Introduction of modern architecture in Iran and its popularization in 1950s and after, brought some new concepts in everyday life of Iranian women, among which was “kitchen as heart of home-life”. Younger members of current generation are grown in these modernized spaces while a bit older ones have experienced houses of traditional style. This study is designed to explore what previous concept ...

Peri-personal space (PPS) is defined as the space immediately surrounding our bodies, which is critical in the adaptation of our social behavior. As a space of interaction with the external world, PPS is involved in the control of motor action as well as in the protection of the body. The boundaries of this PPS are known to be flexible but so far, little is known about how PPS boundaries are in...

Each one of us has our own way of managing personal information. We have to decide on organizational structures and among other things about placement and naming of information items. Most of the knowledge behind information management decisions is only known to its owner. Most of it is also lost in formal organization structures and cannot be deciphered by an outsider. However, even if persona...

As the Internet population grows, not only computers but household electric appliances, such as VCRs and a refrigerators, will become connected to a network. The demand of connecting appliances to a network is increasing, however, other cheap objects are difficult because of the cost or technical problems. In this research, we focus on connecting people to the Internet. We propose the Personal ...

We have designed a three-layered model which involves the networks between people, the ontologies they use, and the concepts occurring in these ontologies. We propose how relationships in one network can be extracted from relationships in another one based on analysis techniques relying on this network specificity. For instance, similarity in the ontology layer can be extracted from a similarit...

The Web is an open, evolutionary and heterogeneous information space. To exploit this heterogeneous space and better orientate the reader, we developed the HyWebMap system which allows: orientation in the space visited by using a benchmark tool, a browser, a history tool and a global image display based on an interactive map. The reader can create a personal space starting from the spaces visit...