An Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology which provides the user with a real time 3D enhanced perception of a physical environment with addition virtual elements—either virtual scenery, information regarding surroundings, other contextual information—and is also capable of hiding or replacing real structures. With Augmented Reality applications becoming more advanced, the ways the technology c...

Trading is widely recognized as a stressful profession. Taking decisions under stress negatively affects both, the finances and the health of the trader. Providing support to increase the awareness of traders on their real levels of stress could significantly improve their performance and well-being. This paper surveys technology available that can be considered to provide such level of support...

This paper tackles on ethical issues that are relevant when designing new technological service systems for the assisted living. In this paper we present our preliminary ethical guidelines that are built on six ethical principles that are selected based on the ethical assessment of MINAmI (Micro-Nano integrated platform for transverse Ambient Intelligence applications), FP 6 Eu – project, scena...

Let P be a simple polygon with N vertices, each assigned a weight c (0<i<N) with c€{0 , l } . We define the weight C of P as the added weight of its vertices, i.e., C = c 1 +. . . + c A r Making the assumption that the vertices of P have been sorted along some axis -which can be done in 0(Mog AO time-, we prove that it is possible, in O(N) time, to find two vertices a,b in P, such that the segm...

The paper summarizes a project to increase the sense of presence within a driving simulator while interacting with autonomous trafŽc. The project sought to model natural variations in ambient trafŽc to emulate identiŽable driving styles for different categories of driver. Probability distributions combined with decision histories were employed to characterize speed choice while providing a mech...

Experimental observations show that the presence of small tabs on the edge of a hot, compressible jet exiting into a slower moving, colder ambient ow can increase the rate of spreading of the jet. This suggests that the rate of mixing of the jet and the ambient uid is also increased. In order to elucidate the physical mechanism responsible for the increased spreading rate a set of calculations ...

For enjoying 3D video to its full extent, access and consumption of 3D content should be user centric, which in turn ensures enhanced quality of user experience. The experience nevertheless is easily influenced by several factors, including content characteristics, users’ preferences, contexts prevailing in various usage environments, etc. Utilizing ambient illumination as an environmental cont...

Using controlled environmental growth chambers, whole plants of soybean, cv. ‘Clark’, were examined during early development (7–20 days after sowing) at both ambient (μ 350 μL L–1) and elevated (μ 700 μL L–1) carbon dioxide and a range of air temperatures (20, 25, 30, and 35 °C) to determine if future climatic change (temperature or CO2 concentration) could alter the ratio of carbon lost by dar...

Recently, ambient backscatter communications has been introduced as a cutting-edge technology which enables smart devices to communicate by utilizing ambient radio frequency (RF) signals without requiring active RF transmission. This technology is especially effective in addressing communication and energy efficiency problems for low-power communications systems such as sensor networks. It is e...