This paper outlines a study into the effects of colocation of haptic and visual sensory modes in VR simulations. The study hypothesis is that co-location of these sensory modes will lead to improved task performance and enhanced sense of presence within a VR environment. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect on user performance of co-located haptic feedback. Results show that co-loc...

Wearable computing with Input-Output devices Base on Eye-Based Human Computer Interaction: EBHCI which allows location based web services including navigation, location/attitude/health condition monitoring is proposed. Through implementation of the proposed wearable computing system, all the functionality is confirmed. It is also found that the system does work well. It can be used easily and a...

Contrasting to advances in street/outdoor navigation, wall mounted maps and signs continue to be the primary reference indoor navigation in hospitals, malls, museums, etc. The proliferation of mobile devices and the growing demand for location aware systems that filter information based on currently device location have led to an increase in research and product development in this field. An at...

We present a location-based architecture, based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) event mechanism that provides users with service portability between a wide variety of communication end-points. The architecture supports devices with different configuration formats, through the use of device controllers that manage all devices in an area. Several means of location discovery are used whic...

In a high-capacity cellular network with limited spectral resources, it is desirable to minimize the radio bandwidth costs associated with paging while locating mobile users. Reduction of communication overhead has become a burning issue of today. It induces the intellects to innovate some means which are cost reducing by nature. Location management aims to reduce this overhead through predicti...

This paper proposes an emotion recognition system. Human emotion can be expressed through many kinds of medium such as speech, image, facial expression, and so forth. This paper focuses on the textual data of them. Proposed system is a hybrid system that uses alternatively two methods, keyword-based and machine learning method. Keyword-based methods are traditional approaches using emotional ke...

Infrared Functional Imaging was applied to the study of Raynaud’s Phenomenon obtaing a simultaneous assessment of the thermal properties of all five fingers of both hands of a group of patients with respect of a control group. The method is based on the use of high-resolution telethermography imaging and allows identification of objective parameters from the re-warming curves of finger immediat...

Being able to identify locations associated to a Web resource is essential for providing location-based Web applications. However, geographical information in Web documents is rarely supplied in a machine-readable way and therefore not easily discoverable. As a consequence, it is necessary to extract geographical keywords from Web documents and to associate locations with them. This method is c...

Traditional search engines are usually based on keyword-based retrievals, where location information is simply treated as text data, thus resulting in incorrect search results and low degree of user satisfaction. In this paper, we propose a location-aware Web Service system, which adds location information to web contents, usually consisting of text and multimedia information. For this purpose,...

Location privacy in Location Based Services (LBS) is the capability to protect the connection between user’s identity, uncertainty sources, servers and database, thereby restraining an impending attacker from conveniently linking users of LBS to convinced locations. Smart Phones have become most important gadget for maintaining the daily activities, highly interconnected urban population is als...