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View article: PrePaMS: Privacy-Preserving Participant Management System for Studies with Rewards and Prerequisites
PrePaMS: Privacy-Preserving Participant Management System for Studies with Rewards and Prerequisites Open
Taking part in surveys, experiments, and studies is often compensated by rewards to increase the number of participants and encourage attendance. While privacy requirements are usually considered for participation, privacy aspects of the r…
View article: PrePaMS: Privacy-Preserving Participant Management System for Studies with Rewards and Prerequisites
PrePaMS: Privacy-Preserving Participant Management System for Studies with Rewards and Prerequisites Open
Taking part in surveys, experiments, and studies is often compensated by rewards to increase the number of participants and encourage attendance. While privacy requirements are usually considered for participation, privacy aspects of the r…
View article: Effects of a Chatbot-Based Intervention on Stress and Health-Related Parameters in a Stressed Sample: Randomized Controlled Trial
Effects of a Chatbot-Based Intervention on Stress and Health-Related Parameters in a Stressed Sample: Randomized Controlled Trial Open
Background Stress levels and the prevalence of mental disorders in the general population have been rising in recent years. Chatbot-based interventions represent novel and promising digital approaches to improve health-related parameters. …
View article: Comparisons of Walleye Fecundity Before, During, and After Rehabilitation of the Red Lakes Fishery
Comparisons of Walleye Fecundity Before, During, and After Rehabilitation of the Red Lakes Fishery Open
The Red Lakes, Minnesota supported a substantial Walleye Sander vitreus fishery from the early to mid-20th century but experienced a major crash in the late 1990s. The population has since rebounded after a successful interagency recovery …
View article: A Methodology and Framework to Determine the Isolation Capabilities of Virtualisation Technologies
A Methodology and Framework to Determine the Isolation Capabilities of Virtualisation Technologies Open
The capability to isolate system resources is an essential characteristic of virtualisation technologies and is therefore important for research and industry alike. It allows the co-location of experiments and workloads, the partitioning o…
View article: A chatbot-based intervention with ELME to improve stress and health-related parameters in a stressed sample: Study protocol of a randomised controlled trial
A chatbot-based intervention with ELME to improve stress and health-related parameters in a stressed sample: Study protocol of a randomised controlled trial Open
Background Stress levels in the general population had already been increasing in recent years, and have subsequently been exacerbated by the global pandemic. One approach for innovative online-based interventions are “chatbots” – computer…
View article: Are You Willing to Self-Disclose for Science? Effects of Privacy Awareness and Trust in Privacy on Self-Disclosure of Personal and Health Data in Online Scientific Studies—An Experimental Study
Are You Willing to Self-Disclose for Science? Effects of Privacy Awareness and Trust in Privacy on Self-Disclosure of Personal and Health Data in Online Scientific Studies—An Experimental Study Open
Digital interactions via the internet have become the norm rather than the exception in our global society. Concerns have been raised about human-centered privacy and the often unreflected self-disclosure behavior of internet users. This s…
View article: Emerging Privacy Issues in Times of Open Science
Emerging Privacy Issues in Times of Open Science Open
The open science movement has taken up the important challenge to increase transparency of statistical analyses, to facilitate reproducibility of studies, and to enhance reusability of data sets. To counter the replication crisis in the ps…
View article: Feasibility of a Software agent providing a brief Intervention for Self-help to Uplift psychological wellbeing (“SISU”). A single-group pretest-posttest trial investigating the potential of SISU to act as therapeutic agent
Feasibility of a Software agent providing a brief Intervention for Self-help to Uplift psychological wellbeing (“SISU”). A single-group pretest-posttest trial investigating the potential of SISU to act as therapeutic agent Open
The Trial is registered at the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform via the German Clinical Studies Register (DRKS): DRKS00014933 (date of registration: 20.06.2018). Link: https://www.drks.de/drks_web/navigate.do?navigationI…
View article: Study protocol of a randomised controlled trial on SISU, a software agent providing a brief self-help intervention for adults with low psychological well-being
Study protocol of a randomised controlled trial on SISU, a software agent providing a brief self-help intervention for adults with low psychological well-being Open
Introduction Only a minority of people living with mental health problems are getting professional help. As digitalisation moves on, the possibility of providing internet/mobile-based interventions (IMIs) arises. One type of IMIs are fully…
View article: The Next Generation: Chatbots in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy to Foster Mental Health – A Scoping Review
The Next Generation: Chatbots in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy to Foster Mental Health – A Scoping Review Open
Background and Purpose: The present age of digitalization brings with it progress and new possibilities for health care in general and clinical psychology/psychotherapy in particular. Internet- and mobile-based interventions (IMIs) have of…
View article: Distributed computing on event-sourced graphs
Distributed computing on event-sourced graphs Open
Modern applications with increasingly connected domain topologies require processing and programming abstractions that reflect the network structure inherent to these applications. At the same time, data-intensive applications necessitate …
View article: An SDN-based Approach For Defending Against Reflective DDoS Attacks
An SDN-based Approach For Defending Against Reflective DDoS Attacks Open
Distributed Reflective Denial of Service (DRDoS) attacks are an immanent threat to Internet services. The potential scale of such attacks became apparent in March 2018 when a memcached-based attack peaked at 1.7 Tbps. Novel services built …
View article: Is Elasticity Of Scalable Databases A Myth?
Is Elasticity Of Scalable Databases A Myth? Open
The age of cloud computing has introduced all the mechanisms needed to elastically scale distributed, cloud enabled applications. At roughly the same time, NoSQL databases have been proclaimed as the scalable alternative to relational data…
View article: A Comparison of TCP Congestion Control Algorithms in 10G Networks
A Comparison of TCP Congestion Control Algorithms in 10G Networks Open
The increasing availability of 10G Ethernet network capabilities challenges existing transport layer protocols. As 10G connections gain momentum outside of backbone networks, the choice of appropriate TCP congestion control algorithms beco…
View article: Tales from the Dark Side: Privacy Dark Strategies and Privacy Dark Patterns
Tales from the Dark Side: Privacy Dark Strategies and Privacy Dark Patterns Open
Privacy strategies and privacy patterns are fundamental concepts of the privacy-by-design engineering approach. While they support a privacy-aware development process for IT systems, the concepts used by malicious, privacy-threatening part…