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In terms of achieving sustainable development of city construction and constructing the harmonious human habitat environment, the influence of viaduct to the built environment and some problems in the landscape design has been discussed. The bridge designers' architectural culture must be improved in order to change the conflict caused by emphasizing that building depends on functions too much with...
With the exploitation of our city, the harmony between waterfronts and people have vanished. Based on the analysis over the natural and cultural factors of three waterfront regions in Chongqing, the paper summarizes the human-nature relationship and its problems. Taking the low-impact development ideas which emphasize on respecting the nature, the paper proposes the “water-friendly planning”. This...
For the sustainable development of society and the economy, the vast expanse of existing villages in China will have to be deliberately re-planned and re-constructed. Under the circumstances, eco-villages tending towards a recycling pattern are an approach to this sustainable concept. In this article, the theory of eco-village planning is proposed, and the planning theory being practiced at a village...
To solve the common damaging problems of construction and the general conservation strategy failures, this article puts forward a gradual conservation strategy, which features a series of changes: from keeping vitality to overall rejuvenation; from inheriting building genes to overall protection; from government dominance to greater public involvement
Applying the combination method of literature review and questionnaire survey, this paper places stress on the effect of peasant workers' social capital on job hunting and how the peasant workers to reconstruct social capital through positivist research on 180 peasant workers in Chengkou county.The study found that peasant workers in small towns favored using social capital to search job while the...
Pervasive computing technologies can enable very flexible situated collaboration patterns among citizens and, via crowdsourcing, can promote a participatory way of contributing to the wealth and quality of life of our urban environments. This position paper firstly sketches a future vision of pervasive computing rich and crowdsourcing-enabled urban environments. Then, it presents several case studies...
City-scale human mobility analysis is an important problem in pervasive computing. In this paper, with qualitative and quantitative analysis, we establish and confirm the relationship between the get-on/off characteristics of taxi passengers and the social function of city regions. We find that get-on/off amount in a region can depict the social activity dynamics in that area, i.e. the temporal variation...
The advent of ubiquitous, mobile, personal devices creates an unprecedented opportunity to improve our understanding of human movement. In this work, we study human mobility in Los Angeles and New York by analyzing anonymous records of approximate locations of cell phones belonging to residents of those cities. We examine two data sets gathered six months apart, each representing hundreds of thousands...
Location-based queries are quickly becoming ubiquitous. However, traditional search engines perform poorly for a significant fraction of location-based queries, which are non-factual (i.e., subjective, relative, or multi-dimensional). As an alternative, we investigate the feasibility of answering location-based queries by crowdsourcing over Twitter. More specifically, we study the effectiveness of...
The interrelation between dependability and sustainability has only been explored to a limited extent and this paper was written with the intent to advance this exploration with an example of how dependability supports sustainability for a particular type of complex engineered system. First the Dependability - Reliability, Maintainability, Availability, Safety (RAMS) - and Sustainability concepts...
Manual annotation of clinical documents creates reference standards to train and evaluate natural language processing (NLP) systems, but can also be used in other aspects of patient care and research. Manual annotation is costly and time-consuming and is usually done for specific use cases. We present a practical approach to the storage of annotations along with text using the Clinical Document Architecture...
Social Networking Sites (SNS) have an unprecedented ability to capture Human activity, including information about the specific physical settings in which those activities are taking place. This represents a major potential for uncovering, on a large scale, new knowledge about aggregate behaviors in the use of places. In this paper, we explore the concept of social web sensor, as a systematic data...
Androids are potentially required to show human-like behavior, because their appearance resembles humans' physical features. Therefore, we propose a gaze motion planning method. Within this method, we control the convergence of eyes and the ratio of eye angle to head angle, which leads to a more precise estimation of gaze direction. We implemented our method on the android Actroid-SIT and conducted...
Photograph is a very useful tool for describing configurations of real-world objects to others. People immediately understand various pieces of information such as “what is the target object” and “where is the target position” by looking at a photograph, even without verbal descriptions. Our goal was to leverage these features of photographs to enrich human-robot interactions. We propose to use photographs...
In this paper, we research the potential of information communication technologies (ICTs) for changing our society from a commute-centric to a network-centric environment. We propose to formalize the key attributes of ICT-based telecommuting experiences from both economic and human interactivity perspective. We introduce the notion of network-eligible transactions and disclose the link between degree...
A delivery route optimization system greatly improves the real time delivery efficiency. To realize such an optimization, its distribution network requires solving several tens to hundreds (max. 1500-2000) cities Traveling Salesman Problems (TSP) within interactive response time (around 3 seconds) with expert-level accuracy (below 3% level of error rate). To meet these requirements, a Backtrack and...
The following topics are dealt with:Software, architectures; hardware architectures; control architectures; human science; human-humanoid interaction; whole-body motion planning; skill learning; social robotics; humanoid robot manipulations; and humanoids education.
Population growth and urbanisation are potentially affecting the environmental quality and human health. Studies have been carried out to understand the “chain of causality” between human activities and air pollution, as well as air quality and human health. Environmental health indicators were reviewed and selected for this study with Kuala Lumpur city as case study. Environmental health was defined...
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