The evolvement of E-commerce has created a competitive environment that changed the way of doing business. Travel related industry such as hoteliers, airlines, and travel agencies compete effectively in the current business environment by adopting online reservation system. Despite million of dollars spent on web-technology investment, there are customers who prefer to stick to the traditional ...

Virtual Reality (VR) refers to a technology which is capable of shifting a subject into a different environment without physically moving him/her. To this end the inputs into the subject's sensory organs are manipulated in such a way, that the perceived environment is associated with the desired Virtual Environment (VE) and not with the physical one. The manipulation process is controlled by a ...

Purpose: This study developed a validated theoretical framework for the evaluation of office productivity which included components to represent both the physical and the behavioural environment. It is proposed that by adopting such an approach, insights into the dynamic nature, or connectivity, of office environments can be established. The main objective of this research was to investigate th...

During the last 2 decades, the effects of the physical and social environment on the healing process, recovery and well-being of patients, families and staff in hospitals have been proved.There is a growing recognition that healthcare architecture could do more by promoting overall wellness, and this requires expanding the focus to healing.The research on evidence-based design (EBD) has demonst...

This article reports the second study in a series that investigates perceived instability—unrealistic sensations associated with virtual objects—of virtual haptic texture. Our first study quantified the maximum stiffness values under which virtual haptic textures were perceived to be stable (Choi & Tan, 2004). The present study investigated the effect of the collision-detection algorithm by rem...

We propose the use of perceived affordances to computationally model linguistic concepts in situated language use. Perceived affordances are mental structures that capture the relationship between the language user and the embedding situation. We employ computational models of human perceived affordances to understand situated language: language that dynamically depends on the current physical ...

heart failure (hf) is a condition due to a problem with the structure or function of the heart impairs its ability to supply sufficient blood flow to meet the body's needs. in developing countries, around 2% of adults suffer from heart failure, but in people over the age of 65, this rate increases to 6-10%. in iran, around 3.3% of adults suffer from heart failure. the health belief model (hbm) ...