The use of virtual reality (VR) technology is growing in the current era COVID-19 pandemic. However, VR causing problems for its users. Some symptoms, such as nausea, headache, and eye strain, are felt after using VR. These symptoms called sickness. This study used electroencephalography (EEG) to record participants' brain activity changes when experiencing Participants given impressions via sc...

Long-term monitoring of an environment is a fundamental requirement for most wireless sensor networks. Owing to the fact that the sensor nodes have limited energy budget, prolonging their lifetime is essential in order to permit long-term monitoring. Furthermore, many applications require sensor nodes to obtain an accurate estimation of a point-source signal (for example, an animal call or seis...

virtual technology can be a useful tool for designing models of healthy urban environments. the resilience and sustainability in any urban environment involves the establishment and maintenance of the health of its citizens. the well-being of youth, the future workforce of every society, is a highly important consideration in the design of cities. cities are only truly sustainable when the work...

Virtual Reality is used successfully to treat people for regular phobias. A new challenge is to develop Virtual Reality Exposure Training for social skills. Virtual actors in such systems have to show appropriate social behavior including emotions, gaze, and keeping distance. The behavior must be realistic and real-time. Current approaches consist of four steps: 1) trainee social signal detecti...

Videoconference systems have been around the market for a long time. Their aim is to provide a way of carrying out meetings without the need for having physical presence of the participants. However, the sense of realism achieved by these systems is usually far away from the one expected by the people involved in the communication. In this paper, we present several advances in audio signal proc...