The loss of one hand can significantly affect the level of autonomy and the capability of performing daily living, working and social activities. The current prosthetic solutions contribute in a poor way to overcome these problems due to limitations in the interfaces adopted for controlling the prosthesis and to the lack of force or tactile feedback, thus limiting hand grasp capabilities. This ...

introduction: in recent decades, abilities related to emotional intelligence attracted the attention of many organizations and researchers. emotional intelligence provides a favorable environment for effective communication. it is a means by which users can express their needs and expectations to receive support from librarians. this study determined the relationship between emotional intellige...

ReceivedOct 20 th , 2012 Accepted Oct 31 th , 2012 During the last decade, there has been a major paradigm shift in the way the software services are being provided to the enterprise and corporate sector. Instead of using on-premises LOB (Line of Business) applications, corporations and enterprises are switching to off-premises host applications that are now being offered as a service by severa...

In order for companies to effectively use customization as a design strategy, there should be understanding on what users would like to customize and why. This study explores the use of customization features of sports watch in order to assess the extent of customization, and to identify reasons for customization in this context. Survey data from 100 users of a sports watch were analyzed to und...

This paper reports on the transfer of the traditional QoS notion into the environment of distributed hypermedia systems. In the beginning we will analyse the concepts of "Quality of Service" from a general point of view. Then we try to examine the QoS idea as it is used and supported in the OSI standard and other CCITT recommendations. We will show that the concept of QoS that has been develope...