This paper addresses two problems: “What are the appropriate methods for evaluating information systems?” and “How do we measure the impact of ambient information systems?” Inspired by concepts in the social and behavioral science, we categorize the evaluation of ambient displays into two styles: intrusive and nonintrusive. Furthermore, two case studies are used to illustrate these two evaluati...

An algorithm for non-intrusively coupling a commercial finite element software with a research code implementing a hierarchical enrichment of finite element spaces is presented. Examples of hierarchical methods supported by the algorithm are the Generalized or eXtended FEM (GFEM), the scale-bridging GFEM with numerically defined enrichment functions (GFEMgl), and the p-version of the FEM. The p...

the increasing of software’s quality is a significant issue that attracts the attention of many researchers in this field. they are looking for a modeling that meets the users trust and reliance on software. therefore, the demand for high reliability software development has been increased as well. having suitable design, increasing reliability is required. coupling and cohesion are of among di...

The Tyndall-DMS-Mote is a wireless sensor device that can monitor patient vital signs non-intrusively within and outside their home. Patient real-time vital sign readings (dynamic data) and archived records (static data) need to be managed, correlated and analysed in a cohesive manner to produce effective results. The Data Management System (DMS) has been developed to intelligently manage this ...

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) identifies used appliances in a total power load according to their individual load characteristics. In this paper we propose an evolutionary optimization algorithm to identify appliances, which are modeled as on/off appliances. We evaluate our proposed evolutionary optimization by simulation with Matlab, where we use a random total load and randomly generat...

According to the dual representation theory of PTSD, intrusive trauma images and intrusive verbal thoughts are produced by separate memory systems. In a previous article it was shown that after watching an aversive film, participants in non-movement conditions reported more intrusive images than participants in a free-to-move control condition (Hagenaars, Van Minnen, Holmes, Brewin, & Hoogduin,...