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Internet has become a global means of communication, turned our reality upside down. It has transformed communications, to the level that it is now our chosen standard of communication. Although there are many ways to protect information from undesired access, Quantum cryptography can be used to unconditionally secure data communications by applying the laws of quantum physics which overcomes the...
Using technology to improve the life-style of people with special needs has become a hot research topic in today's world. The making of a smart device that can solve the communication issues faced by people with autism spectrum disorder(ASD) and disability is presented in this paper. Fueled by the intent of bridging the communication gap between these people and the rest of the world, we have built...
Nowadays, cloud computing and other distributed computing systems have been developed to support various types of workflows in applications. Due to the restrictions in the use of one cloud provider, the concept of multiple clouds has been proposed. In multiple clouds, scheduling workflows with large amounts of data is a well-known NP-Hard problem. The existing scheduling algorithms have not paid attention...
The paper describes a software application running on Android mobile devices, used to help the neuromotor disabled patients to communicate with the clinicians or caretakers. The proposed application also include a telemonitoring (remote monitoring) component used to collect and process few physiological parameters of the patient. The application is part of a more complex communication and monitoring...
Being a sort of communication, Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) uses a language, and therefore can be an object of linguistic consideration. This fact gives rise to two questions. What analogies can be found between BCI and linguistic approaches, methods, experience; what hypothesis about applicability of linguistics to BCI can be proposed? What challenges for linguistics can result from prospective...
Three dimensional virtual worlds (3DVW) have experienced a large growth in number of users, and are being used for collaboration activities. In parallel, the research field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has developed taxonomies to classify systems that support collaboration. However, the CSCW perspective presents a bias towards traditional user interface paradigms, whose affordances...
Museums and similar institutions are historically locations where content is typically only intellectually appreciated following linear visiting patterns. No interactions, in fact, are typically implemented and no possible choice is drawn in front of a visitor regarding the exhibits that will be shown. In addition, exhibition experiences are typically confined within their buildings' walls, not projecting...
About 50% of people with autism have problems in developing any kind of functional language. Working with the concept of serious games and with the impairments that children with autism often have in the communication field, this paper presents the development of a game called ComFiM. ComFiM aims to encourage communication between people with autism as an interactive and dynamic process, first building...
Electronic mail (e-mail) is one of the main ICTs used as a means of communication in the enterprise, it is so used to the point that the question about its acceptance seems more be topical; There is now interest in the changes that it is likely to produce in organizations. By following the method developed by Pierre Barillot (1998) and used by David Autissier (2001), we have tried to understand the...
In this study, a long term mobile learning program was conducted and a survey was developed to explore the effects of mobile learning on five 21st century core competences, that is, collaboration, communication, complex problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity, using a sample of 606 high school students from 10 high schools in Taiwan. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted to show that...
Learning agents are a useful concept for agent-based simulation. The learning ability increases the autonomy of agents, which may lead them to unforeseen results on the individual (micro) and group (macro) level. Learning is even required to be successful in human complex systems, for which an adaptation to environmental changes is necessary. However, learning agents are considered as complex and...
At about 50% of the people diagnosed with autism have problems in developing any kind of functional language. Having this is mind, we developed a game, called ComFiM, for multitouch devices, aiming to encourage communication between people with autism. This paper presents the development and evaluation of ComFiM, exposing design decisions and results. ComFiM was developed based on requirements of...
This short paper looks at the current opportunity to integrate professionally mature health and safety into Building Information Management/Modelling (BIM) and Cloud technology. It argues that while the Cloud can be used to facilitate effective BIM, health and safety needs to be dealt with in a much more integrated fashion than is currently being considered by the building and construction sector...
Communication is a key tool for facilitating multi-agent coordination in multi-agent systems. However, communication may incur a cost associated with the required bandwidth. This paper develop framework of Interactive Dynamic Influence Diagrams, treating both standard actions and communication as explicit choices that the decision maker must consider. The goal is to derive both action policies and...
Many educators and educational institutions include an online discussion forum in the content management system supporting their courses, because they think such tool facilitates the instructional process. It could be true if we explicitly design the instructional process to take advantage of this tool, but to do so we have to better understand how users actually use online discussion boards. Trying...
Mathematics is one of the most difficult courses to study for engineering students. In addition, effective communication, teamwork, and problem solving are important skills for graduate engineers in their professional work. This study proposes Creative Problem Solving as a framework to improve the way engineering students learn mathematics and support their critical problem solving, communication,...
With the fast paced development of the internet, exchanging or concealing of private data has become a serious concern. This Paper proposes a new and an unidentified steganographic technique to conceal your data which can be further encrypted (through cryptography) in a .pdf file format. The informative-theoretic method for performing steganography deals with text-to-text steganography while restoring...
In this paper we propose a new system for Agent-mediated Communication (AMC) in which a network agent mediates people in the network and provides them with linkage for conversation. People left behind from the progress of the Information Society seem to deepen the feeling of isolation and alienation from the society. The agent on the network mediates such passive people and arranges a sort of place...
The system applies PLC of OMRON CJ1M-series as a lower control computer to conduct a field control in the KK Filter system of Jilin Chemical Fiber group. It utilizes King view 6.53 for PC monitor. The paper mainly describes the application and the communication of PLC and inverter in this system. Then the design of operating screen in PC, the attention about the installation of communication lines...
Remote laboratory creates a possibility to handle configuration, control and testing functions of the lab equipment through a client-server communication model. The solutions create conditions for virtual lab exercises organization within the e-learning service of Computer Engineering Laboratory at Technical University of Košice. This is a work with real logical system and functional computer units.
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