i Preface The Code of Practice for Energy Efficiency of Lighting Installations (Lighting Code) developed by the Electrical & Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) aims to set out the minimum design requirements on energy efficiency of lighting installations. It forms a part of a set of comprehensive Building Energy Codes (BEC) that addresses energy efficiency requirements in building services i...

this paper consists of three sections. in the first section an efficient method is used for decomposition of the canonical matrices associated with repetitive structures. to this end, cylindrical coordinate system, as well as a special numbering scheme were employed. in the second section, divide and conquer method have been used for eigensolution of these structures, where the matrices are in ...

This paper presents some directions on the design, development and creative use of haptic systems for musical composition, performance digital art creation. research has been conducted both from an artistic a technical point view its ambition, over last decade, apart outcome, was to introduce field haptics communities based open, do it yourself—DIY ethos. The five presented here are not in any ...

Meeting future world energy needs while addressing climate change requires large-scale deployment of low or zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emission technologies such as wind energy. The widespread availability of wind power has fueled substantial interest in this renewable energy source as one of the needed technologies. For very large-scale utilization of this resource, there are however potential ...

Museums have missions to increase accessibility and share cultural assets to the public. The National Palace Museum intends to be a pioneer of utilizing novel interpretative installations to reach more diverse and potential audiences, and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) technology has been selected as the new interpretative approach. The pilot project in partnership with the National Taiwan Un...

Work equipment and installations with a high risk for health and safety of employees should be paid a special attention. The German Product Safety Act, which is aimed to manufacturers or distributors in order to protect consumers, maintains a conclusive catalogue of these so-called "installations in need of monitoring" fixing the work equipment and installations for which such special inspectio...

Mobile devices and situated installations have differing inherent advantages and limitations; coupling – the physical and computational combination – of personal mobile devices with situated installations allows designers to overcome these disadvantages and create interactional synergy. This paper presents a demonstration of a small macro-environment: three conceptually-linked installations to ...