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As people, organisations and society, we are undergoing a massive technological revolution which is increasingly determining our daily life and work. Networks form the new basis for postmodern society. Networks enable us to be connected regardless of time and place and to exchange and share information with anyone or anything we choose. In industry too, terms like the Industrial Internet, Cyber Physical...
A comparative case study examined two teams for instances of Productive Disciplinary Engagement (PDE) as they completed a complex, virtual process development project. Discourse from team meetings was analyzed to interpret how engagement unfolds, specifically classifying engagement in two dimensions: School vs. Engineering World, and task co-production vs. knowledge co-construction. Teams were found...
This paper presents the mid-term outcome of the Generic Evolutionary Control Knowledge-based mOdule (Gecko) research project, i.e., a layered architecture to implement a cooperative model-based control agent for a Reconfigurable Transportation System (RTSs). A manufacturing plant is here conceived as multiple independent modules to implement alternative inbound logistic systems' configurations. To...
Subjects with physical and sensory disabilities are frequently alienated from the social and production contexts. This type of alienation may lead to the worsening of the disabled subjects' health conditions and an impoverishment of their human relations, which in turn might cause identity crises and a tendency to greater dependence on others, culminating in loss of inclination and ability to learn...
Recently, robots are making their way towards the small and medium enterprises at a quick pace. This is due to market demand and enabled by reduction in costs of robot systems. If robots can be introduced strategically in existing production workflows, productivity could be increased. However, the task division and interaction between human and robot co-workers need to be optimized in order to achieve...
The rapid growth of Internet users and diverse Web 5.0 technologies has made the research scholars and educators to think of intelligent tools such as; expert-like virtual agents as an effective e-learning tool. The success of an e-learning tool relies primarily on the level of acceptance of the tool by the e-learners and their state of emotion while using the tool. Therefore, addressing e-learner's...
Brain-computer interfaces that directly decode speech could restore communication to locked-in individuals. However, decoding speech from brain signals still faces many challenges. We investigated decoding of phonemes — the smallest separable parts of speech — from ECoG signals during word production. We expanded on previous efforts to identify specific phoneme by identifying phonemes by where in...
Many technological solutions, especially in the fields of computer science and software engineering, are poorly supported by empirical evidences of their effectiveness and by the experience of acquiring the application in different industrial contexts. The lack of empirical evidences makes managers less confident in applying technological solutions proposed by the research community. Moreover, the...
Helping users to find useful contacts or potentially interesting subjects is a challenge for social and productive networks. The evidence of the content produced by users must be considered in this task, which may be simplified by the use of the meta-data associated with the content, i.e., The categorization supported by the network -- descriptive keywords, or tags. In this paper we present a model...
The objective of the research is to provide a novel methodology and a set of ICT solutions for collaborative design of cyber-physical based product-services. The products which include cyber-physical features, such as Ambience Intelligence (AmI) features, have to be extended with new services. Development of such products and services requires collaborative work of various stakeholders. A Cloud Manufacturing...
A key success factor for building smart control software for today's energy systems is a precise understanding of their behavioral requirements. However, current engineering approaches lack the possibility to validate these requirements in early phases of development. The validation is hampered by the difficulty estimating the impact of requirements on the overall system behavior before a complete...
In this paper, we present a match between two ontologies, DEMO and e3Value, with the aim of bridging the gap between Business Modelling and Enterprise Engineering. The goal is to provide an objective set of concepts for integrating the teleological and ontological perspectives of a system. DEMO contributes to the constructability of a business model, by providing a theory and method for designing...
The occurrence of learning transfer is an important criterion for checking whether learning has taken place. In recent years, simulation games have been applied widely in the field of skill training and education. But research about whether learning transfer occurs in simulation games is still limited. This paper aims to examine whether learning transfer occurs among learners and to explore the characteristics...
The adoption of smart specialisation as an ex ante conditionality for funding research and innovation actions by the Structural Funds imposes a structured approach to shape up regional innovation strategies. Although the basic elements for supporting the definition of a targeted regional innovation strategy have been individually present in past efforts, it is suggested that in order to produce a...
The design, development, and production of medical devices is increasingly becoming an arduous endeavor, not only due to intensifying global competition and tightening regulatory oversight, but also due to ever-diversifying users needs around the world. The surmounting regulatory hurdles and prohibitive costs for developing and bringing new medical devices to markets, pose a strong detriment to adoption...
As the marketing philosophy evaluated from goods-dominant logic to service-dominant logic, more and more service firms begin to improve service quality by encouraging customers participating in the service production and delivery process. Hence, how to encourage customers to participate in the service production process is also a question which confused service firms' manager. Based on the social...
Automatic metadata extraction tools can improve the effectiveness of media production processes. However, it is difficult to assess the applicability, expected performance and thus cost-effectiveness of a specific tool in a specific task context. We propose the introduction of a task-based approach in the domain of multimedia analysis, in order to assess the practical value of automatic information...
This article aims to present the Vila Fátima Project developed by the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais - PUC Minas, within the activities of the Prorectory of Extension. The study describes the scenarios in which the extension and Project are inserted revealing the vulnerabilities and challenges faced. It is about a reference center for young people aged 15 to 17 years that promotes...
With the growing production and access of resources managed by sensor-rich ubiquitous devices, such as photos, videos, and services, critical issues arise from access control point of view. Sensor-rich devices offer users new opportunities for creating, accessing, and sharing resources from anywhere and at anytime, interacting dynamically with other surrounding devices, users, and the environment...
This article describes the collective experience of a game construction by students and teachers at the Polytechnic School of Health Professional Education Joaquim Venâncio (EPSJV/FIOCRUZ), in the context of a subject of the Health Professional Education curriculum. From the discussion proposed by teachers about the relationship between health and social economic development within the Brazilian Unified...
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