This paper discusses the development of an afternoon peak period trip generation model for both work and non-work trips. Three data sources are used in model development, a Household Travel Survey, a Census-Update Survey, and a Trip Generation Study. Seven one-direction trip purposes are defined, specifically accounting for stops made on the return trip from work to home. Trips are classified b...

OBJECTIVES To conduct a needs assessment of all aspects of food provision in a residential home and to evaluate a subsequent nutrition intervention. DESIGN An intervention study using a before and after design. A participatory approach was adopted and quantitative and qualitative methods used throughout. The intervention involved a revised menu, kitchen equipment, and establishing wholesale s...

In this paper, the people tracking system of a mobile shopping assistant based on a SCITOS-G5 platform is explained in detail. The robot has two tasks, to find people requiring assistance and to guide a user to a target without losing contact. For that purpose, a probabilistic model and a Bayesian update scheme have been developed, where data of various sensory systems is merged asynchronously....

This paper presents the findings of an ongoing research study into offshore information technology and systems outsourcing. Fieldwork was conducted in India and the United Kingdom to identify different strategies and scenarios. Based on the premise that offshore outsourcing poses greater risks than using suppliers from the home country, the research develops a risk assessment matrix comprising ...

This paper presents a prototype of a client system for Realistic Broadcasting that can receive and process immersive media. It provides a viewer which supports stereoscopic video display and haptic interaction with the displayed media. The structure of the system is introduced and each component is described. In order to show the feasibility of Realistic Broadcasting, a home shopping channel sc...

A small battery powered peer-to-peer proximity sensing platform that can be attached to people, places and things can be a valuable tool to conduct research in human activity sensing. Such a platform senses the subjects’ presence and activities in a wide variety of contexts, for example home, car, work, or shopping. It eliminates the need for deployment and maintenance of prohibitively expensiv...

In this paper, we discuss a haptically enhanced multimedia broadcasting system. Four stages of a proposed system are briefly analyzed: scene capture, haptic editing, data transmission, and display with haptic interaction. In order to show usefulness of the proposed system, some potential scenarios with haptic interaction are listed. These scenarios are classified into passive and active haptic ...

The Internet is ‘no longer a curiosity, but part of the landscape’ (Dancer, 2000, p.60). Its growth rate has been phenomenal. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, by May 2000, 54 per cent of all Australian households had a home computer and 33 per cent of households were connected to the Internet. This paper examines who uses the Internet and for what purposes, and addresses associ...

In response to insufficient understanding of the determinants change in e-shopping behaviors during COVID-19 pandemic developing countries, this paper used data from 355 respondents, collected Hanoi social distancing period (April 2020), explore factors associated with shopping online more frequently (i.e., representing growth e-shopping) for five product types (food, medical products, clothing...

Web based shopping is among the most famous exercises of web, yet reasons why buyers purchase online are as hazy. In spite fact that it inferred purchaser acknowledgment web influenced by various items very few examinations have embraced this view. This examination endeavors to analyze buyers' disposition when making on buys with regards item types. A hypothetical system proposed dependent dete...