Active shooter events are not emergencies that can be reasonably anticipated. However, these do occur more than we think, and there is a dire need for an effective evacuation plan increase the likelihood of saving lives reducing casualties in event active shooting incident. This has raised major concern about lack tools would allow robust predictions realistic human movements understanding inte...

Teaching in a virtual environment has been a natural progression of advancements in information and communication technologies. The current issues with virtual teaching models appear to be related with the effective simulation of course content, some teaching materials are easier to be visualised in a simulation than others. For example, nursing through the life span is a module which was intro...

with the diversification of hardware platforms, software compatibility issue has become increasingly prominent. Virtual machine with dynamic binary translation system is the key technology to solve this problem. This paper designs an operating system kernel level virtual machine with binary translation systems (KBT) which is embedded into kernel space as a kernel module. KBT reduces the number ...

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We introduce a new mechanism for rooting trust in a cloud computing environment called the Trusted Virtual Environment Module (TVEM). The TVEM helps solve the core security challenge of cloud computing by enabling parties to establish trust relationships where an information owner creates and runs a virtual environment on a platform owned by a separate service provider. The TVEM is a software a...

The traditional approach to assessing neurocognitive performance makes use of paper and pencil neuropsychological assessments. This received approach has been criticized as limited in the area of ecological validity. The newly developed Virtual Reality Cognitive Performance Assessment Test (VRCPAT) focuses upon enhanced ecological validity using virtual environment scenarios to assess neurocogn...

Virtual laboratory experiments can be a useful self-learning and teaching tool for Strength of Materials. Three modules (Material Module, Bending Module, and Torsion Module) were developed and integrated with the engineering core course (ENGR 2153) offered during the Spring semester each year by the College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. An overview of these modules is presented ...

Advances in computers and multimedia technology have changed traditional methods for learning and skills training. Today, multimedia education has been popular, it can provide an environment where virtual reality can be used to create interactive interfaces and real-time software can monitor every response made by the user. This paper presents an attempt to introduce the concepts of fuzzy set t...

We present a camerawork module for representing events in a virtual museum with a comic style. The module uses four basic camera shots, i.e., internal, external, apex, and group, to compose a shot sequence of two main events happening in a museum, i.e., move and stay. This module is fully implemented in a comic generation system we have been developing for summarizing user experiences in Second...

In this paper, a networked embedded control of modular robot manipulators without using joint torque sensing is presented. The proposed solution uses an effective control and communication mechanism based on the virtual decomposition control (VDC) approach with embedded FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) implementation. A hierarchical master-slaves control structure is used, supported by a hi...