People with disabilities need several assistive technical aids to increase their autonomy and perform daily living tasks. This paper describes the role of networking and communication in the smart home concept which allows people with disabilities and elderly people to retain a certain level of independence within their daily environment, such as at home, work, school, outside and so on. The pu...

We propose an adaptive handover prediction (AHP) scheme for seamless mobility based wireless networks. That is, the AHP scheme incorporates fuzzy logic with AP prediction process in order to lend cognitive capability to handover decision making. Selection metrics, including received signal strength, mobile node relative direction towards the access points in the vicinity, and access point load,...

Correlation wave-front sensing can improve Adaptive Optics (AO) system performance in two keys areas. For point-source-based AO systems, Correlation is more accurate, more robust to changing conditions and provides lower noise than a centroiding algorithm. Experimental results from the Lick AO system and the SSHCL laser AO system confirm this. For remote imaging, Correlation enables the use of ...

If the classical inference relation is considered, AC is clearly not deductively valid. Moreover, adding AC to Classical Logic (CL) as an extra inference rule would result in the trivial logic. This is called the /irrelevance problem/ towards abduction. In order to provide a nice formal account of abduction processes, this problem has to be faced. In this lunch talk, I will present several adap...

Individual students have different approaches towards learning because of different background knowledge, learning styles and preferences. Therefore, it is difficult for instructors to understand their student best learning approach. Furthermore, web application based on multi-agents for adaptive E-Content has been proposed to assist student individualized learning content in order to enhance t...

Disabled and elderly populations may not fully appreciate the benefits of advanced technologies every-day products due to accessibility issues. However, diverse characteristics disabled users make conducting user research a challenging task for stakeholders who oversee needs developing accessible products. They need tool providing rich information empathize with users, instead standards documen...

background: the population of elderly in iran and in the world is increasing. it is predicted that the population of elderly reaches to 10 millions in iran by the year 2019. elderly more than other age groups are at risk of chronic diseases and health problems; and it affects their self-management and makes them feel disabled. since the knowledge of self-management for iranian elderly is not we...

This paper details the evaluation process undertaken to create criteria for the development of an iPad stand for elderly users. Emphasis is on the requirements elicitation stage with end users in the field. 32 elderly participants taking part in the activity group as part of the Ageing-Well program of a City Council in a cosmopolitan area in Australia were part of an evaluation in which three e...