The well-being of a city depends on the capabilities of its inhabitants for functional interaction. We study how persuasive technologies can support these capabilities on the theoretical background of transactional analysis. First insights are drawn from research about persuasive technologies in an innovation lab as a focal point for functional interaction in a city.

As the driving forces of technological change continue to increase exponentially as predicted by Moores’ law, we have been witnessing in the last years major breakthroughs in the fields of wireless and mobile communications as well as unprecedented proliferation of multimedia enabled devices and networks. These devices can consume remote multimedia contents by connecting wirelessly through diff...

The Software Defined Radio (SDR) is a class of reprogrammable and reconfigurable radios which can be switched from one air-interface to another. It is generally employed in software, which can be easily realized on base station side. On terminal side, the configurability of the radio has to be maintained in a hybrid architecture consist of both software as well as hardware, due to computational...

As an emerging species of artificial intelligence, deep generative learning models can generate unprecedented variety new outputs. Examples include the creation music, text-to-image translation, or imputation missing data. Similar to other AI that already evoke significant changes in society and economy, there is a need for structuring constructive functional capabilities DGL. To derive discuss...

The first neutron spectrometer of ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) was installed in November 2008. It is a compact neutron spectrometer (CNS) based on a BC501A liquid scintillating detector, which can simultaneously measure 2.45-MeV and 14-MeV neutrons emitted from deuterium (D) plasmas and γ radiation. The scintillating detector is coupled to a digital pulse shape discrimination data acquisition (DPSD) sys...

With the advent of the new wireless technologies allowing for higher data rates, the provision of high quality multimedia services over the upcoming wireless and mobile networks is gaining momentum. These future mobile networks are witnessed to consist of a variety of heterogeneous wireless access technologies connected to a high-speed IP datagram-based core network. The heterogeneity of these ...

Since broadband network connections are becoming ubiquitous, people expect access to multimedia content anywhere anytime. This new demand results in a need to create and develop new, powerful devices for multimedia consumption. The new devices, each having their set of network and terminal capabilities, allow transparent access to multimedia and therefore open the path to transparent mobility o...