This paper is aimed to introduce IDIAP Brain Computer Interface (IBCI) research that successfully applied Ambience Intelligence (AmI) principles in designing intelligent brainmachine interactions. We proceed through IBCI applications describing how machines can decode and react to the human mental commands, cognitive and emotive states. We show how effective human-machine interaction for brain ...

It is common to be carrying an advanced computational device with a microphone – a smartphone – on your person at virtually all times. One application this makes possible is to automatically detect when individuals are in close proximity by detecting the similarity between the acoustic ambience recorded by body-worn mics. This paper investigates two techniques for proximity detection on a datab...

support these gains where possible. A drawback of the VIS is the difficulty of coding. Although the function-call syntax means the programmer does not have to manipulate registers directly, the need to manipulate multiple data words in parallel takes some effort on the programmer's part. We venture to suggest that VIS coding is as hard as, if not harder than, typical DSP coding. We were, howeve...

The colour palette of painters over history has been of interest to many, including: art historians, archaeologists, and art lovers. Colour usage in art changes from culture to culture and season to season and is often thought of as reflecting or inspiring mood and ambience. We present ColourVis: a visualisation that supports exploration of colour usage in digital images. In particular, we use ...

“Awesome” is one of the most highly desirable experiences for tourists. This study investigates how tourists’ awe emotion is induced when tourists visit sacred mountains and how the awe experience influences their satisfaction. A survey is administrated at a famous sacred mountain in China—Mount Emei. Results reveal that the awe experience is more elicited by the perceived vastness of natural e...

This is a descriptive, interpretive and qualitative study carried out at the ICU of a Brazilian teaching hospital. It aimed to understand the dimensions of human caring experienced by health care professionals, clients and their family members at an ICU, based on human caring complexity. The Transpersonal Caring and Complexity theories support theory and data analysis. The following dimensions ...

During the 1940s-1970s, the leftist intelligentsia played a prominent role in constructing a vibrant Iraqi culture, contributed greatly to the flourishing of literature and the arts, and exerted a great impact in the cultural and political spheres. This article focuses primarily on the 1960s, when, despite two Ba’thist coups, the cultural ambience was pronouncedly leftist. The second half of th...

We address the problem of analyzing multiple related opinions in a text. For instance, in a restaurant review such opinions may include food, ambience and service. We formulate this task as a multiple aspect ranking problem, where the goal is to produce a set of numerical scores, one for each aspect. We present an algorithm that jointly learns ranking models for individual aspects by modeling t...

Online retailing has been growing in Canada at a “double digit rate” since 2002. With a 26% increase in online sales since 2006, businesses are attempting to apply traditional marketing theories in order to capitalize on this growth in online sales. Marketing literature has a great deal of empirical evidence confirming the influence of store ambience on consumer behavior in a bricks and mortar ...

Tamilnadu state of India witnessed an increasing trend of institutional deliveries since the beginning of 1990s, with decline of domiciliary deliveries to nearly zero now. Among the institutional deliveries, a shift has been observed since 2006 wherein primary health centres (PHC) have shown a four-fold increase in the number of deliveries while other public and private health facilities showed...