The work of an operator on board a ship is changing from technical tasks to those more clerical and administratively demanding. This transformation well underway because developments in automation. automation bringing sensors into the system; this leads increasing number alarms stored engine control console. Reducing crew officers as result increase efficiency makes workload increase, especiall...

Abstract Aim Training opportunities for Robotic Surgery training are very competitive and expensive in the era of parallel with consultants also a learning phase. We share our experience providing free workshop to medical students junior doctors under umbrella Association Surgeons (ASiT). Method The course was organised as collaboration between ASiT Intuitive Surgical at Leicester General Hospi...

1 This report evaluates Sony Corporation's strategy in the console gaming market from the top-down perspective of the entire corporation.

Environmental Control Systems (ECS) are of vital importance for severely motor impaired persons and for older persons in order to empower them to live a self-determined and independent life. Currently, environmental control functionality is often focusing on consumer electronic devices (TV, VCR, CD etc.) which provide a standard infrared interface for handheld remote control. The emerging smart...

Wearable, handheld, and embedded or standalone intelligent devices are becoming quite common and can support a diverse range of applications. In order to simplify development of applications which can adapt to a variety of mobile devices, we propose an adaptation framework which includes three techniques: follow-me, context-aware adaptation, and remote control scheme. For the first, we construc...

We are investigating how an intelligent hand-held Personal Universal Controller (PUC) can be used to make appliances easier to control as part of the Pebbles research project [Myers 2001]. The concept is that people can use their own handheld to control all appliances and devices in their environment, such as the lights, a photocopier in an office, a machine tool in a factory, a VCR at home, a ...