How will automated vehicles shape users’ daily activities? Insights from focus groups with commuters in the Netherlands

Cervical Cancer Screening and Chinese Women: Insights from Focus Groups

OBJECTIVE Despite extensive efforts to raise awareness, Papanicolaou (Pap) testing rates among Chinese women living in North America remain low compared with Euro-American women. Although the lower Pap testing rate and ensuing health repercussions among Chinese women are well characterized, mechanisms underlying such health disparities are not. The aim of this study was to use a qualitative app...

Automated Activity Interventions to Assist with Activities of Daily Living

Over the last decade there has been a significant growth of research endeavors in the area of ambient intelligence or smart environments. An anticipated increase in the older adult population around the globe and an increase in health care expenditures as a result, has increased the demand of smart health assistance systems. Along with the classical problems of remote health monitoring and acti...

Focus on Advances in Shape from Focus

Historically, the field of image processing grew from electrical engineering as an extension of the signal processing branch, whereas the discipline of computer science was largely responsible for developments in computer vision. An image processing operation typically define a new image in terms of existing image. On the other hand, computer vision deals with meaningful representation of an en...

How Cities Can Plan For Automated Vehicles

Spatial-semantics: How users derive shape from information space

User problems with large information spaces multiply in complexity when we enter the digital domain. Virtual information environments can offer 3-D representations, reconfigurations and access to large databases that can overwhelm many users’ abilities to filter and represent. As a result, users frequently experience disorientation in navigating large digital spaces to locate and use informatio...