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This paper describes a solution based on Near Field Communication technology to improve Passenger Experience, i.e. the fruition of services and assets, in airports. This system has been developed within the PITAGORA project, a research program co-financed by the Regional Government of Tuscany, Italy, focusing on the development of an innovative integrated platform for airport management. The proposed...
This paper focuses on culture and software development tools issues with respect to the development of a proposed Culture Aware Reference Architecture (CARA) for the delivery of culture competent mobile oriented solutions through culture awareness. The paper presents a discussion of selected architectural design approaches, tools or methodologies that were considered and applied across defined architectural...
Hybrid App is mainly realized by calling each other by JavaScript (JS) and Native, so it implements the mechanism of ‘one development, multi operation’, so it can be called the real cross-platform development. The most striking difference of Hypertext Markup Language 5 (HTML5) and JavaScript from WebApp is that they call the bottom function encapsulated by NativeApp. Hybrid App is characterized by...
The acceptance of mobile applications is highly dependent on the realized set of features and on the quality of the application. Information about their acceptance can be gained quickly by collecting and analyzing user feedback such as explicit textual reviews provided by an application's users or implicitly provided usage data. With an approach based on developing a minimal set of functions in order...
In view of the problems of the current teaching content being out of touch with social needs and students' poor practical abilities and other issues, this paper analyzes the new international software engineering training model. Based on the iterative optimization method of updating the teaching idea, optimizing the curriculum system, strengthening the schoolenterprise cooperation and improving teachers'...
This paper presents a case study based on the experience of implementing a blended learning (BL) approach by SPOC to a Computer General course for all the first year undergraduates in China University of Geosciences (Beijing). It introduces ubiquitous learning environment (ULE), teaching preparation for student-centered learning, and teaching practice of the BL. The study shows that BL approach has...
CDIO(Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate) engineering teaching concept values combination of theory and practice and provide sets of theory and system of engineering education. MOOC (massive online open courses) is an emerging educational form which is used for participants everywhere to obtain courses education through learning of teaching videos and discussion and exchanges among teachers and students...
We present a man-friendly design for developing the touch-operation-based Dynamic Geometry Software (DGS). It is based on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The main concept of this design mode is What You Think is What You Get (WYTIWYG). User has two ways to create geometric constructions at will under this design concept. To archive this concept, five basic units have been designed, which can reduce...
This paperwork proposes a more economical and efficient Local Public Transport (LPT) transit routes for Rome. Optimization of public transit will result in greater capacity and efficiency for transit users. This proposal is based on real data of the public transit network of Rome, elaborated by an Ant Colony System (ACS) algorithm. The source information has been obtained via recorded phone data of...
This study designed a smart Lazy Susan as a daily life aid for the visually impaired people to improve their dining convenience and safety. This smart device was realized by combining a Lazy Susan, electric motor, gears, voice integrated circuit (IC) module, radio frequency identification (RFID), blue-tooth module, mobile application (APP), speaker, single-chip microcomputer, and a set of buttons...
The development of smart phone software industry has brought high demands for mobile developers. The skills of developers have a great influence on the quality of software product and the success of software projects. It is necessary to examine what soft skills are important for mobile applications development while it remains unknown. In this article, based on related mobile application development...
Virtual worlds and avatar-based interactive computer games are a hype among consumers and researchers for many years now. In recent years, such games on mobile devices also became increasingly important. However, most virtual worlds require the use of proprietary clients and authoring environments and lack portability, which limits their usefulness for targeting wider audiences like e.g. in consumer...
Innovative mobile applications bring radical changes to people's life around the globe. With its unique characteristics of anywhere, anytime accessibility, thousands of mobile apps are developed, distributed, and executed over the Internet. To understand the selection criteria for different end users when facing a mobile application, this paper quests for an evaluation framework for mobile apps based...
Network operators and equipment vendors can hesitate to deploy network protocol innovations in fear of breaking connectivity for end users. To assess the potential for evolution of the protocol stack, it is important to know the existing network impairments and opportunities to work around the impairments. While classical network measurement tools often focus on absolute performance values, PATHspider...
Mobile Broadband (MBB) access networks are becoming more and more used worldwide, and the devices adopted to access them are increasing in number and complexity (smartphones, mobile hotspots, vehicular infotainment systems). The highly dynamic nature of such scenarios calls for continuous monitoring and measurement of the network, and possibly cross-layer management of network applications. A recent...
Visuomotor integration (VMI), the use of visual information to guide motor planning, execution, and modification, is necessary for a wide range of functional tasks. To comprehensively, quantitatively assess VMI, we developed a paradigm integrating virtual environments, motion-capture, and mobile eye-tracking. Virtual environments enable tasks to be repeatable, naturalistic, and varied in complexity...
In recent years, mobile data gathering in wireless sensor networks has attracted much interests in the research community. However, despite extensive efforts, many of previous work in this area lies only in theory and evaluates network performance with computer simulations, which leaves a large gap from reality. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a general purpose, flexible...
The growth and spread of the Internet in the last years, several middle of communication has been appearing and among them, they are the smartphones and applications. There are many types of mobile applications and among them, they are the applications of social nets. In this perspective, this paper aims to evaluate through an observation study the communicability and user experience of the application...
Crowdsourcing (CS) is a distributed software development model in which small activities (or microtasks) are developed by employees supported by an online platform. Due to the possibility of aggregating specialists and reducing costs, many companies are applying CS in their software development projects. However, there are still gaps in how microtasks are being adopted, leading to several management...
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