatment also encompasses the terminological compilation of single field dictionaries describing the language and/or knowledge of wine. Lexicographically speaking, all this is but a fraction of the complete picture. Indeed, the specialised lexicography of oenology and viticulture is multifaceted and goes far beyond the above-mentioned types of articles and dictionaries. It includes a broad range of both online and printed lexicographically structured information tools, such as wine guides, atlases, companions, oenological websites, and mobile applications. In line with this growing interest for lexicographically structured information tools on oenology, wine making, and wine tasting, this article argues for an expansion of lexicography dealing with wine: It explains how a new lexicographic information tool, in this case OENOLEX Burgundy, a French monolingual online wine dictionary commissioned by the Burgundian wine industry, offers various functions and usage modes to its users, including access to multimodal data, and how it differs from a comparable South African online wine dictionary commissioned by the South African wine industry. In line with the findings of this comparative study, lexicographic proposals are subsequently formulated. The first proposal is that such online wine industry dictionaries should be developed in accordance with specific user situations and needs, and make use of a monofunctional design and an adaptive user interface. The second proposal is that such online wine industry dictionaries should not stand alone, as they could benefit from a full integration with the websites of the wine industry, and consequently transform into genuine lexicographic information tools. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

The specialised lexicographic treatment of oenology and viticulture usually consists in the compiling of articles describing the language of wine in general language dictionaries, or presenting professional knowledge of wine in specialised multi-field dictionaries and encyclopedias. This treatment also encompasses the terminological compilation of single field dictionaries describing the language and/or knowledge of wine. Lexicographically speaking, all this is but a fraction of the complete picture. Indeed, the specialised lexicography of oenology and viticulture is multifaceted and goes far beyond the above-mentioned types of articles and dictionaries. It includes a broad range of both online and printed lexicographically structured information tools, such as wine guides, atlases, companions, oenological websites, and mobile applications. In line with this growing interest for lexicographically structured information tools on oenology, wine making, and wine tasting, this article argues for an expansion of lexicography dealing with wine: It explains how a new lexicographic information tool, in this case OENOLEX Burgundy, a French monolingual online wine dictionary commissioned by the Burgundian wine industry, offers various functions and usage modes to its users, including access to multimodal data, and how it differs from a comparable South African online wine dictionary commissioned by the South African wine industry. In line with the findings of this comparative study, lexicographic proposals are subsequently formulated. The first proposal is that such online wine industry dictionaries should be developed in accordance with specific user situations and needs, and make use of a monofunctional design and an adaptive user interface. The second proposal is that such online wine industry dictionaries should not stand alone, as they could benefit from a full integration with the websites of the wine industry, and consequently transform into genuine lexicographic information tools. Nuwe voorstelle vir die ontwerp van geïntegreerde aanlyn wynbedryfwoordeboeke Die gespesialiseerde leksikografiese behandeling van die wynkunde en wynbou bestaan gewoonlik in die samestelling van artikels wat die taal van wyn in algemene taalwoordeboeke beskryf of die vakkennis van wyn in gespesialiseerde multiveldwoordeboeke en -ensiklopediëe aanbied. Hierdie behandeling omvat ook die terminologiese samestelling van enkelveldwoordeboeke wat die taal en/of kennis van wyn omskryf. Leksikografies gesproke is dit alles maar 'n klein deeltjie van die geheelbeeld. Die gespesialiseerde leksikografie van die wynkunde en wynbou is inderdaad ryk geskakeerd en gaan ver verby die bogenoemde soort artikels en woordeboeke. Dit sluit 'n wye reeks van sowel aanlyn as gedrukte leksikografies gestruktureerde inligtingsgereedskap in, soos wyngidse, -atlasse, -maatskappye, wynkundige webtuistes en mobiele toepassings. Ooreenkomstig hierdie groeiende belangstelling vir leksikografies gestruktureerde inligtingsgereedskap oor wynkunde, wynmaak en wynproe, bepleit hierdie artikel 'n uitbreiding van die leksikografie wat handel oor wyn: Dit verduidelik hoe 'n nuwe leksikografiese inligtingswerktuig, in hierdie geval OENOLEX Burgundy, 'n Franse eentalige aanlyn wynwoordeboek wat 'n opdrag van die Boergondiese wynbedryf is, verskillende funksies en gebruiksmodusse aan sy gebruikers bied, insluitende toegang tot multimodale data, en hoe dit verskil van 'n vergelykbare Suid-Afrikaanse aanlyn wynwoordeboek wat 'n opdrag is van die Suid-Afrikaanse wynbedryf. Ooreenkomstig die bevindinge van hierdie vergelykende studie, word leksikografiese voorstelle vervolgens geformuleer. Die eerste voorstel is dat sulke aanlyn wynbedryfwoordeboeke ontwerp behoort te word in ooreenstemming met spesifieke gebruikersituasies en -behoeftes en gebruik te maak van 'n monofunksionele ontwerp en 'n aanpasbare gebruikerskoppelvlak. Die tweede voorstel is dat sulke aanlyn wynbedryfwoordeboeke nie alleen behoort te staan nie, aangesien hulle kan baat by 'n volle integrasie met die webtuistes van die wynbedryf, en gevolglik verander in werklike leksikografiese inligtingsgereedskap.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise and discuss the possible insights that can be generated for product development by analysing the user-generated content available from various social media platforms. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews the role of user generated content in developing products and its features (e.g. appearance and shape). It delineates the directions in which the relationship between social media content and customer oriented concepts evolve while developing successful new products. Findings – The review and arguments presented in this paper suggest that the social media approach adds more value than the traditional approaches for obtaining insights about the products. Availability of users’ opinions and information about existing products provide insights for the improvement in the product design process. Co-creation and self-construal are important components that are based on customer engagement and customer behaviour, respectively, in the product design and development. Practical implications – As social media creates new ways of communication with users, businesses can include users into the product development process to improve and refine their products or for making the next generation of products. Originality/value – This paper suggests a new approach in getting useful insights about the products from user-generated contents. This way of using social media helps businesses to move forward from the traditional product development paradigms.

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) aim at the non-invasive investigation of brain activity for supporting communication and interaction of the users with their environment by means of brain-machine assisted technologies. Despite technological progress and promising research aimed at understanding the influence of human factors on BCI effectiveness, some topics still remain unexplored. The aim of this article is to discuss why it is important to consider the language of the user, its embodied grounding in perception, action and emotions, and its interaction with cultural differences in information processing in future BCI research. Based on evidence from recent studies, it is proposed that detection of language abilities and language training are two main topics of enquiry of future BCI studies to extend communication among vulnerable and healthy BCI users from bench to bedside and real world applications. In addition, cultural differences shape perception, actions, cognition, language and emotions subjectively, behaviorally as well as neuronally. Therefore, BCI applications should consider cultural differences in information processing to develop culture- and language-sensitive BCI applications for different user groups and BCIs, and investigate the linguistic and cultural contexts in which the BCI will be used.

Coupling brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) and robotic systems in the future can enable seamless personal assistant systems in everyday life, with the requests that can be performed in a discrete manner, using one’s brain activity only. These types of systems might be of a particular interest for people with locked-in syndrome (LIS) or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) because they can benefit from communicating with robotic assistants using brain sensing interfaces. In this proof-of-concept work, we explored how a wireless and wearable BCI device can control a quadruped robot—Boston Dynamics’ Spot. The device measures the user’s electroencephalography (EEG) and electrooculography (EOG) activity of the user from the electrodes embedded in the glasses’ frame. The user responds to a series of questions with YES/NO answers by performing a brain-teaser activity of mental calculus. Each question–answer pair has a pre-configured set of actions for Spot. For instance, Spot was prompted to walk across a room, pick up an object, and retrieve it for the user (i.e., bring a bottle of water) when a sequence resolved to a YES response. Our system achieved at a success rate of 83.4%. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first integration of wireless, non-visual-based BCI systems with Spot in the context of personal assistant use cases. While this BCI quadruped robot system is an early prototype, future iterations may embody friendly and intuitive cues similar to regular service dogs. As such, this project aims to pave a path towards future developments in modern day personal assistant robots powered by wireless and wearable BCI systems in everyday living conditions.

Brain tumors are characterized by the high burden of disease that profoundly impacts the quality of life in patients and their families. Digital health tools hold tremendous potential to enhance supportive care and quality of life for patients with brain tumors and their caregivers. This study aims to generate ideas and concepts, through a co-design paradigm, to inform the development of a digital health tool to address the unmet needs of people affected by brain tumors. Patients with brain tumors, caregivers, and health professionals from 2 large public tertiary hospitals in Victoria, Australia, were invited to complete a qualitative interview discussing their unmet needs of care. Overall, 35 qualitative interviews focusing on unmet needs and concepts for a digital health tool were conducted with 13 patients, 11 caregivers, and 11 health professionals. Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed, and a 5-step framework analysis approach was used to analyze data. Four themes of unmet supportive care needs emerged: (1) emotional and psychological, (2) information, (3) physical and practical, and (4) social connectedness. Participants expressed the desire for early and proactive mental health intervention, noted the importance of providing mental health support to caregivers, and emphasized the need for positive stories and affirmative language. From an information perspective, participants noted a sense of information overload, especially at the beginning. They also underscored the variety of information needed on an ongoing basis, including life after treatment, and comprehensive care assistance to maintain quality of life. Participants also described unmet supportive care needs relating to symptom burden, and practical and administrative support to facilitate the logistics of accessing treatment and accomplishing daily life tasks. Finally, they expressed the desire for greater social connectedness and safe spaces to engage with other people in a similar situation. Our findings are consistent with previous research on this subject and were integrated into the development of a web-based platform. Participants' perspectives informed the development of content for a web-based digital health platform called \"Brain Tumours Online.\" The platform comprises three pillars-(1) \"LEARN\": a repository of vetted information about a range of biomedical and psychosocial care topics; (2) \"CONNECT\": a digital peer support community with a health care professional interface; and (3) \"TOOLBOX\": an emerging library of validated digital therapeutics for symptom management.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to challenge processes of organizational learning and innovation that are based on making use of, extrapolating, or adapting past experiences and knowledge, because such a strategy turns out to be incapable of dealing with the challenges of today's volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment. As a possible way out, a conceptual model is proposed that integrates organizational learning and innovation as a future-driven learning process and a future-making practice. Design/methodology/approach: This work is conceptual in nature, drawing on (both theoretical/philosophical and empirical) interdisciplinary concepts and evidence from a variety of fields, including organizational studies, organizational learning, innovation studies, systems theory and systems biology, as well as cognitive science. Findings: The author proposes a paradigm shift in organizational learning: from a future-oriented perspective, organizational learning can be viewed as an innovation process that is based on \"learning from the future as it emerges.\" A conceptual approach is presented that integrates future-oriented innovation and organizational learning as a future-making practice. It is based on learning from future potentials as a source for sustainable innovations. Both epistemological/ontological foundations and organizational implications are discussed. Originality/value: This paper introduces a new perspective on the role of future-oriented innovation in the context of organizational learning. It shows how organizational learning and innovation can be integrated and how shortcomings of absorptive capacity can be overcome by assuming a future-driven perspective. Furthermore, an epistemology of future knowledge/potentials and its applications for organizations is developed.

Realizing the decoding of brain signals into control commands, brain-computer interfaces (BCI) aim to establish an alternative communication pathway for locked-in patients. In contrast to most visual BCI approaches which use event-related potentials (ERP) of the electroencephalogram, auditory BCI systems are challenged with ERP responses, which are less class-discriminant between attended and unattended stimuli. Furthermore, these auditory approaches have more complex interfaces which imposes a substantial workload on their users. Aiming for a maximally user-friendly spelling interface, this study introduces a novel auditory paradigm: \"CharStreamer\". The speller can be used with an instruction as simple as \"please attend to what you want to spell\". The stimuli of CharStreamer comprise 30 spoken sounds of letters and actions. As each of them is represented by the sound of itself and not by an artificial substitute, it can be selected in a one-step procedure. The mental mapping effort (sound stimuli to actions) is thus minimized. Usability is further accounted for by an alphabetical stimulus presentation: contrary to random presentation orders, the user can foresee the presentation time of the target letter sound. Healthy, normal hearing users (n = 10) of the CharStreamer paradigm displayed ERP responses that systematically differed between target and non-target sounds. Class-discriminant features, however, varied individually from the typical N1-P2 complex and P3 ERP components found in control conditions with random sequences. To fully exploit the sequential presentation structure of CharStreamer, novel data analysis approaches and classification methods were introduced. The results of online spelling tests showed that a competitive spelling speed can be achieved with CharStreamer. With respect to user rating, it clearly outperforms a control setup with random presentation sequences.

— This study presents a vision of the science library as a social institution whose functions embrace the information support of research activities to organizing and managing the entire system of scientific communications of the various domains of academic knowledge. The user-centered model radically changes the composition and proportions of different types of library work. The key information support of the library user is delegated to intelligent software tools that ensure an incomparably greater coverage and depth of service at a colossal reduction in labor costs. The main attention of librarians can turn to organizing, moderating, and providing material support of all possible formats of live communication as the most efficient kind of communication as well as to implementing training programs intended to help users to master their skills in using digital information resources and research activity tools.

A new virtual reality task was employed which uses preference for interpersonal distance to social stimuli to examine social motivation and emotion perception in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Nineteen high function children with higher functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (HFASD) and 23 age, gender, and IQ matched children with typical development (TD) used a joy stick to position themselves closer or further from virtual avatars while attempting to identify six emotions expressed by the avatars, happiness, fear, anger, disgust, sadness, and surprise that were expressed at different levels of intensity. The results indicated that children with HFASD displayed significantly less approach behavior to the positive happy expression than did children with TD, who displayed increases in approach behavior to higher intensities of happy expressions. Alternatively, all groups tended to withdraw from negative emotions to the same extent and there were no diagnostic group differences in accuracy of recognition of any of the six emotions. This pattern of results is consistent with theory that suggests that some children with HFASD display atypical social-approach motivation, or sensitivity to the positive reward value of positive social–emotional events. Conversely, there was little evidence that a tendency to withdraw from social–emotional stimuli, or a failure to process social emotional stimuli, was a component of social behavior task performance in this sample of children with HFASD.