Motivation: The Intelligent Room is a complex synergy of software agents, hardware devices, and human researchers. New features are added daily, which increases the capability and functionality of the Intelligent Room. Unfortunately, the improvements in capability and functionality come at a cost of increased complexity. For example, there are more than a half dozen ways of turning on the light...

Knowledge management is a process taking any steps that needed to get the most out of available knowledge resources. KM involved several steps; capturing the knowledge discovering new knowledge, sharing the knowledge and applied the knowledge in the decision making process. In applying the knowledge, it is not necessary for the individual that use the knowledge to comprehend it as long as the a...

To ensure that users do not choose weak personal identification numbers (PINs), many banks give out system-generated PINs, using computers to generate random PINs. 4-digit is the most commonly used PIN length, but 6-digit system-generated PINs are also becoming popular. The increased security we get from using system-generated PINs, however, comes at the cost of memorability. And while banks ar...

Introduction: Accessibility and assistive products and technologies are needed to ensure the rights of persons with disabilities and older persons. Many developments have been implemented in laws, standards, markets and from the consumers perspective, at international, European and national levels. The real issue is that not all the potential users benefit from the use of assistive products or ...

A 53 year-old man who had been suffering from left leg pain had relief to some degree with conservative treatment. Fifteen days later he had another painful episode and was hospitalized for physical therapy. Acute paraparesia developed on the tenth day after admission. On neurosurgical consultation there was paraparesia which was prominent distally. both patella and Achilles reflexes were aboli...