The direction where a user points a mobile phone to can be measured with the phone's integrated compass. Pointing over time and with varying direction is often referred to as scanning , which is an emerging interaction technique and increasingly applied in the eld of mobile navigation and orientation. Because there is no need to look at the screen while scanning, often haptic or audio feedback ...

The Indonesian fertiliser industry is a significant contributor to the national economy. Given the need to distribute its products to customers on the 17,000 islands making up the Indonesian archipelago, capacity and availability of ports are major factors in managing fertiliser product lifecycles. Improving the management of material flow in ports results in more efficient loading and unloadin...

A computational model of the human head has been developed by Simpleware and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to simulate head impact. The head model was generated using high-resolution scan data, segmentation and image-based meshing techniques, and has been used in Abaqus for a range of simulations. The NRL/Simpleware head model addresses several key limitations of existing techniques ...

Several interaction techniques have been proposed to enable transfer of information between different displays in heterogeneous multi-display environments. However, it is not clear whether subjective user preference for these different techniques depends on the nature of the displays between which information is transferred. We explore subjective usability of speech, touch and gesture for movin...

In this paper, we discuss interaction interoperability in Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE), intended to mean the ability of two or more users to cooperate despite the heterogeneity of their interfaces. To allow such interoperability, rather than focusing on the de-coupling of input devices from interaction techniques and from interaction tasks, we suggest integrating interactive systems...

Web applications are becoming increasingly popular on mobile/wireless devices. As more desktop applications that are inherently computational intensive and resource-demanding are being ported to the mobile platforms, the energy consumption of the devices is shooting up, thereby decreasing the battery life. An alternate approach is to off-load the resource intensive computations to remote server...

In this paper an agent-based ambient system is presented to support persons in learning specific movement patterns. The ambient system serves as a personal coach that observes a person’s movement pattern, and analyses this based on comparison with an ideal pattern generated by optimisation using a computational musculoskeletal model for this type of pattern minimizing knee joint loading. Based ...

multi-part words in english language are hyphenated and hyphen is used to separate different parts. persian language consists of multi-part words as well. based on persian morphology, half-space character is needed to separate parts of multi-part words where in many cases people incorrectly use space character instead of half-space character. this common incorrectly use of space leads to some s...

in this study, an extended stress-based forming limit diagram (fld) for prediction of necking based on the marciniak and kucznski (m-k) model is represented and applied in tube hydroforming. the bulge forming of a straight tube is simulated by finite element method and verified with published experimental data. this adaptive simulation technique is based on the ability to detect the onset and g...