The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of eye injuries resulting from frontal automobile crashes and discuss the relevant injury mechanisms. In order to determine eye injury incidence, cases in NASS were selected from the years 1993 through 1999 that include drivers and front seat occupants only, while excluding ejected occupants and rollovers. In addition, only frontal impact...

Occupancy monitoring and prediction as an influential factor in the extraction of occupants' behavioural patterns for the realisation of ambient intelligent environments is addressed in this research. The proposed occupancy monitoring technique uses occupancy detection sensors with unobtrusive features to monitor occupancy in the environment. Initially the occupancy detection is conducted for a...

Framework and Evaluation Vivek Menon, Bharat Jayaraman, and Venu Govindaraju 1 Amrita University, Coimbatore 641 105, India vivek [email protected] 2 University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA [email protected], [email protected] Abstract. We present an abstract framework for ‘smart indoor environments’ that are monitored unobtrusively by biometrics capture devices, such as...

Design is increasingly less about creating objects and more about creating scaffolds to support user experiences. What is observed about how people converse, behave and construct social networks has implications for how designers construct interactive experiences for and among social communities. So-called “intelligent rooms” are built spaces where sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) compu...

This paper aims to demonstrate how knowledge acquired from occupants' manual window operations can be implemented into BMS automated operation algorithms. Ten single-occupant offices were selected in a university building the UK. More than 28,000 hourly data points on indoor and outdoor temperature open area (OWA) analysed 2015 2020. The had adopted nine different algorithms during 5 years. cou...

Occupants can provide valuable feedback on the indoor environmental quality of buildings. Research occupant voting systems (OVS) has demonstrated that apps or electronic devices act as viable tools for collecting long-term from occupants. However, previous research only to a limited extent explored occupants’ interaction with OVS and impact it might have reliability collected feedback. The pres...