Domotics is a subject taught in Engineering and in Technical Training and refers to the methods followed to introduce the technology of service automation in housings and buildings. One of the most important aspects while learning this subject is the design of installations to satisfy a set of requirements. In order to design and to test these installations it is necessary to carry out practica...

The number of installations of the Spin model checking tool is steadily increasing. There are well over two thousand installations today, divided roughly evenly over academic and industrial sites. The tool itself also continues to evolve; it has more than doubled in size, and hopefully at least equally so in functionality, since it was rst distributed in early 1991. The tool runs on most standa...

the colorado beetle, leptinotarsa decemlineata (say), is the major defoliating and exotic insect pest of potato plants and has caused serious problems in the east azerbaijan and ardabil regions of iran since emerging in the absence of natural native enemies. in the development of a suitable control strategy based on integrated pest management, it is important to recognize control methods that d...

We document techniques and insights gained through the creation of interactive visualizations of biologically-inspired complex systems that have been exhibited as mixed-reality art installations since 2007. A binding theme is the importance of endogenous accounts: that all perceivable forms have dynamic ontological capacities within the world; that the simulated world is able to autonomously or...

Digital games and playful interactive installations are considered a promising means to raising awareness about the environment and persuading people to adopt an environmental friendly behavior. However, the selection and use of appropriate methods and paradigms for designing and evaluating such systems and successfully blending the ‘fun’ element with the messages to be communicated is still an...

The infostudio course unit introduced 3 year undergraduate students to the design of ambient display as physical, human-scale installations that convey data-driven spatial experiences. Students developed ambient display installations in a common printer hub room that subtly reflected the electronic network traffic, human activities and environmental data within the adjacent computer labs in rea...

NIOSH has developed an automated PC-based seismic event (induced earthquake) monitoring system for use in mine ground control studies. The distribution and coordination of data acquisition and processing functions across a local area network is a central feature of the system. Mine-wide installations utilize multiple, autonomous seismic networks located both underground and on the surface. Seis...