Revista Romana de Interactiune Om-Calculator

1-18

Authors: Teodor Stefanut, Dorian Gorgan, Nikolas Dovrolis, Eleni Kaldoudi

The development of teaching materials has currently became one of the main concerns of the specialists from various domains, including medicine. The continuous development of e-Learning applications demands the creation of new types of resources that encourage individual study activities with automatic system monitoring and less involvement from the teacher. One of the most promising approaches used currently for creating this type of educational materials in an efficient manner is the improvement and repurposing of the already existing resources. Nevertheless, this method generates new issues related with the description of the connections between the involved resources and also with the search process and identification of the relevant, good quality materials. In this paper we present a possible solution to these problems based on the characteristics of the social networks blended with functionalities specific to the semantic web. Through these tools we will describe the relations between resources and will consequently be able to provide more significant search results. The application presented, called Metamorphosis+, exposes a user interface that hides the complexity of the description process and allows users without technical background to benefit from the provided functionalities.

37-54

Authors: Paul Fogarassy-Neszly

The graphical user’s interfaces accessibility is a key condition for visual disabled peoples to use the computer applications. This paper presents the MOM (Meaningful Object Manager) software tool for accessibility analysis of graphical user interfaces. The accessibility depends not only on the tested applications, but also on assistive technologies. During this paper the functionalities of the MOM tools are described as well as the way these are used for accessibility evaluation. For each component are presented several case studies.

73-92

Authors: Ana Maria Marhan, Camelia Mihaela Popa

Recent studies focuses on topical issues related to Facebook, its use and impact on billions of young people´s social life who may accessing this website on a daily basis. User public profiles, as well as the content they distributed throughout the network can provide teachers and counsellors with a variety of socio-demographic information, along with information on skills, preferences, hobbies, and personality traits. Therefore, this paper critical examines the results of studies examining the online behaviour of users, particularly students, in order to analyse how certain personality traits may influence their preferences in using Facebook, as well as the relevance of such findings for the educational practice.